Quote from Jeanette on Sep 1st, 2016, 9:32am:Quote from Fernando on Aug 31st, 2016, 11:05pm:I used the 5'4" as a figure not as Jeanette's actual size. And I'm not taking her weight either because 10% taken off her adult weight put on a shorter body would make her fat on the obese level. Thus height does not equal weight distribution.
A reduction in size includes weight, correct?
Using the 5'4" (64") height, Janette should weight 145 max. Taking away 10% from both the height and weight will not work because you are dealing with length, area and volume. Shrinking Jeanette 10% would make her 4'9 (57") in height but by weight she would be 130 pounds. This would make her overweight, pushing to the Obese level. At under 5ft in height, a human female should be 90 - 120 pounds depending on her build and development This is because Height/Length/Area does not translate well into weight/Volume. This is why it is not easy to do.
Regardess on what powers these spirits have, even you stated that they have messed up in several areas. The last thing Jeanette needs for them to mess up on her on a so-called "simple calculation." Too much and she's a walking skeleton covered by skin. Too little, and she can sit down in the circus sideshow as this generation's "fat woman" 10% in height does not equal 10% in weight.
Quote from Jeanette on Sep 1st, 2016, 9:32am:Quote from Fernando on Aug 31st, 2016, 11:05pm:You can use handwavium and say that it is so, no matter how off it would be.
As I had said, I am sticking to the rules that The Nobody established. Other than looking for loopholes, have I deviated from the rules?
Nobody is here, despite being "his" rules. So he is not here to state was was a deviation of the rules or not and we are working with them.
But there is a abuse of the rules with these "spirits." You are comparing them god's angels and helping spirits which they are not. Even you established that they are not from this planet but rather ETs from the planet - who cares, they could have came from the planet Mongo as far as I care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUKUHjBhb2Q They are ever present and ever interfering - 1. 2 - as I stated, they are pushing Jeanette into
"This or that" decision by limiting her to only those two options which will lock her into life of indentured servitude for the rest of immortality can give all because they want a certain journal written out and the events within put in a certain way. How about letting Jeanette live out her own god-damn life, leave her alone to learn, make mistakes, correct them and be damn free as she chooses?
If the spirits want to do a job, they can do guard duty, but we are getting enough people to do that on our own. Both Karl and Mavis can go guard duty in the evening and at night. All others can do guard duty during the day. The spirits go around and notifying their leader Moro of the activities of what the others are doing. Is that fair to us? Do we have our means on spying and reporting on Moro and the others? No we don't. So why are they doing it?
We are there to help others as we find them. Eventually we will reach Gabrielle and save her too, but is not a prime directive to do so. Getting to Charlton is. If we arrive too late and Gabrielle is gone, then the spirits are going to have to deal with the loss. But until we get there, we must survive this trip and make this world a better place one way or another. The spirits should in the very least observe and take note that there are thriving communities outside of Charlton and outside of Texas that are doing well without them. The Spirits should see that some groups have their own spirits while others do not. In the very least they should learn that these people are doing fine on their own without their help and for them to expand to Canada, they are going to have to deal with these people and share resources. With Hondo and Fernando, it has been knowledge, skills and weapons.
Suppose, and it will happen but as to when it is uncertain, the group's next town is 700 miles away because a bridge they were supposed to cross has not been repaired yet, so they have to go around to make it to the next town. Fernando's camper can do 120 miles a night if he recharges during the day. That would make a week of traveling with no towns and we need to rely on the food sources we have. That means hunting, fishing, taking in our reserves for that week, and getting water from somewhere. The filters I put into the campers and Dub Boxes should protect us from most things. But if we get into a bad water supply situation - our filters will save us from getting sick but they will be ruined and will need to be replaced when we get into town. And our plumbing needs to be flushed out as well. That's why we are topping off on our reserves now and at every stop so we do not end up into such a situation early on.
But with your spirits being there, they will tap their beaks against the filters and "wa-la!" they are fixed. Where is the story in there?
Without conflict, there is no story.
Quote from Jeanette on Sep 1st, 2016, 9:32am:Quote from Fernando on Aug 31st, 2016, 11:05pm:And that is the point. But I'll poke this one with a stick - if this age/body modification is supposed to happen to Jeanette in the future after they get there, why is it an issue now?
The Texas Spirits want to understand what it would take for Jeanette to accept immortality. Why put that off? This can be done after Jeanette returns to her time but it would not be in the story.
The "story" is not about Jeanette and gaining immortality. Its about the mission this group is supposed to do to rescue a certain mutant before she gets killed or worse and our adventures getting there. As is the spirits are committing crimes across the Time Line like Time Bandits because they think no one can touch them. As Fernando is beginning to see, this Time Line is artificial as per their creation, so they can do research and studies on. We are nothing more than protozoa on a microscope slide to them.
Have they offered immortality to any other? Hondo, Val, Fernando, et al? No they have not, and them knowing that certain individuals in the group are already immortal should be unknown to them. So why not? Because Jeanette has a journal? Hondo, Val and Fernando have their own journals to write in and they do not make changes to edit Time itself. They are recording their POV of the events around them, nothing more. But Jeanette's Journal is is some more sinister in that changes made to it changes the Time Line. Well, so doe the other journals, but since they are cording what has happened and not what will happen, there is no conflict. In knowing this, Fernando should take Jeanette's journal and throw into the next camp fire they have. Doing this does not end the story as the story is of Gabrielle's rescue, not what is on some "stupid" journal. The Spirits want to alter time, then they will have issues with Fernando. They are going to end up in the Cretaceous Time Period Dirty Dancing with the Troodons and T-Rexes. It is that simple.