I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
A hint of light in a mirror, then a long droning lecture.
Aspects
- Interest: Winter 7
- Interest: Lantern 7
- Interest: Forge 7
- Understands Ericapaean
- Faculty
Talk
An Unimpressed Academic?
talk.faculty.iwdswc.sceptical.intro
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, sceptical
Start Description: …seek to be a memory? Be worth remembering…’ [The academic culture at the Haustorium is generally unfriendly. It takes effort to be worth the faculty’s time.]
Impressing an Academic
talk.faculty.iwdswc.sceptical
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, interest=mystery, sceptical
Start Description: …a stone touched by light, so too the hands which bring…’
Description: …for erudition, here is a cost, the least of its kinds…’
Effect: Spintria.bronze
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → -1 sceptical
A Conversation with I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.intro.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, -1 sceptical
Start Description: ‘…Memory is all that remains.’ [The faculty can tutor you in a language and comment on Incidents, or you can assist them with their ongoing research by offering a soul-element.]
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.assist.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability
Start Description: …make your choice, resolve the consequence, but this will only end one way. Yet it is you who will determine…’ [The faculty’s needs can be exacting, but academic work is slow. If you can’t find exactly what you need, they’ll ignore you until you have something to offer.]
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.failure1.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, -1 research
Start Description: …if you wish to follow the path… find the first step… purity seen with lightless eyes, or… touch the knot which is not…’
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success1.iwdswc.refulgin
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, refulgin
Start Description: …truest nature revealed only in darkness… span of ignorance runs deeper in the presence of light… is and will be my nature. As it once was yours…’
Research Aspect Description: [I took the first step in learning the paradoxical natures of I Who Did-Still-Will Continue, who saw paradox in myself.]
Effect: I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Permission
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research1
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success1.iwdswc.tanglebrag
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, tanglebrag
Start Description: …the name of a Name, neither written nor heard, but felt… the title you knew not, yet know… was and is my nature. And it will be yours…’
Research Aspect Description: [I took the first step in learning the paradoxical natures of I Who Did-Still-Will Continue, who saw paradox in myself.]
Effect: I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Permission
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research1
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.failure2.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research1
Start Description: …worth of a soul? Understand what is essential in the words of those before you, those darkest ones… the flame of knowledge, kindling born by Desiccation and Elimination - what I required, what you now seek…’
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success2.iwdswc.t.exercisesinthecontinuityoftheself
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research1, Exercises in the Continuity of the Self (English Translation)
Start Description: …death is loss, they knew, but I learned further… down to my wist, what remains of what remains… speaking in echoes of what is lost, and so they are not lost… to be sought and not found… my final purpose, my final name, called by the final Hour…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue revealed to me of its final purpose, ‘to be sought and not found’, and how its final name was called by ‘the final Hour’.]
Effect: x.purifications.exaltations
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research2
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success2.iwdswc.t.fruitseverlasting
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research1, Fruits Everlasting
Start Description: …in trist, change; in chor, constancy; yet neither endure… down to my wist, what remains of what remains… an echo of what is lost and so is not lost… to be sought and not found… my final purpose, my final name, called by the final Hour…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue revealed to me of its final purpose, ‘to be sought and not found’, and how its final name was called by ‘the final Hour’.]
Effect: x.purifications.exaltations
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research2
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success2.iwdswc.dessication.elimination
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research1, r.desiccation.elimination, soph:4
Start Description: …many ways to lose, the arts by which I discarded… down to my wist, what remains of what remains… an echo of what is lost and so is not lost… to be sought and not found… my final purpose, my final name, called by the final Hour…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue revealed to me of its final purpose, ‘to be sought and not found’, and how its final name was called by ‘the final Hour’.]
Effect: x.purifications.exaltations
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research2
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.failure3.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research2
Start Description: …is a mirror echoes light, but what echoes Light? It is… mirror-blue song, the reflection which persists… show me understanding…’
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success3.iwdswc.enduring.reflection
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research2, enduring.reflection
Start Description: …every mirror remembers what has passed… the image may change, but the surface remains… Light only ever moves forward. But in glass it travels every way… in these mirrors you witness me as I will witness you…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue had me demonstrate how Light is echoed, and claimed me as its witness, and foretold (remembered?) that it would witness me in turn.]
Effect: x.watchmansparadoxes
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research3
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success3.iwdswc.ascendant.harmony
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research2, ascendant.harmony
Start Description: …the song of starlight brought low, and the buzzing voices… where I would go, where I have always been… Light only ever moves forward. But in glass it travels every way… in these mirrors you witness me as I will witness you…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue had me demonstrate how Light is echoed, and claimed me as its witness, and foretold (remembered?) that it would witness me in turn.]
Effect: x.watchmansparadoxes
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research3
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.failure4.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research3
Start Description: …inhabit this? It was Kume’s glass, and Bengui’s construction… in her records of June, or his metalworking manual… the higher Reflections of the Meniscate… find what was I…’
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success4.iwdswc.meniscatereflections
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research3, r.meniscatereflections, soph:10
Start Description: …epigonies of her Light I aspired to, when I was… Eizi… Fukuhara… many others ended. So I strived to not… already crossed, and you will choose the point of my crossing…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue taught me how it came to inhabit the Mirror Hold, and of its old name. Afterwards, it implied I would determine how it crossed (will cross?) into its current state of existence.]
Effect: x.auroralcontemplations
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research4
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success4.iwdswc.t.menagerierecordsvol2
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research3, t.menagerierecordsvol2
Start Description: …who enlightened me, when I was Eizi… Fukuhara to her… work alongside, until she was ended. So I strived to not… already crossed, and you will choose the point of my crossing…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue taught me how it came to inhabit the Mirror Hold, and of its old name. Afterwards, it implied I would determine how it crossed (will cross?) into its current state of existence.]
Effect: x.auroralcontemplations
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research4
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success4.iwdswc.t.purifypolishprofit
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research3, t.purifypolishprofit
Start Description: …who I followed, when I was Fukuhara… Eizi to him… work alongside, until he was ended. So I strived to not… already crossed, and you will choose the point of my crossing…’
Research Aspect Description: [I Who Still-Did-Will Continue taught me how it came to inhabit the Mirror Hold, and of its old name. Afterwards, it implied I would determine how it crossed (will cross?) into its current state of existence.]
Effect: x.auroralcontemplations
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research4
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.failure5.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research4
Start Description: …of crossing approaches… future flows into the past, the connection… alignments of Time. But for this, we require… ensure lies fade while Truth remains, just as I remain…’
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.success5.iwdswc.ashartine
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research4, ahartine
Start Description: …Watchman’s truest color… his glimpse of the Glory… of what lies beyond. Only the truest medium… the limits of Eternity which Castillo Knox approached, but did not… know this: my Hour approaches…’
Research Aspect Description: [I provided I Who Still-Did-Will Continue the truth-ink ashartine to prepare the ‘alignments of Time’ for its crossing; beforehand, or afterwards, it then proclaimed the approach of its Hour.]
Effect: x.inks.revelation
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 research5
Assisting I Who Did-Still-Will Continue
talk.faculty.failure6.iwdswc
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research5
Start Description: …already departed. But the means of my departure… it will arrive, by the last words before the Ascent… geometries to cross the gap between ‘was’ and ‘will be’… call my Hour. Not in name, but in role, as I am not named… my passage… your reward…’
Earning I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Respect
talk.faculty.success6.iwdswc.puzz
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research5, Numen: Penultimate Puzzle
Start Description: …the start of one Pilgrimage, and the start of another… join the numberless in the journey… my continuity completes… I offer this gift of Light… find the Sun in these mirrors, the Stars in one which burns… or turn away from the future… where beautiful endings… I have always been gone… ends as it began… this Memory is all that remains.’
Research Aspect Description: [I assisted I Who Did-Still-Will Continue in fulfilling its work: completing the eternal loop of its continuance by sending it on a Pilgrimage - not the Vagabond’s, but another being undertaken by ‘the numberless’.]
Effect: I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Remedy, Unrealized Axiom
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 grateful
Earning I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Respect
talk.faculty.success6.iwdswc.void
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research5, Numen: The Void Between
Start Description: …the labyrinths that are with those to come… need not prove my existence: I am, as Truth is… my continuity completes… I offer this gift of Light… find the Sun in these mirrors, the Stars in one which burns… or turn away from the future… where beautiful endings… I have always been gone… ends as it began… this Memory is all that remains.’
Research Aspect Description: [I assisted I Who Did-Still-Will Continue in fulfilling its work: completing the eternal loop of its continuance by providing it the means to pass through the labyrinths of the Bounds into ‘those to come’, allowing it to become ‘as Truth is’.]
Effect: I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Remedy, Unrealized Axiom
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 grateful
Earning I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Respect
talk.faculty.success6.iwdswc.scion
Requirements: Talk, iwdswc, ability, research5, Numen: The Unnamed Scion
Start Description: …in the Watchman’s hand. I am to burn upon that yet unmade… walk with my Hour in the darkness… my continuity completes…I offer this gift of Light… find the Sun in these mirrors, the Stars in one which burns… or turn away from the future… where beautiful endings… I have always been gone… ends as it began… this Memory is all that remains.’
Research Aspect Description: [I assisted I Who Did-Still-Will Continue in fulfilling its work: completing the eternal loop of its continuance by invoking the presence of its patron Hour, for and with whom it will walk, or burn; but above all, it will continue.]
Effect: I Who Did-Still-Will Continue’s Remedy, Unrealized Axiom
Mutation Effect: iwdswc → +1 grateful