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Projected noise is a level two spell, not level one. Luring big monsters elsewhere would be a valid use for it, except that in most level layouts you can just go around them, and hoping that monsters don't notice you is extremely unreliable. I can't remember ever wishing I knew projected noise. Either the monsters are already after me, or I don't need to walk right past them.

I mean, if the game had some kind of guards that guarded certain areas that you could sneak up to, then it would be just great, but I've never met any.

Let me guess, these new modifications would also have some drawbacks to them, requiring even further modification to fix?

Getting more information about the world could be useful, but I really don't know where to start. Does this library have computers? Can we go read alternate timeline Wikipedia? That would be a pretty good way to get general information about a world.

>Open alternate timeline wikipedia at random.
If alternate timeline wikipedia does not exist,
>Try to find books on the history of time travel. Does it exist in this world?

Well, if you don't have a better theory than my "macroscopic space-borne life is stupid"-theory, then you can't really complain about it. Insert comment comparing you to young-Earth creationists here.

Astronavigation assumes a spherical earth, by the way, and sailors were quite capable of using it five hundred years ago, suggesting that they did in fact NOT think the earth was flat. You can actually SEE the curvature of the earth if you live in a coastal city. Approaching ships appear on the horizon mast first. I think there were around two or so medieval scholars who seriously suggested the earth was flat.

Not that you're not right about people bashing ridiculous theories. Like continental drift. It took quite a lot of time and experimentation before anyone believed THAT. Good thing too, it DOES sound absolutely ridiculous, and if scientists went around taking every useless fraud seriously, they'd never get anything done.

What is the spell "projected noise" supposed to be used for? If an enemy hasn't seen me, I should backstab it instead of messing with its head, and if it has seen me, it's probably not going to drop everything to investigate a noise.

Also, I would very much like to know what happened here.

Message History:

There is an open door here.
There is a stone staircase leading down here.
You climb downwards. The walls burn you!
There is a stone staircase leading up here.
The walls burn you!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die...

The cause of death was listed as "splashed by acid". Did I just get attacked by DUNGEON WALLS!?

But we know that (biological) life needs matter. And for it to be SPACE, that matter couldn't be organized into huge spheres. And, according to the theories on gravity, so far confirmed by observatory evidence, matter has a tendency to organize itself into huge spheres. And we can see pretty well in space, stars are visible at almost any distance, and even dark, cold, dead lumps of rock would probably show up if there was a star behind it. Or enough mass and a star somewhere near to directly behind it. It's also a reasonably assumption that life would need a star near it, so dark, cold, dead lumps of rock wouldn't matter anyway. All in all, we DO know how space works pretty well.

Also, water has a lot of nifty properties that make it real easy to have water-based life, compared to a lot of other things. It reacts as both an acid AND a base, it expands when it freezes, and it dissolves things really well. So, we can also make some assumptions about what kind of life we should expect to find.

Perhaps saying that off-planet life can't ever possibly happen is technically incorrect, or at least unprovable, but I can't really imagine how it would happen. If you have some theory on how space animals would work, please, do share.

Glowing portals are in the Eventually Arc.

That looks very nice.

This is going better than I expected.

I go to sleep for a couple of hours and you do THIS.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Seriously, though, that looks pretty good.