(07-23-2013, 04:39 PM)Teardrop Wrote:(07-23-2013, 04:25 PM)Eva Wrote: Also as kind of an afterthought, when I have RPed Eva's descent to that place, her linkpearls ceased working. Â While we know for a fact that linkpearls do continue to work underground in places like Mun-Tuy Cellars, Nanawa Mines, etc. Â I've left the reasons for this obscure intentionally. Â Perhaps it's just so deep underground that they stop working. Â Perhaps the "Living Stone" interferes with the signal. Â I don't give any specific reason, but it's always been important to me that the trek down there leave her isolated from the surface. Â I just thought that was an interesting point I'd add.
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I had to kind of think about this as well, Eva, as to why my Clan would use a physical line with a coded set of yanks and tugs used as signals for communication, when a linkpearl should work And, I also made mention that for whatever reason, linkpearl communication wasn't always reliable in certain subterranean locations.  We'll have to keep an eye on a more thorough explanation why that might be the case if one turns up in lore or whatnot, but I'm comfortable with that assumption as-is for our purposes
It may seem a simplistic option(though it wouldn't explain why they wouldn't work) but one reason that LP communication may not have been in use by DW clans may be that it was viewed as an outsider tool. The clans could have chosen to avoid using this method of talking just because they wanted to distance themselves from everyone else. afterall, if we think of LP communication in terms of any type of communication through a medium that transmits waves, it could be "hacked" into by people with the right skill. maybe that wouldn't be easy becuase it functions like a radio but with a potentially much wider range of bandwidth options, so sifting through the various frequencies to find the one you are trying to listen in on. However if anyone ever captured/killed a DW with one of the pearls on them would make listening in that much easier.
On the note of how Rogier would use a DW LP, I think he would use it more as a source of people he could trust with helping his research without asking too many questions. He would also be likely to help others, if it was requested of him. Though he may not jump at the chance to go interact with others.
OOCly I would say that it would be a good tool to get rogier out of his books and into the world of others. It would also be a good way of building up a nice safe group that rogier could rely on, kind of like a clan since he technically doesn't have/know of a clan that he belongs to. He only had his parents and his fathers pirate crew(what little he saw of them) his life was otherwise secluded from everyone else.
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