A Backwards Approach to Clarke's Law - September 2025 Update
Added 2025-09-09 21:52:52 +0000 UTCWill be published in 2 parts everywhere else on
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Ah, Resurrecting God, now THAT'S a Quest worthy of Alexander and Friends! If they succeed, and the "He's Back!" trope comes into play in all it's glory, I look forward to comical freakouts from the Biblical Factions over "Daddy" being none to pleased with them, and ready to deal out some LONG overdue disciplinary beatings.
MontyTzeen
2025-09-10 17:13:11 +0000 UTCYou're right about the skill thresholds, this is one of those things I'd have properly reconsidered if I'd slept on it like I usually do. I'll leave HEMA at 10 because it's ultimately an aggregate of ALL melee and bow weapons, so it deserves it (just so I don't have to break it down into all subcomponents, which are many). But I'm going to change the rest to something more sensible.
Sebastian Pop
2025-09-10 11:05:52 +0000 UTCYes he would.
Sebastian Pop
2025-09-10 11:03:54 +0000 UTCHe's specifically not going to get anything that he cannot eventually give to other humans, on a mass-produced scale. He also won't obtain things that he perceives as something that reduces your humanity. His entire character is centered around Human Uplift / Ascendancy. He is doing everything he can to NOT be unique. So no, the only thing that differentiates the MC from the rest of humanity is that he's the First Adopter of everything he'll be introducing later on.
0xFFF1
2025-09-10 04:22:33 +0000 UTCAlexander would clearly approve of the opinions of Sir Ken Robinson.
Judah Frankel
2025-09-10 01:43:48 +0000 UTCIsn't Alexander a bit ridiculous? I get that he's older than most countries, and that explains the knowledge he has, but his cognitive functions to be matching that of the MC? Who rewrote his neural connections to match an eugenics project to create a brain like machine which lasted thousands of years, and has automatically all the specialised training to best make use of those smarts. I mean copying the weirding way just from watching??? That's... I have no words, if I read it anywhere else I would be screaming gary sue. This would be all fine if he were a one off, which would have been the case, before MC became capable of not only rewriting a person physique to be that of Alexander, but also impart all the knowledge. And the only thing missing are the reflexes? Can't say I'm too happy that MC is now a printing machine. It feels a bit cheap, can't expect a lot of difficulty in elevating humans or kingdom building, when he can make them into crazy gary sues in a week. I do hope the MC will differentiate himself a bit in a way that can't be passed on to everyone else, and this doesn't include soul modifications and such, would be nice for him to achieve something that is deeply personal and theory isn't enough to learn it. Maybe sword fighting brought to its extreme, a sort of enlightenment in sword fighting, like it's popular in different media.
EA2016
2025-09-10 01:36:45 +0000 UTCAre any of those skills he obtained this chapter worth bumping up to ten with Inspiration? What do you think would be the consequences of people simply being able to get a blood transfusion instead of going to school, if this became widespread among humans beneath the Masquerade? It'd be amusing if you could make this into a technology, or at least make it technology-coded. However I think the equivalent (or likely much better) of Cyberpunk skill chips is a little to sci-fi to not be Masquerade-breaking for the normie civ. It'd be like if Sword Art Online NerveGears actually were released in 2020, rather than the author mistakenling thinking 2020 would be enough into the future to make full-dive VR tech believable. I'm pretty sure SAO operates on magic to some degree, weird that nobody noticed. I mean, Accel World is the same setting, just a generation or two after Kirito's. ~1000x frame-jacking is wild. But yeah, no way our MC could just release SAO-equivalent tech to the normies without the supernatural world heavily objecting.
0xFFF1
2025-09-10 00:31:22 +0000 UTCA solid chapter. It was good to have the effective ending of biblical god put out into the air.
Vincent Mason
2025-09-09 23:50:44 +0000 UTCHow fine it would be to have a teacher like Alexander.
AlecG
2025-09-09 22:54:05 +0000 UTC
