"That's the worst-case scenario, yes. It's not just easy to get someone to give you their name- we have these things called phone books, see. They're like... we have phones, devices that allow people to speak to anyone at a distance, but each person's phone has a different number attached to it, and you need to know the number to call them. So some people, they use public records to... compile enormous lists of people's phone-numbers alongside their names, so that anyone who wants to contact someone can look up their phone-number in the list. Not only is it trivially easy to find names, it's trivially easy to contact the people those names belong to and give them orders. Becoming Queen of the mortal world, for someone with a vassaled fairy and a telephone, could be less than an afternoon's work."
He stares off into space and shakes his head. "The phone book... is a powerful artifact that grants the wielder absolute control over the human race. The phone book."
This is the state of affairs concerning the universe, apparently. He shakes his head in disbelief some more.
"How long did you say it would take to make a gate?"
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Date: 2014-09-02 05:50 pm (UTC)He stares off into space and shakes his head. "The phone book... is a powerful artifact that grants the wielder absolute control over the human race. The phone book."
This is the state of affairs concerning the universe, apparently. He shakes his head in disbelief some more.
"How long did you say it would take to make a gate?"