'Splaining Away Mr. A

[Rick Healey]

Well, I suppose that I would deliberately try to obfuscate the issue by making vague suggestions that confirm or deny nothing.

I'd also deliberately make a vague denial about a wrong supposition without offering a solid answer in order to heighten future interest.

Finally, I'd also take the time to make a point vague without even having a solid answer, in case I or any other puppet master wanted to define it differently later.

[Adell]

Well, I suppose that I would deliberately try to obfuscate the issue by making vague suggestions that confirm or deny nothing.

I'd also deliberately make a vague denial about a wrong supposition without offering a solid answer in order to heighten future interest.

Finally, I'd also take the time to make a point vague without even having a solid answer, in case I or any other puppet master wanted to define it differently later.

Oh I get it, so you're being a troll

[Blurred_9L]

Well, I suppose that I would deliberately try to obfuscate the issue by making vague suggestions that confirm or deny nothing.

I'd also deliberately make a vague denial about a wrong supposition without offering a solid answer in order to heighten future interest.

Finally, I'd also take the time to make a point vague without even having a solid answer, in case I or any other puppet master wanted to define it differently later.

Well, too bad. Just like I tweeted to the cat after that video, I will think of Mr. A as some kind of Pikachu mutation, or something.

[S_o_S]

Translation: he just said it to troll us. I'M ONTO YOU.

Unless it really wasn't lightning, and he said it KNOWING WE WOULD THINK HE WAS TROLLING.

This is getting silly now. I'm on to you though Rick, seriously.

[Flitterbie]

Well, I suppose that I would deliberately try to obfuscate the issue by making vague suggestions that confirm or deny nothing.

I'd also deliberately make a vague denial about a wrong supposition without offering a solid answer in order to heighten future interest.

Finally, I'd also take the time to make a point vague without even having a solid answer, in case I or any other puppet master wanted to define it differently later.

Well, too bad. Just like I tweeted to the cat after that video, I will think of Mr. A as some kind of Pikachu mutation, or something.

He's way too humanlike to be a Pikachu.

Obviously, he's some kind of Electabuzz.

[Genndy Oda C.O.G.]

Well, I suppose that I would deliberately try to obfuscate the issue by making vague suggestions that confirm or deny nothing.

I'd also deliberately make a vague denial about a wrong supposition without offering a solid answer in order to heighten future interest.

Finally, I'd also take the time to make a point vague without even having a solid answer, in case I or any other puppet master wanted to define it differently later.

Well, too bad. Just like I tweeted to the cat after that video, I will think of Mr. A as some kind of Pikachu mutation, or something.

He's way too humanlike to be a Pikachu.

Obviously, he's some kind of Electabuzz.

Perhaps he's an alternate evolution of Electabuzz: Ampministrator. An Electabuzz must reach level 48 or higher in the White Void to evolve into an Ampministrator.

[BlackWolfe]

He's way too humanlike to be a Pikachu.

Obviously, he's some kind of Electabuzz.

Perhaps he's an alternate evolution of Electabuzz: Ampministrator. An Electabuzz must reach level 48 or higher in the White Void to evolve into an Ampministrator.

Urge to learn rom modding rising...

[Dryunya]

Didn't Mr. A say those were his tears?

Ok, except that he could lie.
But statistically, so far he only outright lied once, about the premise. So I'm assuming he didn't this time, too.

And to keep your imagination boiling, the Void physics are probably different. Who knows what it could be. =P

[Adell]

Didn't Mr. A say those were his tears?

Ok, except that he could lie.
But statistically, so far he only outright lied once, about the premise. So I'm assuming he didn't this time, too.

And to keep your imagination boiling, the Void physics are probably different. Who knows what it could be. =P

Well unless you count omitting and obscuring information from us as a lie. In which case, he lied a lot.

[Tom]

Perhaps, to some extent, the Void and Mr. A are the same thing, and it manifests his emotions.

Perhaps...

You'd have to ask him.

(Hint: you already did)

[Rick Healey]

Hm... that would mean Mr. A literally sprung forth ex nihilo. The implications of this are staggering.

Also, because I decided to do research on the topic of lightning, simply because it was a bit too unfair to simply tease folks like I did...

Lightning (and, for that matter, all variety of electrical arcs) are the results of massive amounts of electron imbalance being corrected very suddenly and forcefully. This actually manifests as a brief moment of plasma discharge, which is the visible portion of the electrical arc.

In order for Mr. A to thus give off electricity like that, this means that he'd need the ability to consciously regulate electron balance within his own body continuously, which would indicate a massive amount of power all on its own.

This becomes worrisome, however, when you figure out a few more things. The visible spectrum portion of such a discharge has a specific appearance based on the atmosphere in which the discharge happens. We know, based on Zach Wallnau's appearance in the void (EC, season 1), that the atmosphere must be at least close to ours, or else Zach wouldn't be able to survive in the Void. Even accounting for the monochromatic appearance of the Void, the discharges did not match visually with recordings of such discharges in our own atmosphere.

Thus, it is reasonable to believe that the discharges seen in the video of Mr. A's anger are not electrical in nature, but may instead be the manifestation of some other variety of energy emanation. Thus, why I said that we should be so lucky as to have that be electricity - it's quite possible that Mr. A literally is a type of energy that we have yet to encounter.

I suppose the quickest way to figure this out would be to detect the aftereffects of the discharge itself. If it truly was electricity, that much discharge for that amount of time would definitely leave an amount of ozone detectable to the human nose (as high amounts of electric current result in the formation of two ozone molecules from three oxygen molecules, with the quantity made dependent on the amount of electricity as well as the time elapsed). So all we need to do is get close enough to smell Mr. A after he gets angry, and we can tell by that if he was discharging electricity.

Good luck with that.

[Scarab]

I suppose the quickest way to figure this out would be to detect the aftereffects of the discharge itself. If it truly was electricity, that much discharge for that amount of time would definitely leave an amount of ozone detectable to the human nose (as high amounts of electric current result in the formation of two ozone molecules from three oxygen molecules, with the quantity made dependent on the amount of electricity as well as the time elapsed). So all we need to do is get close enough to smell Mr. A after he gets angry, and we can tell by that if he was discharging electricity.

Good luck with that.

Okay, I have a plan in place for this. Eli needs to distract him with continued random comments and references to his leadership ability, while Sicon and Mimsy lay the bear traps and get everyone hawiian shirts. Then while Mister A is confused and annoyed by the lot of us apparrantly joinng Radio White Void or whoever they are this week, one of us sneaks up on him, sniffs him, and reports their findings.

...Still haven't worked out the getting into the void part of that puzzle, but it's a work in progress.

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

Why don't we just ask Zack, as the only human known to have entered the void, "Hey, Zack, can you please go back to that weird place and sniff your ex-boss for us? FOR SCIENCE."

[Scarab]

Why don't we just ask Zack, as the only human known to have entered the void, "Hey, Zack, can you please go back to that weird place and sniff your ex-boss for us? FOR SCIENCE."

Sounds like a plan, you get the hawiian shirts, then, I'll get on the line to the void rebels...

[Flitterbie]

I suppose the quickest way to figure this out would be to detect the aftereffects of the discharge itself. If it truly was electricity, that much discharge for that amount of time would definitely leave an amount of ozone detectable to the human nose (as high amounts of electric current result in the formation of two ozone molecules from three oxygen molecules, with the quantity made dependent on the amount of electricity as well as the time elapsed). So all we need to do is get close enough to smell Mr. A after he gets angry, and we can tell by that if he was discharging electricity.

Good luck with that.

Okay, I have a plan in place for this. Eli needs to distract him with continued random comments and references to his leadership ability, while Sicon and Mimsy lay the bear traps and get everyone hawiian shirts. Then while Mister A is confused and annoyed by the lot of us apparrantly joinng Radio White Void or whoever they are this week, one of us sneaks up on him, sniffs him, and reports their findings.

...Still haven't worked out the getting into the void part of that puzzle, but it's a work in progress.

You haven't mentioned the part of the plan where we have to explain to Mr. A that we were trying to smell him, and I quote, "for science."

[narrativedilettante]

Guys, guys. We're overcomplicating this. Mr. Administrator broke the wall for science. He OWES us. All we have to do is tell him that, as a form of repayment, we've determined he needs to let one of us smell him. For science.

[Flitterbie]

Guys, guys. We're overcomplicating this. Mr. Administrator broke the wall for science. He OWES us. All we have to do is tell him that, as a form of repayment, we've determined he needs to let one of us smell him. For science.

This is assuming Mr. A isn't a hypocrite.

[BlackWolfe]

Guys, guys. We're overcomplicating this. Mr. Administrator broke the wall for science. He OWES us. All we have to do is tell him that, as a form of repayment, we've determined he needs to let one of us smell him. For science.

This is assuming Mr. A isn't a hypocrite.

Which is a large assumption to make, true.

[Dryunya]

Perhaps, to some extent, the Void and Mr. A are the same thing, and it manifests his emotions.

Perhaps...

You'd have to ask him.

(Hint: you already did)

Wwwwaaaait a second...

Mr. A is the personification of the void
+
The void is the wall (he said so!)
=
Mr. A is the personification of the wall

So, that theory is true? (Even though I didn't like it at all)

[Flitterbie]

Perhaps, to some extent, the Void and Mr. A are the same thing, and it manifests his emotions.

Perhaps...

You'd have to ask him.

(Hint: you already did)

Wwwwaaaait a second...

Mr. A is the personification of the void
+
The void is the wall (he said so!)
=
Mr. A is the personification of the wall

So, that theory is true? (Even though I didn't like it at all)

This theory hinges on three words: 'He said so.'

[Scarab]

The void is the wall (he said so!)
=
Mr. A is the personification of the wall

So, that theory is true? (Even though I didn't like it at all)

This theory hinges on three words: 'He said so.'

Terry Pratchett always said something along the lines of 'people think belief is created by the gods you're beliving in, when it's really the other way around: believing in the gods is what gives them power. Sooo Mister A COULD be the personification of the wall, really, created after the fact. Or possibly an animus of some kind: an incredibly powerful sense of place, something as old as the wall, could very well have such a thing.

...Unless I'm getting this completely wrong.

[Pixelmage]

So... Mr. A = Genius Loci?

If so, that means breaking the Wall causes damage to himself, to some extent at least.

[Scarab]

So... Mr. A = Genius Loci?

If so, that means breaking the Wall causes damage to himself, to some extent at least.

Huh... good point, yeah I guess he wouldn't want to do that.

[RotavatoR]

So... Mr. A = Genius Loci?

If so, that means breaking the Wall causes damage to himself, to some extent at least.

I remember cAke saying that, if reality collapses, he would be all right. But I'm not sure if I remember correctly.

[Pixelmage]

I remember cAke saying that, if reality collapses, he would be all right. But I'm not sure if I remember correctly.

He dismissed it with: "If reality collapses, our fate is of no concern. You'll not be around to find out."