Yes. Secret-Keeping magic is complex, and dangerous. Forcing someone to become unable to communicate one thing is difficult enough, but entire broad topics? The scale of it would be staggering.
Yet there still appears to be wiggle room. Baiting people into twenty questions.
Perhaps I should say the ones it won't respond to at all.
> How do we get to the white room? > Are we tasked with obtaining a proverbial golden fleece, much as Jason was?
Silence. Perhaps it'll come back later, but the delay is noteworthy. There is a white room. The fact that it can't spit out an instant obfuscation all but proves it. We are tasked with something; we've suspected this for some time.
It seems to have genuinely answered William and Claire. Possibly Erik.
it terminated its line of conversation with Claire, even I expect some of the later ones will get cycled through or ignored as has happened in the past but the white room is particularly elusive
wiggle room also in reprimand for the wrong questions whether because they won't net correct thinking or it can't answer
I imagine if someone particularly good with abductive reasoning were to take every transmission and line up all the inquiries and responses, holes outlining proper answers would start to become visible.
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although to take a stab
its inability to communicate clearly has got to do with it
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Yet there still appears to be wiggle room. Baiting people into twenty questions.
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I imagine that whatever computer hackery rabbit holes it manages to provide is of relevance too
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any jumping out at you?
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> How do we get to the white room?
> Are we tasked with obtaining a proverbial golden fleece, much as Jason was?
Silence. Perhaps it'll come back later, but the delay is noteworthy. There is a white room. The fact that it can't spit out an instant obfuscation all but proves it. We are tasked with something; we've suspected this for some time.
It seems to have genuinely answered William and Claire. Possibly Erik.
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I expect some of the later ones will get cycled through or ignored as has happened in the past
but the white room is particularly elusive
wiggle room also in reprimand for the wrong questions
whether because they won't net correct thinking or it can't answer
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Alternatively: it's a distraction.
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I would say that "pay attention" bids us to do just that however
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