Tales of Silk and Horn

James Wynn · 06 Jan 2005, 08:27 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Thu Jan  6 08:27:10 2005
Subject: (urth) Tales of Silk and Horn
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> Then, the quest to find Silk actually ENDS when Horn gives his
>(ok, Silk's) eye to Pig, allowing Silver Silk, who is a download
>of Silk from the mainframe into Pig, to re-enter the body of Silk
>by escaping Pig's eye , creating Silk+Horn.

Is there any unambiguous example where the gods transfer eye-to-eye rather
than exclusively eye-to-Sacred Window?

I can think of one instance that suggests this is impossible.
Kypris-In-Chenille tells Silk that Maytera Mint had a partial download of
Kypris (because she forced herself to look away). She tells Silk that they
need to get Mint to a Sacred Window before she has some sort of breakdown.
But if eye-to-eye transfers were possible, Chenille only needed to get alone
with Mint and look her in the eye. Thus, it seems, eye to eye transfers are
not possible.

~ Crush

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