Conversation · The Greatest Innocence
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"The Greatest Innocence" by João Paolo Salomao Lopez de Fuego. The book is large and heavy.
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You can't. The idea of coming face to face with the Greatest Innocence fills you with immense sadness and dread now.
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Browsing through the various chapters, you try your best to understand the ceaseless overflow -- the sprawl -- of names, dates, places, events historical. Most of it ends up as a twisted mass of facts inside your brain.
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Browsing through the book again, you still have trouble understanding the torrent of information. It only seems to add to the confused jumble of facts inside your brain.
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Your educational survey is done. Did you catch any of that? No? Oh well, it's pop quiz time! Let's see what you've learned. This might take a few minutes. You ready?
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- Oh god no, let me out of here.
- Sure, why not?Remembered · 1
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Nah, one triumph is good enough for me.
Fuck no, I'm not falling for your trickery again.
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Smarmy jerk. Bet you just got lucky that first time around anyway. Or you cheated off someone smarter.
Probably for the best. It wasn't looking too good for you, anyway.
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Aced it once, no trouble acing it again.
Okay, I can definitely do better this time.
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Imagine that, it's quite easy when you already know the answers, isn't it? But okay, if this makes you feel better. Here we go again. Question 1: Who was the first innocence?
It seems rather unfair to try again after you already know the answers, but sure, if this makes you feel better. Here we go again. Question 1: Who was the first innocence?
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- Sola?Remembered · 1
- That so? Alright, go on, give me all the hints you got.Remembered · 1
- The Perikarnassian?
- You know, I didn't really absorb anything from what I just read.
- Dolores Dei?Remembered · 1
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Incorrect. Sola was anointed during the previous century and even lived to see the current one. She was an urban planner who spoke her mind and largely left history to its own devices, encouraging people to excel on their own rather than prescribing to a deified model of history. She is often called an anti-innocence.
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Sola resigned after an assassination attempt by a Yugo nationalist, who blamed her for not taking the side of the left during the turn of the century revolutions. (Innocences don't usually resign). Care to try again?
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A pop quiz is a short examination designed to test your knowledge without any prior warning or announcement. Such exams allow the teacher to assess how thoroughly the students have retained the material at hand -- voila! Now blast that first innocence!
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Correct! Nothing much is known about him. It's not even clear that he was a he, but Franconegro presumed as such and called him Pius. He's depicted as a young man with molten gold pouring out of his mouth -- all he spoke was gold. It's said he invented god; and equality of men before god. He also introduced the gold standard as a way for measuring people's love for aurum.
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As the first innocence, he declared that there should be more of those like him. It is presumed his disciples were the beginning of the Holy Party (the Founding Party).
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- Doesn't sound too familiar to me, shoot me a hint.
- Vesper-Messina?Remembered · 1
- Dolores Dei?Remembered · 1
- Franconegro?
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Sure, try again. I trust you've got my back.
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An innocence is the highest category of historical personage in the world, a literal personification of History. Traditionally, an innocence, when anointed, assumes supreme rule over the Occident, or the known world in general -- at least the parts that matter.
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Yes, yes, so interesting, but I thought you'd give me the answer to the question.
Um... I can do better! Okay, so commonly an innocence does not enforce his or her power through military power. This is seen as unnecessary. The innocence wins because an innocence can't help but win, for their deeds are inevitabilities. Did this help?
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Incorrect. Vesper-Messina is not a person, but a defunct state on the southeastern coast of the Occident. It used to take up most of the peninsula, before separating into the Republics of Vesper and Messina. Care to try again?
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Incorrect again. While she originated many modern institutions, launched several successful expeditions, and was even critical of the innocentic system itself -- and somehow keeps popping up in your mind! -- she is not often considered the strongest.
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Even though the words most associated with her rule are l'amour, la compassion, l'autodiscipline -- love, compassion, self-control -- which could be seen as facets of strength. Would you like to try again?
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- Incorrect again. While she originated many modern institutions, launched several successful expeditions, and was even critical of the innocentic system itself -- and somehow keeps popping up in your mind! -- she is not often considered the strongest.
- Incorrect. While she originated many modern institutions, launched several successful expeditions, and was even critical of the innocentic system itself -- not to mention beautiful -- she is not often considered the strongest.
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Just steer clear of this one, okay. There's something terrible about this one.
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Yes. The quiz is impersonal. No need to rouse sensations in yourself at the mention of Dolores Dei. Who was the first innocence -- it wasn't her.
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Who knows? You feel like you lost her somehow. When she left the Earth, the dust and the ice and the humans... This is unimportant to the quiz. Stop thinking about this.
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Incorrect. While she originated many modern institutions, launched several successful expeditions, and was even critical of the innocentic system itself -- not to mention beautiful -- she is not often considered the strongest.
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Correct! Named the innocence of militarism, he codified hereditary rule -- but at the same time ended serfdom and established the interisolary reál as the global reserve currency. He also established the concept of the Nation.
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Franconegro attempted to solve the rising tensions between the aristocracy and bourgeoisie by building a unified society, in which every man has a place and a mission, but at the same time may rise to nobility provided on the strength of his virtue.
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Got it under control. No problem. Solid on this one. It's wide-spread historical information.
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- Ernö Pasternak?
- All news to me, so maybe a few hints?
- Kedra?Remembered · 1
- Stepan the Despicable?Remembered · 1
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Correct! There have been a number of counter- or false-innocences -- some assumed to have innocentic qualities, some who just thought so themselves. Occasionally they have the support of a faction inside the ecclesiastic organization, and accusations of foul play have arisen...
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The most famous -- and important -- of these was Ernö Pasternak. He was into torture, despotism, hymns, cannons, and world conquest, but got defeated and humiliated by Stepan the Despicable of Kedra.
Final stretch, you've come so far and learned so much. This is the most important one. Question 4: Who was the greatest innocence? The most important of them all. The most precious to human kind...
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- Dolores Dei.
- You sound confident, go right ahead -- a hint would come in handy.
- Franconegro.Remembered · 1
- Ernö Pasternak.Remembered · 1
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Correct! The Mesque might see Franconegro as the father of nations, but as of this century there's been a great shift in attitude -- Dolores Dei has become widely regarded as the greatest innocence. A most radical change to the whole fabric of the world.
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Everything from interisolary travel, to the connected world, to three consecutive scientific revolutions can be traced back to her. Every decade that passes she seems less human somehow -- and more beautiful...
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Congratulations on finishing the test. The results and your subsequent grade have been calculated. You get...
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Congratulations on finishing the test again. The results and your subsequent grade have been calculated. You get...