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marycatelli) wrote2023-06-04 12:07 am
marycatelli) wrote2023-06-04 12:07 am
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knowledge is power
There's one advantage of the erratic, one-of-a-kind nature of superpowers.
There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
But not none. People will learn things. If only to test what sort of powers that these freak accidents produce. What powers go together. Whether there's danger of not having required secondary powers so that your primary powers kill you. And if there is some rhyme and reason to how powers work (and utterly random powers force stories in certain patterns you may not like), they will learn it.
An important trick is to not make it too easy. Yes, you know the rules. That means you have to forget them to think of plausible false paths. Furthermore knowledge should not spread too easily. At one extreme, I have seen a discovery made in a book be known to everyone in all the other books in the series, even the prequels. (And no, it was not plausible that this was a rediscovery.
There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
But not none. People will learn things. If only to test what sort of powers that these freak accidents produce. What powers go together. Whether there's danger of not having required secondary powers so that your primary powers kill you. And if there is some rhyme and reason to how powers work (and utterly random powers force stories in certain patterns you may not like), they will learn it.
An important trick is to not make it too easy. Yes, you know the rules. That means you have to forget them to think of plausible false paths. Furthermore knowledge should not spread too easily. At one extreme, I have seen a discovery made in a book be known to everyone in all the other books in the series, even the prequels. (And no, it was not plausible that this was a rediscovery.