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Wanderer · 2012-01-26, 14:29

I think Erika is just kind of a "what if" insert character. The things she does on the Game Board that aren't depicted in the Game Board narrative are just made up on the spot in the Meta-World. As long as what she makes up is possible for a human, the Game Master must accept it (this isn't a rule per se, it's just that the GM would have no logical ground to deny it).

The most clear example of this is Erika in EP6 when she kills off all the First Twilight fakers. Since we learned from EP8 that the GM knows everything that happens on the Game Board (with the exception of things done by a second Game Master), BATTLER should have known everything Erika's Piece was doing the moment it happened. This basically leaves us with these two options:

Erika assumes incorrectly that she can take actions with her Piece without BATTLER's awareness, and BATTLER knows this and plays the fool. I don't like this explanation, mostly because I don't think Erika would make such an assumption
Retroactive writing-in: In the context of the Meta-World, Erika's Piece had not killed anyone on the Game Board until the moment Erika said she did. Thus nothing actually happened without BATTLER's immediate awareness.

If you apply this also to the trial of EP5 then Bernkastel providing Reds and Lambdadelta "acknowledging" Erika's powers makes a lot more sense. This means that what's going on in the Meta-World as the Games progress is really a fight for control of the narrative of the given Game Boards.

So what does this mean for Piece-Erika's observational powers? These powers are not used passively; their effects are entirely made up from a Meta-World context. They are a tool for the Player to enforce their own narrative; a way for the human side to actually make the story take on certain truths that the witch's side can't reject or evade. Otherwise no matter what the human side says that they saw or did, the witch could just say they saw it wrong or didn't do what they thought they did.

So, in sum, Erika's Detective Authority powers and natural observational abilities do not exist to ensure Meta-Erika knows what her Piece sees. They exist as a tool to control the Game Board narrative from the Meta-World, not to understand it. Incidentally, trying to control rather than understand is probably Erika's fundamental mistake.

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Wanderer Goat Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima	I think Erika is just kind of a "what if" insert character. The things she does on the Game Board that aren't depicted in the Game Board narrative are just made up on the spot in the Meta-World. As long as what she makes up is possible for a human, the Game Master must accept it (this isn't a rule per se, it's just that the GM would have no logical ground to deny it). The most clear example of this is Erika in EP6 when she kills off all the First Twilight fakers. Since we learned from EP8 that the GM knows everything that happens on the Game Board (with the exception of things done by a second Game Master), BATTLER should have known everything Erika's Piece was doing the moment it happened. This basically leaves us with these two options: Erika assumes incorrectly that she can take actions with her Piece without BATTLER's awareness, and BATTLER knows this and plays the fool. I don't like this explanation, mostly because I don't think Erika would make such an assumption Retroactive writing-in: In the context of the Meta-World, Erika's Piece had not killed anyone on the Game Board until the moment Erika said she did. Thus nothing actually happened without BATTLER's immediate awareness. If you apply this also to the trial of EP5 then Bernkastel providing Reds and Lambdadelta "acknowledging" Erika's powers makes a lot more sense. This means that what's going on in the Meta-World as the Games progress is really a fight for control of the narrative of the given Game Boards. So what does this mean for Piece-Erika's observational powers? These powers are not used passively; their effects are entirely made up from a Meta-World context. They are a tool for the Player to enforce their own narrative; a way for the human side to actually make the story take on certain truths that the witch's side can't reject or evade. Otherwise no matter what the human side says that they saw or did, the witch could just say they saw it wrong or didn't do what they thought they did. So, in sum, Erika's Detective Authority powers and natural observational abilities do not exist to ensure Meta-Erika knows what her Piece sees. They exist as a tool to control the Game Board narrative from the Meta-World, not to understand it. Incidentally, trying to control rather than understand is probably Erika's fundamental mistake.