Infinite Farmer

After a minute or so, Tulland had got about all the benefit from the rest room that he thought he could.

Something just occurred to me.

Yes?

Most of these levels take days and days. Sometimes weeks. Right?

Correct.

So what if Necia gets out days and days after me? We just become off sync then, and one of us has to sacrifice our rest to get back into a party?

I suppose I don't know for sure. That kind of thing doesn't have hard and fast rules. But if I had to guess, I'd guess that The Infinite allows some kind of flexibility. If you haven't noticed, it's very careful to avoid things that look like death sentences.

Which confuses me. Because once, a long time ago, I would have been able to turn whole floors into briar hells. It wouldn't have scaled against very strong monsters, maybe, but I could have adjusted for that.

That… I hate to defend what amounts to my better. But from what I understood of that time, The Infinite simply couldn't allow you to come that close to a known class exception. Some class paths are banned, for reasons having to do with what you would have eventually tried with that class. You must have noticed that no Invincible Warrior Who Can Defeat Any Enemy With A Look classes exist.

I assumed you couldn't make them.

I could at least come close. The Infinite almost certainly could overpower an adventurer enough to trivialize their journey. But the point, Tulland, lies in the struggle itself. In the adventurer's experience. In the living and dying. Making one man a demigod denies all that.

But… the next question would just be why you chose those goals. Instead of some others.

The quick answer is that I didn't choose them. The longer answer is… yes, I thought so. Still very banned.

Well, let me know if you can ever talk about it. I'd be interested…

Tulland suddenly thumped into the ground of the safe zone, surrounded by dark and not exactly where he thought he'd be.