In the seventeenth chapter of The Science of Discworld<\/i>, the wizards retain the abilities of a familiar face for exploration of their Project. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Oh, the joys of discovery.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d argue that the events of this book are pretty much a direct follow-up to The Last Continent<\/i>. While there is nothing here to suggest any sort of timeline \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this could very well happen within weeks of that book! \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I love the idea that Rincewind got back to Unseen University and then just napped. He napped and did nothing else<\/i>. Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you do the same??? It might be the only way for him to stay safe.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, if there aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t portals to other worlds opening up, and even if Rincewind wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accidentally sent to another continent, it seems this poor wizard can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just be left in peace. From the perspective of the OTHER wizards, it makes sense they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d choose Rincewind to explore the Project. He does<\/i> have a preternatural ability to survive literally everything that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thrown at him.<\/p>\n
This time around, though, Hex and Ponder Stibbons have given Rincewind an advantage he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never had. (Of course, he must acknowledge the obvious: that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suit of spells\u00e2\u20ac\u009d referenced in the chapter title might not work at all, so WHOOPS???) Hex has managed to combine multiple spells into a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that will allow Rincewind to observe the worlds of the Project while only experiencing a fraction of the effects on his own body. As Ponder puts it:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Absolutely nothing will hurt you because HEX will buffer all extreme sensations and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll simply receive a gentle analogue of them. If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freezing you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll feel rather chilly, if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boiling you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll feel a little hot. If a mountain falls on you it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a bit of a knock.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a bad idea, is it? By making everything an analogue to the real thing, they can listen to Rincewind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s observations and learn things about the Project! Again, if the suit works, this is perhaps one of the smartest things that the wizards have ever done. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not surprising that they never even offered to use it themselves because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all cowards in some way, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they? I am excited to see what Rincewind will observe, though, and I am hoping that this next double batch of chapters means that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get a Discworld chapter. I ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.<\/p>\n
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