Don’t suppose you’re gonna give us an answer? 
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Nope. 
You all didn’t discover a pretty substantial subplot and we needed to keep moving, so maybe I’ll use it somewhere else down the line. 
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Damn it 
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So can I ask - were there some hidden hints or something else we could have used to get more info on the landmarks? Also would the subplot have given us more info on Fletcher Dawson? 
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I still have so. many. Fletcher. Dawson. questions.
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Yes. You can ask. 
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Don’t be evil. 
No hints at all?
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Haaaaaaaa I just feel that if I gave you hints about something like this, and you all figured it out based on the hints, then:
A) You’d know things you only discovered in meta, but never discovered in-world.
B) If I used it in the narrative later on it would be a let down because you’d already know it.
C) If/when we adapt things like Secret Society and The Search for Magiq into more easily digestible novellas, I would have to somehow weave in how you came upon that knowledge.
That’s why I think it’s great that you all have so many questions about Fletcher, etc. because those were things buried in TMP that you just didn’t dig up. And that’s okay, because we can repurpose them later.
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That’s valid, haha. I am curious, would we still be able to find hidden things if we did some digging, or is it like…time sensitive stuff?
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If you went digging in the old Archives maybe.
A curious thing about immersive-fiction… If you don’t complete/discover something I set up then I’m inclined to not include it in the published narrative because it just seems like a dangling thread or a plot hole. Comparing what’s in the archives to what I didn’t include in the finished book could be the start of a trailhead for you. Also… there are all the Easter eggs you all never discovered.
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Ye I understand that because in the future you can always do short spin off narratives based on them
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Oh god, this is the worst temptation CJ That archive is massive.
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In the future CJ is gonna have to release a book called the Secrets of TMP
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As glad as I was to have the assessment solved, I was always a little sad that we didn’t get to the “why” for the constellation matches…and I’m occasionally inclined to go back to the locations spreadsheet until it makes sense
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Random question just hit me from like 2 years ago.
Brandon Lachmann and Sullivan Green. Is there a connection, and how much? They both knew magiq. They both lived in New York City during the 80’s, and Brandon’s narrative he created to get him out of this world he has a character who helped him named Professor Green. I believe it was Professor Green who told him how to escape this world.
Brandon’s journey began when he found something someone had scribbled in a library book. Was that Sullivan’s doing? (Bonus points question: If yes then which Sullivan? Original timeline flavor Sullivan or Neithernor Dwelling mastermind Sullivan?
Did Brandon ever seek out and talk to Sullivan? Why did Sullivan decide to help a 13 year old run away to another dimension? Did Sullivan help him because he genuinely liked and believed int he kid or did Sullivan 2 just place clues for him to get him where he needed to be to help us with the BoB?
I just always wanted to know how that actually went down. It’s not a major earthshaking plot point, I just figured it’d be an interesting character moment for both of them.
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Great questions which I’m happy to answer!
1889 Sullivan at least –
And could definitely have left “Imagination is nothing more than memory transposed” in a certain science book for Brandon to find.
Sully2 also guided FD to write the version of FoDG Brandon wrote his report about, which was instrumental in setting Brandon on his path.
That could certainly have happened. The fact that Brandon created a “Professor Green” in his narrative is particularly interesting.
Brandon saw the world differently even before FoDG and the note in the science book. There’s a good chance he was going to do what he was going to do… but if Sully could have trained him, helped him, either directly or indirectly, to travel safely and also help him find the Council and assist in opening the BoB, then bonus, right?
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These are the kind of questions that are easier for me to explore and answer because all the info is in the experience/book, they’re just waiting to be connected.
And you connected them without me filling in blank spaces out of world.
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Also, it’s cool to see new things still being discovered in TMP.
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Knowing you there are probably hundreds of hidden things in the books that we’ll never find
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Yes it’s such an open Sandbox of exploring that it’s hard to think all the nooks of thought and planning will see the light of revelation 
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