MJ called me a Non-Interfering character. I just realized that I've probably interfered more in two of my worlds than I would have if I had interfered. The "After The Verse" story will be radically different. In Dancing Princess, I chose not to engage the demons until they had partially taken over the castle, and probably would not have done anything had it not been for an angelic vision. Really, which would be interfering more? Leaving them with one dead princess, and no heirs to the throne, or providing an heir to the throne? If there is an heir, there is no problem. The kingdom runs on as it has for centuries. The way I left it, the Blacksmith (a respected and powerful man in his village) might have seen my shoes scriff out. He is now going to engage demons. They have one dead princess, and no husbands for the other two. If I had married one of them, they would have an heir. Which affected the kingdom more?
I interfere after the fact.
"Interfere? Of course we should interfere. Always do what you're best at, that's what I say."
Dr. Who to Romana
--M. J. Young
MJ, in my first world, it was free and open. Do whatever you want. In Pearl Harbor, you wanted to find if I would interfere. In my last world, interference was expected. This is making me start to see a pattern to your logic. I'll know more once I find out more about this current world. I hope it's a Do Whatever You Want world.
John, it's a world I needed to playtest, and you were elected. I had someone else in this world, but life interfered in a major way before he got as far as you have gotten.
Interestingly, your prayers have already changed the course of this world in a significant way; but you wouldn't know that, and you probably would never have known that, because neither you nor you could possibly know what would have happened were it not for your prayers.
--M. J. Young
John, it's a world I needed to playtest, and you were elected.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. Who better to playtest the world than the person you know won't do what you expect him to do?