Quote:[b]robkelk wrote:[/b]That's okay. She'll just have to go get it from him presuming any of it survives his walk (this Rose can't meet Doug until after the walk--she would take him home and deal with the cosequences at her own level--doesn't make for a good story. However, once the walk is complete, she can go back and interact with him, so long as, to her, the walk is complete and she doesn't change the walk's outcome. That's not to say that she can't give him knowledge that he already shows at the end of the walk, so she could go give him clues about what he needs to do, or give him items he'll need). She has plenty of reasons to talk to him. This just adds another one.
Oh, dear. Perhaps we shouldn't tell her that Noah gave Doug Sangnoir a liter of the stuff just before he left... that would only worry the poor girl.
And, it may work fine in many worlds. It may not work at all in others (the world doesn't allow itself to be rewritten in ways it does not approve of). It may work as advertised normally, but there may be things in the universe that interacting with would be BAD or it is incapable of interacting with. But, that's not a chance Rose can take. She has a lot of worlds she's been asked to look out for, and this is a potentially dangerous object. Keeping it out of the multiverse is the best bet.
Situations like this are, actually, why I don't deal with fanfiction much: too many potential paradoxes. What has priority and why? For me, the world in which the story is set has priority, everything else must conform. If I pull Lina Inverse into a world with no magic, she doesn't have magic and has to deal with things normally. In the world of the PAC warriors, PAC Armor is the ultimate protection and can only be penetrated by a PAC Cannon. No other weapon is capable of doing it, and nothing short of mutliple layers of PAC Armor can stop a PAC round. But, if a PAC Warrior leaves his world, he is subject to that world's rules and his armor may not be the ultimate form of protection and his weapons may not be the last word in threat elimination.
The actual behavior of Handwavium is irrelevant. What is relevant is the perception of what it could do. MonkeyFist's first thought, upon reading about Handwavium was "don't get any of that near Iron Heart, he'd corrupt it in moments and take over the world." That's because he knows how the SSD world works and understands it at a fundamental level (it's our shared supers world). He knows that there is nothing, in the world, preventing the corruption and Iron Heart is a master corruptor (Iron Heart was able to corrupt a fraction of the Great Will of the Cosmos). Whether or not Iron Heart could corrupt Handwavium is irrelevant. The simple threat that he might be able to is sufficient cause to keep it away.