You saw the text, so I'll lay out this completely hypothetical scenario.
Loki knows you like to know things, and Loki's missing and not even responding to texts with conversations that he started. You, being confident in your knowledge, seek out the answer in a more effective means than any of us (because that's what you do).
I'd say that it's likely that you were the contingency plan. Or the "wishful thinking" contingency plan, if we're going to connect this to my original statement.
I'm not ruling it out as a possibility, but I still don't think it's likely. Too many variables where it could have gone wrong, and that I got it before anyone else can largely be attributed to luck.
But I guess we'll know if it happens again. In the meantime, we'd be wise to work out contingencies of our own.
Loki once confessed to manipulating Billy several months ahead of time to see if he would possibly summon Mother, relying solely on the psychology of dreams to ensure that his subliminal message would go through.
Okay, but that's a completely different situation.
1. He passed that message directly, and I am really skeptical that "the psychology of dreams" is all he was working with there. 2. If you were to rank everyone you know by their susceptibility to manipulation, where would you put Billy? Be honest.
If you're suggesting that he put a subliminal command in my brain to find his phone if he disappeared, I guess it isn't impossible, but I still think it's unlikely. My head isn't as easy to get into as Billy's, I've dealt with enough psychics to know a few tricks, not to mention that was standard X-student curriculum. Also, I just barely got here. If he was going to use someone as a contingency, it probably would have been you.
I was just building off of the suggestion you were making. I don't think he would have done the same thing since I don't think he had anything in place when this happened.
There was no random chance involved with that, at least not with the initial setup. He was banking on an inevitability, for the reasons already outlined.
If it's the same for him then my theory is that, despite a knowledge of the possibility of return, there's still a disconnect in having it applied to you, and that's a general "you", or people you're close to. Alongside that is a possible lack of investment in whatever belongings may exist in this world. There's only so much that can be set up in the time you've been here, and little of it will have any real emotional attachment.
So, what I think the most likely happened is that Loki either didn't expect to be ported out and hadn't prepared for it, or, and this is the big one, he just didn't care to safeguard anything.
If he lost his phone, what would he lose when he comes back? How hard will it be to replace?
I didn't say it needs one, only that we have opportunity and it might not be a terrible idea. If "he's Loki" isn't reason enough, then obviously that opportunity isn't being taken.
There is a very big difference between "seeing Loki" and "getting Loki's phone away from him long enough for me to install a tracking device, then returning it without him noticing." We aren't going to get this opportunity again.
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selfequipped) wrote2014-02-10 02:43 pm
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Loki knows you like to know things, and Loki's missing and not even responding to texts with conversations that he started. You, being confident in your knowledge, seek out the answer in a more effective means than any of us (because that's what you do).
I'd say that it's likely that you were the contingency plan. Or the "wishful thinking" contingency plan, if we're going to connect this to my original statement.
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But I guess we'll know if it happens again. In the meantime, we'd be wise to work out contingencies of our own.
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I'm just saying, I'm open to possibilities.
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1. He passed that message directly, and I am really skeptical that "the psychology of dreams" is all he was working with there.
2. If you were to rank everyone you know by their susceptibility to manipulation, where would you put Billy? Be honest.
If you're suggesting that he put a subliminal command in my brain to find his phone if he disappeared, I guess it isn't impossible, but I still think it's unlikely. My head isn't as easy to get into as Billy's, I've dealt with enough psychics to know a few tricks, not to mention that was standard X-student curriculum. Also, I just barely got here. If he was going to use someone as a contingency, it probably would have been you.
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And you're suggesting that he'd even use the same means twice. He's the god of change. He'd probably do a different thing just to say he did.
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The time is still a factor to consider.
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But the time is most definitely the important factor here.
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How many people do you know that have ported out like this? That you personally spoke to, not just heard about.
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So, what I think the most likely happened is that Loki either didn't expect to be ported out and hadn't prepared for it, or, and this is the big one, he just didn't care to safeguard anything.
If he lost his phone, what would he lose when he comes back? How hard will it be to replace?
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But I can put an actual tracker in his phone.
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