From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, October 17, 2014 4:31:31 AM UTC-7, Jymesion wrote:   
      
      
   > From my point of view, the necessary rationale isn't the clothing,   
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   > it's why someone would establish a convent.   
      
      
   For the Glory of God.   
      
   Tax purposes.   
      
   Get in good with the Church.   
      
   To get into heaven.   
      
      
   Alternatively, instead of *establishing* a convent, he could be    
   xpanding/financing an existing convent.  His money, his rules.     
      
   Why?  Maybe just because he finds it amusing.   
      
      
      
      
   > I have a time-traveler story that's stalled because he planned   
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   > meticulously, and I can't think of anything to throw at him that'd be   
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   > a real threat.    
      
      
   Other people are always the greatest threat of all.     
      
      
      
      
      
   > To get on the good side of a bishop, he paid to have a cathedral   
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   > finished. To keep up his public image, he's endowed several churches   
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   > and a hospital. (Gold and silver aren't a problem -- he raided an   
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   > Incan storehouse.)   
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   > Setting up a convent would fit in with his philanthropy. Pink   
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   > representing the body of Christ justifies the clothing. Being   
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   > outrageous is expected of him (he is foreign, after all. Very, very   
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   > foreign).    
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   > If there was a decent reason for him to establish a convent, it'd be   
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   > wide open. Neon pink robes, dark sunglasses, and jodhpur boots for   
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   > everyone! :)   
      
      
   See above- "To get on the good side of a bishop, he paid to have a cathedral   
   finished. To keep up his public image, he's endowed several churches and a   
   hospital."   
      
   add '...and financed a convent'  Problem solved.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   > He's too busy for it to be a whim. Even in a world where the king   
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   > packs a Walther PPK and the sisters in the hospital have been taught   
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   > germ theory, there's a limit to how much oddity the locals will   
   >    
   > accept, so why push it? It's quite unlikely he included neon pink   
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   > fabric in his initial supplies, and moving any quantity of goods   
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   > carries significant risk.   
      
      
   I am dirt poor in a culture that can't cross to other dimensions, and *I* have   
   a Nook with ~4000 titles on it.  He has a book on dye making.  If I were going   
   to the middle ages you damn well better believe I would pick up a thousand or   
   so books on useful    
   topics first.  (AND a solar battery charger, plus a couple of spares in case   
   the first one breaks)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)