From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 18, 2014 4:58:49 PM UTC-7, Jymesion wrote:   
      
      
   > >> it's why someone would establish a convent.   
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   > >Why?  Maybe just because he finds it amusing.   
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   > What story purpose does that serve?   
      
      
   It's 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.    
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   > >Other people are always the greatest threat of all.     
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   > Unfortunately, he's set things up in such a way that they can't be a   
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   > real danger to him. If something unexpected does come up, he can be   
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   > out of there instantly and start over somewhen else.   
      
      
   Surrendering all the time and effort and resources he put into /here/.  And   
   the new place won't be immune to people either.  He will have to learn how to   
   deal with problems by means other than running.   
      
      
      
      
      
   > >> 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! :)   
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   > >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."   
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   > >add '...and financed a convent'  Problem solved.   
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   > In my opinion, they're completely different.    
      
      
   They really aren't.  Convents served the same economic functions that   
   monasteries did.  That isn't even including convents attached to cathedrals,   
   churches and especially hospitals.   
      
      
      
   > Cash support of the cathedral, churches, and hospital heightens the   
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   > power and prestige of the leaders of those institutions without   
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   > intruding on their beliefs or practices.   
      
      
   Dress codes do not impose on their beliefs and practices, especially if a   
   large sum of money is attached.  Hell "I would like to donate these very fine   
   clothes, to the good sisters..."  Cloth wasn't cheap.   
      
      
      
      
      
   > >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)   
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   > He's not there to help them, and he won't be living there very long.   
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   > He's using the era and place as an operational base for his illegal   
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   > activities.    
      
      
   What, did he leave in the middle of the night, naked?  He has a book on dye   
   making.  Basic reference is basic reference, and you never know what might   
   come in handy.  At the very, very worst he has multiple encyclopedias and   
   their entries on dying.     
      
   And *I* never claimed to be a benevolent saint...   
      
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