First of all I’d like to thank you for another of your great scenarios. I greatly enjoyed reading it and I’m still working my way through the concepts it brings up. It’s a story and a setting rich enough to fuel hours and hours of excellent gaming. But I’m also a cynical bastard and I just love to nit-pick. Here’s some minor issues I have with the scenario: 1. Briefing: Compared to “Think before asking”, the introduction is just bland and unimaginative. I didn’t like the Think…’s intro neither but for other reason – the reason of style, how the game ‘feels’. Pokemondrian museum was a nice, funny idea. I just didn’t see the way to include it into my game without turning it into some kind of farcical camp (which is _my_ issue, not the scenario’s). But the virtual library of “Invisible friend” is just so boring! There’s nothing original to it – it reminds me of Vernor Vinge’s book “Reinbows’ End” where a subculture (I’m oversimplifying) of quasi-Pratchet fanboys is lobbying for converting a real library into something not unlike Unseen University’s Library). Even something like that would be more interesting – and Vinge intentionally described the subculture’s meme-base as a blend of cultural clichés and rip-offs. I just hate to see such a great and original scenario beginning in such an unimaginative way. We’re in the future _and_ inside a simulspace – there’s an astounding richness of breath-taking and extreme environments in which the briefing could be conducted: surface of the sun; ancient Athens agora; the ceiling of Magna Sophia (with the floor high above our heads); inside a gentlemen’s club in a steam-punkish Victorian England game; audience room of Uesugi Kenshin’s castle (with Uesugi-sama sitting nearby and listening intently – a Promeathean in disguise! – or just dead-drunk and sleeping it of in the corner of the room); at the windblown apex of an Earth’s skyscraper at day 1 AF; inside Dali’s painting (with characters and environment adequately “soft” and flowing); in environments of alternative physics (like biology-sim of Egan’s “Permutation City”). Even a broom cupboard at a space station is more inspiring than this blasted library… 2. Scope As a continuation to “Think before asking” the scenario feels much more… mundane. I mean – ok, there’s an uprising going on, rogue AI going rampant, potential Exsurgent infection (or Promethean “wipe”*) – but it’s all “normal”. Humans fight themselves all the time, the AI is ‘domesticated’ (socialised). The Oracle just seemed more important, more threatening. It was really an existential threat, whereas the situation from “My Invisible Friend” seems like more of a local problem. I know it is an incorrect assumption – Mikaela has got more potential for destruction but she doesn’t seem as inhuman as the Oracle did. Don’t get me wrong – I love both AIs and both scenarios. But if I were to start a new campaign with a new group – they would visit Heinlein first, and get to know the Oracle and its little flock of cherubim later. I’m afraid that as a sequel “My Invisible Friend” would come out as an anti-climax. Question concerning Heinlein Habitat: Aren’t the areas near the ends (the Hills) to close to the rotation axis? They seem to be covered with soil – wouldn’t it all just slid “down”? It _does_ rain inside the habitat and I assume that the wind can be pretty strong as well – erosion could do some serious damage to the hills, leaving bare metal (or whatnot). But it’s in no way my area of expertise – I’d just want to know your opinion. That’s all for now. Once again – many thanks for another great scenario! * I really love the idea by the way: showing secret benign caretakers of humanity as agents of destruction… I’d just love to see the players’ faces when they learn that terrifying limbo of nanobots eating the station and turning it into weapons is not the disease but the cure.)