>>6339668Nope, nobody did. Richard tackled this issue way back in Thread 48, so I'll quote him:
>"Whether you use a device or your own power or anything else— the duplicate will almost certainly be the Wyrm. The Wyrm exists— you might know this— It is outside of time. Once you are the Wyrm in full, you will always have been It, and you always will be It, and your copies will always have been It, and will always be It. They will have [WYRM], and to have [WYRM] is— well, I told you. You will have generously provided the Wyrm a replacement vessel, since Its original one worked out so poorly."Or, in other words, the Wyrm is inescapably self-consuming. As soon as Charlotte embodies It completely (in
>>6331424), she is [WYRM]. If she, as [WYRM], attempts to make copies of herself, these copies are also [WYRM]. She can't alter that. If she fishes "untainted" Charlottes out of the past, they will become [WYRM], because they always were and always will be. Godhood is so contagious that Charlotte started developing divine powers from a <span class="mu-i">glancing exposure</span> to the future back in Thread 14—imagine that as a direct yoinking instead. Best case: the yoinked Charlotte explodes on contact. Worst case: she becomes [WYRM], the Wyrm claims her as a replacement avatar, and she ends the world. The same exact thing applies to the Recharlottizator, because the Recharlottizator worked a bit like an EZ-M.A.N.S.E., in that it stored a copy of Charlotte's consciousness in it. If Charlotte-as-Wyrm tried to make a version of the Recharlottizator, the consciousness inside would be [WYRM].
This ceases to become problematic once Charlotte severs [WYRM], killing them both and ending the loop / cycle / closed spiral. After this, Charlotte Fawkins never has and never will be the Wyrm, because Charlotte Fawkins never existed, and the Wyrm more-or-less doesn't either. If Gil (and Ellery, and Richard, and Eloise, and everybody else) had then worked out a way to retrieve her with a modified Recharlottizator, she'd be "safe" and Wyrm-free as a result. Unfortunately, the dice determined that such a thing was impossible. Perhaps she found her own kind of escape from the confines of the quest, and perhaps Gil joined her in the end. But we'll never know.
As a side note, I had a few people off-site suggest the creation of a Schmarlotte Shmawkins, or some kind of person suspiciously similar to Charlotte personality- and background-wise, but who definitely 100% was not and never was Charlotte. This would not have run into the [WYRM] issue, but I vetoed it regardless for two reasons: 1. I don't think Charlotte considered herself replaceable, and 2. Gil, who was always going to remember her, would've been horrified to discover a skinwalker replacing his girlfriend! It would've made the epilogue ickier than I wanted. So thanks all for trusting me there.
In other news, I ate a ton of food yesterday and then fell asleep. Wrap-up tonight...?
