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Wait ... instead of touching the door with the 'stick, shouldn't you be throwing it - or something of similar and considerable heft - from a distance? That way you'd have a better chance of isolating a 'Shadow-facing' method by a non-response. But if you do it that way, then even if the test works, you will have no conception of the range of the strickening. Is it enough just to know that it is 'Shadow-facing'? Or do you need to know the range of the strickening as well? You suppose you could throw the 'stick from progressively shorter distances until you get stricken - or are touching the door. But can you accept the prospect of doing that much damage to the door - and to the 'stick, which you had figured you would be keeping - with all that testing? Can you accept the prospect of doing <span class="mu-i">any</span> damage to the door? Perhaps it would just be better to touch the damned thing like you initially planned, and hope that there isn't any response.
Ah, man alive, you wish you could come up with a better way to do this! Or at the very least, you wish you had some testing subjects, something to observe; as you are most assuredly not keen on getting stricken ever again!
> The Plan: Intelligence Collection IIS:
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> It will be enough to know that the method is 'Shadow-facing', and that stealth might be viable. Therefore, you will go to the greatest distance that you can hit the door with the 'stick and proceed to throw it. Conclusive or otherwise, this will be the only test like this you run.
> It is not enough to know that the method is 'Shadow-facing', and that stealth might be viable. Therefore, you will go to the greatest distance that you can hit the door with the 'stick and proceed to throw it. Assuming you aren't stricken, you will throw it at shorter and shorter distances, until you are finally stricken, or you find yourself close enough to the door that you can reach it with your arms at full extension and the stick in your hand.
> It is not enough to know that the method is 'Shadow-facing', and that stealth might be viable. Therefore, you will get close enough to the door so that you may touch it with the stick with your arms at full extension. [If stricken, Prompts Intelligence Collection IIS=]
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