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| Mar 17, 2017 at 4:22 | history | edited | CelestialCaveBear | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 4:14 | comment | added | Vylix | Updated. And I'm curious how will it respond to raiding for the very first time. After it become corrupted, it's just become your ol' dungeon, after successfully brainwashing one of the raider to become its servant, of course, with minions attacking every visitor. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:52 | comment | added | CelestialCaveBear | Perhaps! If you update the original question with this new information (specifically, the one-directional nature of its telepathy, and its malevolence and distrust) I'll update my answer to conform to these new restrictions; for posterity. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:48 | comment | added | Vylix | Telepathy is uncommon and have many forms, but at least even apprentice know it exists and receive at least once in the academy. That's why there is spells that protect mind from malevolent projected thoughts. The library was friendly, but distrust grew after an incident involving previous custodians, and subsequent raiding parties leave the library defenseless after disarming most defense mechanism and killing surviving guardians. At last, it become an entity trying to corrupt powerful wizards into giving him corporeal body. Will make a quite good book, no? | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:42 | comment | added | CelestialCaveBear | Thanks. Luckily, the one-directional nature of the telepathy doesn't break too many of these suggestions; just the one about the library being able to figure out if a person is trustworthy by having an empathic chat with them, and then revealing the secrets of its automated defenses. | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:40 | history | edited | CelestialCaveBear | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:39 | comment | added | Vylix | At last! Yeah, the original requirements are very restricting, and most answers 'break' a rule, or two. I didn't even mention that telepathy used is one-directional! | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:38 | history | edited | CelestialCaveBear | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:33 | vote | accept | Vylix | ||
| Mar 17, 2017 at 3:24 | history | answered | CelestialCaveBear | CC BY-SA 3.0 |