Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25086632-20151123071037/@comment-70.27.71.181-20151124032732

Mercen-X, thank you for your generous comments and advice!

When Cyrania and I were discussing which famous detectives to use, it turned out she already had a four-pack of detectives and a second four-pack of companions. One of the pairs couldn't be made to work, though we both wish there had been a way around our problems. So we used the three plus three and added another pair to create two teams. Lebrun was in the original group, and we weren't going to lose a second character if there was any way to avoid it. In the original stories he was anything but athletic, and Cyrania could only find one example in her research where he tripped or pushed someone (I'm not sure; I haven't read the story), and he was the gentlest of men.

So we played around to find a weapon for him and a way for him to take part in the team without ripping the guts of the character out from under him. That's when I suggested invisibility, knowing it felt wrong, and Cyrania suggested 'natural' invisibility (I think that's what she called it) so that people kinda lost track of the fact that he was in the room. I went on thinking, and came up with the thought that he might have a semblance to allow him to stay perfectly still with no trace of any of his five senses made known to anyone around. That's pretty much the obverse of your idea that he can spy on others in other rooms. :) An umbrella full of dust which you can use to do anything would be a dream to work with, but I've lamented here and read sadly on the Dust thread, that we just don't know enough about Dust. I was thinking he could be the 'gas station' who fills up anyone else's supply when it runs low, but where's the fun in that?

Yes, indeed, I wish we knew more about Dust. I'm almost at the point of inventing 'Abilone Dust' just to be sure that, whatever it does, it can't fall afoul of the more likely colors.