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Sheridan transported to the world with a conscience problem
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She does. Also a metaquestion. 

Her world has a lot of science and technology it looks like this world doesn't, that maybe some people here could benefit from. One constraint is that she doesn't remember everything that would be useful. Is it possible knowledge magic could help fill some of it in?

 

(If this works the way she currently understands it does, knowledge magic would be of limited help in making discoveries, because you couldn't specify the question. But she can certainly specify questions).

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"I'm not sure. Give me an example question and I'll try."

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She'll ask a simple thing she knows, as a starting experiment.

What's the chemical makeup of water? (That's a non-specified question, and she is is ready to give specificity as needed if Iri tells her what is needed.)

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"It's made of two of the smallest element and one of the, um, eighth. Is that what you wanted to know?"

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What is bonded/connected to what, among the atoms?

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"...Not clear enough, try another way?"

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What isn't clear enough/what was the difference between the two questions? She still not sure what exactly the requirements are.

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"The first time I knew what an element was so I filled in what was missing. This time I guess I don't know something. How do they bond?"

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Ah. 

She explains various things about bonding. 

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They retry periodically as they understand better.

"Both of the little ones with the bigger one. I think. Why is it useful to know that?"

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One form of technology her world has as a result of it being invented is chemical compounds that are useful for various things. There are some of them where she knows they exist, but doesn't remember their specific chemical structure.

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"I can try to figure them out but I have to know what they are first."

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What kind of know what they are? 

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"Like if you want to know which element is metal, you could mean more than one. If you want to know the structure of something that tastes good, lots of things taste good. I can do 'what's the structure of that thing over there?' or 'what's the structure of that thing that was right outside the door yesterday at dawn?' but not 'what's the structure of the thing I want to know the structure of?' You can try asking some questions and see if I can find what you want."

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...Glucose? She can talk about what glucose is, there's some in her body right now... (This is another one she knows, but the check is for being able to specify.)

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Once she mentions honey Iri narrows it down to two monosaccharides and then checks which ones are where inside Sheridan. Iri gives the molecular formula and a vague description of the shape.

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She's not sure how most kinds of magic work - could a structure mage work from that?

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"I'm not a structure mage. I think so."

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Understood. Thank you very much.

Are knowledge mages not able to do their magic on math? Like for the person who wanted the pi calculation.

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"That's not the kind of thing it works on."

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Does xie know what the division is?

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"...You can use magic to figure out where something is but not where it'll be tomorrow. You can use magic to figure out the structure of something you've seen but not something you've never seen. You can measure things but not answer division problems. Does that make sense?"

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...Something like, there needs to be a 'present' 'anchor'?

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Shrug. "Maybe. I don't know."

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"Thank you."

(That is a severe limit, but she was expecting to only have what she can pull out of her head so it's still a gain.)

 

And - she's been asking Iri a lot of questions; is there anything Iri might want to know from her?

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