## [RT][C] The Awakeners

* Author: u/conradin6622  *Challenge Winner**
* URL: https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3298397/1/The-Awakeners
* Score: 53

* Created: 2016-12-29T23:55:53

### Post:

[Link to content](https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3298397/1/The-Awakeners)

### Comments:

> **u/Iconochasm** [+9]  (6 hours later)
> 
> They might appreciate this over at /r/hfy (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!).

>> **u/EliezerYudkowsky** [+10]  *Godric Gryffindor* (17 hours later)
>> 
>> *Seconded.* The only thing I'd change would be to remove the phrase "kick their asses" which broke SoD, and replace with e.g. "save us".  Everything else was great.

>> **u/conradin6622** [+2]  *Challenge Winner* (22 hours later)
>> 
>> Thanks for suggesting this.  I had no idea /r/hfy even existed.

> **u/Dwood15** [+9]  (an hour later)
> 
> Can we get an elevator pitch for this?

>> **u/narfanator** [+15]  (4 hours later)
>> 
>> "Every species in the multiverse has a magic unique to them, lying latent until Awakened. Yesterday was Humanity's turn."

>>> **u/conradin6622** [+10]  *Challenge Winner* (7 hours later)
>>> 
>>> That's a much, much better summary than any I've come up with.  Mind if I steal it?

>>> **u/Dwood15** [+1]  (5 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Sweet.

>> **u/Alphanos** [+10]  *The Bright Powers* (4 hours later)
>> 
>> [A degree of spoilers; attempting to keep to the jist/premise of the piece](#s "Human latent magic presents the second known multiversal existential threat.  The first such threat started a war of eradication that multiversal civilization is currently in the process of losing.  What will the first contact team decide to do?")
>> 
>> I would enjoy seeing a full story about this I think.

>>> **u/rhaps0dy4** [+11]  (10 hours later)
>>> 
>>> I too loved this story. But I think most people will be disappointed with a continuation. It won't have the same thrill, the same unknown. It will be a classical "defeat the big bad" story. Which can be very good, but it won't be the _same_.

>>>> **u/Aabcehmu112358** [+3]  *Utter Fallacy* (12 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> That seems like only one way of multiple it could go. It seems like it'd be a little droll if Chooser's prediction was *perfectly* correct, after all.

>> **u/trekie140** [+5]  (an hour later)
>> 
>> These comments are what got me to read it: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/5ie3aw/biweekly_challenge_the_gamer/dbdgloy

> **u/Kodix** [+5]  (6 hours later)
> 
> *Damn*, that was good. I got shivers from reading it. Nice and climactic and inspiring and interesting. Just lovely.

> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+3]  *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (6 hours later)
> 
> I really enjoyed this, and would gladly read other stories on this setting.

> **u/TennisMaster2** [+1]  (13 days later)
> 
> If you want to get this published, delete all record of this from the internet then submit it to zines.
> 
> Alternatively you can piggyback off of this and create a following online.

> **u/None** [+1]  (30 days later)
> 
> I just finally got around to reading this. I really, really enjoyed it. Thanks for writing!

> **u/GeeJo** [+1]  *Custom Flair* (a month later)
> 
> Hmm. Scout's report indicates that they can use the racial magic of the individuals they're possessing (I gained a level, in my first host...).
> 
> Why, then, don't they just possess Pilot and use [Linear Drive] themselves to fling the rock they're on into the Sun? They'd be trapped in this Universe (at least until the human Time Mages developed a way to bridge the gap), but the goal of saving the Earth and Chooser would be accomplished.

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