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[thesettingsun]

So I'm not a big laws guy, but I'm pretty sure walking around with a giant scythe would be against some kind of law, despite that being a shitty kind of weapon.

Does it make a difference, not-getting-arrested-wise, if that scythe is a book at the time?

[He'd say something about wanting it a month or two ago, but he can't lift it when it's a scythe, so it's not that useful.]

Also Retrospec doesn't care what your legal address is, but I don't think that should surprise anyone.

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[truedetective]

I'm sorry, are you talking about carrying around a scythe, or a book?

[thesettingsun]

Both? An object that can turn between a scythe and a book??

[truedetective]

It "turns between" them? How?

Are you saying that it's the same object and it somehow transforms? Mechanically?

[thesettingsun]

'Magically' sounds more likely than 'mechanically'. I have no idea how I can touch a normal-size book and then it's suddenly a fuckhuge scythe.

[truedetective]

That does sound implausible, yes.
Can you control that transformation?

[thesettingsun]

I figured it out pretty quickly. It's still weird as hell.

[truedetective]

Yes, an object being two dramatically different things is fairly "weird as hell."
But to answer your question, no, I don't believe it would be arrestable for you to carry it around as a book.
At least, the police would have no clue of its true nature. They're not mind readers.

[thesettingsun]

You can't prove that there isn't a member of the police force who got mind reading as a power from their past self.

[truedetective]

Logically, no, since proving a negative is by definition impossible.
However, given that I am intimately acquainted with much of the police force, I'm confident in saying that there aren't any, as of yet.

[thesettingsun]

Yet.

But you have a point. I'll try not to worry so much about unlikely things like that.

[truedetective]

Given what we've already experienced, if we were to worry about everything "unlikely," we'd never stop worrying.

[thesettingsun]

That's nothing new for me.

[truedetective]

Er, which part?

[thesettingsun]

Worrying about anything and everything.

[truedetective]

Ah.
Well, it's not helpful, so I'd recommend against it.

[thesettingsun]

Working on it. It'd help if life went back to normal.