This is post #4. I will make post #5 tomorrow.
Ah, but you see, there are two assumptions here.
1) That fae illusions do not work on recording devices. They do.
2) That anyone would believe what they saw.
Mistakes have been made in the past, and I mean the recent past, not the old, dark, pre-hiding past. Illusions have slipped, things have been seen that shouldn't have been seen...and you know what? People shrugged it off. For every "I WANT TO BELIEVE!", there are ten "I do not want to live in a world where that is possible, and thus it is not possible." Consider the zombie walks, LARPs, comic book conventions, real-world superheroes, and Bigfoot seekers in our real, known world. Consider how few of those are reported as proof of the supernatural.
Now consider what an excellent source of camouflage they are.
Satellites are a different can of worms, and one with potentially more issues, since if the military spots a pod of Merrow, they're likely to respond...badly. But at the same time, that's where the fae predilection for hanging out in the Summerlands comes in handy. Most fae, if they're not indoors or playing human, are in knowes or the Summerlands. Why? Because they feel safer there, where there are no satellites.
So yes, it's a concern, and a good one. But willful blindness and basic caution do a lot to minimize it.
August 29 2012, 14:48:12 UTC 4 years ago
Actually, this makes me wonder if the more humanoid (and younger*) San Diego fae take advantage of SDCC to go out in groups without full illusions. The sort of thing that seems more daring than it is because they're doing it around thousands of humans dressed like superheroes and anime characters, and even talking about magic and the Sumemrlands openly isn't any weirder than mentioning Faerun or Eberron. (Or any large con where you have costumed people out and about in the area.)
* I assume older fae are a bit more cautious about humans, since they remember a time when humans believed in fairies... and would react badly to them.
September 16 2012, 05:29:54 UTC 4 years ago
The cryptids over in Verity's world, on the other hand...
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which totally explains why the Navy keeps experimenting with sonar off the coast and affecting marine mammals with it..
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I'm now well into One Salt Sea. I can't put them down. I am utterly enamored of Toby and Sylvester and Quentin and Tybalt and Connor and the Luidaeg and May and April and Luna and Lily and the rose goblin and ALL OF THEM. It was all I could do to make myself leave my Kindle at home when I came to work this morning.
Thank you so much for these books; they are delicious. I feel ever-so-slightly as though I've been enchanted, and I am in no way inclined to attempt to break the enchantment, because I am having so much fun.
(Also I love the way you're weaving this world.)
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