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Hmm how many? All of them. But one particular act may extend along multiple volumes.

For example, Fire's current story, "Act I" is everything from the beginning to the point where she's with the Uranians and realizes she's going to have to go on this mission. So that's currently all of Book 1 and half of Book 2.

Within this "Act I" and several smaller Act I-II-III groupings. such as "Begin Auction - Secure bee - Escape Auction"

Q: Too long?

This is hard to answer, but I can definitely say I don't feel the length of a book, but rather the strength of the reward for reading the ending. In this sense, Han Solo vs Kylo Ren ending left me unsatisfied. Unrewarded. And one may make a counter-point that sometimes life is random like that, and not every death has meaning, but I would argue this should have meant more and rewarded more. It wasn't far from the death of Superman or Optimus Prime, (both of which the companies chose to walk back but Disney decided to plough forward).

If the reward is great enough, no length is really too much.

consider to be the end of act one/beginning of act two

I have trouble dividing the acts unless I reach the end.

(I imagine you face the same dilemma if you tried to split Laurie's journey in the ship right now. You know she goes to town on the crew in the third act, but where exactly did Act I end and give way to Act II? I checked my notes. Formally, Act II starts in chapter 20 when Laurie commits on a course of action. A purist would say her first commit is much earlier, probably around the introduction of Alice where the journey-story changes direction to survival-story)

For yours, I can guess Act I culminates the destruction of Joseph's homeworld, but not knowing now much story comes after that, I could be way off.

My concept of "too long" is really how many disparate elements I need to track over how long a period. As long as there is character growth, I'm usually along for the ride.

Bc my postis hidden in the stickies. Can Dirk or Sol unsticky it?

MS Image-generator belched it up. Took a few rounds of prompts and misadventures

I decided to go back-fill the old chapters leading up to the ship. Please ignore

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"Laser sword" should be next

In this state, does the nature of his environmental condition (eg cold / hot) bother him? Can he sit around for ten thousand years and wait for colonists to show up so he can make a new body?

If Romano in the real timeline sins but this one does not, does he still get into heaven?

If both are perfect, do they both get to heaven? Or are there separate heavens for them to go to?

In my main series, when K@jo gets into the angels story-world, he immediately looks up God and challenges him to chess, figuring if he can hold his own against the creator of the universe for a few dozen moves, he's on good footing. God proceeds to trounce him in a 1-move checkmate, the impossibility of which turns the board into a thermonuclear chain reaction.

Noting this. Omnipotence is also hard to write

They're near the end of reading, and I fear the fate of yet another draft has been ascertained. Pity. I thought this one was finally headed out the door.

If I can stick to a firm One-chapter-a-day, it'll take about a month. But I really want to be working on my angel story. Choices, choices.

When he accepted the challenge, he already knew the Holy Spirit would wall him off shortly after. He also knew Satan would change his pick, and he knew what the new choice would be

Once God agrees, he basically instantly wins (or is imperfect and failed to predict the outcome)

You have a job interview tomorrow, and your omniscience tells you you got the job. You know if you don't get the job, you'll be shot.

Next day, you find you have blocked off memories of the outcome.

Now, you don't particularly want to get shot, so although you no longer know the outcome, you realize you wouldn't have agreed to an outcome where that was a possibility. It follows that you had agreed to it knowing back then you were going to succeed.

Had you agreed back then and then now fail, you were never omniscient in the first place.