[@Dawnscroll] Goodness grief. That is a hell of a good read you just wrote up there. Elly's going to be such a fun idealistic blank-slate kind of character to mess around with.

As for Slough Week- I think I'll opt in for some paragraphs about Slough and the Deepwood split between a few posts. I have a whole bunch of things to do creation-wise this turn, but limited time.

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Mechanics-wise, with regard to Sculpture, does the new hain instinct respond to:

-Being aware that the art has been created by a Sculptor,
-The artwork itself,
-Some kind of residue left by the Sculptor, or
-The Other polyp that resides within the artwork?

The first option is the only viable one if you don't want to immunise the hain to implantation. It's hard to like something that you instinctively hate, and both implantation and incubation relies entirely on the individual's love of what they've seen. 

Of course, if you do want to sterilise the Sculptor's ability to reproduce using hain, that's fine too, but they'll have to respond to something other than the artwork itself, because that would stunt their artistic and cultural development completely. The only two things separating Sculpture from any other strange, emotive art is the polyp that lives in it and the Sculptor that created it. The same instinct causing them to reject the artwork would trigger in the weirdest variations of their own art and stop them from experimenting with complexity or abstraction.

I'd prefer it if we did immunise at least most of the hain via the first option, because that most smoothly opens up the way for a whole new idea that I'm about to set in motion.

Similarly, as to the widespread rejection of Jvanic life, does it apply only to Other and hybrid organisms, or to anything that Jvan's edited? Right now the south and east of the Fractal Sea is teeming with life that's entirely natural in constitution but has been designed by Jvan, so the latter option will prevent hain from forming coastal communities on the Fractal Sea. The only unnatural things she's made so far are her major races and envoys; The rest is strange and detached from the Rottenbone's evolutionary tree of life, but is entirely natural.
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Edit: even that would get confusing - how long should a divine trail remain, guys?
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Two turns with a modifier based on concealment and detection, maybe?