From: ikonoqlast@gmail.com

On Friday, October 17, 2014 4:31:31 AM UTC-7, Jymesion wrote:


> From my point of view, the necessary rationale isn't the clothing,
> 
> it's why someone would establish a convent.


For the Glory of God.

Tax purposes.

Get in good with the Church.

To get into heaven.


Alternatively, instead of *establishing* a convent, he could be 
xpanding/financing an existing convent.  His money, his rules.  

Why?  Maybe just because he finds it amusing.




> I have a time-traveler story that's stalled because he planned
> 
> meticulously, and I can't think of anything to throw at him that'd be
> 
> a real threat. 


Other people are always the greatest threat of all.  





> To get on the good side of a bishop, he paid to have a cathedral
> 
> finished. To keep up his public image, he's endowed several churches
> 
> and a hospital. (Gold and silver aren't a problem -- he raided an
> 
> Incan storehouse.)
> 
> 
> 
> Setting up a convent would fit in with his philanthropy. Pink
> 
> representing the body of Christ justifies the clothing. Being
> 
> outrageous is expected of him (he is foreign, after all. Very, very
> 
> foreign). 
> 
> 
> 
> If there was a decent reason for him to establish a convent, it'd be
> 
> wide open. Neon pink robes, dark sunglasses, and jodhpur boots for
> 
> everyone! :)


See above- "To get on the good side of a bishop, he paid to have a cathedral
finished. To keep up his public image, he's endowed several churches and a
hospital."

add '...and financed a convent'  Problem solved.







> He's too busy for it to be a whim. Even in a world where the king
> 
> packs a Walther PPK and the sisters in the hospital have been taught
> 
> germ theory, there's a limit to how much oddity the locals will
> 
> accept, so why push it? It's quite unlikely he included neon pink
> 
> fabric in his initial supplies, and moving any quantity of goods
> 
> carries significant risk.


I am dirt poor in a culture that can't cross to other dimensions, and *I* have
a Nook with ~4000 titles on it.  He has a book on dye making.  If I were going
to the middle ages you damn well better believe I would pick up a thousand or
so books on useful 
topics first.  (AND a solar battery charger, plus a couple of spares in case
the first one breaks)

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