cooperation

[alicornucopia]

Two girls are moving their hands through the air and speaking together in perfect parallel.

Two girls are looking expectantly at a circle of red chalk on their floor.

Two girls have done something exceptionally stupid.

with Harry (andaisq)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Arcane (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Nick (Rockeye)

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Oh, I get bored, but I think I could live with nine days upfront to extend the duration of my 'figuring out all the everything' project with some more everything."

[thisvorlunatic]

"You're also not guaranteed to get the same analytical ability I did even if you get the magic - Senses are unique to the individual and you can't predict what you'll get in advance. I mean, if you still want to try it, I won't try to stop you, I'm just trying to ensure that you're accurately warned."

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not going to run off and do it right now, but I'm strongly considering the possibility."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Fair enough. Oh, and while you're there don't try to leave the building, there is no air out there and you might die."

[alicornucopia]

"Noted."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Anyway. How best to go about analyzing shapeshifting, I wonder?"

[alicornucopia]

Kaylo takes a few steps back from the table and turns into a twenty-foot-long bejewelled-looking dragon.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Huh," says Miles. "That was... that was something. It goes by so fast - can you do it again?"

[alicornucopia]

"Sure." He does it back and forth and back again.

[thisvorlunatic]

"You're definitely going somewhere," Miles concludes. "And coming back again in one piece. It's not, I don't know, creating you spontaneously from nothing every time. Just - swapping you out with the alternate model."

[alicornucopia]

"Yes, that's the idea behind Lialenan theory."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Well, Lialenan theory is on the right track then. I can't tell if conjured matter comes from the same place without an example, of course."

[alicornucopia]

Kaylo reaches into his pocket, pulls out a little spout, twists it, and pours the resulting thin stream of water into his mouth.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Pulled from somewhere, not created out of nothing," says Miles. "Huh. Does that mean your magic plain can't create things out of nothing, I wonder? Creating things out of nothing is one of the simplest elementary applications of taieli, the trouble comes when you want to create particular things with desired characteristics and not just undirected explosions."

[alicornucopia]

Kaylo turns off the spout. "If conjuration doesn't do it, then probably not, although there might be a way to do it that we just haven't invented yet."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Huh. Well, I guess it's only fair; taieli can't do interworld transport." He reflects on this statement for a second and then adds, "Yet."

[alicornucopia]

"Yet as in you could graft this capability onto the system or as in you could learn how from within an already-available array of things doable therewith?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"As in one of the other simplest elementary applications of taieli is copying and altering an existing thing, and spells definitely qualify as things for this purpose. I suspect if I put the work in, learning how interworld wizardry works and learning how to use rilte, I could make altered iltaiel copies of summoning or sending spells and use them to move between worlds."

[alicornucopia]

"You almost certainly don't have a channeling capacity, which might interfere with anything beginning with a wizard spell as an ingredient," says Kaylo.

[thisvorlunatic]

"I have an interworld transport spell on me right now," he points out.

[alicornucopia]

"Yes, and it might decide to bite if you try to claim it for yourself," says Kaylo. "I'm not saying it will, I don't know what you're working with, but it's a risk factor I feel obliged to point out."

[thisvorlunatic]

"...Bite me how?"

[alicornucopia]

"It might try to go through more channel than you have, which is to say the zero channel that you have, and when spells try to go through channels without room for them the caster dies."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah, I've noticed that. I'm definitely going to avoid letting my results express themselves as more wizard spells. I'm not even sure that's possible to do on purpose, and I'm pretty confident it's possible to avoid."

[alicornucopia]

"If you say so. I wish I could see the thing you're looking at but I'm not sure how to devise an analysis that piggybacks on a sense I can't conceptualize in the first place."