odd little alucine

[affodell]

It's never previously occurred to Cayra to put a door across an alucine boundary, but now that she's encountered it in practice it makes sense. It makes it visually obvious and it lets you lock it if you want. This door wasn't locked, and it looked like it led to a public bathroom, not a bar, from the signage, so she's still confused. Still, it's a good idea. She twists open the glass vial pendant around her neck and bends her head to the little blue lily inside to make a note of it; as an afterthought she tries to send it off to her antheomancer-chatcircle, anything to have a decent conversation, but it doesn't go. Her flower doesn't look wilting, but she can put it back in the garden and get a fresher one for the vial later. At least her personal files look okay. She closes up the vial again, giving the flower a touch of antheomancy for its health, and finds a bathroom inside the bar that dominates this little alucine.

And then she emerges into the bar. It doesn't seem to be staffed. Or stocked. Why wasn't it locked?

Hello, anybody here?

with Flynn (ErinFlight)

with Harry (andaisq)

Due to some icon rearrangement errors, some of Flynn's tags appear with an incorrect icon. The correct face for this thread is Rosario Dawson's.

Comments

[affodell]

"...To be perfectly honest if you have a poorly controlled vice that only might be counteracted by learning three kinds of 'mancy and might just leave you with four vices, three mancies, and all the usual problems associated with weaving."

[erinflight]

"I was hoping someone at your home could kill me when I lost it. At home there's not anyone who could. When I feel myself getting close, I could weave something big for you as payment."

[affodell]

"I don't know that I could kill you and I'm not sure how hard it would be to find someone who could. How hard are you to kill?"

[erinflight]

"I don't really know. Weavers kill each other all the time, but the threads can heal all normal wounds: arrows, knives, jumping off cliffs."

[affodell]

"The magics with the vices of calm and friendliness and abstract thinking are powerful in their own right. Especially the calm one, that's heavily defensive. Stone magic."

[erinflight]

"Can the portals between Alucines be closed? Maybe I could go into one of the empty ones and then shut it off."

[affodell]

"Ostimancers can do it. I don't know any of those. And an ostimancer won't stay shut up alone in a little alucine forever. They can make portals too. So someone else would have to shut you in, and there couldn't be any flowers for you to learn ostimancy from, and they'd have to be sure they got all the portals, and we'd have to be sure weaving couldn't make portals itself."

[erinflight]

"That's probably not worth the risk. Are there any 'mancers whose power gives them knowledge or helps them figure stuff out?"

[affodell]

"Not directly, no. Antheomancy is closest and it will only tell us what's already on the network."

[erinflight]

"Well, it doesn't seem like you have any instant solution to my problems, which is life I guess." Flynn rests her chin on her arms, "I really don't blame you for not wanting to bring a weaver home."

[affodell]

"Believe me, I'm tempted, but I don't have a good way to be safe about it."

[erinflight]

"Do you want to help me try to figure out weaving? You're the first sane person I've met who knows anything about magic. I could make cool stuff to repay you while we do it."

[affodell]

"The cool stuff won't be contagious or anything, will it?"

[erinflight]

"No!" Flynn laughs, "It's only being a weaver that causes the problems. Is there any way I could get the calm vice here?"

[affodell]

"This flower isn't networking and it's the wrong kind. Bar, you probably won't make me a knowflower, right?"

Too magical, too alive, and your networks can't reach through the temporal effect of the door - time is not passing in your homes while you are here.

"Oh. Cool, sort of. So, no, you can't learn lithomancy here, sounds like. But yeah, I'm happy to try to talk through weaving with you and get cool stuff if the cool stuff isn't going to result in you trying to kill me or anything."

[erinflight]

"I've used as little weaving as possible so far and it's a gradual change, so I think I can afford to experiment a bit. But, bar, what would happen if I went crazy here?"

[affodell]

If you attempted to attack another patron, Security would be equipped to stop you, probably in time to prevent any more than superficial damage to whoever you tried to harm, but they could not to undo your degeneration. You might be ejected from the bar if a period of time in a holding cell did not calm you.

"I mean, automancy can do some defense, but I don't know what an attacking weaver would do or whether it would interact with automancy I know how to do."

[erinflight]

"Why don't you insult me each time I use weaving, and if I snap back at you we'll stop? I'd have to degenerate a lot more than that to be dangerous."

[affodell]

"Uh, that's technically well within my power, but doesn't sound like it'll lead to a really fun working relationship."

[erinflight]

"I mean, I'd know why you were doing it, so it wouldn't really bother me. Are there any better tests to see if I'm losing my self-control, empathy, or logical thinking?"

[affodell]

"Logic puzzles? Maybe Bar can give us a bowl of candy full of sleeping drugs and if you eat the candy you'll take a nap and I can slip away."

[erinflight]

Flynn nods, "I like that idea better, if I eat a piece of candy I know is drugged I'm obviously losing my self control."

[affodell]

"Bar, can you do that?"

Yes. I do have to charge for the candy. Who's buying?

"I don't have much on me. I have most of my savings in network escrow. Do you have any left or should I pay, Flynn?"

[erinflight]

"I'm out of money, but I could make some gold and pay you back?"

[affodell]

"Make gold? With what, weaving?"