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.

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[affodell]

"And I don't have enough information to think of better ones. So, okay. What do we need to do to set this up?"

[erinflight]

"We'll need to figure out exactly how it's going to work, so the threads don't have much room to twist it."

[affodell]

"Yeah. You should need permission not only to use magic at all but to use any particular magic, so I don't try to give you permission to make a portal and wind up with an evil stepstool..."

[erinflight]

"Have you had problems with evil stepstools?"

[affodell]

"No, but if you made one I'd be very annoyed, especially if it ran away when I tried to claw it."

[erinflight]

"No evil stepstools, I promise. Can I use weaving to check if you're being honest for a minute? I want to make sure this isn't a terrible mistake."

[affodell]

"Check how."

[erinflight]

"Weave the threads between us, and have them tell me if you're lying. I'll remove them right away."

[affodell]

"Will they tell you anything else?"

[erinflight]

"They'll only look for honesty. I'll be very specific."

[affodell]

"Okay."

[erinflight]

Flynn weaves the threads between them and asks, "Are you planning on hurting me or using me to hurt other people?"

[affodell]

"No."

[erinflight]

"Will you help me try to understand weaving and stop the progression of weaving's vices?"

[affodell]

"Yes - insofar as I can pay attention to that once I'm neck-deep in my own vice, but I'll make a note of it." She pulls her flower and does that.

[erinflight]

"Will you allow me to undo the spell if we find a way to undo weaving's vices?"

[affodell]

"Unless I have some reason to believe you're dangerous absent your vices, yes."

[erinflight]

"Is there any other reason this is a bad idea that you're not telling me?"

[affodell]

"If you come home with me and we don't leave one of the portals here, or something happens to it while it's here, you won't be able to go home even if you're free of vice, unless you find the magic door again. I don't think you speak my language, so we'll probably have a hard time communicating when we've left the magic translation effect, unless you can duplicate that. I already mentioned that I'm going to wind up very self-absorbed. That's all that comes to mind right now."

[erinflight]

Flynn releases the threads with a flick of her wrist, "Thank you."
She sits and thinks for a moment using the flower she's still holding to organize her thoughts.
"I can weave your control so that anytime I weave, I need your permission for it to alter the world, and you will see exactly what I intend. I can make it so we always understand each other and neither of us can deliberately harm the other. Anything else?"

[affodell]

"If there's some gap in this that we aren't thinking of and you go rogue mightn't I need to harm you? Not that I want to, but cutting off the possibility seems dangerous."

[erinflight]

"You can't harm me unless I try to hurt your or someone else? You could also cause me to feel any pain a particular person is currently experiencing. That might combat my loss of empathy."

[affodell]

"That would not be my first choice for re-installing empathy. Oh, but if we're going to try countering your weaving vice with 'mancer vices - the knowflowers know all the 'mancies and it would be bad to add something like pyromancy or tephramancy to what you've already got. I need to be able to restrict what you look at on the knowflowers."

[erinflight]

"I can widen your restriction of my magic to all magic, not just weaving. Then I could acquire any vice, but not freely use any of the power."

[affodell]

Cayra shakes her head. "Using 'mancy doesn't cause vices, learning it does. If you learn pyromancy, you lose emotional regulation."