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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[erinflight]

"It's a good thing to be a 'mancer where you're from?"

[affodell]

"I mean, you have to pick your specialty and how far you want to go with it carefully, because of the vices. I think I'm going to be okay, though."

[erinflight]

"You don't really get to choose where I'm from. You're either a weaver or not. Will you get the vices if you use too much magic?"

[affodell]

"If you learn too much magic. Once you've got it, might as well use it." Cayra runs her hand through her hair; it turns blue, then back to black.

[erinflight]

Flynn laughs, "Wow, I'm impressed. It must be nice."
She stands up, "Do you want to look around a bit?"

[affodell]

"Sure, why not. Does this window look like something you could make with weaving? I don't know how I'd even begin to put together enough 'mancy to put it together."

[erinflight]

"I don't know much about weaving, the people who catch it don't tend to stay long. What I have seen isn't nearly this neat or orderly. Let's check outside." Flynn heads to open the door.

[affodell]

"Catch it?" asks Cayra, following.

[erinflight]

"I don't think being a weaver is actually a disease, but people act like it is. People don't have to be around a weaver to become one but," Flynn shrugs, "I guess it's better to be safe."
They step outside.

[affodell]

The outside has some lawn, a lake to the right, a forest to the left, some mountains in the distance if they continue forward. It's cloudy.

"Is the vice for weaving really bad?"

[erinflight]

Flynn nods, "It happens slowly, but once you become a weaver there's no preventing it. You lose all your empathy for other people, even people you once loved. You can't make logical decisions or tradeoffs and have no self control. The more magic you use, the faster it happens. You can try to not use any magic at all, but," Flynn's eyes focus into the distance, "It's just too beautiful."

[affodell]

"Oh wow. That's worse than most 'mancy vices, maybe all of them... classically tephramancy's worst, it has a feedback loop sort of like that, but... wow."

[erinflight]

Flynn suddenly smiles, bittersweet but genuine, "But if it had to be someone, I'm glad it was me. Most weavers just give up, you know? Go off into the forest and make pretty things until they lose themselves. I'm not going to give up. If there's a way to stop it, I'll figure it out. If there's not, I'll at least do something useful before I go."

[affodell]

"I wonder if you could counter this with a vice. Usually you can't do this with vices - you can't even counter antheomancy's vice, which has an opposite, if you try you're just kind of in trouble - but yours isn't quite a 'mancy. It might just make it worse, though."

[erinflight]

"How does your magic work?"

[affodell]

"Antheomancy is networked flower magic. You basically can't avoid it if you want to learn anything you can't pick up by talking to people, but you don't need much of it; but I like taking notes and reading public petals, so I wound up with a decent amount of it just as a side effect. The vice is extroversion, which isn't all that bad, especially since I started out pretty introverted. Now I need to talk to people every day or I will not be happy, but I can do it on a speakflower and learn things while I do it, so it's not a big deal. Automancy is my other one and it's magic of the self. In advanced forms I'll be able to shapeshift and heal myself, I'm already making good progress on fixing my clumsiness problem, and while it would probably never have come up I should already be thoroughly immune to outside magic that would affect me if I don't want it to. The vice is self-absorption, which unfortunately is probably going to make me very annoying because I started out pretty self-absorbed in the first place, and won't exactly dovetail well with the antheomancy - but I think I can make it work, and the speakflower network is a big place if nothing else."

[erinflight]

"Your magic sounds so much more organized than weaving. I'm jealous." Flynn grins at Cayra, "Extraversion and self absorption really don't seem that terrible of side effects, though I guess any trait would be bad if you had enough of it. Are flowers like books to you?"

[affodell]

"Flowers are - well, there's two major kinds, blue and green, speakflowers and knowflowers. Speakflowers are where you talk to people and keep personal petals, knowflowers are where you keep knowledge. If you're picking up a 'mancy, or something else - woodworking or geography or music or whatever - you use the knowflowers, and if you make an advance you put that information back into the network."

[erinflight]

"Where does your magic come from? Do you just have it? Do the same people make it who make your alucines?"

[affodell]

"I have to learn it, but that's pretty straightforward. I don't have any before I learn how - I haven't touched, say, geomancy, my father has a bit of that but I don't. Anyway, nobody makes alucines."

[erinflight]

"Is this what an alcuine looks like?" Flynn gestures to their surroundings, "Blue sky, distant horizon, clouds?"

[affodell]

"I mean, this looks like part of a decent-size alucine, sure."

[erinflight]

"What gives you guys your light? Do you have little suns?"

[affodell]

"No, it's just, daylight. Is there a big fireball somewhere here that you're seeing?" Cayra squints at the clouds. "I just see clouds."

[erinflight]

"No, but the clouds might be covering it. It would be about this big," Flynn holds up her thumb and forefinger curled into a circle. "Where do the alucines come from? Do you find them?"