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[alicornucopia]

In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.

In unison, they complete their shared spell.

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with Adarin (Aestrix)

with Ekador (kappa)

with Brilliance (kappa)

with the admin (kappa)

with Teah (kappa)

with Katran (lambda)

with Hall (kappa)

with Joy (kappa)

with Kalinda (Christy Hotwater)

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Could you make them do so?"

[aeskhyne]

"Make them, what, be actually alive? Sure I could."

[alicornucopia]

"Not necessarily alive, just - growing. We were talking about deifying other people earlier; I'm wondering if you could make independent helpful agents from scratch."

[aeskhyne]

"Hmm. Yeah, I don't see why not. But I don't know how much growing I could make them be..."

[alicornucopia]

"What would be the limiting factor?"

[aeskhyne]

"I've never done something like that before, so I don't know what the limits would be like, I'm just guessing there might be some. Well, for one thing, they might not be able to do things I don't set them up to be able to do, and I might not be able to set them up to do all the things I can do. I'm pretty sure I could make something that could do a lot of stuff, but I don't know about - hearing prayers the way I do, or being able to figure out and mess around with magic I've never seen before. I wouldn't know how to make something that could do those."

[alicornucopia]

"But you could make things that took written suggestions, maybe, or staffed a queue of people with queries, and forwarded up things they couldn't handle to you?"

[aeskhyne]

"I could, I guess. Never thought of it."

[alicornucopia]

"It'd free you up to pay more attention to the complicated things instead of giving people puppies."

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah, but giving people puppies is fun, I like giving people puppies. I dunno. I'll think about it."

[alicornucopia]

"Is your ability to think about this or other things constrained by what prayer you're holding onto or is that just a matter of what information you can look for and what actions you can take?"

[aeskhyne]

"I can think about whatever I want and mostly look at whatever I want - reading history gets a little harder without a prayer to go on sometimes."

[alicornucopia]

"So looking at the present is easier? Speaking of which, what senses are you using to get information?"

[aeskhyne]

"Sight's the most convenient metaphor for most of it, but I can obviously hear too, and I 'see' plenty of things that aren't actually visible. And it's more all-one-thing for me than I think it is for most people. I mean, I'm just guessing here, but you have ears and eyes and noses and so on - I just have one me and lots of magic. It doesn't come in parts so much."

[alicornucopia]

"So - at a guess - you can 'see' in complete darkness?"

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah, no problem."

[alicornucopia]

"And you can detect and determine the functions of even completely unfamiliar forms of magic."

[aeskhyne]

"Yep! Didn't know I could do that until I got here and saw some, took me a bit to get up to speed on it, but it's easy enough now."

[alicornucopia]

"What was the learning curve like?"

[aeskhyne]

"Short. I figured out most things right when I saw them. But I missed a couple things about dragon magic until they came around in prayers - the dying babies thing and the old age thing - and I think if I saw something else like that now, I'd be able to catch that stuff faster."

[alicornucopia]

"Like that within the scope of dragons, or if some other species cropped up with similar issues in a different kind of magic you'd spot it faster?"

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah. Or just - if I saw a complicated magic thing like dragons are a complicated magic thing, I could figure out the parts without having something specifically call my attention to all of them."

[alicornucopia]

"Is that an actual expansion in your ability or just - an update based on the information you've acquired about how complicatedly magical things can relevantly be?"

[aeskhyne]

"It's not an expansion in my ability exactly, but it's a skill I've learned."

[alicornucopia]

"...Explain?"