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[reapoman]

Who: Anzen + visitors (I see you, Sherlock Holmes)
When: Post-game
Where: The Anzen dorm!
What: Definitely not having a nervous breakdown.
Warnings: We're all haunted as fuck so idk maybe some spider mentions.

[ Hey we are all here and some of us are adjusting to the idea of ghosts being real! How's that going? ]

Comments

[rugpull]

Yeh. Most people ain't gonna put up with that sorta meal.

[tailsofwoe]

[ She can read between the lines of that "most people," though she doesn't comment directly. ]

Mm, well, I suppose there's something to be said for not being a picky eater.

It is also often the case that people will abandon what they once considered hard limits when truly pushed to the brink.

[rugpull]

We can hoard so we can stall out that kinda thing. Ya don't mind bringing stuff back with me do ya?

[tailsofwoe]

[ Does some quick calculus in her head... ]

If you just wish for company, then certainly, but I'm afraid I have few useful services to offer as an escort. Perhaps we should lean on the rule of three...?

[rugpull]

Three to a group ya mean?




Oh if something happens I'll protect ya if ya want I just wanted extra hands to carry stuff. I don't expect protection from ya.

[tailsofwoe]

[ . . . ]

Quite fearless, aren't you?

[rugpull]

No. But I can take care of myself. And we're on the same team more or less right now. Its in my interest to keep ya in one piece too. Ya can probably do shit i can't.

[tailsofwoe]

... Mm. "Peaceful co-existence and mutual prosperity," as they say. I thought you weren't too confident in your magic, however...?

[rugpull]

It ain't working right now. And I need a magic stone or else I could get fucked up from using magic.

I know basic elemental magic fine. Basic healing. Flight.

But I'm relatively weak overall. I'm more finesse than anything big or flashy when it comes to fights.

People got different magic capacity inside them and that limits them. My boss on a scale of one to ten is a nine or ten.

I'm more a five. If he and I did the same spell over and over he could just go longer cuz he has the fuel for it inside him. I'd run out first.

[tailsofwoe]

[ An especially long pause as she processes this. ]

For survival, sometimes finesse is all one needs.

... Do you have any of these magic stones on hand?

[rugpull]

Not unless one got magiced in...I guess I oughta check my room, Beanman found himself a treat maybe I will too.

[tailsofwoe]

Shall we go look?

[rugpull]

[Goes and

A pen with some sort of orange gemstone attached to it]

My pen!!

[tailsofwoe]

[ Peers at it. ]

I take it that's what you were hoping for?

[rugpull]

Yeh! My magic still ain't back but if it comes I can do it without fucking myself up.

I can say with my magic--in a one on one I'm hard to beat.

[tailsofwoe]

How reliable. It sounds like you were underselling yourself before.

You only need one stone...? Not a stock of them?

[rugpull]

The blot disappears on its own over time, yeh.

[tailsofwoe]

Blot?

[rugpull]

Yeh, magic use creates blot. The stone here absorbs it so it don't fuck me up. If ya get fulla blot ya can overblot and that shit is crazy edgy stupid bullshit.

Cringe.

[tailsofwoe]

[ Ah... ]

Cringe indeed.

In short, you're limited in how much magic you can use at once, but as long as you pace yourself and take time to recover, you have an infinite supply?

[rugpull]

Yup.

And because I have a limited supply s'unlikely I'll ever overblot. Everyone I seen do it is real high tier, ya know?

[tailsofwoe]

That follows. An excess of power can always endanger the wielder it if not kept under control.

Is there any hope of recovery from... "overblotting"?

[rugpull]

Assbeating.

[tailsofwoe]

Ah, wonderfully straightforward.

[rugpull]

Very satisfying too.