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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.
affodell
doing-the-right-thing
"Yep. Wizards release little bits of uncontrolled magic into the air, and they futz with whatever high-tech junk happens to be around."
doing-the-right-thing
"What happens to them? I really hope pyromancers don't randomly catch fire, that would just be awful for everyone."
affodell
"Oh, no, pyromancers just lose emotional regulation. They're like toddlers, which doesn't really work well with the pyromancy. Oneiromancers lose receptive language."
doing-the-right-thing
"Gah. That... might be worse, really. Today I have learned to be thankful for my wizardry, and the fact that I can set things on fire without turning into a small child."
affodell
"Lots of vices are okay. At least in smallish doses. Almost everyone has at least a little antheomancy. I'm working on automancy."
doing-the-right-thing
"Well, I have large doses of fire, and I like my emotional regulation. It keeps me from setting things on fire that I want to not be on fire, like people. And houses."
The dog lets out a suspiciously laugh-like bark.
"I try not to set houses on fire. That counts for something, Mouse."
The dog lets out a suspiciously laugh-like bark.
"I try not to set houses on fire. That counts for something, Mouse."
doing-the-right-thing
"So, what other mancies are there? You're doing automancy and antheomancy, the first of which seems pretty self-explanatory... I'm intrigued."
affodell
"There's a bunch. Automancy will let me shapeshift and stuff. I can do color changes now -" She turns her hair white and then back. "The vice is self-centeredness but I think I'll cope. I'd better, because antheomancy is finesse with networked flowers, and the vice is extroversion."
doing-the-right-thing
"Yeah, I can imagine better combinations. There's worse, too, though. And it sounds like you know what you're doing."
affodell
"I really, really want automancy, but the vice freaks me out, to be honest. I wound up with more antheomancy than I meant to because without flowers I'd be bored out of my skull. Before even touching automancy I solicited lots of advice on how to manage vices."
doing-the-right-thing
"Yyyyeah. I mean, really, a little bit of automancy might help me out some, I've been told I have a martyr complex. But I sure as hell wouldn't want more than a little bit. And really, I'd rather go for something like... I don't know, boredom. Keep me from getting so angry. Something like that, where it's just good for everyone involved."
doing-the-right-thing
"Oh, that would be pretty nice. Hey, is there some way for people who aren't from your world to get their hands on some of this magic? I don't like to mix business and pleasure and all, but there's kind of a lot of evil things that want me dead, and it's always nice to have something unexpected under my belt."
affodell
"Well, I don't know how this different worlds stuff interacts with that, but in general all you need to do to pick up the discipline of your choice is a knowflower. The one I have on me is a speakflower..." She unscrews its vial. "...And its networking isn't functioning right, I thought it was healthy but maybe I was wrong."
doing-the-right-thing
"...Possibly relevant: your world is kind of frozen while you're in here. You could try opening the door, that'll unpause things as long as you hold it."
affodell
"Oh. Well, that might fix the speakflower's networking, but I don't think I can reach any knowflowers from the door I came in."
doing-the-right-thing
"Aw. Don't worry about it too much, I hold my own. It's amazing what a bunch of fire can do, pointed at the right people."
affodell
"All that and you don't even have to deal with pyromancy's emotional disregulation. Nice gig if you can get it."