Nod.

'I am relieved despite disliking all other members of my species I have met that demons may be able to aid in this issue.'

"I hope I can bring them back. I don't think there's... room... here, for landscape installations, but once I don't need to be in the bar anymore."

'Even to the extent it makes sense to be impatient outside of time this is a particularly non-urgent issue.'

"Understood."

'What elements ought be included in the new magic system, if I am to start over.'

"Good question. Does it have to be something I have ever seen associated with vampires at all?"

'Not inherently.  And I would hear even ideas you consider it unlikely that I could include, as it seems useful in learning what to aim at and I may be able to achieve similar things by different means.'

"The daeva powersets are all nice, especially the indestructibility, the other things all having violent applications. ...short of wading into a fight knowing you can't be scratched, which isn't nothing but at least isn't overwhelming. If you can't give them full on fairy teekay you could probably get a lot of utility mileage out of something more limited in weight limit or range. You've already got healing and teleporting in there, which is cool..."

'Significantly lessened destructibility is already possible in the existing system, though it is not as thorough as the daeva version and requires substantial investment.  Perhaps I could include a temporary version, in the same manner as the cognitive boosts and shapeshifting.'

"I guess, although one of the nice things about indestructibility is that it works even if you don't see something coming."

'Humans are very fragile.  Having the consistent version available immediately would likely be intractably expensive.'

"Could you make it react to incoming danger on its own instead of requiring manual activation?"

'I do not think that is possible without perhaps designing a new version of the simulation power which runs constantly, which would also be expensive.  Would offering humans the option to become a kind of entirely magical being, with no physical substrate, in conjunction with eventually-available resurrection for the ones who do not choose that, serve your ends.'

"Well, what effects would being substrateless have?"

'That would of course depend on how I designed it.'

"Naturally, but like, what are your constraints there. In particular it sounds worrying on the 'catastrophic failure if they do something unaesthetic interrupting their magic supply' front."

'I suspect cutting off entirely-magic beings into their own pools may be feasible in a way that doing the same for physical ones is not, though I am unsure because this idea only just occurred to me and I have not investigated it very thoroughly.

Hm.

I raise the concept of incorporating non-biological physical substrates through the use of magic.'

"Some kind of... fantasy cyborg situation?"

'Yes.  Or androids, or bodiless uploads.'  Wing-adjust.  'My aesthetics are much more aligned with androids than uploads but not counter to the latter.'

"Why would this work better than biological substrate?"

'I imagine it would be much easier to solve the fragility issue, and might expedite or eliminate the need for resurrections via more-workable backups.'

"Well, you can ask Alassëo for more information on Elf chips if you want to borrow design input from those."

'Who is Alassëo.'

"An Elf I invited in to make sure bar access to Arda isn't lost if I have some mishap."