"Maybe I'll find out from someone who's more enthusiastic. And there are other games, they can get complicated, I used to play Tunnel War with this guy- I'm itching to carve some pieces now-"

"Any wizard can just make 'em, Prestidigitation does it. It's not good for anything you want to take pressure but it's fine for game pieces. Oh, the commander can do that too, actually, he hasn't got the whole spell but he can do the making little things."

"-Huh. Well I'm not a wizard and carving things is something to do. If I sorcery at it, my steel knife goes through stone like wood, as long as I'm actually making something."

"Oh dang, okay, cool. We don't have a ton of spare wood unless you want to hike out and cut it yourself but it's never too hard to find a rock."

"I love the Spark even when I hate it for, you know, trying to put me into the madness place. You know about anything carvable and particularly in demand?"

"Hmm. I mean, we go through more arrowheads, and practice ones don't have to be cold iron?"

"I may well carve stone arrowheads when I have itchy hands then. Until I figure out a bigger project."

"Project like the stove or a bigger one than that?"

"Bigger than that! I mean, if I'm going to be near a source of endless monsters- I mean demons- I need more weapons for sure. Armor, with some defensive and utility subsystems, definitely a steam system to power it all, maybe - no, not a lightning rod actually, just a regular steam blast? Or," plasma, "-Fire. I bet I could manage that. Acid bombs."

"Energy damage is not usually the way to go here. - oh, hey, you're probably not evil, you could use a holy weapon no problem, if you can make one. That'll cut through them like butter."

"Oh, hmm. I don't have prior engineering context on a holy weapon. Is there holy stuff around to poke at?"

"Wait, evil?"

"Yeah, we're basically all evil, so if we pick up a holy weapon it's like, hey, I hate you, even if we are using it to shoot demons, because weapons can't read treaties I guess. We have a holy bow anyway though, it can still be worth it sometimes."

"Nnnnot really sure I want a weapon to be judgy. I'm skeeved out by making things that are, um, moral actors. And I'm not even sure where I would start poking at a 'holy weapon' without, like, building analysis equipment first..."

"Oh, the bow doesn't like, talk or anything, it's just holy, not intelligent. Do you guys not get Detect Magic?"

"I don't cast spells, I like, either push down or embrace the Spark or try to point it at particular things - building stuff, or making speeches, or fighting, mostly. Sometimes studying or experimenting."

"Weird. I guess sorcerers are mostly all more or less weird and you're especially weird. Would it work if you tried to get the Spark to pay attention when you shot a few arrows with the holy bow?"

"-Not impossible, likely even, but prooooobably only if I let the Spark get high enough to actually make me do something stupid?"

"Like, what, shoot one of us?"

"More like... Take a bunch of shit that isn't mine to make something really awesome. Or take apart the bow and rebuild it into something else right then and there. Maybe be a lot more inclined to shoot people if something sketchy happens during it, instead of demanding answers or whatever. I mean, it's not like I literally forget where I am and what the rules are, it's that... I get very very sure I'm right and everyone else is wrong, even intellectually knowing that's a mistake. Being reminded loudly about the treaty would probably keep it to just ranting, but the Spark is very - immersive - and 'probably' isn't 'definitely'."

"Do you know if you're too tough to hit with Sleep?"

"No clue. -Actively Sparking out seems like the kind of thing that helps with saves."

"I guess it'd be of a piece."

"It's something testable, if there ends up anyone with the sleep spell to spare when they're going to sleep? But yeah- I uh, I have to be a little scared of going all out, it would cause so many problems."

"Does it just go on forever or will you eventually crash, if you lean all into it for a balor or something?"

"Oh yeah, I'll crash when I'm tired, or if there's nothing - urgent going on anymore. -What's the one round version of a balor's deal?"