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[prodigalvampire]

Okay, everyone, I can't take the silence anymore. What's the consensus on the party Halcyn's throwing? It smells like a trap to me, but that's never kept me from a good time.

[There's a pause here as though he's shifting verbal gears.]

And has anyone else noticed the altars around town? Weird, right?

Comments

[prodigalvampire]

You shouldn't insult people with things they've never heard of.

[skyward_eyes]

Firstly: that's very prickly.

Secondly: you don't know what a cactaur is?

[He sounds genuinely surprised.]

[prodigalvampire]

Firstly: I don't care.

Secondly: Why would I ask if I did?

[skyward_eyes]

I don't know. People ask weird stuff all the time.

They're like cacti, but they have arms and legs and faces and run around and shoot their needles at you.

[prodigalvampire]

That sounds like a possessed cactus.

[And terrifying.]

[skyward_eyes]

Not exactly a bad description of them. They're pretty deadly. But they're also sorta like crows in that they can be very mischevious.

[prodigalvampire]

Cool. I'm really glad I have never found one.

[skyward_eyes]

Yeah, guess your world is lucky. You probably don't even have dragons, only bears.

[Forever Nida will return to that point.]

[prodigalvampire]

No. I wouldn't mind something as simple as a possessed cactus.

[skyward_eyes]

Hey, Cactuars bother me AND we have dragons.

[prodigalvampire]

So do we, only we have dragons who can look like people, because they aren't monsters.

[skyward_eyes]

Dragons that look like people? Wow that's definitely new.

[prodigalvampire]

Dragons that can look human, yes. They're people, strong, old, and powerful.

[skyward_eyes]

That sounds like magic. Is it?

[prodigalvampire]

Everything's some kind of magic.

[skyward_eyes]

You about to claim that Life itself is magic?

[prodigalvampire]

As in "a power that can be manipulated if you know how"? Yes. Necromancy's a thing.

[skyward_eyes]

Necromancy isn't a good thing.

[Not in his books at least.]

[prodigalvampire]

Did I say anything about how morally right or wrong it was?

[skyward_eyes]

I guess you didn't. Just... sounds like what in my world would be the domain of Sorceresses.

[prodigalvampire]

But not wizards?

[skyward_eyes]

There aren't wizards in my world. Men can't do magic naturally.

[prodigalvampire]

Well, in my world anyone can do a little bit of magic, and necromancy isn't necessarily bad, but that's getting into details.

[skyward_eyes]

People can do magic back home as well, if they attend a Garden and have access to a GF. But it's not true magic. Paramagic is just channeling magic taken from monsters and places of power. So it's very different than true magic.

[prodigalvampire]

Good for them? Magic's magic where I come from, but I don't even know how we got into this weird debate. Magic is...it just is, whether you can use it, or use some weird facsimile of it, or whatever, it's life, it's death, it's everything in between. Most of the time it just does its magic thing without intelligent minds manipulating it.