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"Clalseen, there's like, eight of them. And who knows how many more onboard their shelp. We need to go back and pick up some more gopaff. At least wait until Madrigal gets here."
"Seven."
"What?"
"That number makes seven. You can't count."
Seriously, she was going to pick a fight over that instead of anything else?
"Yes, I am," Clalseen said, because of course a rabbit wouldn't wait for you to say what you were thinking to answer it. "You're an academage. You have spells. Use them."
"I don't even know what spells--"
"Yes you do."
Fucking rabbits, Yhelm thought, pointedly, at Clalseen's array of eyes. Worse that she was right. Yhelm was already constructing the argument to Meadoe/Traverse in the back of her head. You could just cast spell after spell, but that was slow, that was hard. A spell was a constructed argument, recalled and enacted on reality, and to go from one to another without a bridge meant spitting out unrelated theses, and it was hard for a mind to keep up with that. Jumping from argument to argument, unrelated topic to topic. Exhausting. Better to arrange them in a series of links, so one spell could flow into the other more easily.
Her own thesis, On the Impossibility of Reconciling Perspective [KESACH]. Summary: conflict is a result of the inability to view things from others' perspectives, however, this act is impossible, as something viewed from all sides simultaneously becomes incapable of being apprehended. Enacted as a spell, severe visual disorientation.
Supporting-argument: Kopyses' essay on the relativity of gravity [SUBDOWN]. Summary: importance is utterly subjective. Linked off of [KESACH], [SUBDOWN] reshapes targets' center of gravity into an external point, severe physical disorientation.
Cited work: Goalotte's Gravity, chapter 12, argument d [SNCHM]. Summary: weight (physical, metaphorical) is subjective on context. Linked off of existing essay, [SNCHM] should increase the experience of gravity for all targets.
Conclusion: All of the bitch's idiots should be seeing things like through a broken mirror, with their bodies working in reverse, feeling as if they weighed three times as much.
And from there it was just a matter of beating up some confused Jaycebaits.
Clalseen sneered in approval. "That really how magic works? Posture, you're a nerd. Why did you waste your time on greenthought when you were born in the yellow?"
"I don't know, Clal. Read my mind. Tell me. Unless you can find it in there I don't got the answer either."
"Mm. Well. Doesn't matter. Fishplates harassing the locals. Let's go teach them Straits only goes as far as the shoreline. Once they hit the wood, they pray to the altar of gopaff."
"Seven."
"What?"
"That number makes seven. You can't count."
Seriously, she was going to pick a fight over that instead of anything else?
"Yes, I am," Clalseen said, because of course a rabbit wouldn't wait for you to say what you were thinking to answer it. "You're an academage. You have spells. Use them."
"I don't even know what spells--"
"Yes you do."
Fucking rabbits, Yhelm thought, pointedly, at Clalseen's array of eyes. Worse that she was right. Yhelm was already constructing the argument to Meadoe/Traverse in the back of her head. You could just cast spell after spell, but that was slow, that was hard. A spell was a constructed argument, recalled and enacted on reality, and to go from one to another without a bridge meant spitting out unrelated theses, and it was hard for a mind to keep up with that. Jumping from argument to argument, unrelated topic to topic. Exhausting. Better to arrange them in a series of links, so one spell could flow into the other more easily.
Her own thesis, On the Impossibility of Reconciling Perspective [KESACH]. Summary: conflict is a result of the inability to view things from others' perspectives, however, this act is impossible, as something viewed from all sides simultaneously becomes incapable of being apprehended. Enacted as a spell, severe visual disorientation.
Supporting-argument: Kopyses' essay on the relativity of gravity [SUBDOWN]. Summary: importance is utterly subjective. Linked off of [KESACH], [SUBDOWN] reshapes targets' center of gravity into an external point, severe physical disorientation.
Cited work: Goalotte's Gravity, chapter 12, argument d [SNCHM]. Summary: weight (physical, metaphorical) is subjective on context. Linked off of existing essay, [SNCHM] should increase the experience of gravity for all targets.
Conclusion: All of the bitch's idiots should be seeing things like through a broken mirror, with their bodies working in reverse, feeling as if they weighed three times as much.
And from there it was just a matter of beating up some confused Jaycebaits.
Clalseen sneered in approval. "That really how magic works? Posture, you're a nerd. Why did you waste your time on greenthought when you were born in the yellow?"
"I don't know, Clal. Read my mind. Tell me. Unless you can find it in there I don't got the answer either."
"Mm. Well. Doesn't matter. Fishplates harassing the locals. Let's go teach them Straits only goes as far as the shoreline. Once they hit the wood, they pray to the altar of gopaff."
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look, bad boy fought hard to ensure that no race was the designated villain race, the evil generic bad guy race
the waterfaces CHOOSE to all be dicks, more or less
that's rude there's waterfaces in the tabletop game and like,
one entire member of their community there isn't a complete jackass, even
the waterfaces CHOOSE to all be dicks, more or less
that's rude there's waterfaces in the tabletop game and like,
one entire member of their community there isn't a complete jackass, even
there's definitely some weirdass stuff you can wield on people's butts. one of the players in the tabletop game has a spell that theorizes an extinction event that manifests as a meteor explosion landing on your head.
one of the NPCs has a spell that opens up a metaphorical portal to the sun, which variously blinds everyone, sets things on fire, catches the sun's antler or hoof and turns it into a weapon, or just drags an manifestation of Ardent the solar buck himself out to play
another NPC can create duplicates of people and make them fight the original. he can also summon magic balls that either shoot lasers or explode.
there's also the Standard Line of combat spells, which are all commentaries of commentaries of commentaries. they discuss the concept of harm and usually manifest as just... well, now you have a wound on you! maybe this one causes internal bleeding, maybe this one breaks your legs.
they're all a long line of academic discourse based on the original essay 100,000 Kings, which was written by the god of magic before time began
actually casting the original spell all the others are based on is the equivalent of setting off a nuke that only you survive
one of the NPCs has a spell that opens up a metaphorical portal to the sun, which variously blinds everyone, sets things on fire, catches the sun's antler or hoof and turns it into a weapon, or just drags an manifestation of Ardent the solar buck himself out to play
another NPC can create duplicates of people and make them fight the original. he can also summon magic balls that either shoot lasers or explode.
there's also the Standard Line of combat spells, which are all commentaries of commentaries of commentaries. they discuss the concept of harm and usually manifest as just... well, now you have a wound on you! maybe this one causes internal bleeding, maybe this one breaks your legs.
they're all a long line of academic discourse based on the original essay 100,000 Kings, which was written by the god of magic before time began
actually casting the original spell all the others are based on is the equivalent of setting off a nuke that only you survive
everything is OP in this universe, that's where the balance is. at least, everything is OP if you're actually good enough at it (most people are not good enough at it to be OP)
there's an NPC in the tabletop who mastered the travel element. she can make attacks miss her by arbitrarily increasing the distance between her and the point of contact to infinity so she's immune to harm. she can also unfold space so every point is adjacent to every point simultaneously.
there's an NPC in the tabletop that bites off bits of your soul and then can use whatever powers you can use because a part of you is now digesting inside him
there's an NPC in the tabletop with a double-neck guitar who can play so hard she turns into a WMD
there's an entire species that gets mind control powers off the boat
the sealsharkdeer people get giant robots made out of bioengineered lobsters
the rabbits passively see your thoughts, and the immediate future, from birth onwards
granted most people, aren't actually at this level. most rabbits can just see the passing surface thoughts here and there; most academages only have spells for research purposes; most travel element users can basically just teleport themselves and little else
but a thing i always do in my stuff is, i like to see what i can do when everyone has relatively free access to the opportunity to get absurd powers. it's fun.
there's an NPC in the tabletop who mastered the travel element. she can make attacks miss her by arbitrarily increasing the distance between her and the point of contact to infinity so she's immune to harm. she can also unfold space so every point is adjacent to every point simultaneously.
there's an NPC in the tabletop that bites off bits of your soul and then can use whatever powers you can use because a part of you is now digesting inside him
there's an NPC in the tabletop with a double-neck guitar who can play so hard she turns into a WMD
there's an entire species that gets mind control powers off the boat
the sealsharkdeer people get giant robots made out of bioengineered lobsters
the rabbits passively see your thoughts, and the immediate future, from birth onwards
granted most people, aren't actually at this level. most rabbits can just see the passing surface thoughts here and there; most academages only have spells for research purposes; most travel element users can basically just teleport themselves and little else
but a thing i always do in my stuff is, i like to see what i can do when everyone has relatively free access to the opportunity to get absurd powers. it's fun.
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