[ satariel's daemon comes to join them as a raven, croaking its greeting to the deer as it comes to rest on their person's knee. ]
Right. Which is good news, at least, even if we won't know their state until they come back.
[ but they do offer roxis a smile! ]
Yep! You can make an exchange with each Watcher once a week, for a max of six. We can't give you everything back at once, and you can't beef up something you got from one Watcher in an exchange with another Watcher in the same week, but you can stack more on it.
Would it be possible to reenstate the pact with our Mana? [ or, well, if suriel is right and the link isn't actually gone, ] Or reactivate or re-establish access to it somehow, I'm not sure which is more appropriate. And would the abilities they grant us count as a separate trade?
Say one week you wanted to get a magic of some kind back, but we couldn't get it to you in full for that first exchange. Next week, you make another exchange for that same power, to stack, and make it a little closer to what you're used to.
[ beef! that! alchemy! ]
Mmm... maybe it would be like unlocking doors in a hallway, so to speak? You get back abilities and a small section of the Mana as you slowly open each door?
I'm afraid there's some sort of misunderstanding here. Our Mana are discrete beings. Ulrika's from what I understand is practically a child. Mine is a... [ meddling old wolf........... ] ...n older soul. They're supposed to be connected to us in a manner not unlike the way you are to us, or we are to our daemons, and willingly lend us their power should we need it.
[ can't pact with a mana against its will, after all... and yeah so his offhand comment about them supplanting another link. anyway. ]
Getting them back in... sections, even if they are, essentially, manifested energy, would be a bit morbid.
Oh! Oh that's such a terrible image, I'm so sorry, Mr. Rosenkrantz! Please stop imagining it, now, oh - bad. [ putting their face in their hands and wheeze laughing a little in mild horror. ] ... maybe just the abilities with us or your Dust as the focus, I'm not sure that we could genuinely summon spirits here that would be beings of their own with free thought and will.
[ he just. pinches the bridge of his nose for a moment. all right, mental image dealt with.
so he wouldn't be able to call Eital in defense, huh, just manifest a simulacrum of what she granted him...
perhaps not Judgment then, since that's herself, fang and claw and all, but the Drives might be doable... Unless? ]
Perhaps this particular suggestion might have to wait for another time, since I have another idea in mind already, but-- if I wouldn't be able to call her, would a... reflection of her with no true mind of its own be reasonable?
[ wheeze. they recover, while he thinks, before shaking their hands out - then fixing their mask, to look up at him again. ]
I think that would probably be doable. A sort of... what's it... oh, a construct that reflects her, and what she can do, that can be called on a limited number of times.
Then I'll request that of another Watcher later, perhaps.
From you, I'll ask this: a technique her domain over light granted me was to cleanse and protect myself and others from any unnatural ailment or untoward influence for some time.
[ 'the sanctuary of light'... in rpg terms it's a status cure + status null until the affected party members switch out. none curse, poison, sleep, or that kind of nonsense here. protection from bad. ]
Mm... [ they think about that, looking up at him, raven hopping to the other knee and croaking softly as they do, mulling it over. ] Right now, only one ailment at a time or protection against the advances of spectres at a time, once a week, with the chance to make it stronger and increase the uses and coverage.
Telling me a childhood story of yours, and talking with three people you don't know that well in the group to learn something new about them. Can be small, like a hobby or favorite food, things like that.
[ sorry for delay, mauyn, mods were busy with work/life today and then discussing the logistics of this. ]
[ this is fine i just realized i left this hanging after murder and gy plot, cries in my satariel cr
anyway a childhood story... this is miserable, what part of his childhood would make an interesting story? watch mauyn lean heavily on headcanon for this because roxis barely tells us anything ingame. ]
... I grew up as the only child of an old house, but my upbringing was a bit unorthodox. My father traveled often in order to earn our livings. When I was young he taught me his skill with cards, and as I grew a bit older sometimes he'd bring me along with him. One time when he did so, I thought I'd try to test myself by doing the sort of thing he'd do at a tavern.
[ play card games and rob people of their money. except: ]
It turns out, whether or not you're actually doing anything to cheat, if you start winning a little too often, and especially at the same table of drunkards for the entire night...
[ well. ]
Needless to say, we left in a hurry, and I learned that sometimes it's better to throw a few games or fold on otherwise perfectly playable hands just to avoid repeat occurrences of that.
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[ Checks out with what YHJ said earlier, seems like. Vosgetel makes room for them without much fuss.
Though something about the Watchers being connected to them the same way they are their souls still rings... Nevermind. ]
... Have you sorted out the mechanisms you said you were trying to last time? The exchanges, I mean?
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Right. Which is good news, at least, even if we won't know their state until they come back.
[ but they do offer roxis a smile! ]
Yep! You can make an exchange with each Watcher once a week, for a max of six. We can't give you everything back at once, and you can't beef up something you got from one Watcher in an exchange with another Watcher in the same week, but you can stack more on it.
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[ hmm... ]
Would it be possible to reenstate the pact with our Mana? [ or, well, if suriel is right and the link isn't actually gone, ] Or reactivate or re-establish access to it somehow, I'm not sure which is more appropriate. And would the abilities they grant us count as a separate trade?
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[ beef! that! alchemy! ]
Mmm... maybe it would be like unlocking doors in a hallway, so to speak? You get back abilities and a small section of the Mana as you slowly open each door?
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he coughs lightly into a hand. ]
I'm afraid there's some sort of misunderstanding here. Our Mana are discrete beings. Ulrika's from what I understand is practically a child. Mine is a... [ meddling old wolf........... ] ...n older soul. They're supposed to be connected to us in a manner not unlike the way you are to us, or we are to our daemons, and willingly lend us their power should we need it.
[ can't pact with a mana against its will, after all... and yeah so his offhand comment about them supplanting another link. anyway. ]
Getting them back in... sections, even if they are, essentially, manifested energy, would be a bit morbid.
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... and then immediately backpedaling. ]
Oh! Oh that's such a terrible image, I'm so sorry, Mr. Rosenkrantz! Please stop imagining it, now, oh - bad. [ putting their face in their hands and wheeze laughing a little in mild horror. ] ... maybe just the abilities with us or your Dust as the focus, I'm not sure that we could genuinely summon spirits here that would be beings of their own with free thought and will.
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so he wouldn't be able to call Eital in defense, huh, just manifest a simulacrum of what she granted him...
perhaps not Judgment then, since that's herself, fang and claw and all, but the Drives might be doable... Unless? ]
Perhaps this particular suggestion might have to wait for another time, since I have another idea in mind already, but-- if I wouldn't be able to call her, would a... reflection of her with no true mind of its own be reasonable?
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I think that would probably be doable. A sort of... what's it... oh, a construct that reflects her, and what she can do, that can be called on a limited number of times.
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From you, I'll ask this: a technique her domain over light granted me was to cleanse and protect myself and others from any unnatural ailment or untoward influence for some time.
[ 'the sanctuary of light'... in rpg terms it's a status cure + status null until the affected party members switch out. none curse, poison, sleep, or that kind of nonsense here. protection from bad. ]
What payment would you ask for that?
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Telling me a childhood story of yours, and talking with three people you don't know that well in the group to learn something new about them. Can be small, like a hobby or favorite food, things like that.
[ sorry for delay, mauyn, mods were busy with work/life today and then discussing the logistics of this. ]
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anyway a childhood story... this is miserable, what part of his childhood would make an interesting story? watch mauyn lean heavily on headcanon for this because roxis barely tells us anything ingame. ]
... I grew up as the only child of an old house, but my upbringing was a bit unorthodox. My father traveled often in order to earn our livings. When I was young he taught me his skill with cards, and as I grew a bit older sometimes he'd bring me along with him. One time when he did so, I thought I'd try to test myself by doing the sort of thing he'd do at a tavern.
[ play card games and rob people of their money. except: ]
It turns out, whether or not you're actually doing anything to cheat, if you start winning a little too often, and especially at the same table of drunkards for the entire night...
[ well. ]
Needless to say, we left in a hurry, and I learned that sometimes it's better to throw a few games or fold on otherwise perfectly playable hands just to avoid repeat occurrences of that.