[Sayo stares at Palamedes for a moment, eyebrows crawling so high up her forehead that they disappear into her bangs. In the worst case scenario, she'd expected a Beast would eventually sniff out her work and she'd have to fend it off with nothing but wits and lead. In the best case scenario, she'd expected a civil Hunter she could persuade with some tea and biscuits that she was being as responsible as possible, really, now could you do her a favor and leave her alone?
Someone offering to help fell outside of all of her plans; a much more pleasant surprise than the last time something like this went unaccounted for, granted, but a surprise nonetheless.
...really, though, she could use a hand more adept than Goat-kun or Morgan. So, hesitantly, she steps back inside and gestures for Palamedes to come in.
Despite the ghoulish, offputting exterior of the building, the inside is... well, not cozy, but at least not actively uncomfortable either. A bookshelf that is curiously empty except for a few notebooks, a lab area that's currently being mopped clean by a hulking goat demon, and a closed cellar in the corner surrounded by some kind of blood ward.]
Um, I can undo the ward and get you some food if you want, [Sayo explains as she walks in, barely giving Goat-kun a glance as he enthusiastically waves at her.] I keep all my snacks and other perishable stuff down there so it doesn't get polluted. I considered putting the lab underground, but I think if the blood seeped into the soil like that it'd make the pollution worse...
Right, you had a question. Sorry. [She shakes her head.] The way Sleeper abilities from our homes are integrated into the extant system of blood magic seems... direly unexplored? It's still an open question of whether it's part of our biology, our soul, or both, or neither.
If magic or... an equivalent, I suppose, is able to be taught on one Sleeper's world, it can be taught to another Sleeper. That's the only reason why I haven't died many more times than I have.
But some kinds of magic can't be taught. There's some- principle behind it that makes it incommunicable. Which would make sense if we were humans, or, er, whatever, back on our homeworlds, but we are all Sleepers here, all making use of fundamentally the same magic on Trench. There has to be some way to hack it so that someone else can learn or modify themselves to use those kinds of magic.
This isn't really a topic much research has been done on. So I figured I should start with the most basic building blocks possible; recreating and redefining the way Sleeper blood works, is influenced by, and influences the world around it, entirely from first principles. It's... slow work and, um, as you can see, really messy too, but I still think it's a better idea than to try and twist existing theorems to suit this purpose when the relationship between blood magic and Sleeper abilities hasn't been explored in much depth, at least as far as I can tell. All of my experiments so far have been testing the responses of Sleeper blood to various stimuli, and vice versa.
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Someone offering to help fell outside of all of her plans; a much more pleasant surprise than the last time something like this went unaccounted for, granted, but a surprise nonetheless.
...really, though, she could use a hand more adept than Goat-kun or Morgan. So, hesitantly, she steps back inside and gestures for Palamedes to come in.
Despite the ghoulish, offputting exterior of the building, the inside is... well, not cozy, but at least not actively uncomfortable either. A bookshelf that is curiously empty except for a few notebooks, a lab area that's currently being mopped clean by a hulking goat demon, and a closed cellar in the corner surrounded by some kind of blood ward.]
Um, I can undo the ward and get you some food if you want, [Sayo explains as she walks in, barely giving Goat-kun a glance as he enthusiastically waves at her.] I keep all my snacks and other perishable stuff down there so it doesn't get polluted. I considered putting the lab underground, but I think if the blood seeped into the soil like that it'd make the pollution worse...
Right, you had a question. Sorry. [She shakes her head.] The way Sleeper abilities from our homes are integrated into the extant system of blood magic seems... direly unexplored? It's still an open question of whether it's part of our biology, our soul, or both, or neither.
If magic or... an equivalent, I suppose, is able to be taught on one Sleeper's world, it can be taught to another Sleeper. That's the only reason why I haven't died many more times than I have.
But some kinds of magic can't be taught. There's some- principle behind it that makes it incommunicable. Which would make sense if we were humans, or, er, whatever, back on our homeworlds, but we are all Sleepers here, all making use of fundamentally the same magic on Trench. There has to be some way to hack it so that someone else can learn or modify themselves to use those kinds of magic.
This isn't really a topic much research has been done on. So I figured I should start with the most basic building blocks possible; recreating and redefining the way Sleeper blood works, is influenced by, and influences the world around it, entirely from first principles. It's... slow work and, um, as you can see, really messy too, but I still think it's a better idea than to try and twist existing theorems to suit this purpose when the relationship between blood magic and Sleeper abilities hasn't been explored in much depth, at least as far as I can tell. All of my experiments so far have been testing the responses of Sleeper blood to various stimuli, and vice versa.