and the world was gone || April Catch-All

[adaine]

Who: Adaine + Various
What: Closed + Semi-Open prompts. Adaine moves in with a friend, learns of a potential lich around, makes some friends, does general nerd shit and is hunted by demons.
When: April
Where: All-over, but mostly in Gaze.

Content Warnings: TBA.

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[megatheorem]

Sure. My schedule is both completely packed and mysteriously flexible; I can pencil in a treasure hunt.

[He drums his fingers on the table, considering options— for blood magic, not for treasure hunting. That's good, he can do that.]

The goal would be total equivalence, wouldn't you say? To take an ultimately finite thing like blood magic and extend it into what can be used longterm, by those who lack the innate ability entirely...

[Giving the blood magic to the people, more or less. If it can be done with minimal blood pollution and the corrupting aspects reined in, why not!]

Let's assume the power degrades outside of its source, or over time. Or it doesn't, and the problem is managing an unfettered chunk of magic. I can't imagine why these items would fall out of use besides inefficiency or disaster.

[adaine]

Great. [She smiles. She's not used to making... well, positive acquaintances this fast? She's not sure if she'd be so bold as to use the word friends but talking to people about magic is always enjoyable.]

That's the idea, yeah. I figure actually saving this world from steady decline would take a lot more work, and probably some kind of miracle. [She'd never be so arrogant as to say she could do that, eventually, because more likely she'll have died or gotten sealed in some horrible fate long before she's at the level of wizards like that. But she thinks it's a goal that would be worth it eventually.] In the meantime, making the magic more viable longterm seems like a good middle ground. Since without it, we have very limited protection from the beasts or the more malicious Pthumerians.

[She thinks Bud Cubby would appreciate her redistributing the power to the people. Down with the Sleeper class.]

Well, I think either option is reasonable. Though, these specific items were locked away in a series of hidden tunnels so that only members of the coven could reasonably reach it. There's other items that are more openly available. Forging magical weapons is a sizable amount of what architects do. But making the effect last forever might be the reason why the artifacts of extraordinary powerful fall out of practice more quickly, or why they're hoarded by groups and individuals.

[megatheorem]

Hmm— I don't disagree. The bare minimum security is a pretty intolerable way to live. There's obviously something wrong here, but it seems downright ghoulish to let a chunk of the population fend for themselves without defensive magic.

[Down with the Sleeper class, indeed. He taps the end of his pen on his notebook, heedless of smudging ink on the page. Hmm.]

The blood magic being finite poses an interesting problem to solve. If these artifacts of yours can be found and still work, reverse engineering the mechanism should be easy enough. ["easy enough"] Then again, it could also explode in our faces. Do you have any defensive options? I can handle that, if not.