kaolinandbone | Coronation Ceremony & Gifts

The gentle but insistent tink-tink-tink of a silver spoon against a teacup carries through the crowd, followed by a clear, confident voice as Lioncourt addresses the gathered guests.

"Ladies, gentlemen, and other various but no less incomparable sentients, the main event of the party will begin shortly. If you have a coronation present for the Lady Lioncourt and have not yet placed on the central table, please do so now: everyone is likewise encouraged to take a seat on one of the benches if they wish to observe the ceremony."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian sighs. "That would have solved Eclipse's problem, for example."

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poll_the_stars

"... Eclipse's problem? I have a basic idea of what happened in Eclipse, but I wasn't aware there was a problem with multidimensional attackers."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian gives her a sad smile. (He uses smiles for most of his emoting, actually.)

"Once upon a time, an incredibly foolish, traumatized, and vengeful nation decided to create a concept-of-a-virus, to bypass all the wards of their foes - that is, their reasonably peaceful neighbors - and destroy them from the inside.

"My... friends, team, general party of mages, quarantined the virus before it could spread too far, and begin to systematically cleanse it from the area and population. Unfortunately, the virus possessed a hive-mind intelligence of its own, and used a spell none of us had ever seen before, and vanished from that Truth.

"None of us ever saw it again, though analyzing that spell brought me to the Many Worlds Forum. But backtracing the virus that appeared in Eclipse revealed that it appeared out of nowhere one day in the middle of an alien city, which is no more." He shrugs. "A ward against random interworld travel would've solved that problem. It is sad that such things exist to exploit undefended worlds, but they do."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 01:25 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

"... Agreed. Well. I have a new project, I suppose." She eyes him. "I don't want to know what mayhem it caused, do I."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian shakes his head. "Let's just say - Earth is a deathworld now."

"The virus is ... actually reasonably managed; they have a remarkably competent organization on hand that managed to mostly keep it contained for two decades. And now that I've given them magic..."

He pauses. "Now that I think of it, I should get them in contact with Raezenoth. He knows someone who could help with the existing strains. At any rate, the world is mostly under control, but it would be very nice to make sure it doesn't happen again."

"... You know, you live long enough that I could start teaching you magic. Eclipse has the advantage of fast-time simulations, but if you're interested on general principles I can start scrying your world for runes."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 02:12 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

Inavet grins at him. "I am very interested in learning magic."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian smiles. Magic geeks are always nice to meet. "I'll be in touch, then!"

He tilts his head, thoughtfully. "Actually - now I'm curious if I could learn arcany. My metaphysical makeup is extremely strange, even aside from the physical augmentations..."

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poll_the_stars

"Mm. I can check. May I?" She offers him her hand.

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian nods, and takes Inavet's hand.

He is - very strange.

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poll_the_stars

Inavet is very quiet, and looks at him with a completely blank expression. And then she starts laughing.

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian - develops a very strange expression. And looks owlishly at her.

"Um. Are you... all right?"

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poll_the_stars

She giggles more, and waves an assuring hand at him. She clasps her free hand over her mouth and represses the laughter. "Yes, yes, fine, just - goddesses above you are a terrifying eldritch magic god-man. Thank you for being benevolent."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian - develops a complex expression, though it is mostly amused. "Thank you. I try."

There may be a bit of stress attached to that last word.

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 03:08 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

"Sorry, sorry, I'm, I'm, being very rude, I apologize." Giggle. "You have been very benevolent and helpful so far, thank you for that. Um - anyway, heh. I - could - maybe. Maybe get you arcany. I don't - fuck it'll be complicated as all hell. Aren't I glad I've had practice, yay for me, I - do not see any reason you couldn't, but wow you are - extremely strange." (Giggle.) "Please tell me you bleed."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

"If you prick me, I do bleed," he half-quotes. "Though it will need to be a very sharp knife."

"Would it help if I undid the modifications, and redid them later? -- Out of curiosity, what did you see?"

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poll_the_stars

"Okay, good, that - makes my life easier."

She muffles the sound that can be heard from the two of them. No eavesdroppers. Then she releases his hand, and rubs at her face. "Mm. I lack vocabulary. Like - you are - almost not human. Almost a construct? But not? You're - supposed to be that way? I think? Excessively magic in everything - aura, metal, blood, woven together like it's, it's. I would say warded that way but that's not it, it's not - it's just sort of a thing that shows up everywhere in you, being magic in various ways." She waves a hand at him. "The augments weren't even the freakiest parts, those felt sane in comparison, song and crystal and metal where it counts. Not to mention the - that was all just your physical body. There's. It was. Your - not your mind, the thing your mind is - doing something to, the - giant terrifying magic maze thing you are manipulating. Or, not manipulating, not quite - doing something to, I don't know, it was very blood and very not blood and it's a multitude of slightly unknowable magic I can barely even begin to process. Thus, eldritch magic god-man."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 03:46 am (UTC)

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian approves of the ward. He'd apply his own, but he's not practiced enough at Eclipse magic to not, say, blot out light from within his mind.

He'll pick it up in a few years. Or days. Eclipse time acceleration was handy that way.

"Hm. I'm surprised you got that much - I expected you'd get things right, but that was a deeper analysis than I had expected.

"Yes, that is... essentially what happened. I have modified my body partially on the basis of what humans are generally like in Entelechy - it seems that evolving with magic that doesn't require a sapient to use it results in nature quite happily taking advantage. They aren't normally quite so impenetrable, but then that is the advantage of a sapient caster.

"My mind... that as also essentially accurate. In fact, the ritual that I used to become this is based on the nature of my native gods. A god of a concept has a mind built entirely in that concept. Boundaries were fairly easy as such rituals go, but Wood gave me some trouble - the giant terrifying magic maze is somewhat terrifying to me as well, as it is far too large for me to entirely comprehend, and that will inevitably be true of any entity based in the concept of unlimited eternal growth. My mind modulates the nature and rate of that growth instead, which" he smiles wryly "seems to work reasonably well."

"At any rate, thank you. I do enjoy learning more about myself and myself-as-I-appear-to-others, and the comparisons to arcany give me insight in that regard as well."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 04:50 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

Inavet listens raptly.

"You're welcome. I'm glad I got it right, I was half worried I'd butchered it because it's sort of hard to describe. I will - let you know if I get an arcany ritual set up for you." She smiles a bit. "How can your mind be built entirely in a concept if you have two concepts?"

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian chuckles. "Now I'm curious what the qualia of reading all that at once is like. And - thank you.

"The thing that makes a god a god isn't that it's made entirely of a concept, but that it's linked so intensely to one. That's more of a matter of purity than of unity; I can get away with having a very Boundary-and-Wood mind because there is nothing but Boundary and Wood in the 'hardware,' as it were. If and when I add a third element, it will have to be interwoven with the other two, but cannot be merged - doing a three element merger, the way I have a growing maze that is both Boundaries and Wood, crosses the line into insufficiently pure.

"This is the primary limit on the number of Mantles that can be acquired - both the difficulty of interfacing with previous elements, and the fact that eventually one runs out of appropriate mental subfunctions that are both interwoven enough to be ubiquitous and independent enough to interact only rarely with the rest of the mind. The current record is four elements; the holder of that title believed a fifth was barely possible, but died in the attempt, so I do not expect I will be pushing my own mind quite so far."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 10:25 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

She nods. "That makes sense. Thank you.

"Reading it was... A hell of a thing. Like reading a complex theory paper that's been badly translated by children and trying to figure out the meaning anyway. When I have no experience with where the theory is based. Or seeing a world tree for the first time. I recall feeling very tiny and insignificant and out of my depth." She snorts. "I laughed then, too."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian smiles. "Well, I can start helping you on the theory part, though the mechanics will likely take some time if you want it to be relevant to your own world. Though I can regale you with Entelechy tales fairly freely.

"I remember the first time I met a Primordial Dragon, I ended up cheating with magic to not fall over from the presence and calling it out for plagiarism. You see, s/he had seen a ward I was working on but hadn't quite finished in the future, copied it, finished it, and refined it into something far more thorough than I could've made within the course of our conversation. It was a rather enlightening experience."

(He's leaning on the translation magic, using a gender-neutral person word that is translated to a synesthetic sense of ambiguity, to pronounce "s/he" properly.)

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poll_the_stars

Inavet nods again, then snickers. "That's. Kind of messed up, did s/he at least give you a copy of the ward?"

(Elvish has a word for a gender-neutral person already, she doesn't need to think of a clever trick to solve this problem.)

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian shrugs, mildly amused. "S/he cast it in front of me without warding it from my sight, so I assume so. I have a copy, at any rate."

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poll_the_stars

"I count that as giving you a copy. But seriously, I'd love to hear theory."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian nods. "Where should I start? I can discuss... hm, that is an interesting complication.

"I can start with the mechanics of gods, or the mechanics of spell circles, or the mechanics of the Third Order Ritual. At any point, however, I may cross over into mechanics that apply to your world, at which point it will start sounding mysteriously incomprehensible. Do let me know - not only will that tell us things about how alethics works in your world, but also I can use perfect comprehension to cut through some of the effect. Ah - this is an improved version that is at least blurred to not be targeted to you specifically, though it may end up sounding like a close friend or family. If that makes you uncomfortable we can always simply stop."

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