Spell 04 -- Video

[eye_of_isis]

[Sadie, if you know her, actually looks a little distressed.

She's mostly annoyed, though]

Right. So. That--and you all know exactly what I'm talking about, don't pretend you don't--but that? That whole incident? That is why you don't say the name of things you don't want showing up at your doorstep. Words have power. Names have a lot of power, and true names? True names can be used to kill. Whoever called that Thing--thanks a lot! If anyone needs me, I've got some potions to prepare before going to see if that Thing is actually in the city or if it was just projecting itself psychically.

[As she cuts it, you can hear her grumbling about "stupid mortals" and "honestly, don't you people watch television or read?"]

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[demon_brat]

For once, I agree.

[backinakidflash]

So you want everyone to avoid names and jump through hoops to do it? I'll be Joe, and you can be Billie Joe, and we've lots of room for Bobby Joe and Betty Joe , and when we run out of Joe names, we'll move onto Bob names.

I'd rather have the bad stuff turn up on my doorstep right now than spend the rest of my life scared of it. If it's around, we take care of it. If it's not, that doesn't mean things are any better I the long run.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. [He looks around expectantly.] Oh look, tv lied.

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[escarabajo]

Beetlej-- wait, someone made that joke already. Never mind.

[SORRY HE HAD TO GET IT OUT OF HIS SYSTEM.]

Normally, I'd disagree with you, but with something like that? [Him? It?] I can understand being a little more careful.

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[magicalpadawan]

There's a reason no one except my parents and Harry know my real name. [She sounds -- a bit put-out, here, and looks it, too, though she's standing well back from her screen as a matter of course.]

And hey, we're not all stupid. Promise. ....I could try and do a locating spell, if that's quicker than a potion. Probably not, though, I think you have to have a piece of whatever it is.

[A beat.] ....If it helps, I don't feel anything nasty around. And I usually do.

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[starcharter]

[Cue the Russian guy with a very heavy accent.]

I know one of the men who did so-- he is arrogant enough to play with forces greater than himself.

[THANKS, KHAN.]

I have read through the old network logs but is there anything else you can tell me about this entity? There doesn't seem to be much of anything specific about it.

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[cmdreffingshepard]

Fear has power. If we learn to fear a name so much, what else could it do to us? Draw it out, I say, and inevitably it'll show us a weakness. How else are we going to destroy it if all we know is fear?

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[gathersnomoss]

... You mean the guy who was bragging about how he read everything on the network while doing it? Because I seem to recall people have mentioned the whole 'naming the thing gives it power' being covered.

I suspect the post was just to remind us it's still there. If it thrives on negative emotions, once we know it exists, it's in its benefit to keep reminding us its out there biding its time. And that it has access to the network as well.

[A bit like a mazoku. Which actually makes Zel feel more confident, because mazoku are powerful, dangerous beings from his world, but they are a known quantity. Zelgadis has fought them, and beaten a few (ignore the number of powerful ones that nearly killed him). It's dangerous to think of this new threat as 'just like this other thing', because Zel knows the exceptions will be lethal, but saying 'this is like something I have destroyed, that can be destroyed' is better than a nebulous thing of evil.]

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[fotia]

Hey look, to be fair, it's not as if we actually expect bad things to happen, like getting kidnapped when we say Candlej—

[BZZZT! And the feed cuts off.]

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[zinthosmantra]

Potions?

[ Raven sounds vaguely interested. ]