1.02 ☯ AUDIO; (backdated to Sept 25th)

[zinthosmantra]

To everyone who has found themselves in someone else's body: stop. panicking.

[ This is something she has rather personal experience with and while she knows that 'disconcerting' doesn't even begin to cover it, Raven feels like she's talking down a hysterical Starfire all over again. ]

Find whomever you've switched with and talk to them. It's in their best interests to help you with any abilities or requirements their body has.

[ a pause and then she adds, in a tone that suggests she is mentioning this because she knows it's going to be necessary: ]

And don't "experiment" with what's not yours.

Comments

[bacondivination]

Effectively a big surprise grab-bag of "fuck you guys" then? Now that sounds like a fun bit of mischief under deliberate conditions.

[ Would it be tasteless to suggest murdering the magician to cut things short? Yes? Still, it is tempting. ]

I wonder, though, just how much she tied herself up in it and how much one would have to wager of themselves to undo those knots.

[zinthosmantra]

Not exactly, but it does let the spell determine the outcome. It's not usually used for physical transformations for... obvious reasons.

[ ie; what happened here. ]

I take it you're not volunteering.

[bacondivination]

Ohhh, no. Definite nope there. You wouldn't want me to. I may yet offer some voice of experience to the woman, but I daren't do anything. Peculiar as it may seem, I would rather not make this worse.

[zinthosmantra]

Why wouldn't I want you to? You don't strike me as the type who gets stage fright.

[bacondivination]

Ah, heh, no. Loki does not do stage fright so much as self-preservation. No doubt you've met those with magics more naturally inclined to flipping the proverbial table than setting it aright. I'm that brand of being.

[zinthosmantra]

[ Raven's silent for a moment; her thoughts going back to Malchior and the magic he'd taught her. It wasn't the alignment of the spells that mattered... it was the alignment of the person using them. ]

If you ask me, the table is already flipped. At the very least, I'd be willing to hear out any ideas you might have, even if she's not.

Buuut talking about yourself in the third person doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[bacondivination]

It's a cultural quirk, not a sign of encroaching madness.

[ People rarely directly call him out on the third person thing, oddly enough. It actually trips him up a little. ]

I might be able to offer some insights, however. Conceptually, these sorts of spells are well within my purview. Are you familiar with the work of Sunnhvatr the Burning? Eighth century Norse mortal that sold his soul to a demon with a terrible sense of humor?

[zinthosmantra]

That might depend on who you ask.

[ Raven casts her thoughts to her extensive recollection but eventually shook her head though her tone conveys that she's interested in the explanation. ]

No, I'm not.