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portalling) wrote2022-04-02 01:17 pm
portalling) wrote2022-04-02 01:17 pm
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( Rolling his eyes; thankfully she can’t see it. Takes a big bite of his sandwich, he chews and swallows, then does this properly, if wearily. )
Doctor Stephen Strange, Head Healer of Riftwatch, rifter, sorcerer. It’s been a hectic day, Lady Arany. What can I do for you.
Doctor Stephen Strange, Head Healer of Riftwatch, rifter, sorcerer. It’s been a hectic day, Lady Arany. What can I do for you.
If it’s more than that, though. If you’re in a deep enough drugged sleep, maybe it won’t trigger the same way.
( This is so relevant to what they’d discussed before about the nature of rifters and the Fade’s expectations. But at the idea of it, he barks a small laugh, ) The power of positive thinking.
( Then, more seriously, because the idea does have merit: ) Maybe experiments in the Crossroads and with training for lucid dreaming. Maybe something with a templar’s nullification abilities: the way they peel back the Fade and reassert the rules of reality. Try to remind Tav’s corporeal form that whatever rules might have applied in his own universe, he’s allowed to change them here, and the god of murder doesn’t have any influence here.
( Then, more seriously, because the idea does have merit: ) Maybe experiments in the Crossroads and with training for lucid dreaming. Maybe something with a templar’s nullification abilities: the way they peel back the Fade and reassert the rules of reality. Try to remind Tav’s corporeal form that whatever rules might have applied in his own universe, he’s allowed to change them here, and the god of murder doesn’t have any influence here.
( Oh, this is a mindfuck—
Strange finds that he has to get up and pace around a little to exorcise the restless buzzing frustrated energy that this knowledge gives him. So there’s the sound of more walking over the crystal, along the docks somewhere, the lonely call of Kirkwall seagulls in the distance. )
This is exactly the sort of thing we were supposed to guard against. No one’s supposed to have that much control over the flow of time— Christ, I feel like we were boxing shadows.
So how did your path cross with them? The TVA, and this man.
Strange finds that he has to get up and pace around a little to exorcise the restless buzzing frustrated energy that this knowledge gives him. So there’s the sound of more walking over the crystal, along the docks somewhere, the lonely call of Kirkwall seagulls in the distance. )
This is exactly the sort of thing we were supposed to guard against. No one’s supposed to have that much control over the flow of time— Christ, I feel like we were boxing shadows.
So how did your path cross with them? The TVA, and this man.
No, because that would be weird as hell.
Are you building a voodoo doll of a hated enemy or something?
Are you building a voodoo doll of a hated enemy or something?
I don't understand healers, so I didn't want to rule out that you'd have something useful.
—But yes, in a way. I have orders to obtain a cursed doll from a woman living in Antiva City. It was my idea to swap the thing with something of our own creation, so she won't feel the need to make us take it from her by force or pay her for it. The fingernails would probably make it more convincing.
—But yes, in a way. I have orders to obtain a cursed doll from a woman living in Antiva City. It was my idea to swap the thing with something of our own creation, so she won't feel the need to make us take it from her by force or pay her for it. The fingernails would probably make it more convincing.
Haven’t you ever seen someone drugged?
( wait that’s a weird bad way of phrasing this )
I mean, say, for medical procedures. Yanking out an infected tooth. Knocking someone out when the pain is too great. Stupefying herbal teas to help someone sleep when they’re ill. I don’t know if it’ll quell your impulses, but it’s at least worth a shot.
You wouldn’t want to rely on it every single night. Riftwatch work might need you roused and woken in the middle of the night, not in a continual drugged stupor. But if it does work to suppress your urges, it could be useful some nights. When necessary.
( wait that’s a weird bad way of phrasing this )
I mean, say, for medical procedures. Yanking out an infected tooth. Knocking someone out when the pain is too great. Stupefying herbal teas to help someone sleep when they’re ill. I don’t know if it’ll quell your impulses, but it’s at least worth a shot.
You wouldn’t want to rely on it every single night. Riftwatch work might need you roused and woken in the middle of the night, not in a continual drugged stupor. But if it does work to suppress your urges, it could be useful some nights. When necessary.
( wait, he was KIDDING what do you mean yes in a way— )
… Huh, well. Do you know if she’s a magic-user at all? That’s my only wariness, considering established precedent for tracking people through parts of their body, a biological connection; I wouldn’t want to hand over a compass to someone from Riftwatch.
Maybe if you bought it off some black market in Lowtown. Surely someone’s willing to sell some locks of hair and nail filings for coin. ( Ugh, gross. )
… Huh, well. Do you know if she’s a magic-user at all? That’s my only wariness, considering established precedent for tracking people through parts of their body, a biological connection; I wouldn’t want to hand over a compass to someone from Riftwatch.
Maybe if you bought it off some black market in Lowtown. Surely someone’s willing to sell some locks of hair and nail filings for coin. ( Ugh, gross. )
I don’t know. The only poisons I’ve seen are the fatal kind.
[Another moment when Tav wishea he had more of his memories to rely on.]
I’m not sure how useful an herbalist will be in the middle of the night.
[He gives a small smirk. He likes being low of the totem pole.]
[Another moment when Tav wishea he had more of his memories to rely on.]
I’m not sure how useful an herbalist will be in the middle of the night.
[He gives a small smirk. He likes being low of the totem pole.]
Shit, that's a good idea.
[This is why she needs someone who's a sorcerer as well as a doctor. (Should she try to learn magic? Questions for another day.)]
Not one without some risks, but if Tav's being honest about how he feels, I think he'd probably give informed consent if it has a chance of working. Maybe one of the native mages might have some ideas about the approach, too. I know part of their training is lucid dreaming so they don't get sucker-punched by demons in the Fade while they're asleep.
[This is why she needs someone who's a sorcerer as well as a doctor. (Should she try to learn magic? Questions for another day.)]
Not one without some risks, but if Tav's being honest about how he feels, I think he'd probably give informed consent if it has a chance of working. Maybe one of the native mages might have some ideas about the approach, too. I know part of their training is lucid dreaming so they don't get sucker-punched by demons in the Fade while they're asleep.
A short while later, Edgard strides in.
"Wasn't going to do your first request, but don't like to say no to someone who appreciates art."
He shows him a sign he made:
"Don't say anything yet. Just...experience it. I will bring you the next one and it's...really good." He runs off to go fetch it.
"Wasn't going to do your first request, but don't like to say no to someone who appreciates art."
He shows him a sign he made:
"Don't say anything yet. Just...experience it. I will bring you the next one and it's...really good." He runs off to go fetch it.
( during this, Gwenaëlle is audibly moving, )
Are you hurt or are you busy?
( head healer. an attack rowntree is being vague about. makes sense—
it comes out brisker than she means it to, but she's a little distracted. )
Are you hurt or are you busy?
( head healer. an attack rowntree is being vague about. makes sense—
it comes out brisker than she means it to, but she's a little distracted. )
Edited 2024-03-12 19:31 (UTC)
When the Avengers traveled back in time to 2012 in order to collect the Tesseract from myself-slash-the Avengers of the past after my... series of missteps in New York. However, in my living of those events, Tony Stark from the future had a heart attack, so I took the Tesseract back and fled - which is the point at which the TVA arrived to collect me.
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