Delightfully Strange

[magictechsupport]

At the end of the universe,

A man steps into a bar and looks around. "Huh, nobody told me they installed a break room here."

With Slayer Juliet.

With Kappa's Dagna.

With Eclipse!Bell.

Comments

[cross_and_bow]

"Highway robbery. Some of us sometimes unexpectedly need to suplex six-ton demons on a moment's notice, have a care."

[magictechsupport]

"You'll probably be able to mint MNA or AP to make up for it." His device dings. "Hm... Does the local magic depend on intentionality? Here, hold the link crystal, want to send something."

[cross_and_bow]

"I haven't looked into it in extensive detail -" She holds the link crystal and tries wanting to send something.

[magictechsupport]

The crystal does not react. "It should've changed color. This confirms my readings - you have an extremely powerful, very strict magical mental barrier."

[cross_and_bow]

"...Well, that explains some things."

[magictechsupport]

"Like your other powerset not working as it ought to?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Yup."

[magictechsupport]

"...Wonder if I could fix that. I see where it's sending the information. Install a filter so your barrier no longer sees it as a threat?"

[cross_and_bow]

"I really wouldn't know. I don't even know my local magic that well because having determined it doesn't work for me I had more practical uses of my time."

[magictechsupport]

"I was thinking out loud, my apologies. Fascinating things like this are why I went in for tech support."

"...Let me just reconfigure that link crystal for physical triggering, before I forget."

[cross_and_bow]

She hands it back.

[magictechsupport]

He plugs it into a different machine.

What he's doing now looks a little bit like computer programming.

And then it's done and he hands it back. "Now. I'll be able to find your world through that crystal. Location only unless it's actively sending. Would you like me to try to fix your disabled extra sense? I'm good enough at my job to be careful with it and to undo just about anything I do to it if the result is undesirable, and I won't even be touching the rest of it, just the extra sense, but one never quite knows with new magic."

[cross_and_bow]

"What's it going to cost me?"

[magictechsupport]

"I'll spend an hour on it pro bono. Interesting problems are their own reward, to a point. If it takes longer I'll either put your slayerness back to how it was before or we negotiate then."

[cross_and_bow]

"Do you have any idea why the mental shield thing is hedging it out to begin with? It let the combat instincts in, those work great."

[magictechsupport]

Scanscanscan. "...The extra sense seems to have strong emotional affect. I don't imagine the vampire slayer feels good about having vampires nearby."

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh, well, then that won't do, my boyfriend's a weird outlier of a vampire. But thank you very much for the offer."

[magictechsupport]

"My first idea is to remove the emotional affect through a filter or converter, whichever takes better, and hope that the shield lets it through then, would that be a good result?"

[cross_and_bow]

"If that's the kind of thing you can do, yes."

[magictechsupport]

"I'll try that and if it doesn't work not attempt anything else, then? It will mostly involve more analysis then occasionally waving a wand in your direction."

[cross_and_bow]

"Go for it."

[magictechsupport]

He mutters to himself as he goes over scan results.

A few minutes along, he mentions, "Oh, the Slayer magic is capable of producing mana, by the way. It'd be completely disabled for exactly as long as you minted from it, physical boosts and all, and produce about 20 mana per hour. It's not capable of minting or benefiting from AP, however."

[cross_and_bow]

"How short a burst can I do that in? I don't need it when I'm just reading or something but I kind of need it to walk."

[magictechsupport]

"Mental math, please wait...... I could get it down to intervals of one to two seconds. Approximately forty mana to one VIT, by the way."

[cross_and_bow]

"Can I set up a thing to mint mana off my powerset while I'm asleep and stop doing it as soon as I wake up?"