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]

"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?"

[magictechsupport]

"Not with that mind shield. They come with a timer, though."

[cross_and_bow]

"...How about when my eyes are closed for longer than a couple seconds?"

[magictechsupport]

"Sure, simple custom trigger." He shows her the thing- an approximately phone sized box marked with blue circles, and pokes at it for about a minute, and explains all the controls.

"It doesn't do conversion itself, you'll need to call in for that."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah, that's fine, I'm figuring I'll amass a princely sum and then look at a catalog so I don't drool over things I can't afford immediately. Do I need to have this on my person for it to work or what?"

[magictechsupport]

"Yes, on your person or at least nearby. It's fairly durable if that's why you ask, it'll take a bullet or a long fall, can't guarantee more than that."

[cross_and_bow]

"In a bag?" she asks. "Can I insure it or get a replacement if a demon melts it or whatever? I have a hazardous lifestyle."

[magictechsupport]

"...I'd better give you five link crystals. You can buy a replacement. Insurance is not worth the hassle for these, trust me there."

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay, extra link crystals, I can stash them hither and yon. Are they similarly durable to the minter?"

[magictechsupport]

"Not really. They're still rocks, there's a lower limit on rock durability, but they're really really cheap rocks."

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay. Well, I've had a decent record with cell phones, maybe I'll keep all these things alive and kicking, who knows."

[magictechsupport]

"We can always hope. Bar, I'd like a smoothie, can you take MTU?"

[alicornucopia]

Of course I can. Would you like a particular flavor or prefer to be surprised?