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 does it mean for a garment to be 'half ghost'?"

[magictechsupport]

"It has ghost-like properties such as selective intangibility and entity-binding."

[cross_and_bow]

"Are there any side effects to being an entity to which such an item is bound?"

[magictechsupport]

"Not particularly. It's a... Soft binding, closer to the way a key is made to fit a lock and not the other way around? I'm struggling to come up with a good metaphor."

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay. Is there anything else I ought to prevail upon your generosity for here?"

[magictechsupport]

"I really can't think of anything else until you have a sizable amount of mana stored up. And I don't care about my money nearly as much as some people, an interesting conversation, an interesting problem, and helping someone who, to hear the story, sorely needs it is worth loaning out a few hundred mana."

[cross_and_bow]

"Since it's so safe here I'm considering just crashing on one of the couches over there for the 'night', and according to Bar the time in here doesn't all sync up with itself, so if you don't look directly at me I might have a stockpile in the next five-subjective-minutes-modulo-you."

[magictechsupport]

"That would be amusing. I think I'll hang around too if that's the case, see if I can't find some more interesting magic."

[cross_and_bow]

"See you later." Bella accounts for five crystals, her medevac veil, and her minter, and goes to snuggle up to the bagful of objects on the couch by the fire.