I can't fix you, but maybe I can still help

[powerispain]

He's trying to kill us--could ruin him--worry about that later--grab your sister and go.

Comments

[powerispain]

It is weird that most kinds of magic don't hurt to do, here, but given that it makes sense that the one that's the most doing magic-ish instead of random superpower-ish would be the one that does.

[alicornucopia]

It only hurts if they're doing largish spells for their capacity.

[powerispain]

What, really?

[alicornucopia]

Yeah, stings a little if they use more than half and goes up from there and this is why teleportation circles are so expensive, hardly anyone can do them and if they can do them they have to use full or near-full capacity.

[powerispain]

Huh. Well, this is a square planet. It does make sense that things would work completely differently.

[alicornucopia]

Why, what's her magic actually like to do?

[powerispain]

Uh, it hurts? And it has the following mental side-effects.

[alicornucopia]

Well that's weird.

[powerispain]

How is it weird? They're the weird ones.

[alicornucopia]

Well, none of their magic has mental side effects, that just sounds like a terrible way to do magic.

[powerispain]

Well, doing magic involves pushing on the universe with your brain! Why wouldn't the universe push back?

[alicornucopia]

That is improper universe behavior.

[powerispain]

Say the people on the square planet.

[alicornucopia]

What's wrong with their square planet? It's perfectly good for all planetary purposes.

[powerispain]

It has ocean going all the way through in several places and it looks like one well-placed jostle would destroy the whole thing.

[alicornucopia]

...but things don't really jostle planets.

[powerispain]

Do they not have meteors in squareworld?

[alicornucopia]

No?

[powerispain]

Huh. Okay. A sufficiently magic thing could probably jostle the planet, though.

[alicornucopia]

...why would anybody do that? Is she going to do that?

[powerispain]

She's not going to do that, but they have magic users and people make stupid decisions sometimes.

[alicornucopia]

They're pretty sure nobody has the CC to shove a continent and earth and water mages don't have that much power either.

[powerispain]

What about sorcerers?

[alicornucopia]

Sorcerers can't even push, like, a big boat.

[powerispain]

Okay, so almost certainly nothing's going to happen to their planet. That doesn't make it sensible.