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Good morning Liz. ^.^

Go for it, Drake, my money's on the orc. assuming you don't cheat.

Define "cheating."

Partial shifting and being like "surprise arm of a two tonne manticore thing!"

Hey, if people call spatial-dilation to increase the mechanical length of my arm resulting in a higher force for the same torque cheating, than shapeshifting is cheating, too! >.<

My, what an open reception! It's a pleasure to meet all of you. So.. you said this place has exactly the right amount of chairs, no matter the changing variables? Intriguing! Can I assume it's a form of pocket dimension? Or perhaps a stabilized tear in reality?

It's an abstract meta environment. So..... kinda? I think it might have been made by the goddess along with the GMs, so.... yeah. It just kinda works. Just.... you know, probably avoid having the goddess see a reason to interact.

Understood. By the way, don't think I didn't miss that invitation for an arm wrestle. Just be aware, if you can use your capabilities, so can I. There are many applications of magic, my friend.

Oooo, a hanzer? mana to muscles thing?

In a sense. I found that while I could take on basic enchantments like that, it was always better to gain an understanding of the item in question and apply mana to... iron out impurities, in a sense. Too many people think magic surrounding a simple blade is enough, when there's so much more! Making the edge into a razor, correcting forging errors, adjusting the length and width for the situation. Magic is an incredible gift that only improves as your understanding of the world grows!

*sigh* Urug, just say the smarter yeh get, the stronger yer powers. Yeh don't have to go on a rant everytime.

(completely ignoring Alastor in favour of talking shop with Urug)

THANK you, yes! I mean, depending on the nature of the enchantment those can become redundant unless your can manage to keep a strong monomoleular edge by material properties, but mana-treating can do awesome things to even already good steel! Not... quite as nice as nano-treating, but a lot more accessible.

I tend to find that modifying a weapon's mass-distribution on the fly is.... aggravating, the balance changes which can require re-learning, and heavy enchantments can be a bit too finely calibrated to handle it well, not to mention how badly magic plays with certain advanced materials, but with typical weapons and someone more used to that than I am, I can believe it's handy!

My own personal tastes on enhantment tend to be big into efficient energy release. Fire? Literally hot garbage. If you can hear it or see it energy is being wasted. Kinetic loads though? Yes please! Direct heat transfer and non-arcing electrical discharges, too. And, I mean, utility things like returning knives, kinetic absorption, and simulacra of arrows are nice too.

Admittedly my expertise is more in the raw sorcery, unified magical theory is.... a nightmare of math even to me, but, well.... it let me trim the fat out of a LOT of my spells and start adapting new spells on the fly! There are a couple classes of solutions that just.... don't seem to work for me, the waveforms end up inconsistent, but otherwise it's incredibly useful. Doesn't help much with the eldritch magics, though. ugh. >.< I'm not even touching complex orders of integration or trying to map waves over non-euclidian planes with multi-intersectional axes. UGH. just gross..... There's a bunch of reasons people go insane trying to figure out this kind of magic, and I'm pretty sure the math is one of them.

I may have made a few small mistakes here. '^.^

Also, I swear I'm still scary.

By all means, keep telling us that.

If it’s any help, honey, you still manage to scare me now and then.

Victi why do you scare me so much?

Now now, even the most battle hardened warrior or prepared tactician can make mistakes on occasion. It does not invalidate their capabilities.

Right, an' anyone that thinks otherwise is an easy target.

I'm preeetty sure this has nothing to do with tactical prowess....

No, it doesn't

Sorry Julesy. Woulda taken on that game of chicken any other time, but I ain't in the most playful of moods right now. Maybe next time, eh?

I won't hurt the children, by the way. That would just be gross. >.<

But yeah, seriously, this "kids with blood magic artifacts thing" is a lot for me to deal with, yunno?