Act VIII - [ Video ]

[crapbearer]

[ Max has been getting better at cleaning his room since Duncan moved in, but anyone who cares to check the background of this shot might notice it's spotless. No clutter on the floor, and the bed itself is actually made.

Amazing what a sudden bug infestation will do to your cleaning habits.

Max is sitting at his desk with the phone propped up against a book to record. Ignore that can of bugspray just barely in-frame. ]

Hey guys. If I wanted to shield my house from magic and prevent people from, say... magically filling my bed with roaches from an unreasonable distance away, how do I go about doing that?

[ Totally hypothetically, of course. ]

Comments

[inchesofevil]

oh my god max what did you DO

[crapbearer]

NOTHING

someone ELSE did something that I am trying to prevent from happening again

[inchesofevil]

Am I going to come home to a roach infestation

You KNOW those things are impossible to get rid of right

[crapbearer]

look if you haven't noticed it in the past two days you're probably in the clear.

[bindsthedead]

Find someone to ward your home- I could do it, but I think there are other magic-users around too.

[crapbearer]

[ SABRIEL THANK GOD a magic user he knows he can trust ]

Do wards stack? Like if you ward the house, and someone else wards the house, will that double the protection? Or does magic get all weird when you do stuff like that?

[bindsthedead]

If the two mages work together, the wards can mutually reinforce each other- or at least, not interfere. If they don't... things could interact in a way that's inconvenient at best, and instead of reinforcing each other, they could weaken each other.

[crapbearer]

Weaker is better than nothing but definitely not the goal here.

Have you done something like this before? I mean... lots of different worlds bein' represented here. Does everyone else's magic work like yours? Or even interact with yours?

[fayzedandconfused]

[ This is such a judgey look. ]

Gross.

[crapbearer]

[ Max throws his arms up in an exaggerated shrug. ]

Well yeah, but you lived in the wilderness for a ridiculous amount of time. Shouldn't you be used to this sort of thing? Bugs where you sleep?

[fayzedandconfused]

Okay but I lived in a boat for half the time...

[ She shrugs. ]

Just clean. A lot.

[resipiscent]

You make somebody mad?

[like who even]

[crapbearer]

A magical pain in everyone's ass. Rhymes with Speeder Stan.

[resipiscent]

Ah, yes. My favourite hobo.

[Wait, this was about something.]

...I'd offer to help, but my magic doesn't work that way.

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[tuxedo_magician]

You REALLY must have annoyed someone.

[ Especially since no one's ever tried to do that to him before. Interesting idea for a prank through. ]

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[crapbearer]

I flipped him the bird.

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[tuxedo_magician]

Wow. That seems a bit extreme. All Aoko does when I play pranks on her is chase me with a mop.

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[4thdimensional]

[Doc notices these little details, of course. He frowns.]

Why on earth would that happen?

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[crapbearer]

Because a certain magic wielder is pissy that nobody likes him.

[4thdimensional]

Petty revenge...of course. It's all too common.

I'm no expert on magic or the circumvention of it, but if you require an electrical fence for any reason, I have a spare.

[He peers through, a slight frown playing at his face. He's really never liked to throw 'magic' as a concept around, but there are various proofs of its existence here and there that he's still investigating.]

[cantwalkwithoutit]

[ Assuming that by now they've met and spoken. ]

You want a ward.

[crapbearer]

Yeah, exactly. Sabriel said the same thing.

I just want to make sure no one can cast a spell into the house from outside it, you know?

[beneathbluerafters]

... This doesn't strike me as a very hypothetical question.

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[crapbearer]

[ Have a shrug and a grin. ]

Heh. Was it that obvious?

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[beneathbluerafters]

Too specific to be rhetorical, I'm afraid. Also, you left your bugspray on the table.

Who did you anger, to get such an infestation?