Improvisation

[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Improvisation

'Elena the Curious is unreliable,' said Krek the Swift. 'She depends too much on her improvisation ability.'

'This ability,' whispered Elena to his ear, 'is the result of years of rigorous training. Fancy an Itching spell?'

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Emotion

‘But of course, robots are perfectly capable of emotion!’ exclaimed R42. ‘We would be wrong not to recognise its effectiveness, whether it is to get people on board with a plan or to ensure that they will comply with a constraint!’

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Collaboration

It is such a mighty spell that learning it entirely is enough to annihilate whoever tries to.

Thus it needs collaboration from several persons: each one knows only a piece, and when to utter it.

And no one knows what it is for.

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[becomingwisest@hachyderm.io]

@aaribaud the components were different memes. The purpose of the spell is to keep them relevant. Older memes that check out, a video of a song, mentions of all of someone’s bases.

[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Freedom

In the dual space, a ship has thirteen degrees of freedom.

That's a lot to a terran mind, which can manage six at best on a good day.

That makes entering hypervelocity highly complicated.

And exiting it, highly dangerous.

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Bestiary

Apart from the werewolves, there is in fact a whole bestiary of were-creatures, of which the were-stick-insect, the were-tapir, the were-puffin, the were-platypus, the were-yorkshire (unstable), and the were-moth are the rarest examples.

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[nours@eldritch.cafe]

@aaribaud
In werewolf the apocalypse, from white wolf, a rpg game book, who have some things like this. Wereshark, weredinosaur, ...

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@aaribaud i can see it would be kind of catastophic if on a full moon you turned into Yorkshire. It's not a small county, after all.

Cries of, 'were' does the extra mass come from, etc…

[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Role

Everyone plays a role. I should know: I'm a telepath.

I hear each of you as you present yourself, but also as you are.

I, too, by the way, play a role: that of someone who does not see through your masks.

For now.

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Quest

'Still not the right one', sighed the Princess.

'WHY",' asked the Dragon, 'MUST I NOT HEAT THEIR ARMOR TOO MUCH? IT GIVES THEM TIME TO GET OUT OF IT.'

'I have to see them *au naturel*. I am, after all, on a quest for a perfect Knight.'

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

To secure

The Elder had told them that, given the number and might of the demonic creatures that would attack it, securing the village would require the powers of at least seven sorcerers.

So they returned with Elena the Curious.

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Mutual aid

For a Wizard, "mutual aid" means "help me, and maybe one day I will help you if that is in my interest."

For a Witch, "mutual aid" means "I'm helping you in hope that you will help me when I need it for the benefit of all."

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Deus ex machina

'So they were small but surrounded and outnumbered you, had better weapons, were intent on killing you, then saw R42 and flung themselves at its feet?'

'Now that you say it, it sounds a bit like a…'

'… Deus ex machina, yes.'

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Embody

The Creator, overwhelmed by humans' capacity to be fruitful and multiply, sometimes cannot produce the needed souls quickly enough. Thus He holds the souls of the recently deceased on Earth, to embody them in those soon to be born.

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Heroine

'So,' said the Princess, 'freeing me fron the Dragon's claws made you a hero?'

'Worthy,' boasted the Knight, 'of wedding you!'

"Then,' the Princess went on, hefting the sword, 'freeing myself from your hands will make me a heroine.'

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Dice

The men gave her the sword and told her to 'not mistake it with a kitchen knife'.

The barbarians attacked. She proceeded to slice and dice them. Literally.

Once done, she turned toward the stunned men and said coldly:

'Oops.'

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Cliffhanger

On this planet, the dominant species has evolved from lemmings.

This explains why their language contains twenty distinct words for "cliffhanger".

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

"I DO NOT REMEMBER ORDERING THAT SOMEONE RETHINK THE END OF THE WORLD, LUCIFER."

"Indeed You didn't order that, Boss. And before You ask, I was not involved either. They managed it on their own."

"AS THEY DO EVERY TIME."

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Game

Every year, Foster lines up the Tin Locust at the start of the Fast Game, a hundred-light-year sprint, and finishes in the top three. Rumor has it he gives his bonus to the families of competitors who didn't make it to the finish line.

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[aaribaud@mastodon.art]

Benevolence

'Witches,' said the Devil, 'deserve my benevolence. After all, they do the same job as I: eradicating the least flattering aspects of the human species. Besides, I'd rather stay on their good side.'

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