brat_from_hell | 003 [Video]

[Phibrizzo has a magical tome in his lap when he looks into his journal for this video broadcast. It's interesting, the things one can find in the library. He's learned a bit about magic in other worlds.]

Just curious, but how many people here practice magic, or come from a world where people use magic?

[This inquiring mind wants to know. Specifically, he wants to know who poses the most potential threat, but from an academic standpoint, he is sincerely interested as well. In that vein, he shares a little bit of information about his own world.]

There are more people who can't use it than those who can in my world, but it's still common enough for there to be a Sorcerer's Guild where magic is formally taught. A lot of people who can't use magic directly can still use magic objects made by a sorcerer.

[Including brass rackets. He'd like to get some of those here in Luceti and introduce the sport. The chaos and hilarity would be well worth it. But that's not the point of today's broadcast.]

I've also noticed there are a lot of people with powers here. If you have them, are there a lot of people who have them in your world? And if you don't have them, are there people in your world who do have them? I'm kind of curious if there's some kind of thing that makes people more likely to wind up here.

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I've got magic in my world, and magic in my hands!

In your hands? Can you show me?

[Huh. A talking mouse. He's never encountered one before, but he has seen talking fish and talking wolves before so it's not that strange.]

Sure thing!

[He pulls back a bit, and then moves his hand around. There's a bright flash, and then, a white orb made out of pure light hovers in his hand.]

This here's called the Pearl spell! I use it ta fight bad guys!

I guess you call it the Pearl spell because of its colour and shape, huh? Is it white magic?

[Well, that's very interesting indeed. Notably, there's no verbal casting involved with this. Phibrizzo makes a mental note.]

[And with a wave of his hand, it's gone.]

More like "light" magic!

[... get it. do you get it.]

[Phibrizzo giggles a bit.]

Well, it's definitely light!

[No, but seriously. He wants to know.]

We've got spirit magic that's called on from the astral plane. It attacks the enemy's spirit directly and can knock them out. Does the spell work something like that?

Aw, it's nothin fancy like that. It just uses the light within me, and becomes physical. Then I toss it at the enemy!

Oh, well, that's pretty close to the spirit magic from the astral plane, actually...because it draws power from the caster's spirit. One of the most common attack spells of that type is called Elmekia Lance.

Oooh, sounds pretty neat! What's it do?

It attacks the enemy's spirit directly. It's enough to make an average human being pass out. Works on the Third Party too, luckily! It won't kill anything except for weak evil spirits, though. It's basically spiritual light in the shape of a lance that gets thrown at the enemy.

[He makes an impressed whistle!]

That sounds really amazin'! Does it take a lot outta ya?

For me? No, not really. But I've got the highest magic capacity of my brothers and sisters, even though I'm the littlest. I can cast a lot of spells before I get tired.

[He smiles proudly before looking a little worried.]

It's just as well...the Draft was pretty scary.

[And he shares that unpleasant worry...]

You were there too? ... That fight had way too many kids in there.

I found a man named Vash to protect me for part of it, when I got separated from Xellos. Although Vash and I kind of had to protect each other.

[There's a light smile.]

Vash... now there's a good guy ta count on!

He is. I still don't understand why he wouldn't kill the Third Party guys when they were all trying to kill us. He's going to get himself killed one day if he's too nice to his enemies.

... He's the type of fella who believes in second chances, even in the worst of folks.

It might be a weakness of his... but it's also a strength that not everyone has.

I guess. But haven't people already tried to talk to the Third Party before? Giving someone a second chance is one thing, but when they keep trying to kill you on their third, fourth and fifth chance...it seems like a big risk to be so nice about everything.

He must feel like it's a risk worth taking.

I don't think I could ever be as nice as him about that. If someone's trying to kill me or someone important to me, they're going to get blasted with a spell.

Nothin' wrong with that either! We all have our reasons for fightin', and defendin' yerself and the people close to ya is just as good as givin' folks a second chance. Yer both good in people in yer own ways.

[Oh Mickey, no he isn't. But Phibrizzo just smiles.]

It's a shame I'm not any good at healing spells. At least I can do other things!