( log six | clinic catchall | open | are you really harmful for me? )

[dedikated]

Who: Clinic staff + anyone who wants to drop by!
What: Monthy catchall for clinic visits and shenanigans
Where: Take a wild guess
When: All through July
Warnings: Injuries, probably. Card games. Terrible people pretending to be not terrible people.


[[ take it to the comments, baby! NOTE: clinic info and plotting posts can be found at undersupplied if you want to check it out. ]]

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[stepford_smiler]

[Hakuryuu welcomes the gentle attention since Goku roughhouses with him so much. He moves even closer to Adam encouragingly.

Hakkai nods at that. He was no stranger to humans being able to use magic. There was no set rule on it in his world. It was whatever people could think of and master.]

That's a useful skill to have on its own.

If I may ask, what kind of magic?

[He's curious. He might get ideas if anything.]

[unknowable]

It's hard to explain.

[And even now Adam's a little reticent to tell people - but logically he knows there isn't really any reason to be. It seems like nearly everyone here has fantastic powers, so his are really nothing of note. They don't need to be a secret.]

I made a bargain, and because of it I have access to power. I can sense magic and ley lines, and I can scry, and when I try I can get the magic to do other things. Sometimes. It has a mind of its own.

[That's the best he can do at describing it, anyway. He pets Hakuryuu, wondering if maybe he can bring some treats for the dragon. Adam is perhaps more easily won over by cute creatures than by people.]

[stepford_smiler]

[Hakkai pauses for a second, thinking. He nods, seeming to understand the explanation.]

I understand. We have magic similar to that in my world.

[They had all kinds of magic imaginable. In fact, Kougaiji had access to magic through a bargain coupled with his own.

He stops wiping down the surface and starts putting the cleaning supplies he was using away.

Hakuryuu closes his eyes. He would love treats.]

Control is a difficult thing to master.

[He says this from experience. Though he hasn't even mastered control when his limiters are off and he doubts he ever will.]

[unknowable]

[He should probably get to work too, instead of just standing around and petting Hakkai's dragon. Much as he might prefer to do that. Somewhat reluctantly, he lifts his fingers from Hakuryuu's scales.]

Do you? We don't really in my world. I'm still figuring it out.

[He's gotten better at communicating with Cabeswater, at least, and they understand each other better. But he still doesn't always know how to get the magic to do what he wants it to, or what it can do, even.]

I don't control it. We... work together, I guess. Is your magic similar?

[stepford_smiler]

[Hakuryuu flies over to Hakkai and into his arms. Hakkai holds him close to his chest and brushes off the dust from his wings.

He nods at the 'Do you?' that Adam asks him.]

Ah. I see....

Mine isn't, but there is someone from my world who uses contracted magic.

[He goes to sit down to take a break, letting out a breath and setting his dragon onto his shoulder.]

Mine is qi manipulation. I use my own qi to do different things. So far I've managed healing, qigong canon which is an offensive technique, and then a qi barrier which is a shield.

Hahaha. I don't think I'd find a willing participant if I wanted to pursue contracted magic.

[Because, really, he knows he's a terrible person.]

[unknowable]

[He gets some cleaning supplies, preparing to make himself useful.]

So you can use it to do pretty much whatever you want, as long as you figure out how?

[That sounds nice. And very practical, especially if you need to fight sometimes, which it seems like Hakkai does. Adam is not as interested as learning about different kinds of magic as Gansey is, but he does find it interesting, and sometimes he can learn things that will help him.

Cabeswater isn't quite like any other kind of magic, but sometimes concepts can be similar.]

What do you mean, a willing participant? How does it work where you're from?

[stepford_smiler]

Precisely. I'm sure you can do it with any kind of magic if you can figure it out.

[It is very practical. Unfortunately, he's used it not so practically and it's cost him. But such is the life of constant danger.

He smiles. His humor was a little lost in translation, but then that's almost to be expected. This young man seemed a little more like himself when he was younger. More serious.

But if he is serious, he'd try to give him the information he seeks. He doesn't mind imparting knowledge when he can give it.]

Unfortunately, I don't know too much of it in specific detail. That's something to ask the person that can use the contracted magic.

But I would think one would seek out a way to get in touch with the spirit or demon or whatever source. Then they would initiate a ritual to make direct contact with it and then the entity would deem them worthy to use their power.

That would make the most sense.

[Meaning, he definitely doesn't think he's worthy of anything's power.]

[unknowable]

Do they trade anything in return? Do things for the thing supplying their power?

[It's the closest to his own magic that he's heard of, but it still doesn't sound quite the same. But Adam is interested, curious. It seems like Hakkai knows a lot about this sort of thing, and though Adam is in equilibrium with Cabeswater and has been learning to use magic more easily, he still feels nothing like some of the people where who have total control over their abilities and know exactly what they can do.]

It sounds a little like what happened to me, but - not exactly.

[He starts cleaning, taking care to be thorough.]

It would be nice to be from a place where that sort of thing is more common.