#writever Réseau
When a Wizard is weakened, the closest Wizards in his network fight over what Mana he still has left.
When a Witch is weakened, the closest Witches in her network send her their Mana to help her heal.
#writever Imagination
"Initially," said R42, "my imagination was the produce of a massive-corpus-based generative AI. It soon turned out not to make any sense, so I switched to an interpolation of my recent recordings. It is much better."
#writever Hacker
"Someone hexed my magic armor," said the Knight. "It has gone slow and weak."
The Witch prodded the tangle of plates, wires and black squares.
"You'll need a hacker."
"What is this?"
"... Someone versed in the magic of exoskeletons."
#writever Tea
"I like to drink tea," said R42. "well, spill it inside my interior envelope. It disturbs my components, even creates ephemeral circuits, which generates new and interesting sensations and even thoughts."
#writever Technosolutionism
How I defeated Mordak the Terrifying? With a discrete tehcnosolutionism spell. So it's the one-hundred-and-sixteenth version of the hex he wants to throw at me, and he says this time all issues are really solved for good.
#writever Basket
"That Hood girl is terminally maniac!" said the Wolf. "I pass her in the forest, I don't even lay my eyes on her, then all of a sudden she starts bludgeoning me with her basket! Also, why didn't she hit you?"
The Bear shrugged.
#writever DIY
"Ah ah, nah", said the young Sorcerer. "Spend my nights reading up on spells just because some old fart deems them valuable, no, thanks. I prefer to get a good grip of the basics and then do some DIY to roll out my own stuff from there."
#writever Cucumber
"I'll need a pinch of saltpeter, three salamander eyes, a root of indian aconite, a thimbleful of sandstone blood, and two cucumbers."
"Two... cucumbers?"
"Yes. The potion takes a long time to prepare and a cold salad will be welcome."
#writever Reticule
You'd have expected the discovery of space-folding to spur, I don't know, interstellar travel or affordable housing.
What it actually did was make the reticule fashionable again.
#writever Radio
It's an old radio. Not even FM or AM, just shortwave.
The news I hear in it come from alternative realities.
I know that, because they're always better than what I see happening every day.
#writever Role-playing game
A human who sees a metamorph almost always has fancies of a role-playing game. But to take on a shape, we need to see ourselves through the eyes of others. Thus a metamorph is also a telepath. And those fancies are usually gross.
#writever Computers
"Aho... Ullman... Sethi... Lam... Aho... Ullman... Sethi... Lam..."
"Er... It *is* called the Dragon Book, but it's about computers, not sorcery! The dragon on the cover is just OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT GIGANTIC--"
#writever Workshop
"Welcome to our aggressivity management workshop. May I remind you that you are eleven knights, seven dragons and... one... *princess* ?"
"The princess suggests that you keep your trap shut if you know what's good for you."
#writever Make
"R42 uses all its time to make miniature copies copies of itself. I don't know why. It's up to one hundred and seventy three."
"One hundred and forty. Just counted them."
"... Give me a hand. We must look everywhere."
#writever Fishnet
Often, when a Sorcerer notices that I wear some fishnet under my Witch robe, he gets the wrong idea. In fact, it is a Faraday cage, on which spells crash without going through. The friend who suggested this to me... she's a Physicist.
#writever Kitchen
His ghost haunts the kitchen for all eternity, forever trying to end his unfinished business and kill his love rival. He was a renowned chef; the idea of a poisoned dish had come naturally to him. As had the reflex to taste while cooking.
@PTR_K Oh Gods, now I have to find and watch this!
@PTR_K I started watching it (thanks @internetarchive) and it looks really promising