#lone-prayer

[electricea]

@lone-prayer sent - “Have you tried negotiating with a Jack Frost before? It’s really fun!” (from Maki!)

"Heh, that right...?! Makes me want to find a Jack Frost and try negotiating with it now! They're just too damn cool!" Pun intended!

[corvidmagicae]

Is there any modern technology Bri is afraid/wary of, in the sense that it has the potential to expose or even surpass witches?

(Also for fun, is there any tech Bri dislikes solely because it’s something newfangled she can’t understand?)

Oh, plenty. Most detection tech, in particular. The iron poisoning she went through damaged to her body, and has made her internal mana reserves less stable. She passively leaks/radiates a low amount of raw life energy, which means she will actively ding on any device keyed to detect inhuman energy signatures. Even if they aren't scanning her form or her location, such detection devices will also go off any time she speaks, since she's actively radiating energy out from her body to trick others nearby into thinking she's spoken something, when she's really just transmitting her intent. So her energy signature spikes when she speaks. She normally plays it off as 'detecting psychic power'... even though she isn't remotely psychic. She just hopes that whoever is using the device isn't savvy with it enough to have made it specifically filter out psychic wavelengths. Other devices she needs to be wary of include pokedexes and pokeballs - she actively steps out of range of pokedexes and the like if she sees them pointed near her, they WILL pick up on her sheer internal power and mark her as an unknown entity if they scan her. If a pokedex can scan and correctly label a ditto or zoroark that's hiding in a different form, then it will consider her no different regardless of what form she's in. Thankfully, pokeballs won't register her as a plausible capture entity, as they are likely specifically coded to reject human biomatter. It might open and try to pull her in, but it will ultimately suffer an internal error and fail. Transforming into a nonhuman form won't change that she's from the human evolution line. Hacked or specialized pokeballs, however, are another story. Historically, 'witch balls' have been a problem - created to negate a mage's power or control them outright, or more commonly to contain the souls of executed mages. Thankfully those things only show up occasionally in museums as a bookmark of the time. As far as surpassing goes.... one man's science is another man's magic, and vice versa. She doesn't see terribly much of a difference between the two - mages were considered some of the scientists and doctors of previous eras. Both are capable of warping the world around the wielder according to their intent, it's just a matter of whether or not they are manifesting that with their own body and mind, like their pokemon neighbors, or whether they've managed to replicate that outcome through external means. She doubts science will surpass a mage's abilities, since it literally warps reality. But likewise, she doubts magecraft will surpass pure human problem solving and brute forcing the world to bend to their will regardless. In the end, they're both tools used to achieve the same result, and powerhouses on equal footing. Doesn't mean she isn't wary of scientific progress, though - humans really don't like what they don't immediately or innately understand, so it's not unusual for them to see their more magically inclined counterparts as tools for their theories and experiments, rather than potential colleagues. Or as obstacles that need to be controlled, managed, or overcome. If she fears anything, it's that scientific progress could be used maliciously against her kind. The Psychic branch of abilities were only recently accepted or acknowledged into human society - who knows what sort of plans are being made behind the scenes to ensure they don't become a problem for non-powered humans in the future? (She can't use phones, computers, or anything else of that nature 'cause not only does she not really understand how it works, her body's power leakage tends to cause them to break before she can figure it out how to work them properly. Also because the dang things keep upgrading and changing every few years, so by the time she thinks she's figured it out, the device is completely out of date or obsolete. she just got used to figuring out how to type on a keyboard, now everything is holographic touch screens.)

[tvstarkuma-a]

“if you tell me what drugs you’re doing, i’ll tell you what drugs i’m doing.” (@lone-prayer from Tishtrya?)

"How rude! This bear is 100% clean of all impurities!" Whoever this person was, he felt like a shadow. And it wasn't just because of the yellow eyes. Teddie's instincts were telling him to stay on alert.