A note on power.

[white_flowers]

Perhaps I should have posted this when Blodwen first returned to the bar, but to be honest, I wasn't expecting to need all the details laid out for use in conflict immediately(Yeah. I know. Oops. Silly me, huh

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[walksindeath]

Hiiiii.

:D

Should we talk? I think we should talk.

[white_flowers]

Hiiiii yourself.

And oh my goodness yes, I think we should indeed. :D

[unravels]

So re footnote 2 - powers related to/of fire are a counter to Blodwen's new power?

Just checking. No reason. ;)

[silveraspen]

No reason? Riiiiiiight. :)

Anyway, yes -- fire purifies and cleanses both decay and disease. It won't, say, reverse anything she's done, but it will stop it from spreading, and she is more vulnerable to fire than she is to certain other forms of magic/power!

[unravels]

Ooo. I am getting all sorts of ideas. :D We should discuss sometime.

[silveraspen]

Yes indeed we should. Definitely so.

[a1enzo]

Usual question for anyone with interesting powers: would the fact that my pup is not made of matter make any difference?

Also notable: dead sprites do not, as a rule, leave bodies behind-they kind of do the Jedi dissolve thing-so there's nothing to decay. On the other hand, data can most certainly be corrupted...

[white_flowers]

It would absolutely make a difference in terms of how the "decay" would work -- and you've hit on it exactly, it would be a matter of corrupting the data itself, rather than damaging a matter-based form.

[a1enzo]

Intriiiiguing. We have canonical basis for some (strange and varied) effects of degradation, and also for it being curable under certain circumstances... which is a good thing, as I don't think the apples are going to be an option if their creator didn't specifically take sprites into account.

[white_flowers]

Hurrah canon-based cures, right? I would think that anything that can manage data repair -- or whatever a Milliways-equivalent "healing" spell might do from someone who knew the nature of the sprite-being they were dealing with -- would be effective in restoring Bob or Enzo or Dot or whoever might end up crossing Blodwen, should that event come to pass.

(I did see at least some of the discussion between Bob and Enzo a while back, and am intrigued!)

[leeshajoy]

Does the Touch of Decay require her to consciously "infect" the entity making contact, or can it happen by accident?

[silveraspen]

It is a conscious effort over 95 percent of the time, but there may be the rare occasion where she loses control -- usually in conjunction with seriously losing her temper or being very, VERY upset.

This has happened once so far since her return, and that's why Nick Carraway's note started flaking apart. :D ?

[guppy_sandhu]

Hi!

Quick query - if someone has had the touch of death thing and they don't have any underlying illness (I'm looking at Detta as an example here) what does it manifest as? Is it like poisoning, or a burn, or tissue necrosis or neither?

And if someone was trying to treat it with no knowledge of what it was, would it be cured by antibiotics or antivirals or a regenerative device (e.g. the infirmary's skin fuser, which grows skin back at an accellerated rate). Or failing that would a generic magic/poison cure such as a bezoar work?

[white_flowers]

Hi! Sorry for the delayed response.

As for manifestation, it depends a bit -- in Detta's case, since she bit Blodwen and even swallowed some of the, er, resulting matter (ew), she's poisoned. Further manifestations would be like, um, maybe necrotizing fascitis or gangrenous infection? But yes, poison would be the first line -- bleeding gums etc.

I think all/any surface damage would be easily treatable by antibiotics, antivirals, antiseptics and the skin repair device, definitely, but for the internally-taken poisoning, something will have to be done to counter that. Sort of like activated charcoal to stop drug overdose process?

A bezoar will work, absolutely. Some handwavy sort of antipoison something something will work as well, I'm sure! As will the apples, etc. I'm very flexible!

[shadowsusannah]

Ooh, that would be cool. There is already one thread going trying to cure her, but I am happy to make hash of continuity if you want to still tag in. It's convenient, dealing with time-travelling astrally-projected fragments of a shattered consciousness in a hallucinatory coma; the hand-waving is sort of built-in.