Text: Saturday, Week 41; Night.

[akito]

I've heard about the collars that neutralize a person's magical abilities.
Do they still use those in this new Verdana?
If so, how do they react when used on a non-human?
Are they turned human too or are their abilities simply taken away?



[ added later | private messages to Christine, Lyall, Pepper, Belle, and Jack ]


Do you mind if I ask you a favour?

Comments

[ voice ]

[akito]

Why not? I heard about them not long after I got here, and they're something that could potentially be a threat to us.

I tried to hypothesize what might happen to a spirit that is constrained by one, and came up with three different ideas: first, that it would just take away our abilities - both passive and otherwise; second, that it would turn us human again; and third: it would kill us.

[Video

[frostedoverland]

Well, yeah, but they were only used if other people were a threat. They wouldn't use it on us if we weren't causing trouble.

Not like they could anyway...

[ voice ]

[akito]

There's no guarantee of that, so I want to learn all that I can about them so that we can be better prepared if things go really badly.

[Video]

[frostedoverland]

...what are you expecting to go badly? Other than possibly Pitch being here, I don't think making wind or a little frost or taking kids' teeth under a pillow is going to be that alarming.

[ voice ]

[akito]

I wasn't expecting the time travel or ending up in that... that place [ he shudders, remembering how shitty it was in nowhere ] either.

The collars are the only thing I can think of that would be cause for any worry that doesn't involve spacial and temporal displacement.

[ a pause ]

Plus I like learning about these sort of things anyway.

[Video]

[frostedoverland]

Well, yeah, but that had nothing to do with us. And I don't think the collars would either.

[voice]

[akito]

[ he hums out a small, absent note, unsure of what to say next, or how to explain the burning curiosity he has. ]

I guess so.

[Video]

[frostedoverland]

[Sigh. Sigh.]

Just be careful, okay?

[private; audio]

[akito]

Um... I need three people to help me try something. I was wondering if you, ah... Would be one of my people?

[private ; video]

[frostedoverland]

Uh... yeah, sure.

[private ; video]

[akito]

Okay! Thank you! Now I just need one more person!