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What would your blorbo teach
Feb. 21st, 2024 08:29 amMy brain crossed the daydream streams last night and wondered what Ianto Jones would teach at magic school
if it was an actual functioning useful magic school and he was still regular Ianto Jones
so now my magic school has a class in material component logistics.
Pathfinder might just say to buy a component pouch and forget about it
but someone has to fill the pouches
and understand the entire supply chain of magical supply shops.
And what if the encroaching anthropocene fucks over the supplies?
Magic passing from the world is vague and unhelpfully fuzzy.
Magic supply chains being irreversibly destroyed by key extinctions in the food chain of the magical species is just plain possible.
Also how do you calculate how many of which supplies you need?
I'm sure someone has a spreadsheet, but someone has to teach the use thereof.
And the Just In Time vs Just In Case of it varies depending on, for instance, how dead you get without it.
... or it should, but see also pandemic supply issues.
And what kind of interplanar supply chains could you set up?
Reckon biologicals would be the most tradeable commodities interstellar or interplanar, since rarity.
... how much law enforcement to ensure the tradeables do not include us?
... something turns up from hell and Ianto gets to do the Not One speech again, this time with bonus Died Once elaborations.
Interplanar travel can get interstellar pretty quickly actually.
Torchwood's new frontiers.
... actually they already had incursions from Things that feed on guilt and suffering, and Jack got sent to possibly actual literal hell that one time, so that would not in fact be new...
... the Whoniverse has some very odd corners and ever so many things can be written without stretching the rules if you want a crossover...
I'm liking this now though, the practical one at the wizard school, reminding said wizards where their whole process can get stuck if they forget the wizardly equivalent of bullets being finite.
Ianto would love the simplest spells already though. Between prestidigitation and mending he could do so much of his job on cantrips. Clean and mended in six seconds? Sorted.
Okay, I actually need breakfast, time to go do that.
... wizard school would either be Pratchett's Unseen University feasts or just endless trouble getting the hyperfixated neurodiverse wizardry to remember their actual needs...
if it was an actual functioning useful magic school and he was still regular Ianto Jones
so now my magic school has a class in material component logistics.
Pathfinder might just say to buy a component pouch and forget about it
but someone has to fill the pouches
and understand the entire supply chain of magical supply shops.
And what if the encroaching anthropocene fucks over the supplies?
Magic passing from the world is vague and unhelpfully fuzzy.
Magic supply chains being irreversibly destroyed by key extinctions in the food chain of the magical species is just plain possible.
Also how do you calculate how many of which supplies you need?
I'm sure someone has a spreadsheet, but someone has to teach the use thereof.
And the Just In Time vs Just In Case of it varies depending on, for instance, how dead you get without it.
... or it should, but see also pandemic supply issues.
And what kind of interplanar supply chains could you set up?
Reckon biologicals would be the most tradeable commodities interstellar or interplanar, since rarity.
... how much law enforcement to ensure the tradeables do not include us?
... something turns up from hell and Ianto gets to do the Not One speech again, this time with bonus Died Once elaborations.
Interplanar travel can get interstellar pretty quickly actually.
Torchwood's new frontiers.
... actually they already had incursions from Things that feed on guilt and suffering, and Jack got sent to possibly actual literal hell that one time, so that would not in fact be new...
... the Whoniverse has some very odd corners and ever so many things can be written without stretching the rules if you want a crossover...
I'm liking this now though, the practical one at the wizard school, reminding said wizards where their whole process can get stuck if they forget the wizardly equivalent of bullets being finite.
Ianto would love the simplest spells already though. Between prestidigitation and mending he could do so much of his job on cantrips. Clean and mended in six seconds? Sorted.
Okay, I actually need breakfast, time to go do that.
... wizard school would either be Pratchett's Unseen University feasts or just endless trouble getting the hyperfixated neurodiverse wizardry to remember their actual needs...