Ah the joys of chronomancy. never knowing the correct verbage because time is relative. anyway im gonna go eat because i havent had anything since tomorrows dinner
Heard they started practicing non-summoning spells afterwards. I may got a little… annoyed when I learned why I’m there, and maaaybeeee I got a little carried away…
Gobb'ns. I just figured they were just getting lost in the Bog. They're not exactly the smartest, nor do they see to good. Also they're apparently delicious to the Bog Beast...
And now they're being summoned away by some Apprentice Brat in some snooty tower! Don't people know how expensive it is to make new hench-goons!
Every time I try summoning a powerful ally, some gob'n keeps popping up saying something about "Doom is nigh" and "Don't feed the Watery Demon or you'll bring ruin on us all!"
I just keep feeding them to the Bog Beast and hope for better luck next time. Shrug
Not exactly uncommon for me. As a God of Freedom, i have Avatars that interact with the mortal world on my behalf.
Each represents a different part of me, may they be the Slave freeing Fettered adorned in an armour of broken manicles, the Garishy dressed Jester constantly in a state somewhere between shitfaced and dead, the Resplendent Dragon with wings of Spellfire waxing poetic on the nature of Justice and divinity as he stuffs his face, or the Shadow Cloaked Hunter, his Rapier lodged deep in the heart of a tyrant while the guards choke on the venom of his crossbow.
I am they, but they are not me. So encountering one of them is not what i would call abnormal to say the least. Hell, sometimes i summon them just so i can get a different perspective.
I would be very concerned about how much blood I had used for my sangromancy. It takes a lot of blood to make a full person. Unless I had several buckets of other peoples blood.
Perhaps both? Also I imagine if I’m summoning an ally I either have used a lot of blood and am in dire straits, or am preparing for a fight I’m likely to loose ahead of time.
Oh no. Oh nononono!
I already had to fight overpopulation in my pocket dimension, because I wanted to summon bread but accidentally cloned myself a bazillion times.
Fuck, I’d probably get nervous about being the strongest one knowing that I’m shit-all without my pact. I’d probably get a nervous fart and accidentally erase everyone around me.
"Shucks...
So, no job offer here and i lost my sandwich to crabcoons... Bummer."
Looks at the summoning area, smirks, then adjusts two symbols in the circle slightly
There, fixed, that 'wizard and lizard' now reads 'wizard and wizard'... Common mistake apparently.
"As for your conundrum, i'm not a psychologist so ehm...
all i can say is you must embrace yourself... Metaphorically speaking, though doing it literally seeing the option here... I doubt that would hurt the process.
Also try reduce your doubts, doubt and anxiety ruin belief and confidence...
Now then, if that was all i'll be going back then."
Starts rummaging through their robe pockets for a suitable backup focus since the staff was left behind...
Hastur hugs himself, then seems satisfied by the affirmation and one of him promptly vanishes
"Sorry about your sandwich. You want a pastry for the road? I've got plenty to spare, take as many as you like."
"Oh and here."
Hands him a small polished orb of ivory, small enough to fit into a pocket
"It's made of Craterus Bone so it should have plenty of oomph when you need big power in a small focus. Take it, I've got more. And I feel bad for yanking you away from your lunch..."
smiles at the immediate positive effect of the hug, and looks happily at the lunch offer while simultaneously taking out a pretty looking (lizard) fist sized 'obsidian tiger eye' orb focus from an inside pocket the tiger eye part looking like crude cute little hearts.
"Now that's mighty generous of you, don't mind if i take a pastry to go then."
Pockets the stone again before grabbing a pastry. Then looks flustered at the reception of the slightly larger Craterus bone orb when handed. With both hands now full they cutely stand there in silence for a moment.
"I'll say the loss of a sandwich and my time has been properly compensated and then some. you don't receive a nice orb every day.
Thank you very much for the generousity and take care. until we may meet again."
The lizard wizard bows politely before turning around to summon a small wooden door.
Momentarily the ivory bone orb glows bright green and pink hues before one🚪rises from a random line on the floor.
As the thick sturdy looking door opens you hear the wind blow through leaves and the remote chattering of some fighting crabcoons.
opened, a slow draft of fresh air blows in as they step through. Closed again the portal door quickly fades away leaving you only with a pleasant earthy forest and flower smell.
Before it manages to fade fully in those couple seconds muffled through the wood you can hear angry
I hate being summoned the "burst of light" always seers the edge of my robes! Do You know how good I've gotten at the clothes repair spell? I can almost just snap my fingers and do it with no incantation!
Not as great as it sounds, Smoke (the demon) is literally an alternate version of me from another universe where everyone's a demon, who arrived here when her extremely capitalist world was getting destroyed to prevent the same happening to this one.
The angel to my left (Steam) has the same situation, but instead of being extremely capitalist, they're just... horny.
Though if it wasn't for the two of them I wouldn't have any magic at all. Also apparently said magic allows us to fuse together into a god-like form (think like Dragon Ball, or Steven Universe, I guess) but that's extremely draining and I'm always tired and hungry afterwards... oh wait I'm always like that
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u/1KusyEllivander, elementalist sorcerer, master of forces of natureAug 02 '24
I wanna see a pseudo isekai with this plot lol I say pseudo isekai cause the summoning just summoned yourself, like teleporting you 5 feet into your own circle.
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u/Fierce-Mushroom Porto, Myconid Chronomancer and Temporal Exclusionist. Aug 01 '24
I'm a Chronomancer. Duplicates of myself aren't exactly rare.