if you ask for spiritual help from someone - advice, ritual, divination, what have you - and the answer includes anything fishy along the lines of “your medication is clouding your vision” or“to find an answer we might need a more… intimate ritual” or “I will help you but I need you to focus on me and not your other friends” or anything, anything giving off the vibe of manipulation or grooming, you have the right given by all the old gods and shadows roaming this earth to devour said person, gnaw on their bones, and spit on their entire bloodline.
donation reader: Hey SGDQ. Love to see Glover, a favorite from my childhood being runned. Recently I learned my 4th grade teacher passed from cancer, here’s $200. Please kill the animals.
Wizards have the same trust in magic that software designers have in software, which is to say, almost none at all.
“Are you fucking kidding me I worked in a reagrent shop for a few years I don’t trust any of that stuff. Who the hell knows what other components are in the ashes.”
“Yeah I was in the circle that made Alston’s Divine Circle of Teleportation. There’s some pretty nasty corner cases you can get into but the headmaster published it without us. I just take ships. It’s way safer.”
“I call bullshit on that Necromancer channeling spirits of loved ones. What did he say he was using? ‘Medium Conduit Ruinic Circles’? That’s just a bunch of buzzwords slapped together, and they don’t even interact with each other.”
“I’ve been looking at this scroll all morning and I’m 90% sure that the scribe didn’t even look at the standard for pyromancies.”
“Help Desk, this is Gloriline, what did you fuck up this time?” *indistinct vocals* “Dave, I’ve seen the news, and, frankly, I can see the ash cloud from here. You paid for extended support, not enabling support.”