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[hot_mess_express]

Who: You
When: Day 52, morning
Where: Anywhere

[Of course there's still the flowers that, when stepped on, enhance or dull a sense, and there are still some chocolates in the lounge if you missed them or want more.

But this morning dawns with an infestation of bats.

That is, tiny tiny clockwork bats that get in your hair and coffee and make tiny tiny clockwork bat screeches.

Should you encounter a clockwork bat, and they're pretty hard to dodge, the next person you talk to will... Well, see one of your memories.

Otherwise it seems like a pretty typical morning, and the bats will be gone by afternoon.]

Comments

[daydreamshimmer]

Ah, so that's the clothes. I was wondering if that was transmutation or illusion.

...hmmm. It'd be real annoying if it was just hitting mental abilities. I'm pretty sure there's not a lot of that on the train. [Huffs. Looking at the bats.] Unless they did the memory transfer themselves? It could explain the lack of context...

Looking for people with spirits to overcome tragedy maybe? [Sardonically.]

[bestbrotherever]

[Nod] I have long preferred to personalize my attire through my illusions.

If the bats are causing memory transfer, others will have noticed. I could ask. I do not think we should attempt to replicate the effect ourselves.

Perhaps. Or he expects us to ruin the world in our attempts to help.

[daydreamshimmer]

Certainly saves on bits.

Probably not. My life is fine for the most part, but the stuff I got from other people is terrible. We can ask around.

...that is the question I've been pondering. How the only reason I've given him any sort of benefit of a doubt. Bond magic sounds an awful lot like harmony magic and it is called harmony magic for a reason.

[bestbrotherever]

And far easier to change to suit the occasion.

[Another nod]

One of the first rules of magic I was taught is that there is no magic, no matter how benign, that cannot be perverted with a twisted enough mind. I would look to the results of the bond magic for confirmation that it is a positive, not merely its similarity to a magic you consider incorruptible.

[daydreamshimmer]

That too, I suppose. Generally ponies only put on clothes because there's a special occasion, not so weird if they don't have something.

But corrupted magic is also not some 'bleh now evil magic doing harm.' Corrupted magic is the corruption of that magic. This magic is running on interpersonal connection as it's basis.

A corrupted form of that....it'd be something affecting people emotionally or mentally. Mind control being an obvious example of a corrupted interpersonal bond.

...which in theory could potentially explain the memory loss. Less sure about power loss. But that also isn't a chicken and the egg situation, there had to be an original source of magic if that was the case.