Phil Srobeighn
Wait, wouldn't casting a spell that mutes a magic signature leave a magic signature?
whee Yes. It kinda does.
lol That's really the crux of the issue here. The trouble is, very few people understand that magic doesn't necessarily always follow the same rules as what we all know as "reality."
You know... cause it's
friggin-a** magic.
I've been basically doing a lot of stuff in my lab working on the branch of study that gets magic closest to science. Alchemy. There are certain ingredients obtained from certain very dead monsters that can, when prepared correctly, can render a spellcaster's aura invisible to all but the most perceptive searchers, with little to no loss in his ability to channel energy. The downside here, is that some of those ingredients are very rare, and though I have a good backlog of them now, when they run out, we have no guarantee that we can get a steady supply of more.
Plus, and I don't wanna be to graphic, but these are
monster parts we're talking about here. You try drinking something that contains in the label the words: "Active Ingredient: Illithid Saliva" and see how joyous the rest of your day is. Plus, some of them can have... side-effects.
In any case, let's just say I'm more than willing to try Thad's little gadget. He knows his stuff. It
could be a better solution, provided that before I slap it on I am given some kind of semi-reasonable assurance that I am neither going to lose control of my powers and involuntarily blow up a square mile, or that my blood won't be turned into some psychotically agonizing solution of
flaming water. Once we've got that out of the way, really the only question is how much it'll dampen my abilities. 'Cause I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I don't really like going into battle with unholy servants of some dark god or another without being at full strength, you know. Not to mention when we're engaged by members of the SG who've been dispatched to "bring us in." 'Cause that's gonna happen, too.
In the end, it's probably going to turn out to be that I use a combination of the two methods. Anyway, Thad's sent the schematics over to my lab and I'm looking them over. So far it looks good.
Intensely uncomfortable, with a possible side-dish of occasional pain, but good.
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