[IC] Myriad Reality

[Efficacy]

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So, plus what?

@Meta

More efficient. Why reach in and remove a tumor when you can change it so that it's impotent? Not that that's necessarily possible, but the same applies to the Sevenfold Covenant. We don't waste energy, time, or risk to do things in the natural way. Instead, we make the unnatural way natural so that--well, the body fixes itself.

[Meta]

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More efficient. Why reach in and remove a tumor when you can change it so that it's impotent? Not that that's necessarily possible, but the same applies to the Sevenfold Covenant. We don't waste energy, time, or risk to do things in the natural way. Instead, we make the unnatural way natural so that--well, the body fixes itself.

@Efficacy

But you just added magic into the idea, so it doesn't work anymore. If you do that, I could just poof it away without ever cutting them open.

[Efficacy]

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But you just added magic into the idea, so it doesn't work anymore. If you do that, I could just poof it away without ever cutting them open.

@Meta

Um. Wow, I'm bad with analogies.

[Meta]

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Um. Wow, I'm bad with analogies.

@Efficacy

That's the problem. I'm putting as much effort into understanding this as I can, but I just can't.

[Efficacy]

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That's the problem. I'm putting as much effort into understanding this as I can, but I just can't.

@Meta

Understanding the Sevenfold Covenant's magic?

[Meta]

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Understanding the Sevenfold Covenant's magic?

@Efficacy

Understanding everything we were just talking about.

[Efficacy]

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Understanding everything we were just talking about.

@Meta

Why the Covenant is different from normal magic?

[Meta]

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Why the Covenant is different from normal magic?

@Efficacy

I guess.

[Efficacy]

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I guess.

@Meta

I wish I could figure out a better analogy. If magic cuts you open to remove a tumour, then the Sevenfold Covenant kills the tumour and lets the body get rid of it on its own. If magic is a pacemaker, the Sevenfold Covenant is a heart transplant. If magic is dialysis, the Sevenfold Covenant is a better kidney.

[Nemeses]

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Surely.

@Techspert

Hmm..

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Your irritation... Bah.

@Disdain

Guess that means I win.

[Meta]

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I wish I could figure out a better analogy. If magic cuts you open to remove a tumour, then the Sevenfold Covenant kills the tumour and lets the body get rid of it on its own. If magic is a pacemaker, the Sevenfold Covenant is a heart transplant. If magic is dialysis, the Sevenfold Covenant is a better kidney.

@Efficacy

How?

[Techspert]

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Hmm..

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Guess that means I win.

@Nemeses

Hm what?

[Disdain]

.

[Disdain]

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Hmm..

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Guess that means I win.

@Nemeses

How unfortunate for me, who cannot bear to lose at words.

[Efficacy]

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How?

@Meta

How to which?

[Meta]

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How to which?

@Efficacy

How does it make sense?

[Efficacy]

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How does it make sense?

@Meta

How does what make sense?

[Meta]

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How does what make sense?

@Efficacy

*Groans*

[Efficacy]

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*Groans*

@Meta

I'm sorry. I'm confused as to what you're trying to understand.

[Meta]

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I'm sorry. I'm confused as to what you're trying to understand.

@Efficacy

How much else can I explain?