kingsroads: (small cheeky little smile)
Jonathan Strange ([personal profile] kingsroads) wrote in [community profile] livinglot 2017-03-10 03:03 am (UTC)

This also doesn't really fit in all the above b/c it can deal with all sorts of people stuck in hell, but Strange can do scrying magic and will happily be offering to creep on any supervisor/captive/what have you.

This is creepy spying, not any sort of tracking magic. Basin gets filled up with water, spell gets cast, reflection of the person and what they're currently doing appears in the basin. It's not good for things like finding people, but it is good for things like checking on what conditions some of the supervisors/babyvamps are in before everybody goes charging in all Leeroy Jenkins. Scrying magic can be pretty imprecise so it can work or not work as needed. I'm 100% up for either handwaving or threading out 'and then Strange used magic to creep on a supervisor to see what they were like before the party got split' or 'well Character X knows that Character Y's a beat up vampire in the vampire playpen because creepy magic' as needed. As a note, he'll only be able to use the magic to see the people in hell while they're in hell: you can't check back on so and so at the carnival.

This also means that he'll be lugging around a footish width basin and probably has to make a tiny rainstorm every now and then to actually fill up the basin when he inevitably runs out of the water he'll bring along, look, english magic is respectable, not convenient.

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