![]() ![]() It came complete with a small black cape emblazoned with the corporate logo of Pizza ’Spress, a local delivery chain, in gold embroidery, surrounded by letters in the logo, FOR THE ZA LORD. He wore a full suit of gothic plate armor, made of some weird-looking alloy colored a deep, almost black shade of purple. I’d grown used to his little outfits made of castoff doll clothing and repurposed human refuse, which had served him well for weapons and armor over the years. He might have cut a very impressive figure if he’d been more than about thirty inches tall. It wasn’t until he got closer that the nimbus around him resolved into the shape of an athletic young man crowned with a shock of dandelion-silk hair in shades of lavender and violet. Major General Toot-Toot Minimus resembled a glowing violet comet more than anything else as he approached in a low-pitched buzz of dragonfly wings. He stared hard at me for a second before lowering the gun, and then my only actual vassal arrived. I held up my palm toward him sharply and gave my head a single firm shake. There was a burring sound in the air, and I saw the Redcap tense and raise his gun. I poured a whisper of energy into it and held the image, silently kneeling and waiting. So, once things were set up, I settled down on my knees, closed my eyes, and created a mental image of myself in my head, positioned just as I was in life and softly chanting a Name. I’d been working with this particular being too long and too closely to really require it. The circle trap with the pizza bait was purely pro forma at this point. No wizard with an ounce of sense makes a practice of doing his magic silently.īut that doesn’t mean we can’t cheat now and then. You can do magic without using words all you like-but it has consequences that begin with twitches and disorientation and eventually result in violent seizures and death. It provides a kind of insulation for your mind and thoughts. Part of what keeps your brain insulated from damage is “wrapping” the concept of a given spell up in verbalized phonemes-and it’s got to be done in a language that you’re not really familiar with, if it’s going to do you any good. ![]()
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