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haha oh my god
it wasnt malicious right its just the thing i heard cats do to their owners?

[crouching_sin]

Pretty much. Proteus thinks it's funny, but it's made of goo. That's dangerous to do to people.

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yeah legit
dittos the one that can turn into other pokemon right
maybe you couldve told it to turn into a cat if it wanted to do that

[crouching_sin]

It is, yes. I also have a Zoroark that I inherited from someone who left, which can turn into people.

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oh my god
can it talk when it turns into people
because that sounds like a hilarious slapstick routine just waiting to happen

[crouching_sin]

It absolutely can. Technically, it's not actually turning into anything, it's just making an illusion, but as long as no one touches it, it's very convincing.

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who does yours like to imitate

[crouching_sin]

Her former trainer.

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aw
thats kind of sweet
she misses them?

[crouching_sin]

Yeah. I think so. He was here for a few years. It was a bit weird coming here and seeing my student suddenly near twenty rather than seventeen.

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so you teach and program stuff at the same time?

[crouching_sin]

Not formal teaching. More like mentoring, I guess? We met online and he seemed to have potential, so I started giving him more advanced lessons. His parents are often out in Silicon Valley, but he's picked up enough from them to be able to grow on his own.

He was smart enough to know how to break the encryption on the COMPs I gave him, my cousin, and their friend. I knew they'd survive well enough with that kind of skill at their disposal.

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oh right
with the demon apocalypse and stuff right
and your cousin who became the messiah
wouldnt they need more like combat training than computer application skills for something like that

[crouching_sin]

The COMPs they used were somewhat like the Pokegears we have here, though initially designed for gaming. Theirs were modified, of course.

And part of the Demon Summoning Program included something called a Harmonizer. It tunes to the wavelength of human beings, increasing their attack effectiveness while lowering the damage from demons. It doesn't reduce all damage, of course, but enough so that all but a complete idiot could use it.

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so
hm
they summoned demons and also went hand to hand?

[crouching_sin]

Yes. It also had a function to learn skills from demons they defeated - basically spells.

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thats kind of cool
so its actually sort of like how it works here except instead of catching and training the monsters you beat you just pick up tips from them to expand your own fraymotif repertoire
i mean thats a really intuitive application of the concept of exp i wonder why more universes dont do it that way

[crouching_sin]

Fraymotif?

And yes. There's also material that can be used to replace a demon's spell with one that you know, though it's much more difficult.

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oh maybe other worlds dont use that terminology
uhh a fraymotif is sort of like a special attack
kind of like a spell i guess
some of them can be combined with other kids motifs so they do crazy damage

[crouching_sin]

Combination spells... interesting. It sounds like it adds a whole extra dimension of things to think about in battle, though. Interesting, but maybe a bit complicated.

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its something you just kind of got to go with intuitively as it happens
or thats how i roll anyway
im not sure how much most of us explored it in the first place and hey it cant be that much more complicated than demon blending

[crouching_sin]

I suppose that's true. At least the summoners don't have to draw the circles by hand since the app does it for them, or that whole section of Tokyo would be covered in chalk and paint or whatever.

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that sounds handy
do the summoners need to have any kind of like preexisting magic aptitude to use it or is that not how it works

[crouching_sin]

Not in the least.

They do, however, have to survive whatever demon comes out of the COMP first. I tried to program it to have a low level demon be the initial summon, but it didn't always work. Only defeating it let someone use it, because otherwise the demon wouldn't recognize the strength of the person commanding them.

Again with the demonic hierarchy being 'who can beat up who'.

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is this before or after they get the soul resonance physical power up thing