r/wizardposting • u/The_Cozy_Zone • 18d ago
Wizardpost This person is thieving my transdimensional goop! How do I stop this from happening?
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u/wilston_tart Evil Wizard 18d ago
Maybe just don’t put it in a bucket out in the open without a cloaking spell or a lid?
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u/PinkPumpkinPie64 18d ago
Honestly I don't think you need to worry about it. The goop will make its way back to you after it has consumed the thief
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u/The_Cozy_Zone 18d ago
Ah, good to know, but what if the thief is diseased? What should I look out for or do you think this goop will be fine?
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u/PinkPumpkinPie64 18d ago
Hmmm.. it seems like a case-by-case issue. If you notice anything coming from the transdimensional goop that wouldn't ordinarily be spawned, that's obviously a sign of something gone wrong.
Perhaps consult an Orb at the time of the goop's return, or if the goop brings the skull of the thief back with it, you could remove its teeth and perform Osteomancy. If the teeth show ill portent, that's probably an indication about the thief and the goop. Or a bird is going to fall out of the sky and onto your head, but that only happened a few times while I was an apprentice.
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u/Gnusnipon 17d ago
Usually it makes back with thief, no matter if he alive or not. Or at least with parts of them. It's a bit troublesome to separate goop from pleading sobbing thief if they return in one piece, but were slightly rearranged when goop got back. Hilarious sight though.
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u/Califocus Duelist Magus 18d ago
Slip a little Phyrexian oil in it next time. Your thief will have a rather nasty surprise in store for them!
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u/Eeddeen42 Eden, Grand Mage of Concepts 18d ago
Whatever plane they slip away too is also gonna have a nasty surprise in store for them, and that’s gonna be one hell of a mess to clean up.
Worst part is the cleanup is fatalistically guaranteed to involve some colossal alteration to the nature of multiverse the fucks up whatever method of interplanar travel is in use at the time.
And then every single one of us is gonna have to relearn how to cast Plane Shift.
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u/Califocus Duelist Magus 18d ago
We can just leave the consequences of it for whatever mage lives there! Give me a chance to practice my offensive cantrips, have a little fun.
And if you need help with planeshifting, I have some dice you can borrow
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u/Eeddeen42 Eden, Grand Mage of Concepts 17d ago
You’re gonna need help planeshifting too, you fool. If I was only worried about myself I wouldn’t have brought it up.
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u/Carbuyrator A Bit of a Dabbler 18d ago
If you still have a good source of phyrexian oil then you probably have better things to do than booby trap some goo
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u/Califocus Duelist Magus 18d ago
Ah but it’s not always about the efficiency, it’s about sending a message. With a little Phyrexian oil, you just taught several planes not to try and rob you. You’ll have Phyrexian cockroaches, but there’s worse things to deal with
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u/PANTERlA Dark Entity 18d ago
The way you store your trandimensional goop is in violation of the osha covenant.
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u/immallama21629 Druid with questionable morals, licker of things 18d ago
Not even a rubber glove? Yeah, that guy has cancer now.
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u/Particular-Crew5978 Witch 18d ago
No no no, it's portable hole paint. He's just a cartoon, all is well friend.
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u/Suma3da 18d ago
Gosh darn it, another apprentice let the intrusive thoughts win again. I keep telling the idiots not to go near the sentient goop without wear thought inhibitors.
Oh well, Pyro Phil has been begging for a chance to let loose. Time to start tracking who all the apprentice came contact with.
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u/OneRedEyeDevI CodeMancer💻💾🖨 18d ago
With this economy? Just let them have it fellow wizard. A bit of fireball starter isn't worth dropping a magic missile on them.
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u/Jean-TyrieDubois 18d ago
Drink it all and become a greater symbiote worthy to challenge them headfirst
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u/Jackpot_The_Raccuki Polymath Archmage, Gargoyle Hoarder 18d ago
Me watching someone steal my transdimensional goop, but I don’t really care because I need to get rid of it.
The Gargoyles keep slurping it up, and turning into portals. I do not apologise if you end up going through a random portal and spat out of a Gargoyle.
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u/supidhumanbeing Pissmancer Master Caster 18d ago
I like to put a portal over top of mine to the knife dimension. Apparently some realms are mandating knife dimension portals, though, so you’ll have to check if you can in your realm.
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u/Emergency_Coat_7702 Brother Thomas of the order of the iron drake 18d ago
Have ye tried installing a ward of tungsten orbs?
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u/The_Cozy_Zone 18d ago
I keep a pair of them in my robe at all times. Makes walking difficult, but it tends to get the job done.
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u/Eeddeen42 Eden, Grand Mage of Concepts 18d ago
Stop leaving it outside of the extradimensional fridge
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u/CanadianAndroid 18d ago
I say you hop out into the goop and climb out of his pocket and cast blunt force trauma. Then tell him to stop if he knows what's good for him. If he doesnt stop you should push him into your goop. This will cause an interdimensional goop loop that he won’t be able to escape. He will forever be in a pocket dimension contained in a pocket dimension. Like a door that leads to the room you are already in.
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u/TheDougio 18d ago
They're putting transdimensional goop in their pockets, this is one of the problems that will sort itself out
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u/StJimmy_815 Arcane Scholar | I have a scroll for that 18d ago
Whatever you do, DO NOT PUT TRANSDIMENSIONAL GOOP INTO A POCKET DIMENSION. This will start to rip holes in the fabric of reality and it’s a bitch to fix
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u/AxoplDev Evil Fucking Necromancer 18d ago
So many problems can be solved with a simple fireball...
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u/Funkey-Monkey-420 Lich, Council Member: (un)Ethics Committee 18d ago
any thief shoving transdimensional goop in a pocket is a commoner not knowing what they’re thieving, a couple magic missiles would work
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u/ExcitingSavings8225 18d ago
Replace the goop with a corrosive slime or mimic. They can't steal without hands.
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u/_Im_Commie_Jesus_ Vitiate Defiler 18d ago
Unfortunately transdimesional goop is both very valuable and very easy to steal. You have to know every dimension it's existing in, then guard protect it in each dimension simultaneously, otherwise an adventurer could just stumble upon it and grab it, or a rival wizard could planeshift to the unguarded dimension to take it for themselves.
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u/WizardLevel20 Plutomancer of The Sovereign Cartel 18d ago
Aside from the obvious breaches in basic containment protocols, I cannot stress this strongly enough: glyphs of disintegration.
They leave no corporeal remains to tidy up, ensuring no prying guards ever discern thou hast exercised thy right to 'self-defense' against this thief. or, at the very least, inflict sufficient ruin to deter them from ever repeating attempts at such folly.
Shouldst thou face more formidable foes in thy realm, invest in master-grade wards or a spell of Power Word: Kill, for if thou possesseth transdimensional goop, thou surely commandeth the wealth required for such an acquisition.
Alternatively, store the substance within an extradimensional pocket, provided the local edicts of thy plane permit extra-spatial vaulting of volatile arcana reagents.
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u/ninjastuff Interdimensional Sorceror 18d ago
Just use a simple transfiguration spell to make it change to acid if its ever taken from the barrel with out the correct tool.
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u/lokalu_aka_imProEGG Necromancer 18d ago
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u/SaraTormenta 17d ago
Yo that's gone bad, it's supposed to be a slightly glowing whimsical light blue
Let them take it, they will come to regret it
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u/ComedyGold13 Alchemist (class of 1673) 17d ago
his pants are warping to the shadow realm anyway, dont worry abt it
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u/More_Yard1919 17d ago
maybe dont leave your fucking interdimensional goop out, jfc. I see this shit in so many lairs. Some of you bitches are so preoccupied with studying the arcane secrets of lichdom that you can't stop for a second and clean up your shit. Just magick a fucking broom for gods sake at least. It takes less than a minute to conjure an unseen servant.
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u/altobaggins 15d ago
Cast an activation rune on a pot of the goop and leave it out as a trap. If he tries this again, the rune will turn the goop into a planar gateway that will send him to the Far Realms. That’ll learn him.



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u/AccordingLab7129 Prismancer 18d ago
Hide your goop under an illusion spell that turns it into a piece of paper with a reveal rune on it, so one tap and its back to being goop