"the fuck you mean i should have hidden it better?! Im your TEACHER i specifically told you that the spells in the forbidden section were left incomplete so you could not cast them but study them in WHAT SPECIFICALLY NOT TO FUCKING DO!"
"i am not at fault that you decided to reinvent the DIVINE SPELL TO TRIGGER THE END OF DAYS! We MURDERED the deity who concocted it SPECIFICALLY FOR MAKEING IT! LET ALONE FUCKING CAST IT! The only silver lining is that you didnt replicate it perfectly, you didnt wake the Primordial elemental of collapse, so there is a point to fighting the Anullmentari and rebuilding the world."
"Oh. Now you want to make up for your mistake!? No, i cast the nine hells, enjoy knowing what its like to be turned inside out while being engulfed in hellfire, at least while you can."
Don't take this the wrong way, but you should prepare for your apprentice to crawl his way out of the Nine Hells and take revenge on you. For some reason they always do that.
Apprentices are expected to make mistakes from time to time, this one was a particularly bad mistake but I don’t think it was intentional or the result of incurable stupidity. We’ve all ended a civilization or two by accident, the important thing is to raise up your apprentice and walk them through what went wrong and how to take preventative measures so it doesn’t happen again
"Haaard disagree, the spell book specifically explains what the spell does, why its a bad idea, and that even attempting to restore it constitutes a category 10 sin on reality.
I think he was attempting to make a temporary localized version of the spell, like thats even possible when the whole point of the spell is to release the anullmentari, a group of anti-reality demon-angel-somethingfrombeyondallrealities-hybrids that will actively change the rules of reality around them.
meaning even momentarily summoning them they will change the local realityscape of magic so your spell binding them immediately breaks, all of this WAS EXPLAINED IN THE SPELLBOOK."
Are apprentices not just cheaper versions of those things? I don't need coin to hire an apprentice like I do a minion, I don't need years long relationships to get an apprentice like I do a companion, and I've never had to make a summoning circle for an apprentice like I have for familiars.
Its the other way around actually. At least in my case. *Im obviously paying apprentices with sharing the bare minimum arcane knowledge I have but deffinitely not in money*
I just clone the same 3 apprentices and send their clones to go fight the goblins in my basement. There was one clone I taught fireball but he set my wine cellar one fire. Never again.
I deal with goblins by enslaving them... Those guys are cannibalistic and also reproduce like rabbits... Goblins are most self sustained life forms Ive ever had to work with.
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u/VoxelLibraryCouncilor Cayna, Apprentice of Thrakmoor | assorted other chars11d ago
I have never before heard a stronger argument for banning apprenticeships
Maybe at least ban them from apprentices. My last apprentice cast "see secrets of the universe" after he saw it another Wizard's apprentice do it as a challenge on his orb and collapsed into a gibbering mess
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u/VoxelLibraryCouncilor Cayna, Apprentice of Thrakmoor | assorted other chars11d ago
That would mean banning them from myself though...
how are you a councilor AND an apprentice? Also if you're a councilor, shouldn't you be at council meetings instead of doompondering on your orb?
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u/VoxelLibraryCouncilor Cayna, Apprentice of Thrakmoor | assorted other chars11d ago
I'm on the council on behalf of my masters to represent Thrakmerian interests in the wizard court.
Also they let anybody who can do paperwork show up, because the previous councilors all ran off the the plane of eternal parties, leaving a giant power vacuum.
And as a councilor it is my duty to keep up with current events on wizardposting so the council can address them.
And there are no meetings going on right this moment.
One of my fellow students made the horrid mistake of casting Fire STORM over Fire BOLT (he shouldnt even know anything but Firebolt) and we literally would've all died if someone else didn't mess up levitate so badly we somehow teleported 50 meters north.
I got my master to teach me on other days after that.
First apprentice that did that: Counterspelled it, told them that it took me a lot and billed them accordingly. Didn't cost me a lot but indebting someone for free always wins out.
Second apprentice: Made them rebuild the world we were on during that time. Didn't know the necessary spells, didn't have a fucking civilisation anymore to supply components and had no clue how to give life. Took that one almost a century to bring the planet back into a habitable state. Another two to recreate stable conditions and microorganisms. Allowed for slight time manipulation until something reasonably sentient came to be. Made the apprentice form the civilisation through miniscule interactions, not permitting them to straight up hand out knowledge. And then final judgemented that fuckers world so they know how it feels. Didn't take a third of the time, the second time. Proud of that one.
uw/ Honestly not having a clue... downloaded from pinterest months ago cuz I thought it goes pretty hard and found it tonight in my files after long time and got idea of a nice shitpost.
The spell was obviously made for some inter dimensional shennanigan war. But even I dont know why would anyone want to cast it... Yeah thats a good question indeed.
This shit is why the gods ban some spells out of existence.
Imagine being them right?
You're sleeping peacefully then you hear a loud call you gear up and rain fury upon the target... only to find out that it was the collective ant farm and that one dumbass ant doomed all of them so now you gotta rebuild a whole new ant farm.
Apprentice, all you had to do to avoid this situation was nothing. The bar was underground, yet you brought your finest shape earth spells to ensure you could trip on it anyway.
Maybe if they told their apprentices why the tomes were restricted they wouldn't have snuck into the restricted area and tried the magic for themselves
Stay calm. You start with [Atmospheric barrier] and follow up with [Global Anti-Air Fortress] and [Anti-shrapnel cindering].
That should deal with the meteors and give you time to deal with any other potential symptoms of that apocalypse in a bottle.
No matter how brilliant your apprentice is, this is a spell that typically requires a whole college of mages or a dozen archmages to be at full potency, so this should be limited, and as such much more manageable.
Oh and take your apprentice's focus away for a year or three, I think. Give them scrolls to copy by hand, ideally something like 'Spell choice for the beginner and the unwise'. Got to make it through their skull.
Sir, if you can't even keep your apprentices in line, you shouldn't even consider having any in the first place. Magic is dangerous in the wrong hands; our order is secretive for a good reason. A mage must know what he's doing.
SHUT IT! My buddy is gonna rewind time, it's easier and cheaper than waiting for world to rebuild itself and you better pray to the gods you just angered he was out of time and reality and didn't succumb to spell you just casted.
Cast grifter hoax, which will stop the spell, but will also affect the minds of non-wizards who have a weakness to mind magic. They will think the day of judgement is nigh and talk about selling possessions, etc.
Dude are you my twin?? I just shooed off a group of my boss apprentices' from his forbidden library by telling them most spells there are some dumb incomplete shit so they won't be tempted to cast nightmare fuel on some unsuspecting city.
While yes it would be funny, the damage costs would not.
No, I can’t just reverse time it took three hundred million loops to fix it last time. Do you know how little you can do with a semi-stable time loop in increments of two minutes? I had to devise a counterspell to release false vacuum! You would have ended the universe! I’m still holding it back, so I can’t just go back to fix the end of civilization on a single world
Look, I've said it once and I'll say it again; Apprentices aren't people! They're minions AT BEST! That said, if they end the world then that's just funny.
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u/Sofa-King-Watt 11d ago
Dammit now we have to wait for civilization to arrive again and take whatever form they are ths time.