[not again] catchall for taako

[fishingforcompliments]

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[chaoticlootral]

You're-- [He laughs a bit, crushing the tomatoes with the back of the wooden spoon.] Generous.

The, um, memory was this thing - we called 'em Grand Relics - but they were super powerful magic McGuffins, and this one was offering to, uh, undo the past. You could go back and erase it. Fix stuff, you know?

[fishingforcompliments]

[...she doesn't know what a McGuffin is, but she can kind of guess based on context.]

...there are things that can do that?

[Can they, like, get a McGuffin and erase the Thots timeline? Kill Polly week zero. Spare them all. Thanks.]

[chaoticlootral]

Well, sure, I helped make them.

[ . . . ]

They've always got a downside.

[fishingforcompliments]

To be able to make something like that... you must be very powerful indeed.

[She's impressed! ...but what he says next is concerning.]

...do they?

[chaoticlootral]

Extremely! Everyone thinks ol' Taako is all, uh, useless, but, jeez, I'm a fucking magic ace. Totally dangerous with it.

[Huffing a little bit of a laugh at that though.]

Yeah. That one, for example, makes a world where the mistake is fixed . . . but, uh, erases you from the one you're currently in, or locks you in a timeloop, over and over, trying to fix the very problem it caused over and over. My Grand Relic, the Philosopher's Stone, can transmuate anything to any other substance. In the wrong hands, well - you can turn a whole town into gold! But. That's the whole town. Every blade of grass, every speck of dirt, every person walking to the store.

So, I guess the lesson is, don't trust super magical items?

[fishingforcompliments]

Who could ever think you are useless? They need only get to know you a little to know you are not.

[???

Flayn thinks Taako is pretty great. But anyway, magic items. That, uh, that definitely sounds horrifying.]

...or be very, very careful with how you use them, I suppose.