text; un: weiwuxian

[resurging]

question: if you were, hypothetically, to trap a spirit in an inanimate object, how would you go about it?

[ this post was brought to you by: horror movie nights with the nephew! hooray! ]

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[consignation]

IT WAS SARCASM WHY WOULD I LET YOU SUMMON SPIRITS AND TRAP THEM WHAT THE FUCK WEI WUXIAN WE ARE CULTIVATORS WE EXORCISE THEM
EXORCISE!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A WAR CRIMINAL AGAIN

[resurging]

I'm not leaving you behind! You're not gonna die, shhh, Wei Wuxian has got this.

Jiang Cheng won't go for your face, don't worry. I know this!

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so you'll test the array?
jiang cheng, work with me here
this is for knowledge

[wildlinks]

[...is this guy going to be disappointed...? He's scared he will be.]

I suppose it doesn't work if person doesn't believe in them? Or the fortune teller is a fraud. And frauds make people not believe in it so it's a circle.

We usually just buy those cards, they are fairly common. Depending on the maker there are different pictures but they represent the same.
I can summon only those that I captured

[He won't get into the all social link thing, that's too complicated to understand]

Some people have an affinity to carry a lot of them, but usually it's one spirit per person.

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I WASN'T EVEN THINKING ABOUT FAIRY

I DON'T WANT FAIRY

what if we found an actual fairy

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to be fair, it's not like elder lan had a good aim

but look someone has to help bring me back when or if i get possessed, and you're good at arrays! i've seen your brushwork!!!

[inheritedpain]

[ #SUPREMEDOUBT ]

No!! You're staying here!! You can find a spirit online!

[ Just going to wrap himself around Wei Wuxian and latch on like a koala TRY TO GET RID OF HIM NOW ]

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I'M NOT A WAR CRIMINAL YET
AND SURE, WE EXORCISE, BUT THAT SEEMS LIKE A BIG WASTE OF RESOURCES IF THAT'S ALL WE DO
WHY CAN'T WE EXERCISE THE SPIRITS TOO
THAT SEEMS MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL

[inheritedpain]

GOOD

YOU BETTER NOT

i


what like that crazy stone fairy???

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But it's not the same as looking for one in person! The spirits here know how to write!

[just two drunk losers in a pile on the floor... nothing to see here...]

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[kind of hard to disappoint this guy, seeing as he has barely any standards half the time. yay?]

ah, so you're a ghost hunter! quite like me! do you have a school of method? are the cards traditionally made for the purpose of sale? hmmm, so they're like talismans, i suppose, interesting...

how many have you caught yourself? is it always one spirit, or one spirit at a time? can you store your spirits on other people's cards? can you trade spirit cards? is it possible?

[consignation]

HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK I AM?!

[ the whip is out, the spirit of madam yu has descended upon him in full force, and⁠— jiang cheng snaps a warning strike to one side of wei wuxian, then just... fully tackles him to the ground. tries to get him in a headlock. ]

What!! Stupid!! VAPID..!! Ideas! Are you putting!! In our nephew's head!!!

[consignation]

WHY!!!
WHY DO YOU NEED THIS KNOWLEDGE
FOR WHAT REASON
COULD YOU POSSIBLY
WEI WUXIAN!!!

[resurging]

hmm possibly! or

or we could make an artifice! build our own spirit! but we'll have to pull fragments together first. where's the nearest burial grounds?

[huaisang]

I wasn't exactly a big target and he still got me! So his aim is better than you think.


Wei-xiong, this is so much pressure. I don't know if I can do this, I don't know.

What if you get possessed? Will Wangji-xiong break my legs?

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I WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW SPIRITS WORK!
NOT JUST EXORCISING THEM
WHAT MAKES THEM THE WAY THEY ARE?
WHY DO SOME FIND PEACE AND SOME DON'T?

WE COULD CHANGE THE CULTIVATION WORLD WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE

[inheritedpain]

[ He just clings harder. ]

If you try to leave me here right now I'll-- I'll -- I'll bite you!!

[ who ever let them consume alcohol ]

[consignation]

YET!!!! YET!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY THE FUCK WOULD WE NEED TO EXERCISE THE SPIRITS THEY ARE GHOSTS THEY ARE DEAD THEY NEED TO MOVE ON
WHAT POSSIBLE FUCKING BENEFIT
I DON'T
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS!!!

[inheritedpain]

they don't have them here

they all become
like

those weird crystal things

there aren't ghosts like back home!! i know!! i looked!! how cand you make an artificial spirit anyway???

[menaces]

[ what if he looks sideways at you instead ]

you must be the delicious little nephew

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[wei wuxian is yelping very loudly, and then he's not making much of any noise at all, because jiang cheng's headlocks are very very very effective! he would know, this method has been refined on him!]

It-- HAK-- fff---

[it's fine he's gonna reach back and pull on jiang cheng's ear IT'S FINE!!!]

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THEY ARE ENERGY, ARE THEY NOT
EXERCISE MAKES YOU LOSE ENERGY
WHY NOT JUST

TIRE THEM OUT

[menaces]

[ he just knows people get a lot less upset about killing animals for some reason but sure he can also work with this. ]

will you give me a kiss if i bring you something good?

[resurging]

spirits are energy with consciousness, aren't they? what if we just

put them together? find a dormant mind and give them energy, see what happens?

[wildlinks]

Hmmm I can't say I'm ghost hunter really. It just kind of
happened
to me

Not everyone can do it either, so people see tarot cards mostly as harmless fun. When there's a spirit (person-a) in the card, it becomes ethereal and only you have access to it.

I don't know about trading (personally I would be against it), but compendium that was granted to me allowed me to fuse them. I don't know the exact number I managed to capture but it is well over a hundred.

But ever since I arrived here, I have lost the access to the compendium and I only have 3 spirits with me. I can only summon one, never two or more at once