104 ways to kill a full-born

[Frustration]

1 minute ago, The Last Fæ said:

Hemalurgic intent? In the eye?

The only known way to survive hemalurgy being used on you is to either have tons of healing already on you and then instntly use them, or to have been tortured first.

Neither option is desireable, and it gets you no benefits.

[therunner he/him]

3 hours ago, The Last Fæ said:

Hemalurgic intent? In the eye?

Hemalurgy does not care much what happens to donor (see all of them being dead).
So if you stab yourself, you wound yourself quite seriously.

Only for recipient does Hemalurgy help organism adjust to spike.

[Tea Leaf]

Just now, therunner said:

Hemalurgy does not care much what happens to donor (see all of them being dead).
So if you stab yourself, you wound yourself quite seriously.

Only for recipient does Hemalurgy help organism adjust to spike.

Have you read TLM

[therunner he/him]

4 minutes ago, The Last Fæ said:

Have you read TLM

Yep.
Good luck taking great care and putting yourself through excruciating pain to survive spiking and remain in control enough to not mess it up.

[Trusk'our he/him]

5 hours ago, The Last Fæ said:

Hemalurgic intent? In the eye?

I think that you would still die unless you were a Kandra or a similar organism, since aluminum being used without the Intent to Hemalurgically extract anything from yourself would still prevent you from healing via Investiture until the spike were removed. So an aluminum spike through the eye would likely be a death sentence for most beings....

It would certainly confuse your opponent though.

5 hours ago, Frustration said:

The only known way to survive hemalurgy being used on you is to either have tons of healing already on you and then instntly use them, or to have been tortured first.

Neither option is desireable, and it gets you no benefits.

How does being tortured help you survive being Hemalurgically spiked? Not trying to argue or anything, I'm just curious.

[Frustration]

1 minute ago, Trusk'our said:

How does being tortured help you survive being Hemalurgically spiked? Not trying to argue or anything, I'm just curious.

The doner has to have a lot of trauma in order to adopt the mindset needed to survive hemalurgy.

[Trusk'our he/him]

25 minutes ago, Frustration said:

The doner has to have a lot of trauma in order to adopt the mindset needed to survive hemalurgy.

Interesting. I hadn't considered the trauma as being useful, but if what you're saying is true (which, after reflecting upon TLM seems accurate as far as I can tell), trying to non-lethally charge a Hemalurgic spike on someone under anesthesia could be fatal for the donor.

Though, they did mention that trauma was useful, not that it was strictly necessary. Perhaps the skill of the Hemalurgist (the one doing the spiking) matters when trying to perform non-lethal Hemalurgic excision? So a skilled Hemalurgic "surgeon" might be able to non-lethally remove Spiritweb fragments from people without the need for trauma?

Edited April 17, 2023 by Trusk'our