Vampires and the cures that love them

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Just to keep everyone in the loop: the alchemy part of the cure will be done tomorrow. I believe everything else is being done on Friday.

It occured to me that if Angel keeps having total improvements with each part of the cure he'd simply fight even harder to not drink human blood. So what I'm going to do is say that, like Alfred with the antitoxin, it will take a symptom away (In Alfred's case, the broody coma) but it will not give him a wholesale improvement.

Also the symptoms that remain will continue to get worse until Friday.

I'm still deciding which symptom and may not figure that out until I see the alchemy in action, but just to give y'all the heads up that that's how it's going to go. He'll get an improvement of a sort, but there'll still be a downward spiral that makes it clear this poison will kill him if he doesn't take the cure.

Comments

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

I probably sound slightly stupid saying this, but it's occured to me that a few people aren't all that familiar with FMA canon or how alchemy works in that 'verse. Slipped my mind that oh, hey, y'know, there's actually different variations of this stuff out there. 'Cause I'm pretty sure a demon alchemist from Charmed isn't gonna operate the same way as one from FMA.

I bring this up because I recall someone bringing up about alchemy being mystical in a sense (which is true, in most cases), but it hardly works in a magical sense with FMA (and yeah, it's realistically impossible, buuut...). I don't want anyone to become super confused or anything with Al (or even Ed, too), so should I fill those who are kind of wondering in, or is everyone fine?

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I'm counting on the two not working the same way as giving us the wriggle room we need to explain why the cure for the poison is, funnily enough, working exactly the way we need it to for the plot ;)

So as long as the difference is such that it allows Al to try to do the work that Bel knows about, and allows us to say that it fixes Angel a little but not all the way, then we're good. =)

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Okay, great. I was starting to get a little flaily-spazzy about if others began to think that Al's version of alchemy was the mysticalmagical kind you normally see, rather than the 'my fandom teachers more chemistry than YOURS!' kind.

They're kind of similar, actually, but the way alchemists work between fandoms, I've noticed, are reeeeally different. Hence flaily-spazzy.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Ahh, no. See, that's just the kind of difference we need! It lets us say it's close enough for Al to try (and explain why we don't get an NPC demon alchemist in) but far enough that, whoops, doesn't actually cure him. Darn. On to the next plot point!

So you're perfect.

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Yay, all sorts of awesome :D So I won't worry too much about that, then.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Nope. You may, instead, have a cupcake. If you'd like. =)

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

YAY CUPCAAAAAAKE But of course. It would be a sin against everything to refuse!

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Made 'em myself! =)

Alchemy - scheduling

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Hey there,

Don't know if the alchemy's still on for today or not. I'm actually totally wiped today so I'm going to go to bed early (wimpy of me, I know).

I don't know that Angel needs to be awake/would be woken up by Al and Bel doing their thing, so if it still happens today feel free to mod Angel being unconscious through the whole thing. That way hopefully you won't get held up just b/c I wasn't here.

If tonight's FTEC post goes up before I go to bed I'll position him in there for ya. If not, you've got my permission to go in anyway and say he was sleeping.

Re: Alchemy - scheduling

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't know, either. Bel & I are still doing our thread and I've got no idea when it'll be finished, but hopefully soon. If it happens tonight or tomorrow doesn't matter, but if tomorrow it'd have to be in the evening, if that's okay with you. Really sorry if things are being thrown off track or what-not. But I can definitely say that if it has to be done tomorrow night, it can be done, since I'm sure it wouldn't take any longer than about an hour or so to do (ish), and we'd be finished with the thread by then.

Angel doesn't -have- to be awake, but it would probably work out more if you were around to post his reactions and stuff (if Angel being asleep means the same for you :P).

Re: Alchemy - scheduling

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Oh no worries. The joy of all this is that it's not like we said IG that Angel's only got until Friday to live. I've got a personal preference for Friday night for the cure just b/c that gives me the weekend to RP Angel's post-recovery time w/o him having to go right into classes.

But if we end up needing more time - eh. No big whoop. =)

Tomorrow in the evening is okay by me, though I do have class that keeps me offline from 6pm to 10pm Eastern. But in that case Angel can be unconscious for most of the cure then wake up to react when I get back. (In otherwords RP it all to your heart's content and I'll ping you when I'm online so you know you can have Angel reactions if you want them.)

I'm just glad to know me bailing on tonight won't be messing you up any =)