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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:47 am 
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Barinellos wrote:
Fisco: "I know I put that around here somewhere..."
Diana: "You asked me to get rid of it. Remember?"
Fisco: "Oh. Right."

This had me thinking about an assassin that for pragmatic (anonymity) and psychological (doesn't trust themself in the darkest nights) reasons always sources and disposes different weapons for every hit.

There's a series by an author named Steven Brust that I very much love (though he barely writes any more and kind of burnt his characters to the ground for... A lot of complicated real life reasons) but his main character is an ex-assassin named Vlad who actually began cycling through weapons every week or so for the express reason of not letting them become too psychically close to him so they couldn't be used for witchcraft against him.

To build on your idea, an assassin who has a mind name wipe all details of a job from his mind.

This could be an interesting group project, potentially. My character Urassaya, from "From Beyond the Edge of the World," has a natural magic for psychometry. Maybe she's enlisted to read the discarded weapons, but is having a difficult time doing so because of the weak, or lack of, connection to the killer.


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Barinellos wrote:
To build on your idea, an assassin who has a mind name wipe all details of a job from his mind.

This could be an interesting group project, potentially. My character Urassaya, from "From Beyond the Edge of the World," has a natural magic for psychometry. Maybe she's enlisted to read the discarded weapons, but is having a difficult time doing so because of the weak, or lack of, connection to the killer.

Sounds cool! An :u: "facilitator" with a mind magic focus sound very cool to me, like a young Jace with a more violent skillset and less of a moral compass.

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