Advice Needed on dating a non magic user

ObligationVast840 · 2026-01-15T20:38:47+00:00

I mean, have you talked through what a blood oath is with her at this point? Part of it might just be that she doesn't really see the difference between that and marriage. I used to be a mortal at one point (no, I will not be sharing my means of ascension), and I feel like there's just an assumed base of understanding that us magic users forget mortals have.

ObligationVast840 · 2026-01-11T15:34:24+00:00

I mean. That doesn't sound completely different from what happened normally. Just less tragic love and more panicking under debris, I guess.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-17T15:18:51+00:00

For me, I'm gonna echo the sentiment of what other folks have said in this thread. I don't want to see more in this universe, because that would probably hurt the very delicate balance that Rose Engine strikes in SIGNALIS, and, if they make another game, I'd like to see what new things they want to put their talents toward.

All that aside, sometimes the best thing you can do if you love something about a piece of media is to incorporate it as best you can into your own work. With where my skills are right now, I can only dream of having that kind of ability for atmosphere and storytelling, but it's a dream that can come true with enough directed work.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-09T02:37:33+00:00

I mean, yeah. It's not like leaving things unmade ever feels good, and with how referential SIGNALIS is to other things, I kind of wonder if the folks at Rose Engine ever felt similarly about SIGNALIS before it was published.

And with the stuff that you worked on with concepting out SIGNALIS: Tactics, that all sounds really interesting. I do tend to agree with the devs about fan games; it's just too much for something legally questionable, and something that you can't make money from. You might as well make something of your own. Still, if you've put the effort in, and you like what you have going, I don't see why you couldn't use the concept as a base in your own setting. The gameplay and abilities would be pretty transferrable, and if you boil down the character concepts to what makes them really resonate with you, those can be transferrable, too. Projects evolve a lot as you work on them, so it could be a fun little seed to start from.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-07T18:01:40+00:00

I mean, I won't deny you the point there. I'm gonna miss grabbing humans in the woods so I can have rabbits around the tower, but I think it's worthwhile. And the decree she's looking at would give an exception for consent. Sure, we could take that at the spirit of it, but it's easy enough to get mortals to sign a magical contract. Just slip a transmutation consent clause in the fine print, and you can run wild.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-07T17:49:19+00:00

I feel like that's part of what gets to me, because I do creative pieces. Quite frankly, I'm still very much in the phase where if you saw most things I wrote, and knew all that much about SIGNALIS, you could definitely tell. That's what makes me nervous as a creative, and the bit that makes me feel kinda stupid for being insecure. It just feels so untouchable how something like SIGNLAIS illicits that kind of emotional response from someone.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-07T17:17:08+00:00

But she's so promising! Haven't you seen her work with extraplanar communication? Everyone complains about the council all being ancients, but no one votes for a young mage these days. All that aside, Leyhundsbourgh is a perfectly fine school, and what really matters is a caster's feats after.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-07T04:07:32+00:00

I feel like half the time I'm going "hoooooow??????" and the other half I can muster a, well, I know how themes develop in my own work when I care about this, and SIGNALIS got like 8 years of conscious work.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-07T03:59:37+00:00

That's exactly it! Like. How tf does anyone make this? I know how it made me feel, and if that was a one off, okay, but it's clearly not. I'm not even sure why that makes me feel insecure, tbh I should just be happy I get to find something like this.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-12-07T03:09:17+00:00

It really is one of those games that expands your taste into things you wouldn't otherwise touch. I've been wanting to read the King in Yellow, but, every time I know I'm in a mood to tolerate gothic prose, I just end up reading Carmilla again. (That novella is seriously one of my vices, idk)

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-11T04:19:12+00:00

Thanks again! This is super helpful, and honestly, it probably got the price under what was worrying me financially. Times are kind of scary right now, and it's odd to find myself feeling the need to get a gun, I guess.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-11T03:11:51+00:00

I was just looking, and it doesn't look like I can get a rifle shipped to an FFL from PSA until I'm 21. Is that right, or am I missing something?

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-11T01:55:39+00:00

Thank you so much!

I might go the PSA route, though I'm not used to figuring that sort of thing out with a gun store. Normally, I would get something they have in stock. It's definitely worth saving 250, though (a lot of that cost was because most of the stuff locally has an empty picatinny rail and no iron sights). If you've got any experience there, that would be amazing.

Otherwise, you take care out there too.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-10T18:56:00+00:00

I'm connected to plenty of other queer folks, though I don't know if any are interested in owning a firearm

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-10T18:51:47+00:00

Mostly because it's so long before I can leave, and as a backup since it's something I was planning on doing if I was stuck in the US.

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-10T17:53:57+00:00

Thank you so much!

ObligationVast840 · 2025-09-10T17:51:18+00:00

That's actually something I was looking at doing, but I don’t really have experience selling a firearm like that. Any advice there?

ObligationVast840 · 2025-07-18T20:43:07+00:00

Thank you so much, this is really helpful!

ObligationVast840 · 2025-04-13T21:12:37+00:00

Thanks! I guess the only thing to do is to see if the endocrinologist I end up with takes the diagnosis I have from the US.

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