un: tikkunolam

[accidentallich]

I pet a cat that was bigger than me today.

My life is now complete.

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[bloodyroses]

...what'd they do.

[accidentallich]

My ex turned me into a lich.

[bloodyroses]

WHAT

WHAT THE FUCK?!

STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES

[ Okay, sorry, she's freaking out a little because of what she recently found out about HER OWN MOTHER, but she manages to type a little more. ]

Okay, unless you were in on the whole thing, and I doubt it,

[ because you seem to know sweet fuck all about magic ]

that shouldn't even be possible. Pretty much all of the liches in my world's history became that way themselves because they deliberately chose to.

Plus I think you actively need to participate in the ritual.

tw: body horror

[accidentallich]

Maybe it works differently in your world? There was a potion he tricked me into drinking. I only found out what it was when my skin started sloughing off.

[bloodyroses]

It's usually a two-parter from what I know.

There's a ritual done to make sure the soul stays in its little soul box when you die, but it involves a LOT of stuff that's super personal to the one who's going to get lichified.

[ Although if he's talking about his ex, that would explain a lot... ]

The vessel you use to contain the soul has to be either made for that specific purpose or something super important to you that's been modified beforehand to be able to accept what's happening next.

Every source I've seen also says something about the blood of someone you loved? So that's a thing.

Then after the ritual's done, you've got this potion you drink that's got some poison mixed in.

There's a pretty high failure rate for the lich ritual already and if it fails, you just up and die. But if it succeeds, lich time?

I'm sorry I can't go more into detail, this is just what your average mage knows about it in my world. The only people who know the super specifics are the people actively trying to get lich and die trying.

[accidentallich]

I think I don't actually want to know too much about what went into it, if it's all the same to you.

[bloodyroses]

Shit, no, I understand. Sorry for getting into a little too much information.

It's not something most mages in my world decide to just do.

Even the shark orb guy would be shaking his head right now.

[accidentallich]

It's a terrible thing to do to yourself, and even worse to do to someone you supposedly love without their consent.

[bloodyroses]

No idea what the fuck that guy's problem was.

I dunno, I just really wish I didn't know some of the stuff I did sometimes.

[accidentallich]

He wanted to be together for eternity, or something like that. Of course I told him I never wanted to see him again.

[bloodyroses]

Honestly, probably the best call.

[accidentallich]

He found my apartment a couple months ago.

[bloodyroses]

Okay, please clarify before I decide whether or not I'm gonna have to start busting heads.

You mean here, or in your own world?

[accidentallich]

My own world! He's not here, thank God.

[bloodyroses]

Okay, I was GONNA say there's a lot more reason to be afraid.

Do you know whether or not he's a lich too? Because it sounds like he would be, but there's other ways of extending your lifespan if you don't wanna do the lich thing.

[accidentallich]

He's definitely a skeleton under an illusion, who is immortal and has magic. Does that narrow it down to 'lich'?

[bloodyroses]

There's only one way to be sure and that's if you know whether or not he's got a soul vessel thing.

[ She does not remember the word for a phylactery off the top of her head. ]

But generally, if someone is:

-undead
-immortal
-an asshole
-a wizard

If someone's all of those things at once? 99% chance it's a lich.

That's bad because normal wizards are already kind of a pain in the ass to fight, but in addition to the immortality thing? ALLEGEDLY when you go lich, your magic gets a little power boost.

[accidentallich]

A phylactery, I think they're called? I don't know what his is if he has one.

[bloodyroses]

So that's where your soul is going to be. If you're a lich. I dunno about you but my soul is inside my body like a normal person.

If I recall correctly, the ritual is supposed to bind your soul to it so that it doesn't go on to whatever afterlife you're supposed to head for when you die. You do it right and it basically keeps sending signals to your body to animate itself.

I have no idea what happens if you do it wrong.

[accidentallich]

I think it would be safe to assume it's not so much a good thing to mess up.