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chacham2 OP t1_jd35inp wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] The wizard is actually not immortal. Instead he steals just a minute from everyone every few thousand years or so (justifying it to himself by all the good he does for them). Though everyone loses consciousness for a moment, nobody talks about it, and it is soon forgotten. by chacham2

I wanted to add that in today's day and age it was noticed and talked about, and signs pointed to the otherwise good wizard.

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librarian-faust t1_jd3rfpd wrote

So that's why I fall asleep, wake up 6 hours later feeling like it's been 6 minutes instead, still feeling exhausted.

It's all that dang Immortal Time Wizard's fault!

((if he was smart enough to pick sleeping people, he'd never be noticed at all.))

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chacham2 OP t1_jd3x3p4 wrote

I was thinking about that, except the whole round earth thing gets in the way. ;)

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librarian-faust t1_jd3xl1n wrote

Surely if he can manage "steal a minute from this person" cast en masse, he can work out a "is person sleeping?" check first... and plumb those two together...

I mean, it's also reasonable that this might not be a thing that's allowed under the magic system, but... /shrug

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chacham2 OP t1_jd3y1pg wrote

The idea was a whole world massive spell. Perhaps via some items. The original idea was just one second from everybody. That would give him a couple hundred years.

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MilkLover159 t1_jd41gwy wrote

That’s about 15000 years with todays population

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chacham2 OP t1_jd41y9r wrote

So, the original idea was one second. I switched it to one minute so he could get that long, especially with earlier generations. Ion any case, a story with either one would make me just as happy. :)

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