Private Finished Price of Curiosity

Altizica had just been relaxed on a bench, chewing on some bones without a care in the world when Rowan approached him. Altizica turned and took a long look at Rowan, eyeing the kid up and down trying to figure out what he wanted. If they already knew his name then they definitely wanted something, that’s always how these things worked. Altizica took a looooong sigh. “Alright kid, I don’t remember ever meeting you and if you already know my name then you definitely want something. So lets just skip to that part so we can get through this a little faster.”

Altizica suddenly grew a big smile at the mention of Shrio. “Oh Shiro~ I haven’t talked to her in a while. I hope she’s alright. Yes you’ve got one of the right people if you want to know a lot about Eldritch magic but......” Altizica trailed off for a moment. His mind was thinking about a few things, mostly about what this child actually was wanting to learn. “...if the the school won’t teach what you’re looking for...then you’re wanting to know more of the deeper magic we utilize. No offense but only the insane, idiotic, or desperate look for those kinds of things. However, your reasoning isn’t any of my business so lets talk more about what you actually want to know about our magic.”

Altizica started to laugh as the kid started explaining the situation. “Oooohhh I get it now. You’ve been touched haven’t you? Look kid, getting touched isn’t that hard, but I’ve never even heard of the reverse actually happening and being successful just so you know. I’d have to check with Index but I doubt even they have heard of it. I could try to eat it away however you almost certainly would be killed by it. Next best thing is to maybe try banishment rituals....”

Altizica sighed for a second. “Index is...a friend of mine. They’re an annoying know it all sometimes but they don’t mean any harm.” Alt was really wishing the kid actually went to Index for this question instead of him as the kid might turn out to be more trouble than they are worth.

“Well banishment rituals are just like they sound, they banish Eldritch to somewhere else. It most likely would work on even just a part of one of us but I need to know the circumstances of you being touched before we even talk about this cause depending on how you were touched it might make things more difficult. For the weak abberations you can effectively banish them with no repercussions. However if we’re talking about a great old one or outer god, it’s far more taxing to banish them and quite frankly it would only really work for like...a second before they return more pissed off than before.”

“Mmmm Index is more a crawling/slithering encyclopedia of any and every type of information. And usually no but if I was involved...they may be more inclined to part ways with such information freely.” Alt scratched the back of his head. Index was sometimes a tough cookie to crack. They were odd ,even for Alt’s standards, and he could never really figure out what that snake was thinking.

Alt’s eyes widened at the mention of an elder god. What in the name of Azathoth was this kid doing to be attached to one of those guys? “Yikes kid. An elder god? Really? How did you go getting into that big of a mess kid? Yea banishment rituals would have the same effect as great old ones and Outer Gods, you’d likely only really piss it off more.”