You have the protection of the house and its magick. As long as you remain here, neither of you will ever perish, nor shall age wither you.
—Malise, The Bad Bad Place
You have chosen wisely. But the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundary, and the price of immortality.
—Grail Knight, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Literature
Jonah Grayer: For fifty-four years, our souls have wandered that big wide world out there, possessing whatever bodies we want, living whatever lives we wish, while our fellow birth-Victorians are all dead or dying out. We live on. The operandi works.’
Norah Grayer: The operandi works provided our birth-bodies remain here in the lacuna, freeze-dried against world-time, anchoring our souls in life. The operandi works provided we recharge the lacuna every nine years by luring a gullible Engifted into a suitable orison. The operandi works provided our guests can be duped, banjaxed and drawn into the lacuna. Too many providers, Jonah. Yes, our luck’s held so far. It can’t hold forever, and it won’t.
No blood can be spilled in this holy place.
—The Dark Lord, after the Slayer tries spawn-camping him Doom Eternal
Asuna: Oh my God!
Kirito: (Sees Kains hanging from a bell tower with a sword through his chest) Huh, look: a Human Piñata.
Asuna: Kirito, he's DYING!
Kirito: Uh correction: he's suffering. The town's a Safe Zone. Probably hurts like a bitch, but he's not going to die in here.
Sir-Suffers-A-Lot: Help... me...
Kirito: Hey man, when you pop, can you try to send the candy over this way?
Asuna: I'm going to cut him down, you Jackass.
Kirito: I'll save you a KitKat.
Kirito: (Sees Kains hanging from a bell tower with a sword through his chest) Huh, look: a Human Piñata.
Asuna: Kirito, he's DYING!
Kirito: Uh correction: he's suffering. The town's a Safe Zone. Probably hurts like a bitch, but he's not going to die in here.
Sir-Suffers-A-Lot: Help... me...
Kirito: Hey man, when you pop, can you try to send the candy over this way?
Asuna: I'm going to cut him down, you Jackass.
Kirito: I'll save you a KitKat.