[ This DM is in response to the NPC request made here! ]
Been watching a lot of sci-fi, MK?
No one's lost anything. Matter, energy, magic cannot be destroyed or created. It's your same energy, just being translated into this world's magic.
Think of it like if you brought a squirt bottle into an Arctic storm. Most people need water to live. The water's still inside your bottle, yeah, and you might get a squirt out but the particles will freeze on contact with the air, and the water inside the bottle will be a solid block in a matter of minutes. The water's still there, you just can't use it the same way you normally would-- you've got ice now. Soon as you go back where you came from, it'll melt again to water, but while you're here, you've got to figure out how to live with the ice.
DM from @OGmerlin
Been watching a lot of sci-fi, MK?
No one's lost anything. Matter, energy, magic cannot be destroyed or created. It's your same energy, just being translated into this world's magic.
Think of it like if you brought a squirt bottle into an Arctic storm. Most people need water to live. The water's still inside your bottle, yeah, and you might get a squirt out but the particles will freeze on contact with the air, and the water inside the bottle will be a solid block in a matter of minutes. The water's still there, you just can't use it the same way you normally would-- you've got ice now. Soon as you go back where you came from, it'll melt again to water, but while you're here, you've got to figure out how to live with the ice.