Second disaster

[cursed_as_hell]

*click*

*click*

*click*

*click*

They make light, but there's no flame. It really doesn't seem like magic, but I'm not sure what else it would be.

*click*

[And so on. Those responding to this post, assume Aldrick is marveling at some mundane piece of 1950s technology.]

Comments

[immortal_smoke]

The outside world is full of things like that. They call it "technology."

[cursed_as_hell]

Extraordinary.

[immortal_smoke]

The strange thing is that nobody out here seems to be able to explain how they work.

[cursed_as_hell]

You'd be surprised how many people don't know things as simple as how crop rotation or blacksmithing work. I can only imagine how complicated such sorcery as this "technology" is.

[sataxandagai]

Click click click!

[cursed_as_hell]

It's crazy, isn't it?

[sataxandagai]

Click click click click!

What's amazing?

[cursed_as_hell]

Why do you keep saying "click"?

[prodigious_mage]

Duh. Lightning magic. C'mon, it even sparks and crackles if you poke at it.

[cursed_as_hell]

Never seen a wizard who could control lightning magic so flawlessly.

[prodigious_mage]

Someone tried to explain to me how they managed it once -- something about volts and amplitudes and the resistance.

[cursed_as_hell]

You just can't trust those wizardly types. They always think they're better than you.

[fourfoldroots]

They are quite marvelous, aren't they? Wait until you see the TV box.

[cursed_as_hell]

"teevee box"? What's that do?

[fourfoldroots]

It is a box that has moving pictures on it, almost like a living story. It is quite fascinating.

[cursed_as_hell]

So that's what that thing is.