Aveta 101
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[...Okay, so today is very much one of those days. Or well, one of those days only a million times worse, because when sie looked out the window of the building sie was in, it was sunset. This not only mean sie had ruined hir sleep schedule (less important) but also that sie was probably missing some party at the local pub ( Read more... )
[...Okay, so today is very much one of those days. Or well, one of those days only a million times worse, because when sie looked out the window of the building sie was in, it was sunset. This not only mean sie had ruined hir sleep schedule (less important) but also that sie was probably missing some party at the local pub ( Read more... )
You would be... referring to the moon of Luceti then, by that?
[Who wouldn't recognize a moon... Wait.]
... Your planet lacks natural satellites then, I presume? Moons tend to be common, especially around inhabited planets, but I suppose it is not impossible for a planet to lack moons...
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Oh, no, you hardly sound any more out-of-sorts than anybody else would sound had they recently been indicted here. In fact, you sound far more comfortable here than I did when I first arrived two months ago.
It is a pleasure to meet you, Cameron. [Robert wonders if he should ask the person for a gender identity, because he isn't sure what title he can use but the mun is considering Mixter.]
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But it's nice to meet you too, Professor.
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In other words, there has never been the faintest bit of evidence for either magic or souls - anything that was ever described in those terms on Terra was proven to be something that we had simply failed to understand rationally until science was able to advance to a point where we could comprehend it.
Anything that I have ever heard a "soul" described as being able to do, up until now, has been thoroughly documented as occurring in the brain, and has been observed in situ using magnetic resonance imagery and similar techniques.
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[But then... it works different. this man might not even have leylines (some other people don't seem to)]
Er- not to say that you should! It's just... odd sounding to me.
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Well... None of these concepts exist in any real form on Terra - there is magnetism as defined by the magnetic field of the planet itself, but that is significantly different from what you are describing, and not magical in the least. However, this information is extremely fascinating, because it is quite different from the magic I have heard about here in Luceti already - and yet there appear to be some core similarities, regardless.
I am composing a report on the very subject, in fact. I hope that, should I be allowed to remember what I have learned in Luceti, that the report comes with me.
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Though, I must confess... [And here Robert's tone turns wry.] I never did expect that I would be writing a scientific report on magic.
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I wonder if I should consider working on a thesis of some sort too. Are the days really dull here?
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... I would not describe them as dull. They are rather eventful, actually... Usually in a negative sense. The Malnosso, the barbaric scientists running the compound, have no sense of ethics and enjoy torturing us at their whim with whatever abominable "experiments" they can concieve of.
I would just simply be lost without something to work on.
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Well, it's a specific type of crystal which can conduct raw energy from the leylines and store it. Everything in the world... uses the energy, of course, or nothing could live. But this material scientists found could contain the raw energy to be used later. By... modifying it, you can contain individual spells too.
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To be honest, it's not really my field. Most people just call the "the crystals" and the refined form are "Spheres." I forget the technical name.
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The fact that the substance is naturally-occurring in your world is also very interesting. Are all manifestations of this energy considered magic, by your understanding, or is magic only one form of it? And when you say leylines... are they veins of this material, or is the energy perhaps coming from somewhere else, like the core of your planet?
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Well, no one's ever seen them, but their existence is a reality. Most scientists theorize they work like veins and arteries for the planet, flowing energy in and out of the core beneath the World. Either way, the fact that they exist is evident just at a glance. As for the mineral... well. It's only been discovered in the last hundred years, but there's a running theory that the places where beings are digging them up might have been where seas were in ancient times, because fossils of fish are usually found in the same rock. [...Or so sie's heard. Um. Trailing off, thinking]...So, "magic" is just a shorthand for direct manipulation of leyline energy. I don't know many spells or anything, but even I can manage things like forming a knife or creating some ( ... )
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