dictated

[kickthecanplz]

[You can all blame Hunny for this.]

This might be a stupid question, but... is it possible for a guy who came from a world without magic, to learn magic here?

Comments

[modernholmes]

Why would you want to do something as ridiculous as that?

[kickthecanplz]

And what would convince you that there was magic? Geez, kid, I was as skeptic as you are when I first arrived, but you need to learn to wake up.

[modernholmes]

I am convinced that there are people with strange abilities here. But I won't accept merely being told that a thing is magic and leaving it at that.

[kickthecanplz]

Strange abilities. That's putting it lightly.

[modernholmes]

Anything can be explained if you think about it enough.

[kickthecanplz]

Spontaneous fire hovering in a circle above a guy's head.

[explain it. >| ]

written;

[payback]

It's hardly ridiculous. Magical techniques can be as useful as any other learned technique.

written;

[modernholmes]

I haven't seen any evidence of that.

[payback]

Perhaps you'd better put your nose to the ground, then.

[modernholmes]

Better than simply accepting magic as an explanation.

[payback]

I would have thought a so-called detective would have taken that upon himself already, rather than simply rejecting an explanation out of hand.

[modernholmes]

That there are people here with strange abilities? That I will accept. I do not accept that they are magic. There is nothing that cannot be explained if you only work on it.

[payback]

Some people come from worlds where magic is as explicable and works according to rules like anything else. Writing it off as an option when it may exist is as closeminded as refusing to believe in the tenets of science.

[modernholmes]

If it can be explained then it isn't magic.

[payback]

[Eyeroll.]

Then what is it?

[modernholmes]

Clarke's Third Law. Any science, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.