driftfleet | [Open] Do you believe in magic?

Who: Adalwolfe Hawke and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Yes, Iskaulit or Three Twins
When: During drift week

[While the Fleet was mostly in dry dock at the last port and the Three Twins was getting an overhaul at the expense of basically the entirety of Wolfe's coin (and that of who knows how many other people), Adalwolfe started getting back into studying, tinkering with things, and just generally tried to move on from the whole ordeal. Sort of. He still holds a heavy curiosity over the assistant fleet that helped to chase off the bandits and tried to send a message to that frequency discovered while tinkering with the wire tap device.

The very next day finds him as a human whirlwind in the library on the Iskaulit. He's not a stranger to the place of course, far from in fact since he's been trying to learn on and off the things he felt his magical education was lacking in while growing up, but today he is a veritable force of nature. Anyone who walks in can find him practically buried under stacks upon stacks of books on every subject. Mostly magical but many mundane, including a guide to SQL coding and a large yellow and black tome titled Feng Shui for Dummies. And is that...? No there couldn't be porn in Felix's library, right?

Adalwolfe himself is speeding through the books at a breakneck pace, eyes working like a typewriter as he stamps the words into his brain. Of course, his time with each book doesn't last very long before he reaches for the next one that's maybe tangentially related but certainly another thing he wants to learn. He'll get back to the previous book later. He's done this upwards of 40 times now and books are scattered to open sections on a dizzying myriad of topics. Every so often he stops long enough to type things into his communicator, the result of which can be found on the network several hours later...]

Hey fleet!

[Adalwolfe looks entirely too bouncy for his 35 someodd years of age and the way he talks is with a much more rushed pace than normal, as if he can't get all his thoughts out fast enough.]

I've been doing a lot of reading here in the library and I wrote this thing about magic that I'll upload for you here in a sec or right now might be better so you know what I'm talking about so here--

[Lo' and behold, a document appears with a download link.]

--because you know everyone who does magic here does different magic unless they're form the same world and so it's really interesting to share it all and find out how its related and how it can be classified together because what's considered magic in some places isn't magic in others like enchantment back home isn't magic because Dwarves can do it and everyone knows Dwarves can't do magic because they're resistant to it but enchantment is magic in other places and I don't know why but I still think it's very interesting.

[Oh, there's the end of the sentence. Take a breath.]

If anyone has anything they want to add I'll be glad to add it to the thing so that it has as much information as possible and maybe it can help us all learn from each other or find out how different things work for different worlds though I really don't think anyone should be doing a couple of these like necromancy or blood magic because those require dead bodies that'll stink up the fleet or just really dumb decisions like talking to demons - and I mean Thedas demons, not demons like some of you here because all the demons and spirits I've met here in the Fleet are totally fine and I don't think they want to take over anyone's bodies or anything like that so basically no blood magic or anything but if we practiced somewhere safe then elemental magic and making potions to help the fleet could be a lot easier with more than two of you doing it, right?

[Another breath.]

I also think there's something going on with those devices we found awhile ago because I messed with it again and then this morning I just couldn't stop reading and writing things down like about magic but about other things too like coding and sewing and dragons and did you know the library has a distinct lack of dragon books? Felix we need more books about dragons because dragons are awesome and I really think lacking them is depriving the whole fleet.

[At least he's aware there's something weird going on with him, even if he keeps getting distracted by his own brain.]

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[Um. ]

Adalwolfe, please breathe more.

[Is he drunk? He doesn't LOOK drunk. Maybe he like...drunk his ship's entire supply of coffee in the space of five minutes. ]

...Are you alright?

Edited 2017-02-03 20:25 (UTC)

I'm fine everything's fine there's just a lot to do and catch up on since we spent the past while fixing things or well the engineers at the station spent time fixing things I mostly just took a bunch of jobs so I could pay for the fixing of things but now things are all fixed and I can actually try and catch up on this studying about things like did you know that a lot of different worlds have basically the same ideas and cultural references as many others but we just don't think to talk about it?

[Breathing. Yup. That's a thing.]

And also there's a lot of romance books in here that I missed out on before so I'm glad I looked because I finished that one that Vash gave me.

...You don't seem fine. You seem... energetic.

[Please don't pass out, Wolfe. Anders will bitch and whine all fucking day. ]

I have noticed, though... how many books have you read? Because it sounds like it's been a rather lot in a very short space of time. Perhaps you should rest for a while?

Yeah I feel like I have a lot of energy but not like Grey Warden energy something else so I think there might be something going on but really I'm just going to take advantage of it for now since I can't think of anything to do about it and the advantage is that I am getting a whole lot of reading done which is good since I have a lot of time to catch up for. Did you know my father was not the best teacher? I mean he tried definitely and Bethany and I did learn basically everything we did from him before we had to start figuring everything else out for ourselves but he wasn't very good at all this book stuff like how or why things work or classifications or anything like that even if he was quite good at actually casting spells creatively so I know I definitely got that from him but the rest of it wasn't even in his journal just spells he liked or thought were useful and a lot of doodles in the margins of dragons and dogs and there's this one of him zapping some guy in a robe who I bet was one of the Enchanters in the Gallows at the time when he went there so I think I get my art skills from him too and by that I mean poor drawing talent.

Fasta vass, slow down.

[He caught about half of that. He kind of zoned out a bit around the middle. He's just...rubbing his forehead with a hand right now. What is happening.]

That's a lot of information to take in, in a very short amount of time. Tell me, did you drink all of the coffee in your ship?

Edited 2017-02-04 18:46 (UTC)

I only had one cup of coffee this morning then I went to work on the transmission bug thing since it occurred to me we might be able to use it the other way and talk to that rescue fleet without being listened in on but then I got distracted by wanting to see what Anders was doing and maybe practicing potions but he got annoyed so I just came over here to practice on my own and there are so many very interesting topics here that I've never thought of that I guess I sort of got carried away but it's not really doing any harm since I plan on putting all these books back in their proper places when I'm finished.

...I can't possibly imagine why Anders got annoyed with you.

[He's just...rubbing his forehead, regretting answering this thing at all.]

Wait. Go back. You are attempting to contact the other Fleet? The ones that attacked us in the past?

Maker Fenris, did you just basically agree with Anders that I'm annoying? This is a monumental occasion, you two agreeing on something I need to record this for posterity.

[He is highly amused and had to say so. Only then can he get to Fenris' actual question.]

But they didn't attack us this time and so I have a theory that they were under Atroma's control last time you know for ratings and stuff since we do know that there's other fleets based on wrecks we've seen and the fact that those guys exist at all and so I think if they were able to escape, and they helped us this time, then maybe they can help us and it's really not like we have a whole lot of options on that front you know.

Yes yes, you're hilarious. Don't get smug about it, it shan't happen again.

[He says that like he hasn't already agreed with Anders more than he's actually comfortable with lately. ]

If they were able to escape, then how were Atroma able to control them? I would imagine for escape to truly be possible, they would have had to kill the power to their augments- which is the hole Atroma have on us.

...I do not trust them, but I suppose you're right. We have little option.

[Both of them have been completely mum on that front to Hawke so he has no idea. It's still an uncommon enough occurrence to be novel.]

Those are the questions only they know so we need to ask them or else we'll never know the answers since we've already been warned not to try and remove ours or at least I was warned I'm not sure what would happen but its probably better to just ask first considering these things are under our skin and all which frankly is pretty creepy and I try to not think about it except when I have to.

I tried to remove mine when I got here.

[Because of course he did. ]

I do not recommend it. It was not as awful an experience as being branded, but I would say it made a close second.

I don't plan on trying without some kind of guidance which is why I want to contact the other fleet so if they did have chips and removed them then they can tell us how they did it which I really hope is the case though only if it doesn't result in Atroma panicking and sending us all home and dragging more people out of other worlds all of a sudden.

[He... really doesn't want to go home.]

[Fenris can agree with him on that one. Home is the worst. ]

Hm- it is something we would have to exercise great caution with. In Exsilium, at least, they gave us the option where to go, when they no longer had need of us- but that was a very different scenario to this one.

Considerate of them, I suppose.

[It's the only charitable thing he can think of to say of another faceless organization that pulls people all across time and space for their own purposes without even a how do you do.]

I don't expect we'll get any choice in anything unless we take it which is why I want to try whatever there is to try considering we aren't afforded a large amount of control over our situation and this is the first thing that's really come up where we might have a shot at help.

Some even chose to remain there. To help rebuild.

[Mostly those who had literally nothing to return home to. Those who were dead, or were going to die. ]

It would be foolish of us to ignore the opportunity. I'm not overly invested in returning to Thedas, but a life beyond being puppets for the amusements of others is still preferable.

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