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driftfleet2015-07-22 12:29 pm
heresyandlace) wrote in driftfleet2015-07-22 12:29 pm
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best ship in the fleet
Who: Anyone aboard the SS Pathstone!
Broadcast: Probably not
Action: Yes! Even if that action is mostly sleeping.
When: All month!
[watch, dear audience, as the intrepid crew of the SS Pathstone handles beaches, bugs, and storms!
with nothing but teamwork and sheer emotional maturity, they face each and every obstacle with dignity and grace.
there will never be a crew in the entire Fleet as stalwart and bonded in the eternal ties of friendship as the Pathstone.
watch, and be amazed.]
Broadcast: Probably not
Action: Yes! Even if that action is mostly sleeping.
When: All month!
[watch, dear audience, as the intrepid crew of the SS Pathstone handles beaches, bugs, and storms!
with nothing but teamwork and sheer emotional maturity, they face each and every obstacle with dignity and grace.
there will never be a crew in the entire Fleet as stalwart and bonded in the eternal ties of friendship as the Pathstone.
watch, and be amazed.]
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Tek had just been on his way to grab a snack before heading out again, but this certainly snags his attention. detouring over, he nibbles on a slice of protein as he looks at the screen over Duke's shoulder.]
...Oh, no. You have those two digits reversed.
[he's making shit up.]
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Perhaps you're familiar with a different strength of gravity.
[ ... but he could alter that to make different sort of arcs. Hmn. A later test.
... And then he pulls up what looks like a graph and starts drawing out patterns. ]
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...What is this, exactly?
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This is me mapping out patterns I want a spell to make. What I'm making it in is ... an interface? A visual manifestation of how I make magic work? Something like that.
[ Tek why are you leaning so far- ]
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It looks like a computer.
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I would say that computers look like the interface, but that is simply the order I was aware of them.
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Interesting.
...Are there always this many numbers involved with your magic?
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Yes. You learn shortcuts as you use the spell more, so it can become less.
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There is only one hall of mages that I know of that include numbers in their practice.
...They also happen to be the ones commonly considered to be the most boring. But that's probably only a coincidence.
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[ Sorry, were you calling him boring? He seems to have missed that. ]
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So, that's all it is-- numbers and formulas? Where does the energy come from?
How do you harness it, if not granted from elements or gods?
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[ Ah, this is the interesting part. ]
Originally, we used a form of ambient life-force. Our world produced this energy we called 'aer', which was harmless unless harnessed to be otherwise, or in concentrations where it became visible.
It was bound to elements shortly before I was pulled, and became the ambient magic known as 'mana', which was elementally separated, and also much less likely to cause your metabolism to accelerate harmfully in concentration.
[ Can Tek tell he found a topic Duke has paid a lot of attention to? ]
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[fortunately-- or unfortunately, depending on who is stuck in the conversation --this is a topic that Tek quite easily geeks out about.]
Do you need an innate gift in the ability, or is it something that can be learned by anyone?
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[ ... Except for him, because he cheats around the last part, without having the bloodline. ]