interfaith dinner mingle!!

[stefanged]

Who: Interfaith Center regulars & the not-so-regulars (party crashers are welcome too!!)
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Interfaith Center on the Iskaulit
When: Forward-dated to November 4th

[The Interfaith Center sounds far more bustling and busy than usual - and anyone peering inside would quickly figure out that a communal dinner is underway! Take off your shoes and walk in: the lounge has extra tablecloths on the floor as well as buffet tables with non-alcoholic beverages and all sorts of food, including Jordanian cuisine (or the outer space equivalent of Jordanian food).

The board games are out of their hiding nooks; the furniture's arranged for the maximum seating possible; and even the teddy bears donated by Kitty & Winn are out for cuddling, should anyone want them.

The kitchen's bustling with helpers - Stefan's running around at vamp-speed to make sure everything's a) done on time and b) cooked to perfection - but he sure wouldn't mind an extra hand. And if you're still not up for some food? Well, the prayer rooms are open as usual. There's always a quiet moment to be found, even if the laughter's louder and the scent of freshly-baked mansaf's wafting through the long corridors.

Anyone and everyone who's ever been inside the Interfaith Center has been invited (via text message - and Stefan even used the fancy emoji). If you're not particularly faithful or devout? Well, drop by anyways. There's more than enough food to spare.]

Comments

[huaaaaagh]

Huh.

[You learn something new every day, apparently. Though it makes sense that something normal for you would be magic for others. It's said that magic is just science that isn't explained yet, right?

Except in video games where it's literally magic.]

What kind of things do you mean? The, uh, not-magic magic.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor considers thoughtfully ]

Well, my cousins - Finrod, do you know him? - that branch of the family have very strong powers of the mind. Finrod's sister, for example, can read the hearts of those around her very clearly - enough that she is, basically, reading your mind, and she can do so over considerable distance. Both she and Finrod also get glimpses of foresight, although her sense of such is much sharper. But all of those things are things that are common to our people, it is just that their gift is greater than most.

[huaaaaagh]

Geez, yeah, that definitely sounds like something regular people would call magic.

[It sounds like the sort of abilities he'd read in some unnamed fantasy novels of his youth involving wizards and rings and short people.]

Lol is kirito a lotr fan?

[bythewaves]

Even so - you are not the first to say so, but we do not think of it that way.

it's implied lmao. SAO never names other canons directly but you can tell

[huaaaaagh]

Yeah, that's understandable. There's some tech that people have invented back home that might seem like magic to some, but it's just commonplace these days. Even here, with the comms and stuff...

snortgiggle good thing I don't play a hobbit I guess XD

[bythewaves]

Aye - much of this would seem magical to me if not for the implants! I suppose it is merely a knowledge issue.

[huaaaaagh]

The clash of science and magic... it's like something out of a fantasy novel.

[bythewaves]

They write such things now, do they? [ A low chuckle ]

I am sure our... hosts deliberately chose for this clash as it doubtless is interesting for them.

[huaaaaagh]

Hah, probably. Maybe they expect more of us to fight about it. That's more typical in said fantasies.

[bythewaves]

Perhaps! But I find that conflict and distress makes for a poor story if not rewarded with joy - if they have been doing this for a while, I imagine they would know that.

[huaaaaagh]

What, like getting a happy ending?

[bythewaves]

No ending is ever truly a final one. [ Maglor murmurs softly ] Only the beginning of something new. But something like that, yes. Only grief with no joy is hard on a watcher, as well as on those living it.

[huaaaaagh]

Ah... yeah, I'd have to agree. Sometimes life is just a series of levels you have to beat. ...Er, transitions, I guess...

[Not everyone talks in video game lingo, Kirito.]

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor quirks a smile ]

Mm - and one story tends to lead to another. I suppose you could also say, we are all chapters in the Great Story - even after we are gone, we but pass the legacy onto the next.