[Open] Do you believe in magic?

[wolfehawke]

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.]

Comments

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[mistyday]

[Uh.. okay.]

Wolfe, you feelin' all right?

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[wolfuncaged]

[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?

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[draughter]

[ (Un???)fortunately for him, Lancer is always in hyper mode so she's able to keep up, nodding her head as he rambles on and on and on and on and on... Even if half of the stuff is going over her head (it's not that hard, considering she's short and also kind of dimwitted), there's a lot of words she recognizes. ]

Hey, hey. Your thing about magic is severely outdated. [ Also boring. There's not enough cute symbols or emoticons. Could he have at least used a different color font? ]

For example, you don't have to be a spirit medium to speak with a spirit.

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[apurrstate]

[Anders greet's the vision of Hawke's face with a huuuuuge smile, practically radiant.]

You seem full of energy, love. Are you having fun?

action; open to Three Twins crew

[arfvader]

[Knocking on the closest surface of whatever room Wolfe is currently occupying and no doubt making a ruckus in.]

Could you keep it down? Some of us are trying to sleep!

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[sonofgold]

Would my alchemy count as magic for this purpose?

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[lord_wizard]

[Felix, of course, takes a little while to browse over what Adalwolfe has written with avid interest, and make a few notes, before he chimes in with a response. He is, yes, mildly concerned, but he won't waste the opportunity of discussion.]

Adalwolfe, I hardly know where to begin. I suppose to start, in defense of the Iskaulit's collection, my lack of dragon books, as you call it, is directly a result of people not supplying me with said volumes. So, in essence, you are depriving yourselves. [Don't blame him for his library. He only has so much money and people keep buying fiction]

Secondly, your notes here are a very good start...I have not heard of almost half of these...but it could certainly use some refining. In some places your terms are far too broad and in others too narrow. For example, hydromancy is absolutely a type of magic in my world but it doesn't involve conjuring water at all, merely working with and through the substance.