text; @RuffRabbit

[bunnyblock]

[It's been about a month since this weird, glitchy-looking styled message has appeared on the network, but here he is again. But instead of a list of quiet, seemingly random questions, it's a pretty legible question.]

There are people here from different sorts of worlds, with different sorts of abilities, and experiences that border on the supernatural.

The longer I'm here, sometimes I find it hard to believe this is anything more than a strange dream, or something along those lines.

I understand science and machinery. I don't understand the supernatural, only in the sense of Videogames and Science Fiction.

If you have abilities or experiences that are different from this 'normal' I understand...

Tell me about it.

Your magic, your reality, supernatural creatures or abilities...

I'm interested in that.

Comments

@dodger/text

[smokedout]

got any reason for wanting to know?

[bunnyblock]

'Curiosity' not enough?

[smokedout]

it usually isn't in my experience.

[bunnyblock]

It's hard to make a video game realistic when the things in it only exist in my reality.

If I'm creating it here...
It needs to have things that are familiar to everyone.

Private text; @SlyBlue

[bottombitch]

What about...

The ability to embarrass everyone within a 25 foot radius?

private

[bunnyblock]

Are we talking about you or me right now.

private

[bottombitch]

[ OH WOW. That shade, Noiz. ]

I think I've met someone whose ability is stronger than yours, yours is like a direct attack, while his is an AOE.

Maybe after you've met him, you'd think better of me ☆

private

[bunnyblock]

[He was just kidding. Probably.]

An AoE...

Hoh.

What kind of people are you meeting...

How weird.


[text | un: edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

if this is a dream it's hardly the strangest.
Alchemy is a science where I'm from, but here most people refer to it as magic.

[bunnyblock]

Makes me not want to wonder about your dreams.

Alchemy.

I've heard of it. And I understand it in theory. But to liken it to magic... doesn't seem right.

[alchemyfreak]

Probably a good idea.

I was in another world before, not entirely like this one but not home. If we're comparing strange worlds to dreams that one would be a nightmare.

Many people call it different things. Magic, outdated science, fiction. I've stopped questioning all of them, after a few years it gets old.

[bunnyblock]

Sounds like it's a good thing you're here and not there.

It's vague, what you're describing.

It sounds as if it's something I'd have to see for myself to begin to understand.

text (@natsume.t)

[mingling]

To be honest, I didn't even stop to consider this was a dream

I guess I just went with it

[bunnyblock]

...

You just went with it...

Somehow, I think that's fine, too.

Dreams are usually better than reality, right.

@knight.time

[chumpelstiltskin]

this is relatable content
you think youre something special and then you come into a place where everybody else is something special and you just fade into obscurity
like a mediocre band that didnt really make much of its genre
like i dunno
the nickelback of powered individuals
anyway is there a 25 characters or less limit on explaining things because its going to be extremely hard for me to condense just how bullshit my reality is
and youre not my therapist so why would i make you endure that

[bunnyblock]

Nice of you to spare me the tl;dr.

Though I can't imagine how it feels for everything to change so suddenly you feel what it's like to be an 'ordinary' person.

That aside...

You can give me the short version.
Can you Terraform or something?

[chumpelstiltskin]

the long and short of it is that all my godly powers and shit were kind of a means to an end and once we actually hit the end they were mostly like
decorative i guess
like decoupaging a trash can

anyway
i guess i can tell you
im not doing anything with it
im a time travelling sort of guy who also flies and stuff

[bunnyblock]

You can time-travel and fly...

And you 'don't do anything' with it?

I honestly can't imagine something like that.

Maybe I wouldn't tamper with time...

But flying sounds ...

[Amazing, honestly.]

Were you disheartened from them because they became 'obsolete' in your goal?

text; @d.pavus

[tevinteraltus]

You offer an interesting perspective. You see, magic is rather akin to technology where I come from. That isn't to say it's buildable, such as a bridge, and there are those, such as myself, born with the ability to wield it, but it is measurable. It isn't anything strange or, as you say 'super' natural. It is just as natural as hair or eye color.

[bunnyblock]

'Buildable'.

Meaning people born without the ability to wield it can train themselves to do it?

People born with it, like you, are you naturally stronger at it than someone who's put themselves through the efforts to be able to use it?

I can't imagine 'Magic' being like 'Technology...'

[tevinteraltus]

Well, not as such, no. Items can be enchanted to allow those who are not able to "access" magic, if you will, its use.

Have you any experience at all with magic? If not, why would it not be as technology? You would, in essence, have no basis for comparison. I've found it to be assumed that "magic" is something beyond comprehension, some sort of strange phenomena that simply is, and that just isn't the case. Yes, it is, whether one chooses to believe it or not, but, just like anything else that is, it is measurable, touchable.

When I arrived here, this device through we which are currently communicating seemed like unto what you seem to perceive magic to be: supernatural. I believe we should assume "supernatural" henceforth to refer to anything beyond what we know. That being said, nothing shall remain "supernatural" after its method and function are understood. Do you follow?

[bunnyblock]

[Noiz takes a long moment to respond to Dorian, likely due to how he's carefully going over the mage's explanation to Science vs Magic. It's a lot to think about and logic out, so he's giving the others' careful explanation the thought it deserves before thoughtlessly responding.

Finally, a response will appear on the others' screen.]

A device like this, things like AllMates could be seen as Supernatural to anyone not used to technology. I think I'm starting to understand this point of view.

Always thought of magic as something that's pulled out of thin air, but the way you're describing it...

It's like a science itself, following different rules from what I know.

Should say thanks. This has been the most useful response I've gotten.

text; @chronicler

[scholiast]

(Bad call she'll talk about this for hours.)

I'm a wizard, and I specialise in abjuration magic. Is that very unbelievable for you? I find it hard to wrap my head around a lot of the technology I've seen here.

[bunnyblock]

[oh fantastic]

Abjuration ...

I know what this word means. But I'm not sure how it's applied with magic.

Technology is something I'm an expert in. So I understand it easily.

[He lacks the grace to offer it or say it, but if she needs help to 'wrap' her head around it, it'll be easy for him.]

[scholiast]

It's a form of defensive magic. Shields, and wards, sometimes glyphs.

That's a useful skill to have. I still haven't finished working out everything about the phone they gave me.

(How can there be so many things going on in one device auuugh)