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riverview2017-08-10 08:56 pm
bunnyblock) wrote in riverview2017-08-10 08:56 pm
text; @RuffRabbit
[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.
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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 Magic, outdated science, fiction.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.
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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.
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Alchemy is the deconstruction and reconstruction of matter. Some people call transmutation magic here, but there's no spells involved in alchemy where I'm from, you can't change matter or make something out of thin air it has to be an equal exchange.
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It's sort of like moving to another country.
Everything's new. Culture's different...
You have to adjust.
[A pause, though--what Edward is describing sounds fascinating.]
So it's less like changing water into wine...
And more like taking the ingredients for wine and changing it into wine instantly?
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The entire concept of technology is different here, it's more advanced than any of the other places I've been.
Exactly. With the proper materials we can make just about anything.
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I suppose I don't have much to compare it to.
I've never really gone travelling a lot in my life. There's not much difference between my life here and my life home, except the technology is unfamiliar and the existence of this 'magic' stuff.
...
I'm interested in seeing how it works. This Alchemy.
Can anyone do it?
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Hypothetically. It's a science so it requires study and not everyone has the drive or natural talent to make it work.
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The third...
Should I pity you or be impressed.
[Rude, but... this is Noiz you're talking to.]
I see.
Should I assume you've both the drive and natural talent?
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[Ed's used to rude and he hates pity, so the response actually catches him by surprise. Honestly, he doesn't care what this guy assumes so his response might be a little flippant at this point, let him think whatever he wants to.]
I guess so.
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That's pretty vague.
Tells me one of two things.
Either you don't have a basis of comparison to your skill
Or you're being modest
I wonder which it is.
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[Or maybe everything Ed's saying is just coming off as vague. Either way the next comment gets his attention. Sure, he's not as quick to boast about his skills anymore, but when called out on it the impulse tends to rise again. It's hard to say if the idea that he has no comparison or the accusation of being modest is what gets him more.]
I'm the youngest certified state alchemist in the country back home, I have some comparison.
[That might not mean anything to anyone who isn't native to Amestris though, and Ed's not going to point out that he's survived and pulled off more than one transmutation that should have killed a person.]
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Maybe you're right.
I just like a clear picture.
[A clear picture--yeah, that's easy enough to want when you're ignorant to almost everything in the real world. He hides it well--how little he actually knows about anything outside of computers and video games.]
...Ah.
So you're a prodigy. Somehow I almost expected to hear something like that.
[It's hard to tell if this is a compliment or something else.]
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[Ed was ... odd, for as much as he liked to boast about his skills when others pointed out that he was a genius or a prodigy it always made him somewhat uncomfortable. He almost leave it, almost but the idea that this guy had predicted it felt a little strange.]
what's that supposed to mean?