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severa

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If this magic works the way it was described, somebody should be able to hear me right now. [though the voice of the young lady that's coming through sounds incredibly skeptical about this entire endeavor.] If you can, and you can actually understand me, I want you to tell me whether 8,000 "creds" is a lot of money around here, and what I can do to get it. I can't believe your merchants don't take something as simple as gold for war supplies.

[there's ambient noise for a while, and some confused sounds from somebody who has obviously never seen, much less used, an omni-tool before. eventually she groans in exasperation.]

My sword's been stolen from me and you expect me to do repairs to survive. This is entirely unacceptable.

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I don't think it was even a colony until the mining started. ... and this seems to be what came with the mining.

[He's hesitating a bit on that last question.]

I'm sure there is, but you'll have to ask someone else for details about that. I'm not interested.

Oh, fine. It's probably all gone anyway. Would a place that looks like this just be sitting on a pile of gold? Besides, gold is worthless around here! Some brave new world this is turning out to be.

At least the people in it are slightly better than I was expecting. Though the ones who make a living here normally certainly have some manners issues to figure out.

It's not gold. It's some sort of special element the technology here runs on. Eezo, I think it is? Nothing I have any use for. My magic works fine without it and that's all I need. I think civilization's a bit past gold at this point.

The new group -- the type we're in -- doesn't seem to be too bad so far. I've pretty much been keeping to myself.

Eezo? Well, that just sounds silly. [sigh] Whatever. You said you're a mage? Dark or the regular kind?

I'm a Wizard. There's only three of us in existence where I come from. ... I'm not sure what you mean by dark, so I guess I'm the regular kind.

Only three? Gawds, even magic is different! It's not like it's hard to study it. Why are there only three of you? Are you all at least really powerful to make up for it?

Well... There are people in my world with magical potential called Gates. Gates are always competing with a creature inside of them known as a Phantom. If their willpower is weaker than the Phantom's, then the Phantom will kill them and take them over. Phantoms who already exist take pleasure in driving Gates into despair so they can create more Phantoms.

So, either the Phantom is destroyed and the Gate loses all magical potential in exchange for their life, or the Gate manages to control their Phantom and their willpower wins out. Then they become a Wizard.

I'm not too sure about how the guy before me became one... This other guy I know just made a contract with a Phantom, so he's not actually a Gate, but he's still a Wizard.

That's the short version of it, anyway. [smile] We can't really study it. We have to go through hell and come back in one piece.

[by the end of that speech, Severa's amazed she managed to stay awake through the whole thing. this all sounds way too complicated to be worth it. it's the whole reason she stays away from magic to begin with.]

So the only reason there's three of you is because it's so hard to stay happy or whatever. It sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth. Can't you just hit things over the head with hammers or cut them up with swords like normal people? Gawds.

[instead of correcting her or arguing a point, he just shrugs.]

Our enemies don't fight using traditional methods, so we had to adjust.

I suppose that makes sense. [but boy is that ever a begrudging admission.] I've never heard of an enemy that's immune to bleeding, but apparently there's an entire host of things I've never heard of before now that I'm stuck here!

The worlds can be pretty different. Let me know if you need anything. [he gives a short salute.]

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