second trial. | voice (unlocked)

[greenies]

[ thomas has not been a common presence on the network since his arrival to the drabwurld; gaining the ability to talk telepathically with the people who've been close to him have made it fairly easy for him to communicate without it. but this time, thomas addresses the network at large, although only with a (perhaps semi-familiar) voice.

he sounds uneasy. tired. ]

Do any of you have nightmares? How do you deal with them?

[ it's a stab at anonymity, mostly because he doesn't want to show his face, but the storms currently raging over head have not made his life any easier. thomas sleeps fitfully, twenty minutes at a time, wakes up screaming. no one's going to see his face as an effect of that. eventually, he tacks on a soft--]

Thanks. [ --and the line goes dead. ]

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[lusiphur]

Better for your friend to make fun of your antlers than your great ass. I'll take being a deer any day of the week over going through that again. [The Elf's best friend Jace also made comments for at least a month... which was 5 weeks longer than Lusiphur had the patience for]

I've unfortunately dealt with magic a lot. If you're not the one wielding it, it pretty much always turns out bad. Sure it has its advantages, but that means getting all friendly with the magic user, and four times out of five that part's not worth the risk. [he could count with two fingers and an obscene gesture the number of magic users who hadn't screwed him over yet out of the many he'd encountered. Elves were fabled to be "magical creatures" but give him steel and gunpowder over that crap any day.] Sorcerers turning people into things they're not must be some kind of universally cruel joke. I'm sure it's pretty advantageous... for them. Not for the poor saps who fall victim to it. [someone's a little bitter]

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[greenies]

Magic's common where you're from. [ it's not a question so much as a guess, and one thomas knows is pretty common sense. it's still weird to get used to the idea of the drabwurld being sort of commonplace to everyone else around him, because this whole casual sorcery thing really does nothing more than irritate tommy. it's hard to understand everything when some things just refuse to be explained. ]

It's a good practical joke, I guess. [ faintly humorous ] I just wish I hadn't been the butt of it. I don't think I've heard of anything quite as bad as your situation here, though, so you're probably okay...for now, anyway.

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[lusiphur]

Where I'm from, it's more common that I'm comfortable with. More common in the Elvin cities than in human ones... and all of it combined is less magic than what's in the air around here. [He grumps.] It makes my skin crawl.

[Lusiphur actually has a lot of complaining to do about magic and magic users, but he wanted a beer before launching into that rant. It didn't really matter what the Elf thought of magic... it's everywhere, and apparently it would just continue to taunt him] The only reason my situation isn't as bad is because I haven't found the right people to piss off yet. Give it time.

So. What's it like not having magic around where you're from?

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[greenies]

...Different. [ well the world is pretty much ending, so. his first knee jerk response was "disease ridden" so different is probably better. ] The place I'm from is pretty bleak compared to here--magic might have done us some good. I thought I had magic for a little while, but it turned out even that was just a chip in my brain.

It's weird, though, because some of the stuff crosses over. Like the fairy rings in the Drabwurld, we'd call those a flat-trans. They do the same thing in theory--I'm kind of interested in trying to see if we can't make them more portable like the flat-trans are, but I don't exactly have the magical knowledge to replicate it. [ uh oh you brought out thomas the nerd. this has sort of been his pet project since he got to the drabwurld. ] But it's interesting, that magic and science sort of coincide.

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[lusiphur]

.... Nerd. [He doesn't know Thomas beyond this first conversation, but it's pretty clear he's just teasing. He sighs audibly before continuing.]

I have to admit, I don't know how magic or science works, but I would definitely prefer this place to be a little more bleak than it is. [There's really no point in complaining, and there's something a bit defeated in his voice. Annoyed, but defeated.]

I don't know anything about these "fairy rings" you're talking about. Teleportation?