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[milkisgross]

What the hell… [The words magically appear on the blank page.]

HEY! How is that happening? What kind of joke is this?

[There’s a long pause before the words write themselves again.]

“Paradisa,” huh? I flip through this stupid book and not only do people have no clue how they got here, they think it’s magic? Give me a break. It looks like a bunch of little kids got together and wrote in this stupid thing.

Ok, there has to be some kind of explanation for this, right? [That’s right. Ed’s talking his way through this mess.]

Let’s see, one moment, I’m sleeping at Granny’s place, and the next I wake up in some huge library with this…thing that somehow writes whatever I say. Looks like I don’t have a choice but to look for the guys who wrote in the other pages…

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[kid_apocalypse]

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

I think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said that. "Magic" might not be the most easy to believe thing in the world, but in the absence of a better explanation, that's the best we've got.

By the way, some of us are kids, but that doesn't mean that we're stupid or uniformed.

[milkisgross]

Sorry. Technically, I'm still a kid myself. I was thinking more along the lines of toddlers.

Look, it can't be magic. I don't care what this "Doyle" guy said, it's just not possible!

[kid_apocalypse]

I think there might be one baby here, otherwise I think the youngest castle resident is four.

How can you be sure? If things like robots, immortals, and elves can exist, why can't magic? I'm pretty sure there're at least a few of the residents who could demonstrate it for you in person.

[milkisgross]

Woah! Hold on a second! Robots, immortals, and elves? You're saying that those kinds of things are here too?!

[The robots and "immortals" he can believe. Homunculi were getting pretty close to the immortal side of things, and Ed was sure if technology was advanced enough, robots could be a thing. But elves?]

Please tell me you're not calling yourself an elf.

[kid_apocalypse]

Yup! I'm actually pretty good friends with a robot, and there's an elf-lady named Galadriel here. As for me, I'm a mutant, someone born with the mutant "X" gene that caused me to develop unique powers when I was younger. My name's Evan Sabahnur. You?

[milkisgross]

[Could it be? This person is speaking science! Sure, Ed's never heard of it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, right? Also, yeah, we're going to ignore that bit about the elf.]

Edward Elric. I'm a State Alchemist from Amestris. So, what exactly is this "X" gene you mentioned. I never studied genetics, but it it sounds pretty interesting.

[kid_apocalypse]

Can't say I've ever heard of Amestris, but there're people from a lot of different worlds here, so I don't doubt it exists.

Anyway, the "X" gene is a heritable gene that causes genetic mutation in humans from my world, and usually manifests when a kid enters puberty. Mutations caused by the "X" gene can be as simple as telepathy, allowing a person to broadcast their thoughts on a special electromagnetic wavelength, and read the thoughts of others, or as complicated as my mutation, which gives me total control over my body at the molecular level.

So...I've read a little about alchemy, but the only people I know of from my world who deal with it are guys like Doctor Strange, or Daimon Hellstrom. What's it like in your world?

[milkisgross]

You've never heard of Amestris?

[Then...no. She couldn't be right. Different "worlds?" But...what other explanation was there, other than that this kid must have lived under a rock? That, and even Kimblee mentioned something like that, though Ed couldn't really trust anything he said...]

So, the whole "different world thing" seems to be true, huh? [Definitely something he was going to look into once he found that library Hermione mentioned.]

You must be from some kind of world then if you call telepathy a simple mutation, though your ability does sound a lot more complicated. Would you mind showing me?

Oh yeah? It's a pretty common thing where I'm from. The government tends to research military uses for alchemy, though in Xing, it originated as a kind of medicine.

[kid_apocalypse]

Nope. Though considering that there are places like the Brimstone and Darkforce Dimensions in my world, I'm a bit more willing to believe in alternate and pocket dimensions. So yeah, Paradisa, as hard as it is to think of it that way, is a world...dimension...pretty much whatever you wanna call it, all to itself.

Oh, not at all! I'd be happy to show you my mutation. You're in the library, right? I'll be right there.

[He starts on his way down.]

That sounds a bit like my world. Science and research started for altruistic ends, and it ends up being co-opted by the military. Mutants actually used to be pretty common in my world, but a few years ago there was an incident with a mutant witch named Wanda Maximoff, and she casted a spell that depowered something like 98% of the mutant population, resulting in a few thousand deaths all at once.

Set up a log? y/n/m?

[milkisgross]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Which will likely be very soon, don't worry.]

Yeah. Someone mentioned there was one, so I thought I'd do some research on this place.

That sounds kind of like what supposedly happened in Xerxes. I'll tell you more about it when we meet up.

Sounds like a plan. Do you wanna do it or should I?

[kid_apocalypse]

It doesn't take long to get used to this place, once you've been here a while. I've been here about 4 months myself, so I've had a little time to get used to all the weird, unbelievable stuff.

There's books on just about every subject there, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's at least a few books on this place, among the other worlds people come from.

I'm looking forward to it!

If you can set it up, I can get around to tagging it later tonight, so, you plz?

[milkisgross]

See you there.

[kid_apocalypse]

((Log's up!))