paradisa | 23 - Jugem Memory - Dictated, lobby action

... For those who knew him, have been told Dhaos is no longer in the castle.

[ ... Again. Although in this case he was told by Dhaos' Tyrannitar, who seems to have adopted him, rather than by talking to the man again and... finding he didn't remember him. He's not sure which is worse.

At least the large pokemon was friendly to his cat and altaria- ]

... not related in the least; how has age been tracked here? Or is it of no importance...

[ Totally not asking because he realized his had passed. Honestly. ]

[ And after that, Duke will settle in the lobby - even more out of the way than usual, because he is most uncomfortable with his current... attire. The coat he wishes up doesn't stay on for more than a few minutes at a time, much to his discomfort, so it ends up sitting on the floor about him as he stops paying attention to it and pays more attention to... magic. He would have done this on the roof again, but with all the snow, it was a quick way to both get cold and burnt.

The corner of the lobby where Duke sits is lit up with flickers of red, green, purples of both bright and near black, and warm gold as he works on... something.

And anyone who talked with the sphinx in wonderland might recognize how he looks- granted, he doesn't have a cat's body or wings anymore, but the coloring is the same. ]

((OOC: loss! Duke is taking the appearance of his third boss-fight from Tales of Vesperia. This means he glows a little and has metal-and-rock things in his skin, and probably feels like a bit too much magic in one place. At least he isn't crazy?))

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What are you altering?

.... Formula, which is home-world word for 'spell', simply on small scale as inside... Particular one is combat oriented, Thunder Blade. Should be similar enough to Holy Lance...

[ And he's focusing on the math again. Maybe he needs to alter Thunder Blade to closer to Holy Lance first, before trying to make ... Thunder Rain? ]

...You're not going to tell me its magic, are you?

Magic, manipulation of mana, manipulation of aer.

[ Although at that he lifts his head and blinks vaguely in the right direction. ]

Will assume you are not of a world with such things.

What is mana and aer?

That's right. In my world the only things called magic were sleight of hand or hoaxes. Tricks, intended to make gullible people believe a lie. Sometimes people would use such things to try to mislead the police into believing that a local superstition had committed a crime.

Mana is, as know it, a state between aer and matter. Aer is a life-force of sorts that flows through the world, moderately unstable. In great concentrations causes ill; in humans, metabolic processes alter in low-visible densities, death after contact in high-visible densities. Causes plant and monster life to grow out of control. Safe at concentration to point of solid rather than natural state, which would be 'gas', and thus is more often handled, even if not known as such.

In own, a form of combat, a form of .. technology. Used in offense, defense, healing of injured and ill. Protecting of cities, heating and lighting of homes, public water sources. .. and stolen, as valuable things often are.

[ Sounds like your world is like that 'Paris' to him. No magic. ]

Oh? Life-force is it? What is it made out of? [Conan was already mentally reviewing any of the substances he knew that might have similar effects.]

It is. [ Aer isn't made of anything, everything else has Aer in it. ]

It is not the same as what is referred to as souls or spirits... [ Well, he actually has an answer, two of them. ]

This is the rhizomata formula. [ And he produces another string of math. ] It allows for control of Aer. [ So if he can find it, there should be a section that describes just what he's controlling - in math-y terms. ]

Why does it control aer? And how is it different?

... does a tree have a human soul? Does a bear have the same lifeforce as a plant? Human life-force is different. [ He can show Conan a formula for that too, but he has the feeling it would be bad for reasons other than it sounds like he's talking to a young person. ]

Why? Because humans grasp power and this is a form that was considered infinite.

How is it different? [Conan didn't really care about questions like that. Things like souls were questions for the next world. Detectives were concerned with this world.]

Why?

[ Conan, he's getting the feeling you're asking these things to be an ass. ]

I have not made a study of it. [ Slight lie. He studied the human soul. ]

Wish to protect, wish to destroy others. Greed.

[Mostly? He was asking because he was bored. And because he made a habit of collecting information when he had nothing else to do. You never knew what might be useful.

...And also because it amused him seeing how long people would keep answering his questions.]

There will never be such a thing as a perfect human.

Nor anything 'perfect', for that would seem to imply that all would find it so, and 'all' will never agree.

Exactly. Its a goal that can never be reached.

And only a goal for betterment, whether it is a perfect 'good' or 'ill'.

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