[ he's certainly nerdy enough to be a scholar person ]
Hmmmm... academic, huh? Well, here's a weird fact - Mana apparently lose their emotions if they don't interact with humans.
[ yup ]
So what more mature Mana will do is make contracts with alchemists. We borrow their power to do more difficult syntheses, and they get a bond and a chance to experience our world safely.
It is interesting to hear that both our worlds share similar concepts, yet they function in vastly differing ways. Alchemists must play quite a vital role, then.
Well, I for one shall always rely on the skill of an alchemist, too. They are the ones who create the codexes in which practitioners of arcanima such as myself make use of, you see. Not as impressive as a flying island perhaps... but no less important, I feel.
Ohhhhh, you use cursed books as weapons too! I've made my share of those for Chloe. They can use so much enchanted paper, it gets a little annoying sometimes.
But knowing personally and knowing in general are... Oh, nevermind that.
[ Alphinaud folds his arms, fidgeting with a card between his fingers. ]
Curses are not typically associated as good, you realize. Any mage using one in my home world are likely associating with the likes of voidsent—naught but bad news, in the end.
... Well, 'tis scarcely my business when I know not the girl.
[ As much as Alphinaud would like to say he trusts Ulrika's judgment, the truth is, he doesn't even feel confident in that. ]
As you are doubtless already well aware of, nay, I do not make use of cursed tomes. An alchemist is required as they are the ones who know how to create the enchanted ink writ within the pages.
Sure, no problem! You might be waiting for a bit though - my deal with Satariel starts me off with only three syntheses a week, and I want to save a few for healing stuff.
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Date: 2021-10-14 06:14 am (UTC)Hmmmm... academic, huh? Well, here's a weird fact - Mana apparently lose their emotions if they don't interact with humans.
[ yup ]
So what more mature Mana will do is make contracts with alchemists. We borrow their power to do more difficult syntheses, and they get a bond and a chance to experience our world safely.
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Date: 2021-10-14 06:19 am (UTC)[ What card game? ]
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Date: 2021-10-14 06:26 am (UTC)siiiiiiiiiiigh ]
Well, they used to. Like I said, there was this issue with Mana disappearing, which meant the energy alchemists use vanished too, so...
[ the world had to adapt ]
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Date: 2021-10-14 06:30 am (UTC)Yet the craft still lives, does it not? Surely, there must be those who still rely upon it.
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Date: 2021-10-14 07:42 am (UTC)[ that Cauldron aesthetic ]
It just fills a different role now, I guess. Not so many flying islands, more mass orders and customized creations.
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Date: 2021-10-14 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-14 07:57 am (UTC)[ a ding (wrongly) goes off in Ulrika's mind ]
Ohhhhh, you use cursed books as weapons too! I've made my share of those for Chloe. They can use so much enchanted paper, it gets a little annoying sometimes.
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Date: 2021-10-14 08:06 am (UTC)Pardon me, but... cursed?
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Date: 2021-10-14 09:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-14 09:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-14 08:38 pm (UTC)[ wow so prejudiced ]
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Date: 2021-10-14 08:45 pm (UTC)I would scarcely believe such tomes are oft used without ill intent behind it.
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Date: 2021-10-14 09:01 pm (UTC)[ which makes everything Just Fine ]
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Date: 2021-10-15 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-15 04:17 am (UTC)[ hmmmmmm ]
Maybe the others all got eaten by demons...?
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Date: 2021-10-15 04:21 am (UTC)[ Alphinaud folds his arms, fidgeting with a card between his fingers. ]
Curses are not typically associated as good, you realize. Any mage using one in my home world are likely associating with the likes of voidsent—naught but bad news, in the end.
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Date: 2021-10-15 04:38 am (UTC)[ they're bffs ]
It's fine, she knows what she's doing.
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Date: 2021-10-15 04:43 am (UTC)[ As much as Alphinaud would like to say he trusts Ulrika's judgment, the truth is, he doesn't even feel confident in that. ]
As you are doubtless already well aware of, nay, I do not make use of cursed tomes. An alchemist is required as they are the ones who know how to create the enchanted ink writ within the pages.
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Date: 2021-10-15 04:54 am (UTC)[ she does air-quotes at the word incantation, it's terrible ]
... What, is magic ink hard or something?
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Date: 2021-10-15 04:57 am (UTC)I cannot speak for its difficulty, but seeing as I am no alchemist, I do not have the knowledge or tools to create it.
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Date: 2021-10-15 05:15 am (UTC)[ ... ]
You know, when I have it back.
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Date: 2021-10-15 05:24 am (UTC)Could you? Full glad would I be once you are able! I have not mine own with me, you see, which could prove troublesome in the future.
Are the Watchers requiring you to fulfill certain tasks?
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Date: 2021-10-15 05:45 am (UTC)[ they need. so many bandages ]
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Date: 2021-10-15 05:53 am (UTC)[ who knows what's moldering in them ]
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