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from: Hecate
date: June 9th

[The girl on the feed hasn't been here before... Is she new? (No, she just isn't good at social stuff. Sue her.) She doesn't seem terribly nervous, at least.]

I don't think I've been on the network since I arrived, so... I'm Rita. Rita Mordio, Zaphias Imperial Research Labratory... detached duty. Shut up, I know better, but it's habit by now. Anyway, I'm on for a reason, at least in part because certain things about modern science on both shores are pissing me off. I want to trade notes on magic systems - not shinki spells from here, but magic from home. I'm not here to steal your secrets, I just need to see if another perspective would help me figure out what I'm doing. I have some ideas but I want to see if there's a more elegant way to handle some things. Assistance will be appreciated, and also credited in any published works or designs. I'm an imperial scientist by trade, I don't steal work.

There are a few things I'm specifically looking for. I want a way to fold rending into spells. I want a way to convert between offensive magic and support magic - especially healing magic. I wanna turn spells into stuff that you can use instead, or just how to make that kinda stuff in general. And I wanna know if I'm missing something important on theory that I'm liable to explode something if I don't know.

Or I could honestly just use people to bounce ideas off of. There aren't a whole lot of others in my temple I can bother, and if I blow up too much of the landscape testing, someone's going to get mad.

Thanks in advance.

((Rita's working on a couple projects; she wants to try and replicate something like her healing gels from home, she wants to try and design a spell that includes rending from a shinki [once she has one she can work with in that way, sob], and a few less-formed ideas. Whether or not any of it will work is another matter entirely, but she's in the design phase and wants to swap notes and maybe meet people that have an idea what she's trying to do in the first place.))

Comments

[reloves]

Yeah, that's pretty much it! I just.. say the name, do the thing.. [ This is a voice feed, but Minako seems to momentarily forget that, since she's definitely gesturing over on her end even though there's no way Rita can see it. ] .. and then it just happens! Boom! Just like that.

[blahblahblah]

That's. [Not descriptive whatsoever, and she can already imagine Minako gesturing on the other end of the line.] That's nice, but it doesn't tell me a whole lot. Does... "the thing" have to be exactly the same way every time? Does it work the same way every time? Is the laser different?

[Rita pauses a beat.] Uh, you don't have to answer all those questions. But if I'm gonna use science to work things out, I need to put good stuff into the science.

[reloves]

I haven't used it that much yet, so I can't say for sure..

[ It's kind of hard to practice with when you just cause destruction whenever you do, and Minako doesn't feel like wrecking the whole Far Shore just for the sake of practice. ]

But.. I guess it's been the same way every time so far? You really need to focus when you're aiming though.

[blahblahblah]

I'd imagine, if it's a big huge laser. Probably would put a pretty big hole through something. Or any idiot that got in the way... Sorry, these are probably kinda strange questions. You probably don't even really think about it, right? Just do the thing and shoot.

[reloves]

Yeah, exactly. I mean, it's even happened instinctively before in self defense. It just feels natural to me. [ Hence why she can't even imagine any technical side that's behind it. Once Minako found out this was the sort of magic she could do, it all just felt so simple. ]

Is the magic you're used to different?

[blahblahblah]

Huh. That's kind of intriguing. I wish I could just hold my arms up in the middle of freaking out and have stuff happen.

My magic... it's all math and science. Everything according to a formula, then sketch out the formula and make the magic happen on demand. It means I can make new magic, but it takes a long time to work out the formula so I don't explode in the process.

[reloves]

[ Minako lets out a groan. ]

Seriously, having to do math to be able to do magic? That sounds terrible! [ She likes being able to avoid math now she's here and doesn't have to go to school, okay.. ] I wouldn't be able to do even the simplest of things!