WEEK 1 - Online

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (1)

monday (41) survivors It had been three days since you had awoken. The ship was still quiet, except for the low hums of enigmatic machines with no apparent purpose. You awake, like usual, to dim lighting and poor rations. Perhaps being on the ship had grown monotonous — it was, perhaps, amazing how little anything seemed to happen in space, a final frontier of malaise. That monotony is crushed by a voice echoing through the narrow hallways. Reformatting . . . Reformatting . . . Reformatting complete. The Pygmalion is online. Welcome, travelers. Please assemble in the meeting room. Your presence is mandatory. Silence falls once again. A minute or so passes, and the lights around the ship finally brighten, the walls looking more alive and more unfamiliar — as if you must relearn the ship's interior once again. The robots on deck begin to make rounds, nudging and pushing at the ship's passengers to make their way to the meeting room. You hear the doors behind you lock. It seems there is only one path to take. ENTER COMMAND_

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[unasking]

[Without even missing a beat:]

A secret potion made from a unicorn's tears, the essence of Big Foot, and a dragon's scale. What people don't realize is that it must also be blessed by a werewolf.

An amateur's mistake.

[tevinteriscoming]

Werewolf, of course. I'll let them know that's where they've been going wrong. I'm always getting asked where I got my potion, but I'm afraid it's natural.

[unasking]

Well I suppose you could say that some are gifted.

[To which he's going to go ahead and ask:]

Now, am I in the company of a tried and true spellcaster? Were you born with that as well?

[tevinteriscoming]

Born and bred for it. Literally! Tried and true spellcasters are penny to a dozen where I'm from. Don't mistake that for modesty. It's true, but I'm also exceptionally good.

And you? I didn't stop reading at the hair, you know. I'm curious.

[unasking]

[Confidence is good. Confidence makes Frankenstein want to test out his skills too, admittedly.]

If only I was so lucky as to be born into power... though I admit, learning to acquire my own made it enjoyable to rock the status quo among the complacent ones. Humans were the underdog in my youth and I found it irritating, but that was quite a long time ago.

[he's a self-made monster]

[tevinteriscoming]

[Honestly, what the fuck is he talking about. It's like trying to have a conversation with Solas.

And this conversation is raising a lot of red flags, but for now, he'll just listen neutrally.]

It sounds it. Though where I'm from, all mages are born with the ability. Sometimes it's simply a matter of unlocking what's already there.

[unasking]

Mages are the work of stories and tall tales where I come from - but tell me, a mage without magic? What is your composition more akin to? A human? Or another type of being?

[Because you sure do look human, buddy! But maybe there's something that he's missing.

why can't he just force everybody under the diagnostic machine in the medical bay???]

[tevinteriscoming]

[That's fine, he doesn't mind explaining.]

I'm human, but that has nothing to do with it. All of the races have been known to produce mages, save the dwarves. As for magic, we use magic, we don't have magic. Rather, we have a certain sensitivity that allows us to manipulate magic.

[unasking]

Magic exists as a separate entity?

[Well okay, he's even more interested now.]

And it's not limited to your world?

[can you use magic here, dorian, even though you don't innately have it??? he's so curious]

[tevinteriscoming]

[Good. Let's just have nerdy discussions about magic instead of worrying about these murder olympics.]

That's correct. It isn't limited to any world, as far as I know. Though there are means to disrupt access to magic, theoretically...

Given the circumstances, perhaps it would be wise for those of us with some expertise to meet and exchange knowledge, hmm? It should be of the utmost priority that we determine how, precisely, our captors are disrupting the abilities of the mages here.

[unasking]

It's been something that I've been trying to decipher the answer to already.

[A gesture to the level of technology around them:] This isn't necessarily outside my range of expertise, yet I haven't been able to determine any magical blockers - and anything that blocks magic still shouldn't be able to dampen my own abilities.

[yeah aight frankenstein, stop trying to be a special snowflake]

If we can determine the different sources of magic and skills, it may be easier to get a grasp of the extent to which our captors can hamper us.