Of Magic and Technology

[sapphirecontess]

Video, open to all

[A lovely and demure, albeit slightly impish face appears on camera]

Good day, everybody. For those who I've yet had the pleasure to meet, my name is Musse Egret, a fairly recent arrival to Avalon with a problem I hope you might all be able to assist me with.

I've found this world to be a bit... different from my own. In my world, we use elementally-infused gemstones to run much of our technology, whereas here all of my quartz is completely inert. However, using my elemental magic, my hope is to find a way to empower some of my possessions to function as they had before, but I'm having some issues with that. Does anyone possess similar technology? Has anyone found a way or practice to make them work again?

Action; closed to Robin

Musse had settled into their new home life fairly easily. The room was smaller than she was accustomed to, but with no roommate it was easily as much space as she had in her dormitory at Thors - not that she had many possessions to fill it with anyway. She was honestly quite grateful to her hosts - to have been so welcoming was not something she expected of anybody. She was also quite aware that, though they didn't quite see it as such, they were in all effects married and as such, deserved a bit of... personal time. And with that aim, she approached the other woman's door, knocking lightly on it.

Action, an hour or so later, closed to Robin, Edelgard and Byleth

Musse appeared in the shared living space with a certain white-haired tactician grasped firmly by one arm.

"Robin and I are going to spend some time out in the city today, I expect we'll be gone until well after dinner. Was there anything you needed us to attend to while we're gone?"

Comments

[notquitetamed]

Nah, I can get why it seems impractical. [And for him it's especially bad, but he's not going to get into that or too detailed on alchemy. Just the stuff Tito uses to make their gear and weapons.]

Alchemy in my world is a bit complicated, but it's similar to the sort here except without the potion stuff. It's just using magic or tools to create an effect on stuff. All very practical for combat since it's built into stuff we wear and the effects last. Just can't figure out how to do that here beyond a few hours, maybe a day at most.

[sapphirecontess]

How interesting. So it generally refers to the art of crafting enchanted items in general, as opposed to just the creation of chemicals and potions?

[notquitetamed]

Yeah, something like that. At least the way it's used now. In the past they did do shit like trying to turn lead into gold, but most of the items work much like just being enchanted to have one spell in them that remains there forever. Like I got a pair of boots that makes you run faster, much like kinetic magic here.

[sapphirecontess]

It seems like every civilization has some kind of legend about turning lead into gold. I suppose we humans are just enamored with the idea.

[notquitetamed]

It's the draw of riches with no effort. Most don't get that you don't truly appreciate something unless you work for it.

[sapphirecontess]

The irony of course being that the effort spent trying and failing to turn lead to gold far exceeds the effort one might expend simply locating actual gold.

[notquitetamed]

Of course, but what else can one expect from the academic types who prefer to study over doing labor?

[sapphirecontess]

Admittedly I think you know very different academics than I do. The ones I know are very...

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...hands on.