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

[sapphirecontess]

That's a way to look at it I suppose, but the metals and electrical links are constructed from replicable science and engineering are they not? While they might seem "magical" to some, they're in truth anything but.

[policedefective]

Exactly. But for those who do not understand the engineering behind it, it may as well be magic. Therein it becomes a question that begs the question if magic is simply technology we have not understood completely yet or if science is magic that was given specific rules to function.

[Akechi you are a goddamn nerd.]

[sapphirecontess]

I would think that "Magic" is defined more because it lets you defy and reshape the laws that science has identified. The idea is that it is extraordinary, after all.

[ It's OK Akechi we're all nerds here ]

[policedefective]

True...in a way, magic could be an equasion that claims 1+1=3.

[Big nerds.]

But back to your situation at hand. How did these operate exactly?

[sapphirecontess]

It's a bit of a process, but in essence, we refine raw, elementally-infused material into gemstones or quartz. Those quartz can then be set within machinery to serve as a power source, or for any number of other applications.