text; un: didnot.

[morns]

( so, while everyone else is falling over themselves trying to please fae, Kate has a more important question; )

people from places with magic. powers. whatever you wanna call it.
this place offer the same variety of abilities as your home?

( talking to Riou has had her thinking about this. about the fact that for all the money that's been poured into research and development back home, there hasn't even been the faintest whisper of the kinds of things something like Death Magic can manage. )

Comments

text; un; Kyrie

[sweetsurrenders]

I feel there is a lot more here. I never heard of anyone being able to use healing magic where Nero and I come from.

[morns]

( now that interests her for a whole other reason. healing has always been such a vital power among the military forces that not having access to it at all seems more bizarre than even the lack of death magic. )

just offensive powers, then?

( that might make sense in a way. if power is just... power. strength and violence. that makes sense, even if she doesn't agree with it as a concept. )

Text; un: akashicknight

[morganknight]

Good lord, no. Magick-with-a-k was all reality at your fingertips.

[morns]

... explains a lot.

( like why he's such a weirdo. )

text | un: Helios

[fruitknife]

Nope.

Personas can do some elemental shit, but on a narrower range than 'elemental magic' sounds like it covers here. And pretty much everyone in the group I was part of had some kind of healing spell. Light and Dark were elemental types, but just one-shot-kill things that barely ever fucking worked. Dunno how the shit navigators can do would map, if it does. Nothing else really has any overlap.

[morns]

( that first bit she understands, it was one of the first things she noticed about the magic here, too. )

so anyone can heal, huh?

( she doesn't need to know this. of course she doesn't. when is she ever going to have to know anything about a Persona? but it's... kind of fascinating, really. )

are personas common?

text; un: birdofprey

[notquitetamed]

I'd say yes and no to that. Definitely have gained some nice stuff here, but also lost some nice stuff that no magic here can seem to do.

[morns]

like what?

text; un: coffeefiend

[ichoosefight]

not even close. a few years ago we had rings that raised evil zombies, and then rings that turned the evil zombies good. there was a shark dude and a mutant crocodile dude. metropolis had some kind of prank fairy with the power to manipulate reality. central city had a guy whose whole power was spinning like a top.

[morns]

( she... doesn't even know where to start with this. a lot of this sounds too mental even for fiction, so it has to be real, right? )

are the zombies still around?

( that wasn't even the most important point of that, she's just curious what one does with good zombies. )

[notcethleann]

That is quite an interesting question. I have not been here for very long, so I am certain there is magic here I have not yet seen. But it appears to me that there is a broader variety of things magic can accomplish here, and in a more flexible fashion.

What has prompted this question, I wonder?

[morns]

what kind of magic exists where you're from?

( more flexible is certainly what she'd call her own transition to this magic system, as well. )

this place has powers home doesn't. made me curious.

voice; un: hello

[luminatus]

Uh...

Yes and no, really.

This world has all kindsa magic. It's a wizard world, innit.

The magic I can use here is similar to mine, with the light barriers and the dreams and whatnot, but it's not the same either.

[morns]

not the same how? you cast it differently or something?

text; un: Creati

[recommendations]

I don't think so, no. Quirks back home were much more varied than the schools of magic you see here. Some of the magic here is similar, such as Alchemy resembling my Creation quirk, but the mechanics of it are different. And there are also no mutation type changes here, which are relatively common in my world.

[morns]

( wait, hold the phone. )

power mutation happens in your world?

( that's... a new one. )

text: detective

[policedefective]

Debatable if this variety is worth it, really.

One could argue that the powers back home were more specialized, and reserved for only a few, with certain people having truly unique powers.

There is lot more variety here, true, but in the end so many others having them removes what made the other unique.

[morns]

uniqueness isn't that important.

( her power had always been pretty unique. there were a greater contingent of sensors in the military, but she never got to know someone else who could do the same things. might have helped in getting her job after that, but maybe finding someone who could talk her through this shit would have made it easier. )

you can do more with multiple people who use the same power. share ideas with each other. one person with magic won't do shit against an army here.

( or back home, but given the number of worlds and shit she's hearing here, it might be prudent to quantify that comment. )

text; un: mystic_songstress

[backstreetbard]

This world has a great deal more in the way of magic than anything I've ever seen back home, and this comes from someone with experience as a mage.

Back home, most magic is divided into two types: faith and reason. I'm by far more proficient in reason magic--faith is a bit harder to conjure. That's usually the way of it, as well; most people are stronger in one or the other, if they have any aptitude for magic at all.

Faith magic is where you'll find your healing spells, but also spells like Seraphim and Abraxas, which are useful against monsters and demonic beasts. There's a spell to silence other mages, and a warp spell, which are also incredibly useful in combat. Reason magic is much more elemental, with fire and thunder spells and the like. Meteor is my personal favorite.

[morns]

( that was very helpful, thank you, Dorothea. )

would you say the spells in your world were more powerful than the magic here?

( because the word Meteor is conjuring up particular mental images. )

text; un: orpheus

[foolaround]

👆 what helios said!!! the magic we could use back home wasn't anything like this

[morns]

guessing you're one of the other persona users they mentioned?

text | un: miraclemoon

[feisticuffs]

Honestly, I think it offers even more.
There's quite a variety where I come from, for those who are capable of mastering it, but not like here.
I've never encountered blood magic before finding myself saddled with it, for instance.

[morns]

how you finding blood magic?

( it's been a pain in her ass since day one, personally. )

Video; UN: Roseofdawn

[beautyrest]

In some ways, it is similar, but in others, it is perhaps very limited. But I did not have any powers to speak of, my aunts were fairies, though, and I suspect they would find this world quite limiting.

[morns]

( yeah, the fact fairies exist here is weird enough. she wonders how weird people find her world in return, though. )

your aunts particularly powerful, then?

UN: carbuncle;

[nocts]

not really. It actually took away some more useful things I knew. Elemental magic and siphoning it from their sources is not unknown to me

[morns]

what useful things?

( it's gonna be hard to deny being interested in the workings of all this shit later, but she can't put the genie back in the bottle. )

voice; un: rokumon

[garyoutensei]

I didn't ever pretend to understand how magic worked back home and I'm not really going to bother to do so here.

[ There's a sound of a match striking. Puffing noises, and then a long exhale. ]

If I'm in a bind, I've got my own skills to rely on. My sword, my wits. That's all I need.

[morns]

doesn't answer the question.
your place got more or less magic types than here?