[Nebula 3, morning] Nothing ventured...

[gathersnomoss]

[Normally Zelgadis keeps the camera off when using the ICP. Today he's not doing so.]

Since missions seem to come around every month, I wanted to get this out of the way before we end up on some strange new place, but after the train picked up new passengers.

I want to talk magic. And I don't mean everyone's weird powers, but the sort where you learn and cast spells. Because it occurs to me that it might be possible for one person to replicate another world's spells using their own magical framework. Well, not impossible. Worth testing.

If that's interesting to you, I'll be in the library for most of today, but I can hear the ICP. Might help to hash out the theory before we experiment.

[Zelgadis looks like he's about to end the message, and hesitates a moment.]

Also, it might be worth discussing what limits there are on magic. I know what sorcerers in my world consider difficult problems, but not if those are universal.

[another hesitation]

I have a particular interest in magic used to transform. It's not something I've had much luck with in my own world.

[This time he does end the message posting. He doesn't want to publicly ask straight out. Well, not yet. He's not feeling desperate yet. But he has to know, and if this also turns out something everyone finds useful, so much the better.]

Comments

[flameinthedarkness]

I guess the first is required for the second. [Idia is aware it's a rather large topic, he trying to figure out how to even start explaining his own world's version of it.] Unless it requires a full and in-depth essay to answer that. A simplified summary would be good enough for now.

[gathersnomoss]

The magic my world uses involves drawing on other sorts of power. The elements, or the gods or mazoku. What you can do with that energy depends a lot on where you got it from.

[flameinthedarkness]

[...yeah ok, he wants to know more, specifically;] Mazoku? [Just what is that, considering it didn't fall into the other two options?

Idia may not understand that 'depends on the source' part in regards to his own magic, but the gamer and media consumer in him did, knowing it as a plotline for many a stories.] So it's like different alignments gives you different abilities that the others don't have access to? Is it just from those three categories, or does it break again within them? Like fire magic or a certain deity?

[gathersnomoss]

The gods are derived from FLare Dragon Ceipheed, which is the creative half of our world. The destructive half of the world is Ruby-Eye Shabranidgo, and his followers... subordinates, maybe, are the mazoku.

[OOC: And watch the player be a cranky anime fan because 'demon' would be a perfectly fine English translation for the word... except it's used elsewhere in the canon for something different.]