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voidtreckernet2020-06-02 10:48 pm
popotostudies) wrote in voidtreckernet2020-06-02 10:48 pm
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Audio; late day 16
[That sure is a tired sounding voice.]
Should anyone be hungry, there is a pot of bacon and vegetable stew in the kitchen courtesy of red team's assignment, have at it. Be advised it contains things, so if you are allergic to things, don't eat it.
[investigating the kitchen will indeed find a stew. Hearty, tasty enough and far more veg than bacon.]
Should anyone be hungry, there is a pot of bacon and vegetable stew in the kitchen courtesy of red team's assignment, have at it. Be advised it contains things, so if you are allergic to things, don't eat it.
[investigating the kitchen will indeed find a stew. Hearty, tasty enough and far more veg than bacon.]
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At least two. How are you enjoying the afterlife?
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Wh-what-- [ oh, shit, right! ]
About that-- forget all that! I said some stupid things back then.
[ Like the guy being from his past and...probably some other things... ]
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[fandaniel still isn't comvinced ot wasn't some shard or other. Tidus knew what chocobos were!]
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[ But with that, he'll give a quick 'see ya', and make his way over to the kitchen car, suspecting to see a somewhat familiar sight of a man.
And some stew!! ]
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[Tidus is left to his own devices!
But indeed when he arrives in the kitchen car, there is in fact a large pot of something that smells vaguely bacony on one of the stoves, and Fandaniel is in attendance. He's even found bowls! Sure there's an actual dining car but why go so far for so little.]
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'Sup!
[ So of course, he gets a greeting as Tidus walks into the kitchen. ]
So do Red team pick straws on who's gonna be cooking that night, or were you feeling inspired?
[ Meanwhile, helllooo stew, let him come and smell you. Maybe all the vegetables will take the edge off constantly eating salty bacon. ]
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[Tidus had been reasonably pleasant company before, so no reason to assume otherwise now! Which means Fandaniel isn't going to be overtly grumpy, even if he does look like he should probably get more sleep.]
I wasn't assigned to it, I just happened to have quite a lot of popotos on hand, and as you know they're great for soaking up salt in a stew. It's a good pairing for bacon..
[It smells more like a good veggie stew than a bacon stew, up close! That smoked scent gives way to the smell of fresh produce, which seems to be in a rather light, yellow-tinged broth.
Frankly it ISN'T the best cuisine anyone ever ate, but it tastes decent should a sample be tried, and there's plenty of it.]
Besides which, if I get it out of the way I don't have to worry about being asked to handle breakfast.
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His stomach isn't a picky one!
He scoffs a little though at Fandaniel's reasoning, pulling the spoon from his mouth as he looks at him. ]
You look like getting up early's the last thing you should been doing. How're you holding up?
[ But since the guy went out of his way to make this stew, Tidus will take the ladle and pour himself some out after asking, putting the spoon he just ate with into the bowl he's picked. ]
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[Something in his tone suggests while he is completely serious about why he's tired, but chose to phrase it that way because Why Not.]
I don't like mornings. Any mornings. And this train has its own ideas about when it thinks we should be awake. Well I disagree!! Daytime .. is for sleeping. At least until midday or so.
[At least it ended in edible soup. And Tidus hasn't rejected it as repulsive or anything, which is certainly a bonus.]
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Yeah, sleeping around here is...weird. I dunno how late or early I get to bed. Not that I ever try going early -- I hate the cabins. Everything's too cramped!
[ But, edible soup! Which Tidus is taking small bites of while they speak. ]
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[Still not much privacy but slightly better!
He should probably eat his own soup. He hasn't yet.]
Between that and a pool it might be far more comfortable.
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Why not both? [ Sipping up some of the broth. ] We can both ask. Show it that more than one person wants a change.
A pool'll be good for my new roommate too. The train swapped one of the beds for a bath. It's barely big enough for her!
[ Soo not amused. ]
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That's a reasonable idea. I can't imagine how some of the larger species are handling this.
[Fandaniel's glad this time he had a hyur form! It meant he actually fit! What if he'd gone with a nine foot tall wall of meat instead? Those beds just aren't made for anything other than normal shaped!
There's a pause, as he finally reaches for a bowl.]
... A bath? Your new roommate is .... a fish?
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Some kind of wizard too. She speaks. Sounds like she needs the bath, and that bathtub wasn't there this morning.
[ So, it must have appeared at some point that they came into the station. ]
So...the train tried, I guess.
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[On one hand he's sure he's not being lied to, on the other hand, a whale.
It's pretty obvious Fandaniel's struggling with this a little.]
...Maybe that's in response to our recent.. watery last stop?
[Tuned to the environment! Maybe they were due for MANY water world visits!!]
What is a wizard, in this context?
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[ If Tidus is lying, nothing's changed about his demeanour, continuing to take spoonfuls of his dinner in-between their conversation.
As for a wizard: ] Magic? That's what it sounded like. She was talking about levitating and keeping water to her. [ That kinda thing. You know, normal considerations for a magical whale.
But saying that does remind Tidus with a small 'ah'. ] Oh yeah, that reminds me. My summoner friend's here. A good summoner, [ he thinks to add, considering Fandaniel's...comments on them! ] Though, she isn't a summoner anymore. There's nothing left to summon anymore.
[ Which he isn't sure if he shared that on their first day, but he'll repeat himself, just in case. ]
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[He hadn't been involved in the last one! in fact he'd been conspicuously absent the entire time. Which might be indicative of his dislike of deep sea fun times.
Wizards in the context of whales still meant magic!
... Okay, he can accept that. It's odd, but he can accept it. Slowly he nods. He's oging to have to investigate this whale wizard, it sounded interesting. And reasonable given their terrestrial trainbased lifestyle.]
Oh? [A summoner! Who is still alive!] There's always something to summon, if you have enough imagination, power and desires. I'm glad your friend is here! It should be useful should anything become dire enough that I have to indulge in summoning myself. What does she do now, if she no longer summons?
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She's a sphere hunter! You know what those are? Spheres? Things you keep memories in?
[ Since, you know, can't stay under the assumption the guy's from his world anymore. He'll wait for an answer before possibly explaining. ]
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[In fact most things are best kept in crystals.
... Including elements. Fandaniel frowns. How would you get the memory to stay in a ball shape, anyway?]
What does she do with them when she has them?
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They...sell them, I think. She's working with a group who goes out and finds them. History's been pretty forgotten in Spira, so it's a way of them finding out the past. And making things with them too. ...I'm not really sure about the specifics.
[ The future is odd, to say the least. ]
But, what you said about imagination and desires--what do you mean? Back in Spira, all the fayth are gone now. They moved on.
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[So he's going to assume she's selling them to scholars, like any responsible person would!
The idea of making something out of a memory sounds like an ordinary creation matrix to him, and Fandaniel nods as if this is perfectly and utterly reasonable.]
You could ask if you want to know, if she's a friend then I'm sure she'll be happy to explain it!
[Because then he doesn't have to. He's not a teacher. And the two might not even be the same.]
You don't need faith to --- well, you do need faith to summon, but not in the way you are speaking about it. The techniques are .. oh, hundreds of thousands of years old now! All you really need to create a summoned being, is a clear idea of what you want to do, the will to do it, enough power to breathe life into it, and a decent instructor to keep you from blowing everything up. You could do it, if you had enough power to draw on. Anyone could.
[He crosses his arms over his chest, brow furrowing.]
Of course this isn't exactly well known these days. Nor is the required power usually available without significant work.
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[ It takes a moment for that to sink in some, and even then, that's--bizarre. A surprise. Someone could just make a summon? Without the fayth? ]
So...you don't need a fayth to make the aeon for you? You just...make it yourself?
[ Which seems to be what the guy is basically saying. A summoner being the one to summon completely.
But still, that deserves a moment more to really settle. ]
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[Finally, FINALLY he tries his own soup.
Not bad.]
There are of course dangers. Think of it as picking up a strange weapon. Without training and knowledge and aether, a summoner is more likely to harm themselves than others.
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It leaves a thoughtful knotted brow to Tidus's features, spoon kept still in his dinner as his mind attempts to make sense of that, compared to what he knows. Was the guy right? Maybe that's how it worked in his world -- but what if it didn't?
He twists the handle between his fingers. ]
I wonder if Yuna would wanna try? ...guess it would be dangerous, [ he says, a gesture that he'd heard that part. ]
There's so much about that world no one remembers... maybe that's the way summoners used to do it. Before Sin.
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Yuna is your young summoner friend?
[Slurp. He knows exactly what real summoning means, and the costs involved.. and the sizes involved. On the train is probably a bad idea.]
I would, I think, have to meet her to gauge the danger level. Very few people have the personal magic reserves to summon on their own, it usually takes a large number .. or a lot of borrowed power by way of magical artifacts. And summons themselvs might not fit well on the train. If we do want to give it a try sometime.. perhaps on a stable star and not on this vessel.
[Seems reasonable to him.]
With time, perhaps, the damage this 'Sin' has done can be unraveled. Old magic has a way of returning, in time.
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