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deernet2022-02-02 03:37 am
hexceptionalism) wrote in deernet2022-02-02 03:37 am
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01 🧪 video; un: talis
[The feed opens on a young man, perhaps just newly past his late twenties. He also looks...ah, a bit rumpled, like he hasn't gotten much sleep lately. Which is, in fact, not inaccurate. Who needs to sleep when there is Science to be learned?????
He may or may not have slept in the Archives a few times. It's very easy to get lost, okay. Anyway. He makes to reach for the device that he's just turned on, when he knocks over whatever Trench's equivalent of an energy drink is on the Omni, which he hurriedly rushes to clean off.]
Whoops. That's um, not how I wanted to start. [He clears his throat.] Hello! I'm Jayce Talis. I'm...new, I guess? Sort of. I might be a couple weeks late to this part.
[He sort of ... gestures to the area around himself, which might be a lowkey disaster zone of books and notes, and laughs a little to himself.]
This place is incredible, though. It's like a library and a museum all in one and it never seems to end, I've never seen anything like it.
...Where I came from, I was a scientist researching how to harness magic and bring it into the hands of the common people. It would've revolutionized our world, but it's practically commonplace here. There's so much to learn, and I've barely scratched the surface.
[He pauses then, expression going thoughtful with a slight frown.]
But there's challenges as well. I've heard of Corruption, Beasthood, the pollution that taints the soil and makes many crops unable to grow....
I feel that we Sleepers are uniquely positioned to meet these challenges head-on. And that's why I would like to propose a systematic study of the magical properties of our blood. I believe that with a thorough enough investigation, we'll be able to not only isolate the source of the toxicity that induces Blood Pollution, but we may be able to identify risk factors and produce treatments for Corruption and Beasthood. After all, if it is an illness like any other, it must be responsive to the correct medication, right? We just have to find it.
[And maybe that's the least he can do in Viktor's honor, if he is here for the foreseeable future, if not...forever. There's a sudden pensive twist to his features at the thought, and he looks off to the side.]
Also...on a more personal note, I had a question. There was a sense of--being reborn, upon coming out of the ocean. Is that...because we're all dead?
He may or may not have slept in the Archives a few times. It's very easy to get lost, okay. Anyway. He makes to reach for the device that he's just turned on, when he knocks over whatever Trench's equivalent of an energy drink is on the Omni, which he hurriedly rushes to clean off.]
Whoops. That's um, not how I wanted to start. [He clears his throat.] Hello! I'm Jayce Talis. I'm...new, I guess? Sort of. I might be a couple weeks late to this part.
[He sort of ... gestures to the area around himself, which might be a lowkey disaster zone of books and notes, and laughs a little to himself.]
This place is incredible, though. It's like a library and a museum all in one and it never seems to end, I've never seen anything like it.
...Where I came from, I was a scientist researching how to harness magic and bring it into the hands of the common people. It would've revolutionized our world, but it's practically commonplace here. There's so much to learn, and I've barely scratched the surface.
[He pauses then, expression going thoughtful with a slight frown.]
But there's challenges as well. I've heard of Corruption, Beasthood, the pollution that taints the soil and makes many crops unable to grow....
I feel that we Sleepers are uniquely positioned to meet these challenges head-on. And that's why I would like to propose a systematic study of the magical properties of our blood. I believe that with a thorough enough investigation, we'll be able to not only isolate the source of the toxicity that induces Blood Pollution, but we may be able to identify risk factors and produce treatments for Corruption and Beasthood. After all, if it is an illness like any other, it must be responsive to the correct medication, right? We just have to find it.
[And maybe that's the least he can do in Viktor's honor, if he is here for the foreseeable future, if not...forever. There's a sudden pensive twist to his features at the thought, and he looks off to the side.]
Also...on a more personal note, I had a question. There was a sense of--being reborn, upon coming out of the ocean. Is that...because we're all dead?
text; un r.hansen
un: eudaimonikos; video
[Granted, it's not impossible, the multiverse being what it is and all. But you could say that about literally anything!]
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It's good to meet you, Jayce! I've been doing research into Blood Magic myself, as have several others. I can share some of my notes and observations thus far from you.
Oh, and don't worry about the afterlife. You aren't dead - unless you remember dying before you arrived here, of course.
text | timaeusTestified
text; un: tabris
text | un: perell
Not yet, anyway.
Video | un: SunshinePrincess
[She knows from experience how shaky that sort of thing can be. Varian had tried so hard to approach the magical problems Corona was facing with alchemical solutions, and that didn't always well.]
They're both so different... wouldn't the powers clash if you tried?
un: trienemybest; video
[Ooops.]
But it worked back home...kind of. Marginally. Still...bad portals. [That he nearly got everyone stuck in so you know, that was a thing.]
But I've got lots of research notes if you wanna take a gander, I'm an alchemist and I've been studying the magic and the science of this world and the world that came before it. The blood powers here seem pretty varied- I've been working out how to imbue them into weapons? Still figuring out the kinks in that one.
Also no. Definitely not dead here. Or home.
[Video | un: inkmetal]
[Dismissive.]
Now to the important part. Just how systematic are we going here? We'd need specialized containers to revert them back to their original forms for proper studying. Coldblood and Darkblood, especially.