Personally I'm hoping it was something like keeping whatever wrecked the city before from destroying things that have been rebuilt. If it'll get us out of this capsule hotel, I guess I can forgive them cutting and running a little early.
It's just awfully convenient that there's so many of them you'd never be able to pinpoint the exact one that did it, which totally takes the heat off of anyone else who might be suspected...
[he shrugs.]
Also, seems like they'd have a hard time changing us out of our clothes without waking us up. That couldn't be easy to do with flippers.
We were probably knocked out somehow. Maybe with a drug or something. There's no way all of us would sleep through that no matter who was doing it.
I mean, I can be a heavy sleeper, but if someone tried to take my blastia from me, I know it'd take all of two seconds for me to wake up and them to get incinerated.
[right... he knows a thing or two about medicine. rita looks like she's rethinking that hypothesis.]
I don't know any magic that can do it, either, but... if we're talking about the magic of other worlds, that leaves room for a lot more possibilities beyond what I'm familiar with.
Right. The type of magic from my world that would put someone to sleep is usually accompanied by pretty strange dreams, or if you didn't dream you'd still feel a little off when you woke up.
[he shrugs.]
But that's just from my world. It's not impossible it works differently somewhere else.
Hypnokinesis is kind of an umbrella term for it, I guess - magic that stems from Hypnos, the God of Sleep. It's got to do with putting people to sleep, or manipulating their dreams... stuff like that.
Usually, no. Most mortals - uh, ordinary people - think the gods are just the stuff of myths and that they weren't ever real. But occasionally there are some who can see through the Mist. And then there's the Oracle of Delphi... she's an ordinary girl, but she inherited the power of prophecy.
They're immortal beings who have power over the forces of nature and like... concepts. Like, Zeus is the king of the gods but also the lord of the sky and thunder, Poseidon's the god of the sea, Athena's the goddess of wisdom, Ares is the god of war...
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Date: 2023-09-18 01:19 am (UTC)Yeah. Would've been nice if they could have stuck around and explained a little more, that's for sure.
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Date: 2023-09-18 02:08 am (UTC)I don't mind the food or the amenities, but it sure is boring here. Wish we at least had some books to read...
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Date: 2023-09-18 04:53 am (UTC)[he shrugs.]
Also, seems like they'd have a hard time changing us out of our clothes without waking us up. That couldn't be easy to do with flippers.
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Date: 2023-09-18 04:57 am (UTC)I mean, I can be a heavy sleeper, but if someone tried to take my blastia from me, I know it'd take all of two seconds for me to wake up and them to get incinerated.
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Date: 2023-09-18 05:07 am (UTC)[weirder and weirder...]
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Date: 2023-09-18 05:10 am (UTC)I don't know any magic that can do it, either, but... if we're talking about the magic of other worlds, that leaves room for a lot more possibilities beyond what I'm familiar with.
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Date: 2023-09-18 05:15 am (UTC)[he shrugs.]
But that's just from my world. It's not impossible it works differently somewhere else.
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Date: 2023-09-18 05:43 am (UTC)[there's a little sparkle of curiosity in her eyes.]
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Date: 2023-09-19 02:56 am (UTC)[she considers all of that thoughtfully.]
So where do you fit in? If you had "demigod powers"...
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Date: 2023-09-19 07:23 am (UTC)I guess the easiest way to explain it is "somewhere in between"?
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Date: 2023-09-19 01:38 pm (UTC)You don't look very godlike to me.
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Date: 2023-09-19 05:16 pm (UTC)[he shrugs]
So I've lived most of my life with a foot in both worlds.
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Date: 2023-09-21 05:28 am (UTC)In my experience, it's just the word people tend to use for powerful beings that they don't really understand.
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