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[lotuslegend]

 ...hello? [You have a finger poking at the screen.] Oh, is it working now? Admittedly I'm pretty awful with modern technology, so I might as well be talking to an empty room or broadcasting to Cthulhu's cage in the deep reaches of a cosmic gap...

Anyways...is there some sort of instruction manual for these? What are we actually supposed to use them for? Some kind of secret mission? For fun? [She scratches her head.] Maybe I should show Genji. He seemed pretty down when I told him not to come to Makai with me...

Or I guess I could ask a question, if anyone is actually seeing this. What do you know of youkai? Magic? Do you have it, wherever you are?

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[poison_puppet]

I'm not sure about youkai, but we do have magic!

[lotuslegend]

So most of you apparently do...

[poison_puppet]

Yeah...but not many people from my world know about it.

[lotuslegend]

Another one of those worlds where you have to hide your magic?

[poison_puppet]

Yeah. Most of those of us with weird or occult powers have to work in the underground.

[lotuslegend]

That's such a stupid mindset. How does your world even function with magic being hidden?!

[poison_puppet]

Well...its not really necessary, is it? You don't need magic to grow food, or make computers, or anything like that. Normal humans get along fine without it, so why would they want some magic user messing their system up?

[lotuslegend]

Growing food isn't an issue, no...and I have no idea what a "computer" is, so I assume it's a kind of Outside World tech we don't use.

Normal humans can learn magic over here, though. I guess they're not normal once they begin to use it, huh...

[poison_puppet]

So you're world doesn't have much tech?

For my world its kind of an innate talent. You could probably learn some forms of it through studying...but not many people need to do that, unless they're already unusual in some other way.

[lotuslegend]

Not really. Electricity is kind of the limit.

Magic is more like a virus, I guess. Some people can catch it and use it well, some people are completely immune to it. But hard work is what makes things fall into place with talent.

[poison_puppet]

So like learning a martial art. You're born into the school, and may have natural aptitude, but you have to train to realize your potential.

Its kind of like that with my perfumes - I'm the only one I know who can use them, but I needed to learn a lot before they worked right.