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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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[not_so_big_and_bad]

All I know is that I don't much care about youkai and magic, since I've never seen proof of 'em. At least not until comin' here.

[lotuslegend]

That's not really much to 'know', it's more of an opinion.

[not_so_big_and_bad]

Then again, I guess you could say there's magic in bein' a werewolf, but it's nothin' I can quantify.

[lotuslegend]

A were...wolf? Funny. I've seen were-beasts and wolf youkai, but never one combined.

[not_so_big_and_bad]

More common in western myth, but I was born in Japan.

[lotuslegend]

Ah, I'm not the most familiar with Western myths. Perhaps I should study more. [...yeah, not gonna happen with her.]

[not_so_big_and_bad]

It's not important. I don't think there are any more.

permavid

[starblaze]

My world has neither.

Ah... and welcome to the community, I guess.

[greeneyed_demon]

Why the questions about youkai?

[lotuslegend]

There wasn't really anything else that came to mind.

[lotuslegend]

Maybe where you come from. For all I know, they're prowling these forests right now...or whatever were-creatures do when it's not the full moon.

[lotuslegend]

Huh. So it's just...normal?

[not_so_big_and_bad]

I can't really vouch for other therianthropes, since I can't guarantee we operate by the same rules.

[starblaze]

That depends on what you consider to be normal.

[second_star]

No idea what youkai are or whatever, but magic exists here. I'm no good at it myself.

[baaaaseball]

I'm afraid my world is pretty normal. But I love the idea of magic and youkai and all of that kind of stuff.

[lotuslegend]

Uh. Ordinary humans, no flying or super-strength or magic bullets out of thin air. All of that's a kind of magic, I guess...

[lotuslegend]

Youkai are folk creatures that enjoy snacking on humans.

[A beat.]

To think they could exist separately. How odd.

[lotuslegend]

Then you'd feel at-home here.

[lotuslegend]

Therianthropes? Is that what you call were-creatures?

[not_so_big_and_bad]

Pretty much. Therianthropy, zooanthropy, whatever works.

[darklycharming]

I am a wizard.

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[sosbrigade]

Are you a magical girl?

[oceanicbutterfly]

I'm a magical girl, if that term means anything to you.

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[denies]

... Sure are a lot of magic-obsessed people on here, huh.

[ Let's not talk Umineko magic, it'll just end up in 'without love it can't be seen'.. ]