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[thearchangel]

Type: Text
Sender ID: thearchangel (Garrus Vakarian)
To: Everyone
Subject: Help Wanted
Warnings: N/A

All right, I cave.

Help wanted for someone who can engineer a way to keep someone from sinking the second they set foot in a body of water.




And please don't say "swimming lessons" - that's not physically possible without a lot of flotation assistance.

Comments

[afflatusexarch]

Another question, if I may.

Have you not received a tattoo?

[thearchangel]

Yeah, definitely. We probably wouldn't be having this conversation, otherwise.

[afflatusexarch]

Then you should be able to learn magicks yourself. Surely there will be something on Elah that exists to help. There are many texts there, after all.

[thearchangel]

I... think you're significantly over-estimating my skill with anything that ephemeral.

[afflatusexarch]

Now who says that all magicks are ephemeral in nature? There was a type that was created where I come from that relies heavily on having the correct geometries in order to cast a spell.

Or create a construct, for that matter.

[thearchangel]

Hold on. You can base this stuff on math?

As in... algorithms?

[afflatusexarch]

I do not claim to be an expert in arcanima, but conceptually...

In order to cast a wind based spell, conjurers must understand the nature of wind by communing with elementals. An arcanist would, essentially, come to an understanding of wind through geometric equations. One line might determine the strength of the wind while another focuses on if only one target or multiple are effected.

Thus, theoretically speaking, you could develop a spell that would keep you afloat through a mathematical understanding of what it would take to do so and then bending the elements around you to fit that understanding.

[thearchangel]

Well, hell, when you put it like that.

Doesn't sound so mysterious anymore.

[You're all doomed once he sits down and starts using math at the magical world. Because then he's going to have to calibrate it.]

[afflatusexarch]

There is a field of study where I come from dedicated to understanding the energies of our star that we utilize in order to use magicks. I am a historian by trade, but even I dabble in aetherology out of... Well I suppose you could say out of necessity. Yet many make it their life's work.

Most things sound mysterious until they are dissected and explained, yes? It just takes time.

[thearchangel]

You mean like - a form of cosmology? Or radiation studies? Your magic is fueled by star radiation?

[Sorry bud, that's the kind of energy stars put out where he's from. Unless it's solar power or something.]

Frankly, no one did until just now. Doubt it's their fault though, most people seem like they come from a magic-heavy universe.

[afflatusexarch]

No, no. Nothing like that. I suppose you might call it life energy. The force that keeps all things living.

[thearchangel]

Life energy.

Life force? That sound more like it?

[afflatusexarch]

In a sense, yes. Though it doesn't always require burning away at one's life, so to speak.

[thearchangel]

I would hope not. Radiation is pretty drastic, horrifying stuff, in high doses.

[afflatusexarch]

Radi - what now?

[ HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS ]