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[fionnuisce]

WHO: Waver | open
WHERE: Libra app
WHEN: August 8th, early evening
WHAT: A proper introduction + acclimation
WARNINGS: none

Let's try this again, now that the metaphorical fires appear to be out.

I'm known as Lord El-Melloi II--please just call me Professor, everyone does. To answer the incoming obvious question 'professor of what', the answer is 'alchemy, among other things'. Presumably we're a little beyond the need for secrecy as it pertains to magecraft.

Regardless, I arrived in this city with all the rest of that unmitigated chaos (apparently the term for one suffering such displacement is 'Isekai'?) and I am trying to gain a better understanding of the location and how it functions when not besieged by violent carnivores.

Sweeping generalizations, specific experiences, general common knowledge, anything one would be willing to share that might help. I'm afraid the workings of parallel universes and travel between them are a magic well above my pay grade.

Comments

[crystallinememories]

It's a bit more like they aren't able to comprehend it, and have it fit into their view of reality. I believe Lovecraft wrote on it, if his stories exist in your world. Essentially, it's taking advantage of the struggle of cognitive dissonance- people don't believe magic exists, so when they see it, they can't comprehend that what they're seeing is magic, so instead they see it as something that they can explain.

[fionnuisce]

‘We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.’

Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense when you put it like that. I wonder if it’s a quality of the location or the people that manages to uphold such an illusion.

[crystallinememories]

I'm not sure. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to test it. Nor should we, most likely.

[fionnuisce]

Oh, hell no, that's wildly unsafe. My own skill in mental manipulation isn't nearly enough to pinpoint the source of something like that, much less determine anything else of use.