RD6, Orb

[retrieverchef]

[Eliot fumbles with the orb, apparently not realizing that it's already recording.]

So, magic. Really? After living my whole life believing that magic, and fairy tales, and Peter Pan are just stories, I manage to come across the one real spell in my... Well, my world. Unless I'm really dreaming.

[He pinched himself. And winced.]

Nope. Not dreaming.

[He shakes his head and runs a hand through his hair.]

And if that weren't enough, I feel like I belong here. Which is just plain weird, man. I don't do this inexplicable stuff. It normally makes my skin crawl. And I don't normally like being abruptly taken from my team and wherever I'm currently calling home. But this time, it feels right. I mean, I miss my team. I wish they were here. But I'm not fighting to get home like I should be. And what's more, that doesn't bother me as much as it should.

[He sighs and looks around the room, his gaze resting lovingly on his new sword. He grins.]

Course, the sword might help with that. I haven't seen one this nice since Edinburgh.

Comments

[wheresmycoffee]

Less motion. With a lot of time travel you can have a person moving back along their own time-line, which is just movement of consciousness rather than anything physical. If the person physically moves, it's a little trickier, but it's still very little physical motion. Now to move between entire dimensions, unless you're just punching holes in parallels, there's a large amount of physical motion, going across who knows how many layers of universes until you find the one you want, then making a warp between all those layers to pull that person across into the layer you want.

And there's no way you can erase your entire existence. All you'd do is split off an alternate timeline, or else you'd undo what you just did by erasing yourself and create a paradox.

[retrieverchef]

Less motion? How far apart are most dimensions? I would've assumed that they would largely overlap. Considering the extra, unused space within matter.

How did you learn so much about this? Where I come from, no one would take you seriously if you started talking about these topics.

[wheresmycoffee]

Eh, most of it's just applying string theory to shit that I've seen. Most people wouldn't take this shit seriously back home either, but most of them never had a one sided conversation with a werewolf god or beat a vampire at poker

[retrieverchef]

Never studied string theory. Been to busy learning what I need to first protect my country and then stay alive and keep my team safe.

Werewolves and vampires? [He grins.]. After the big reveal about shapeshifters, they don't surprise me at all. So sparkle vampires or the kind that burn up in sunlight?

[wheresmycoffee]

The kind who wears shadows in the day so that she doesn't burn up and dishes out gossip like mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. She only sparkles if she's got a date.

[retrieverchef]

I think I'd like to meet her sometime.

[wheresmycoffee]

[[a small snort]] If she ever shows up here, I'll be sure to let her know.