trans_9 | The quest of looking for her Mistress. Open for anyone.

"Yes, I've never been inside one single biological entity before. I'm exquisitely curious about the possibilities... but there's that damn nagging little voice in the back of my head reminding me that I have no idea what charm monster would actually do in this situation and I had better not try it." He sighed, the sort of horribly frustrated sigh that came from suppressing one's greatest joy in life. But it didn't last.

"In the meantime, there are all sorts of things to see, anyway, and certainly interesting people to meet," to which he added a slight bow to her to indicate she was most certainly included in that category.

"...Wait, this ship lives?"

Vita honestly hadn't noticed, and nobody had really told her (well, maybe they had...err). She had thought it just looked somewhat odd.

"...Well, I guess then one probably shouldn't prod some things too much. And, uhm, thanks, I guess? Hayate, Nanoha and Fate probably are the more interesting ones from my world, though."

"So I'm told. If you heard the voice in your head when you woke up, that was the ship, apparently. It's unlike anything I've ever imagined," he said, quietly impressed -- a combination that was, to put it mildly, quite a feat.

"You're welcome," he continued, back to normal. "I'd like to meet your friends at some point. I've never met an intelligent magical item before, or anyone who wielded one. Not that I haven't done extensive studies of the theory..." He visibly restrained himself before he could go off on a long tangent. It took obvious effort.

"That adds even more confusing things to the whole mess...I thought it was just the AI..."

Vita shook her head, she'd try to think about that later. "Most of my friends have those items. They're common in Mid-Childa... were common, I mean. Before these Ohm destroyed that world."

She didn't reveal that, technically, she herself also was an intelligent magical item. And so were half of her friends. People shouldn't generally get to know that, after all.

Not that Aibghalien would judge. He's got his own interesting quirks of heredity, after all.

"Really? That's... pretty remarkable," he said, a gleam in his eyes. "Well, if you, your friends, Graf Eisen, and their weapons were all agreeable, I'd like very much to study and learn what I can. Completely within the bounds of respect and reason," he added, holding up a hand. "If not, I understand perfectly. I'm just... just..."

Words rarely failed Aibghalien, but they did for a moment now. "I'm very much a scholar, I suppose," he finally said. "This is all... Not that I don't think the circumstances are terrible! They are! But I just can't help but be incredibly curious."

"You really sound like Shari." Vita observed. "Err, that was a researcher back at our home worlds. Anyway, why don't you join Nanoha's Magical Department? Pretty sure that they get to repair and inspect Armed Devices if they're in need for repair."

She wasn't really fond of throughout inspections, after all, but it probably was somewhat okay in cases like that, if the device needed repair already.

"Well, I hope you like this Shari, I'd hate to have reminded you of someone horrible," Aibghalien said with a self-conscious grin.

"Joining the magical department here is one of my hopes, actually... though I gather magic seems to function dramatically differently for different people here. I'm missing access to a great deal of power as well..." He sighed, though the frustration passed quickly. "Are you working with the military side of things, then, as a knight?"

"Oh, no, she was okay. Just a bit obsessed sometimes."

As for the second question... "I used to, back in our world, but I'm thinking of going to join the magical department here. The leader actually knows what she's doing, and Graf Eisen and me have a couple c... enough experience beating other mages who cause trouble."

Obsessed? Yeah. He couldn't deny it.

"Then I look forward to working with you, should we both be accepted," Aibghalien said with a sincere smile. "Do you actually have experience with magic itself, then?" The curiosity simply doesn't stop!

"Oh, yes. We Belkan Knights are mostly mages who focus on melee."

Not much reason to keep it secret, her hammer was preeeetty visible and most people would guess right away that she was quite melee happy.

"Though I'm more focussed on the direct stuff. How about you - you seem more the mage type, maybe a support-class or ranged-class type?"

T'was just a guess, though. His magic probably was quite different from the Mid-Childan or Belkan system she was used to.

"You'd be entirely right," he said with a grin. "I'm actually used to working in a group. A cleric and I would enhance the effectiveness of those suited to physical combat, and then I would hang back and rain death and devastation. Still..." He patted a pouch at his belt. "My entire spell library showed up here, so I could prepare something for pretty much any contingency, really.

"I'm really interested to see what I can do working in concert with the other mages here." He took on a particularly fervent aspect when he said things like that.

"Ah, I get it. We had mages like you, too." She nodded. "And it's good to be prepared for all eventualities! Had to drill that into stupid young recruits often enough, so it's good to see a mage who thinks about continge...gencys."

The paradox of someone so young-looking claiming to have been a drill sergeant of some sort for young recruits didn't register to her. She was happy enough to have managed that stupid contingency word. Why the heck did they make those words so hard to remember, anyway?

Make no mistake; Aibghalien had noted that, her occasional misstep with a word, and, of course, the fact that she was a competent mage in magical armor and possessing a magical weapon. Make no mistake: his curiosity is eating him alive. The only reason he hadn't just started firing questions like an interrogation is the constant self-reminders that he's much, much less likely to ever get answers if he does that.

If not for being reasonably attractive and unconsciously charming, he'd probably have been clubbed to death by irritated victims of his curiosity long, long ago.

Which made him think a thought that openly startled him. "I'm not keeping you from anything, am I? I could probably stand here in the hall and chat all day with you if I was given the chances. Literally," he added, "since elves don't need to sleep. Not that I'm in a hurry to stop talking to you, if you're not busy..."

"Augh, I am doing something, but this place is so huge, I don't even know where to start looking for Hayate! She could be anywhere, at this rate it'll take weeks! Some talking won't even begin to slow that down! So it's fine I guess."

Besides, Hayate HAD been big on the 'talk to people' part, too...

"We can walk and talk, if you like!" Not that he walked much of anywhere any more. One casting of Overland Flight lasted almost the entire day for him, after all, and flying was faster and more convenient than walking. Especially in a place like this. "I'd offer to look directly, but I don't want anyone misunderstanding my intentions when a scrying sensor pops up next to them." Especially if they were mages.

"Oh, wait!" From his belt-pouch, he produced the omincomm someone had helpfully shoved into his hands right after he popped. "Did you get one of these? I'm told they can be used for communication... I'm not at all familiar with the interface but I can probably figure it out in a moment." The quasimedieval-era wizard just decided he could figure out really advanced technology in a 'moment', yes.

((As for searching, probably won't work cause the mun is busy with a plot first, thats why Vita can't find her. She's looking in the wrong places xD;))

"Flying sounds fine." Vita agreed. She could do that on her own, after all - magic sure was convenient. "As for search magic, the place is just too damn big, I think! It's as big as a moon!"

She blinked on his question, which got her out of doing an annoyed rant. "Uhm, yeah, got one of those, but I haven't looked at it much. Err..."

Evidently, the one of the two actually used to technology of that kind forgot to think of the communicators. Oops. In her defense, she's used to telepathic communication with her mistress and the others like her.

Aibghalien remembered it just because... well, for very long and complicated reasons that dealt with years of traumatic history and war. Tends to make associated things stick in the mind. "I'm given to understand they can communicate... somehow." He frowned as his, then stuck it back in the belt pouch, where it obstinately refused to make a bulge or impression like it should.

"Well, then... since I have your attention for the moment, I'd love to hear anything you could tell me about your magic," he said. Was Vita used to being the sole focus of eager attention from a (possibly slightly crazed) elven archmage? If not, she may want to start getting used to it.

Talking like that couldn't hurt, Vita decided, so she nodded. "Not much to say, really. You use an Armed Device, like Graf Eisen here" She pointed at her weapon. "And use the magic through it. Some also use some of the surround magic to boost their spells. That's it pretty much, I think. Though the device itself usually is in a smaller form for better storage and transport."

Vita had just skipped literally every magic-theoretical fact that, most likely, is known in her world, but then she's no scholar. Unfortunately for Aibghalien, he got to talk to the one of the Wolkenritter with the least care for theory, and the biggest tendency to simply use brute force.

There's nothing unfortunate about it. Aibghalien, for all his studies and theories, was always happiest when he was experimenting. There's much to be learned from someone with a pragmatic mindset.

And he HAD just learned something very... "Interesting!" He looked back to Graf Eisen curiously. "I'm not at all familiar with any magic system that requires the functionality of a device... this of course explains the prevalence of intelligent items in your world relative to mine due to the necessity of their possession and use in the practice of magecraft, in short being the catalyst rather than an expression --" He didn't so much catch himself in his ramblings as simply drag his attention back to Vita. "Does magic come from an Armed Device? Or does it just enable you to use what you already have?"

No one would blame you if you ran, Vita.

Vita just blinked, he sure talked like a scientist, although she wasn't exactly sure about prevalence.

"Pretty much what you said" Seemed to be a worthy answer to the first lines, since he seemed quite correct. As for the question...

"Not really, mages have natural potential for magic, and there's spells you can use without a device, but you need them to control the really powerful stuff."

"Ah ha," Aibghalien said, rapidly formulating theories. "What gives you that potential?

"On my world," he added, to keep the information exchange flowing freely, "only elves have an innate talent for a branch of magic we call 'sorcery'. Humans and other races who have traces of the blood of gods do also, but that came later. But any person of sufficient intelligence can study and learn to be a wizard."

"Err...just random chance, I guess? Some people just have stronger linker cores than others."

Linker cores being the magic essence, pretty much, but Vita assumed he knew that.

"People without talent can study it, but they won't get anywhere with that in my world."

"I'm not sure I believe in random chance." Aibghalien stroked his chin absently as he thought. "In my experience, what appears to be random is usually governed by underlying rules so complex or obscure that immediate comprehension is impossible... But that I can't study, here, anyway," he said with a laugh. Waving his hand dismissively, he turned his attention back to Vita and reality once again.

"What do you mean by linker cores?" he asked, trying to imagine this odd-sounding world where study meant nothing and magic was, in fact, doled out seemingly arbitrarily.

"Oh, sure, you can artificially create mages and all, but natural ones are pretty random and can occur anywhere. Or so the lab people think." Vita shrugged. She wasn't a scientist.

As for the other question - he sure was curious.

"Hm, a linker core's almost like an organ inside you that links and manifests the magic, it also is linked to a lot of magical knowledge you have. Course, you still gotta train hard to be able to master all that. Basic ability won't get you anywhere if you don't know what you're doing."

Vita skipped the part about the fact that with the right magic, linker cores could be stolen.
That really wasn't supposed to be public knowledge, after all.

Vita was clearly beginning to guess at a hint of an inkling of just how insatiably curious the wizard is.

"Ah-ha! Clarity! When it comes to sorcery, that is, inborn potential, even on my world a certain sort of 'bridge' must exist to allow a person to channel power directly, rather than through studied application." He'd slipped into full professor mode without really being aware of it. "Whereas your mechanisms are 'linker cores', my homeland requires, essentially, immortal blood -- either inherent, as with we elves, gifted, or inherited. In that we have a certain parallel."

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The mun knew, of course. Vita not so much.

Aibghalien's job: biggest know-it-all EVER

Haha, he's an elf after all

Two hour commutes suck.

Needing to sleep also sucks.

Stupid biological needs!

Indeed!

Also stupid: work

Nanoha Universe: because Knights are mages, too.

D&D universe: because preparation-casters are better than anything!

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Not that I want the thread to end, the elf just actually remembered other people are... people!

Oh if you want it to end anytime thats totally fine, I'm not that selfish!

I'm selfish! Selfish enough to KEEP IT GOING AS LONG AS POSSIBLE HA HA HA HA!

Haha ^^

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Don't run, Vita!

So far, she's okay.

Lesser mortals might go insane!

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