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[Sort of. Min's taking advantage of ambidexterity because it's embarrassing to be bad at things. His handwriting is notably different from his usual and probably isn't immediately recognizable to anyone who isn't Ryan.]

What do people do if they can't protect themselves here? I don't want to be stuck inside all the time, but I don't want to have to rely on other people either.

Before anyone says it, I'm not looking to learn how to fight. With all the weirdness in this place there's got to be some other way.

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[He is so wary about engaging further, but Shadow Milk has actually given some reasonable example this time.]

Can you do either of those?

[jesterlies]

Oh, I would HOPE so, considering I am the origin of aaaaall magic in my homeworld.

Not to brag, of course!

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That kind of sounds like bragging.

Is the magic very different here compared to where you come from?

[jesterlies]

You have a difficult time with sarcasm and satire, I take it.

It isn't! It's actually quite adaptable so far, much to my surprise! Potent, too! Though my great COSMIC power has been wrongfully chained shut by our delightful warden, I have still been able to tap into what's available to me quite easily.

[Sort of. Min-Gi saw him crash out in the archives the other day, but in all fairness, that was the snake bite's fault.]

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No.

Do you think it's the same power that Ydalir uses then? If your magic comes from inside you it could still be different.

[jesterlies]

Poor sense of humor aside, I like that you ask the right questions!

I didn't say it was the SAME, just that it wasn't very different! The magic here appears to be varied enough in it's sources, but those sources are not so different from Earthbread's. Trader's magic appears tied to the land itself, perhaps nature, and likewise celestial magic simply hums around us at all times, no doubt the influence of our ever watchful Goddesses.

Similarly, Earthbread has many schools of magic that pull on many aspects of the world around us, and there are many who use the moon itself as power to wield it! I suspeeect the similar nature of these sources might be why my magic adapts so well to this place! But who know!

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[He really wasn't expecting to get anything useful out of this particular person, yet alone so much. He's not sure how much he believes about him being the origin of all magic where he comes from. In fact he's pretty sure he doesn't.

It's very hard to deny that he sounds like he knows what he's talking about though, and given the baseline for Min's knowledge here? He's choosing to believe this is informative.]

Earthbread's where you come from?

You're not the only one who's said your magic functions similarly. Someone even said they could teach me. Do you think someone from a world without magic would be able to pick it up just through learning? I don't feel anything.

[jesterlies]

[Unfortunately, he knows his stuff! Terrible, really.]

That's the place! You'll find a fair handful of us from there, really. Whoever is offering to teach you magic, might be from Earthbread, too. [He sees you up there, Affogato.]

You don't feel anything, I imagine, because you've had no reason to look. While aptitude certainly does help, I would be shocked to find you utterly void of even the barest spark. Of course, how would you even know without trying?

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They could be. Or maybe magic's kind of similar in all the worlds that have it.

I don't know for sure. It just seems strange I could do something like that without being changed when it's not something that exists in my world.

[jesterlies]

For someone who doesn't now very much about it, you seem awwwwfully certain about it's existence, or lack thereof, in your world.

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Of course I am. If it was real then everyone who knew about it would have had to keep it secret. There's no way it wouldn't have ended up public knowledge.

[jesterlies]

How droll of a world you must come from, where there are no secrets or mysteries. Where everything must be already known, and thus there is nothing left to discover. Has learning come to a halt? Is Knowledge itself so firmly in your grasp, that progress has ceased? Frightening.

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That's not what I said.

[jesterlies]

My point remains!

I may not know your world, but as a kazillion-years-old Master of All Things Magical, I just find such an idea quite laughable! Magic is everywhere, kid. Perhaps in your world it merely slumbers.

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How do you know? It's not like you've been to every world there is.