RO > call me out; a forever open RP post, version 2

[midvalley]

NEW OPEN RP POST

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[cultivations]

[ Dorian puts a hand to his throat, gasping. ]

Me? Sleep on a couch? Oh, I've truly fallen into a strange land. Alas, the indignity of it all.

[animated]

You poor, poor thing.

I can make other arrangements if I have to, but I have to figure out how long it's going to take me to get you back home.

[cultivations]

I'm hoping with the aid of my expertise, it shouldn't take longer than a day.

[animated]

As much as I'd like to agree, it's going to take some work. Getting from one point to another in the same dimension is easy, if a bit involved. Getting to another dimension entirely is tricky.

[cultivations]

[ He spreads his hands. ]

Perhaps a fresh perspective is needed. A combining of two very different schools of magic might yield the desired results. To my knowledge, it's never been done.

This could very well be revolutionary -- even more so than all my previous work, which is saying quite a lot.

[animated]

You do this kind of thing often? Revolutionize stuff, I mean.

[cultivations]

I once had a hand in the discovery of time magic.

It's application went about as swimmingly as one would expect it to. Needless to say, further research has since been abandoned.

[animated]

Time magic? Like, stopping time? Making it go faster? Time traveling? That kind of thing.

[cultivations]

Slowing it down, moving backwards and forwards-- [ he gestures, as if to say it's so very uninteresting. ]

All good and well when written down on paper, to be sure, but introduce man and all his follies and you have yourself an unmitigated mess. I don't recommend pursuing that research, by the way. The temptation to utilize it will eventually become too much.

[animated]

Yeah I can't... I can't even imagine the sheer levels of havoc.

No worries, I'm fine with my lot as an Animator. I've got no desire to become Doctor Who.

[cultivations]

[ his head tilts to one side as he frowns. ]

... I'm not entirely sure who this doctor is.

[animated]

Huh? Oh, crap sorry. Doctor Who is a, um. Series of stories about a man who can travel through time.

[cultivations]

Ah. A common myth in this place, then?

[animated]

Oh yeah. It's a very popular subject in fiction. Not quite as popular as magic, but it's up there.

[cultivations]

[ he sighs softly. ]

Magical fiction. How odd to be relegated to the realm of fantasy and make-believe. How do you stand it?

[animated]

[ He gives a shrug ] It's all I've ever known. If we were in an actual wizarding community, there would be less of a need for secrecy, but out here there's not many of us.

[cultivations]

So there are communities, then? I assumed each man was his own island.

[animated]

Wizards tend to stay in the same circles as other wizards. I'm a bit of the exception to the rule.

[cultivations]

Ah, a social pariah after my own heart.

One must imagine you aren't much of a fan of your community, after your tirade regarding your fellows' selfishness.

[animated]

That's... that's putting it lightly. The wizarding community as a whole never did me any favors.

[cultivations]

Corruption? Stagnation? Rampant excess? An impossibly bullheaded inclination to stick with the status quo, simply because "that's how it's always been done"?

If any of that is familiar, then you'd feel entirely home in Tevinter.

[animated]

[ He just. Stares at him. ]

It's really fucking scary how similar that sounds.

[cultivations]

[ Dorian smiles in return, though his voice is still as sharp as before. ]

Perhaps magic breeds such malfeasance.

[animated]

I think the society has a lot to do with it, too, but that could just be going in circles since the magic helped shape the society and on and on and on.

... This is a lot deeper than my after-work conversations tend to get.

[cultivations]

[ he chuckles, inclining his head. ]

My apologies. If you'd like, we could discuss something more mundane. The weather, perhaps.

Or I could allow you to watch me strip as I determine whether the cast-offs of your-- ex-boyfriend's, did you say? Will suffice.