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[magicmoment]

Who: Jasmine
When: Day 1, morning
Where: Jasmine car!!

[We've all got some DOORS TO WRESTLE WITH, huh]

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[magicmoment]

Ah, sorry for startling you. I gave us both an arts reflect. Basically, if magic is casted on you, the first one will be returned to the caster.

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[s2g]

[ sure, it's supposed to feel protective, but in the end it just makes Wolfwood's guts squirm unpleasantly.

feeling things that aren't physically there. things beyond reality, that could bend reality.... ]

[s2g]

...Don't worry about it.

[ yeah, he thinks he's getting it now. to say he didn't know magic was a lie—of course the Hornfreak and that psycho Legato weren't normal humans. of course there'd been something there, and of course he'd thought about what he'd do if they turned their sights on him (and they did turn their sights on him). it's just that nobody on Gunsmoke really knew to call it magic, back then.

resisting the need to tell her not to do it again: ] Seems pretty handy. All of that comes from that thing?

[ and a gesture at her ... device ]

[magicmoment]

It will wear off soon.

[so yeah, she's still worrying.]

It comes from the quartz inside. The device itself is mostly to harness the elemental power of the quartz.

[s2g]

[ you're talking to a guy whose geological knowledge is limited almost entirely to sand, sandstone, and glass. so really, a guy whose only geological knowledge is sand.

and even that's debatable. ]

So that's magic, huh...

[magicmoment]

It's not quite magic, more like technology's best representation of the same idea, but... Close enough?

[s2g]

So long as you can keep a grip on it.

[ that was the thing about the Guns, back on Gunsmoke: they had immense power and they barely controlled it. lost the part of them that made them human. ]

You can do that, yeah?