wittingly: (Cᴏᴍᴇ ғʟᴀɪʟɪɴɢ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ)
ɪᴀɴ ғᴏᴡʟᴇʀ ([personal profile] wittingly) wrote in [community profile] ethyraia 2021-06-17 01:29 am (UTC)

( Another gentle sway comes about that secretiveness; yeah, fairly true in his experience as well, even if they didn't call themselves witches and wizards back there. They still kept their powers to themselves, sometimes even among themselves, never revealing to the rest of the group what they could do.

He's way more passionate about the other portion of this conversation, though.
)

Don't get me wrong, it's great that I have at least some idea of what I'm doing with most of this new tech at the start, and it's great that I can generally figure it out using the same... methods, but... I don't know, it'd just be really exciting to see some kind of science or system that worked in a completely baffling, non-intuitive way that I couldn't wrap my head around for a while. Like--

( He struggles visibly for a second, searching his imagination for an example that doesn't sound stupid. )

Liquid metal, or- or- some variant on magnetism, a completely new material or element, or... something. I don't know. Something cool. Some of that abstract science fiction shit.

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