Cobalt Greywalker Wrote:The whole 'magic' thing is currently KoFen sim only, due to A.C. having Laevatein and a certain transformation pen. But, as you can see, somethings seriously screwy with the sim anyway.I suspect Natsuko would try to bug-out at this point - she's a trained investigator and thus a trained observer, so if anybody inside the sim notices that there's something wrong, then so will she. Will she succeed, or is she stuck in the sim for the duration?
Cobalt Greywalker Wrote:Could A.C. use magic in RL (or what passes for it in Fenspace)? As far as I'm concerned, techically anyone can use magic. At its most basic it requires willpower and magical energies (which we'll call mana for now). However, knowledge and talent help tremendously.Well, I did mention in LoGG that the Girls think Noah can't use gate magic. That may mean his willpower is aspected toward things other than magic, or it may mean he doesn't have enough willpower at all (doubtful considering he's a self-made billionaire), or he might not have the capacity for magic.
Cobalt Greywalker Wrote:Unless TSIR becomes canon, A.C. won't have the knowledge of Linker Core creation from Honami's dual Awakening, and unless A.C. enters a high mana area (and knows it, and thinks about trying to) there'll be no casting otherwise. Not for at least centuries (assuming trans-universal travel gets invented in Fenspace).And there aren't a lot of known high-mana locations in Fenspace. (I can only think of two, offhand - part of the area enclosed by the dome two kilometers north of Little Jakarta that used to belong to La Mariposa, and a spot on Stellvia's main concourse...)
Edit: Although this line of speculation does present a scene for the fic:
**14**
"Yayoi? What's wrong?" Noah was focused completely on his closest friend, the video all but forgotten. "Come on, Yayoi; speak to me!"
"A. ... A.C. ... she's ..." the rest was a whisper, too soft for Noah to make out.
But Kohran heard it, and went pale. "Are you sure, Yayoi?" She was answered with a nod. "But how? She was here on Stellvia while we were cleaning out La Mariposa's base - she never came into direct contact with The Girls!"
Noah shook his head. "She spent at least an hour alone with Nancy."
"But Nancy isn't a mage," complained Leda.
"Isn't she?" Kohran looked straight at Leda. "There's no way other than magic that you can explain the I-jin; technology can't reproduce some of the things she can do. She's a mage, a lot like Doug."
"Who?"
"I'll explain later," Noah interrupted. "Are you telling me that A.C. is a spellcaster of some sort?"
"I don't know. But I think she isn't the same person she was before The Girls visited."
"Oh, dear ..." Noah stopped for a moment. "But you and Yayoi spent more time with The Girls than anyone else here, other than Sora. What effects did they have on you?" After another pause, he ran his hand through his now-green hair and continued, "Or on me?"
The senior staff at Stellvia switched off the feed from the Gauntlet. They had more important things to worry about.
**14**
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012