[voice]

[immoralflame]

Jus' outta curiosity--

[ostensibly]

--how many scientists n' magic scholars're actually in Vatheon? Resident anti-science brigade's out cold, s'figured I'd ask.

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voice

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Including myself, my last count was around four, but the number has grown exponentially since then.

voice

[hippocampectomy]

There's an anti-science brigade? That sounds unpleasant.

[Who could hate science? Life is so terribly boring without it!]

voice;

[fulmination]

...Honestly? I have no idea. I'm an alchemist but I've never had the need to ask how many others there were within the city but... What is the anti-science brigade? This is the first I've heard of something like that here.

[radiantwingedone]

... Own sort of magic seems to be more based on math than others I have encountered. I don't know how much of it is 'science'.

[circumsutus]

I didn't realize there was an anti-science brigade here.

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[immoralflame]

Hn. Got th'names?

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[immoralflame]

Jus' one kid, really. But 'e's loud enough an' obnoxious enough 'bout it t'count as a whole goddamn army, sometimes.

[...even if that's just the general climate of their world. Doesn't excuse narrow-minded ignorance.]

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[immoralflame]

...

[...Right, sarcasm isn't always prevalent when you don't talk much.]

...Take it y'haven't met Kiske.

[That help?]

S'not really a need, jus' bein' curious.

[immoralflame]

Math, huh? Applies in part t'mine, but music's prolly th'better comparison. Dunno 'nough about some'f th'other elements t'really say anythin' about specifics.

An' th' level'f science's probably more related t'how science works in yer world, if it's considered different from magic at all.

[immoralflame]

...wasn' bein' serious. S'just a kid currently comatose who'd decry it as an unholy abomination'r some other shit like that at th'barest mention. World ain't a fan of it.

[radiantwingedone]

[ Sorry, your use of spoken language is a little hard for Duke to wrap his head around. Give him a moment. ]

Definitely less of music. Magic is used in barriers, most projectile weaponry that would exceed the size and range of a human-held crossbow or compound bow, lighting, heating, water cleaning and producing. Quite possible that it is both.

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[hippocampectomy]

One ignorant child hardly counts as an army, though the assault on one's ears speaks otherwise at times.

[If there isn't an actual brigade to contend with, Walter feels comfortable enough announcing his profession. Maybe he'll find someone with similar interests, hopefully someone that has a lab.]

I am a scientist back on my world. Is there any reason in particular you're searching?

[Voice]

[shippingmath]

Anti-science? Oh, fuck that guy.

I build robots. That sciencey enough for you?

[voice]

[spacecase]

I specialize in nuclear physics and I build robots!

[And ain't that the most perky voice anyone can hear from someone claiming to be a scientist.]

[circumsutus]

I can't imagine a world without some concept of science. Medical care must be atrocious.

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[parasolspinning]

You could say I was a scientist in another life time, if I'm not being too terribly literal about it.

voice

[immoralflame]

...You ain't met 'im, yet. French.

[Maybe that means something to this guy, maybe it doesn't.]

S'yer area? An' s'just curiosity.

[immoralflame]

[...Yeah, Sol's not very good at talking. Sorry.]

Hnn... Sounds like s'replacin' electricity n' other energy sources. Kinda where we were goin'.

[immoralflame]

S'a concept of it, sure, but ain't well-regarded.

[Is there even medical care in post-Crusades Europe? He can't remember.]

[Voice]

[immoralflame]

[There's a small huff at that; well, he wouldn't go that far.]

Th'ignorant sometimes need logic beaten into their skulls, s'all.

Robotics is a field, s'yeah.

[Amused. Just so long as no one starts building obnoxious robot clones of anyone else.]

[voice]

[immoralflame]

[...A pause, and his tone is more amused than confused.]

An' how old are you?

video;

[immoralflame]

Makes two'f us.

[Still not being literal.]

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[parasolspinning]

Oh, really? Well I suppose it's nice to know I'm not the only one then.

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

I can't say that I highly subscribe to science. [Mumbles] Even though I though I'm teaching theoretical physics [Crocker's vocal increase to normal] But that's besides the point.
So - YES! I'd consider myself a magic scholar, why?

[voice]

[spacecase]

Hmm? I am sixteen, why do you ask?