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Post by David McKinnon on Sept 9, 2013 19:57:11 GMT -6
David stopped as he stood silent for a moment. So the person wasn't even human, no he wasn't from this world so to speak, he had heard of a world where magic existed but he never thought it would actually be true. He would need to research more into this path. However it did cause a problem...where he gained the phone was through dark magic, from a book of dark magic, there is little doubt he would be able to weasel himself out of this situation without telling the girl that he was a dark mage. However...then who exactly made the phone? He turned and walked towards Alladin, "Very well...let us say, in the most wildest of imaginations, that this phone is made of dark magic. That your father was the researcher that researched this marvellous magic, does it not then beg the question: who made this phone? Did your father dabble in dark magic as well since both light and dark magic must be understood before true magic could be found and understood in itself. Did your father have an assistant that somehow was a dark magic? Or...or is it possible that on this world there is a counter-part to your father, a genius mage much like your father who managed to create a prototype version of the very same phone your father researched. Hmm? Which one do you think is the more likely scenario? Or do you believe that we earth mages are incapable of actually furthering magic because we do not belong to the same world you come from, without the use of dark magic I might add" David said.
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 9, 2013 21:00:51 GMT -6
Erika had been delighted with the flame bird. She was about to thank the man for showing her when Mr. Waynguard interjected.
She sighed at his opinion on dark and light magic. How narrow minded. She wondered if there was any point in arguing with him or trying to convince him otherwise.
And then argument about the phone broke out. She listened quietly. She was out of her depth.
Finally she decided to speak up. "Mr. Waynguard, you shouldn't go around blindly accusing people without fully understanding the situation." Mr. Waynguard might have made the MaigPhones but that didn't make him aware of every magician's workings everywhere.
She decided to try and broach the subject of light and dark magic. "And I don't think you're being fair with your magical attitude. Knowledge is pure. Dark magic doesn't need to corrupt. You can use raw destructive power to save people. It's a matter of will power, of not succumbing to your darker desires or ambitions. Everyone has darker desires and ambitions but if you can control them you can accomplish great things. You shouldn't act like it's wrong to have them. You shouldn't completely deny their existence. As sentient creatures, it's just a part of the package," she insisted.
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Post by Alladin Waynguard on Sept 9, 2013 21:23:50 GMT -6
"HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE MY FATHER OF PRACTICING DARK MAGIC!" Alladin roared, wind whipping around him for a moment and picking the tail of his coat up. A moment later, he took a deep breath, and seemed to calm down. "First off, I know for a fact I was the first to create a device to amplify latent magical power based on a cell phone, so where you got the idea that my father was the one who made these, I don't know. However, I do know that the magical community here on earth isn't large enough to produce a genius capable of creating a phone nearly exactly identical to the ones I use, just operating on darker magic." He gestured to Alice. "First lesson; it is NOT a matter of willpower, with true dark magic. There are defined dark magics that warp and twist the mind, and amplify those dark instincts. Besides, don't you humans have religion to deal with that sort of thing?"
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 9, 2013 21:54:16 GMT -6
Erika was offended. "Religion to deal with what sort of things?" she demanded. "Life?" Her mother had been murdered. Her father had completely lost it. He was more often drunk than sober now a days.
Erika had stepped up to the plate. She had cooked, cleaned, balanced bills, woken their father up every day to get him to his part time jobs after he quit his job as surgeon to help pay said bills. She had done everything to take care of both Jun-kun and her father, all the while dealing with depressingly dark visions. Religion hadn't helped at all. Her little brother still believed in God but at this point Erika didn't. It wasn't logical or comforting.
"Who are you to determine what warps and twists the mind? Magic isn't as simple as you're making it out to be. I don't think there's such a thing as a spell incapable of doing any good. Some minds are already broken, warped and twisted. Perhaps these spells can restore it to a proper state," she insisted.
"Or are you here to tell me that my magic is dark, that it warps and twists the mind? Maybe you think that because all I can see are catastrophes, death and destruction, murder and betrayal, and despair that my power must be dark and it must one day break my mind?" Her tone was harsh but she was scared. She had wondered such things herself. But she wouldn't believe it. She couldn't believe it. She'd snap if she did.
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Post by David McKinnon on Sept 9, 2013 22:07:27 GMT -6
Woops...the father bit might had been too sensitive. But it was a way to get his point across, but it seems words are wasted on the man as he made a note to vent on something once he got back to his safehouse. "Religion? Are you out of your mind? Do you truly believe that religion does anything? It is a mere concept that humans have created to fool themselves that when good things happen it is because of some spirit and when bad things happen it was because of evil spirits. Those concepts are nothing more then illusions and I find it ludicrous that a person would believe in such thing," David hissed as he gestured to Erika, "this girl is far smarter and open minded than you will ever be. Is that the natural consensus of wherever you come from? That we earthen mages are so corrupted that we are incapable of creating a genius that would help us with our magical work? In which case I am glad that I am not part of your world...not if you would so believe that magic can easily be divided between good and evil," as anger blazed in his eyes.
He then took a step back, "However it seems words are wasted on you..." he muttered, "whatever you think of me I will not attempt to even reason with it due to your discrimination," as he briefly glanced at Erika and then back to Alladin, "I only pity whatever students you will have to have a teacher such as you..." as he began to walk away in earnest this time.
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Post by Alladin Waynguard on Sept 9, 2013 22:08:37 GMT -6
"That's the deal with being a seer. You see the worst. Cassandra from Greek myth might be a good parallel. It takes incredible mental fortitude to last more than a few months with the power of the seer's sight. I mean magics like instant death spells, mind control, pain induction, resurrection. Those are the dark magics. I don't determine it, the universe did." Alladin said. "And I was more thinking along the lines of suppressing dark impulses. I might be misunderstanding religion as a whole."
He watched David walk away. "That was an interesting conversation." He made a note of his magical signature with his pocket watch.
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 9, 2013 22:16:32 GMT -6
Erika was pleased to be complimented by the other mage but she was still frustrated with Mr. Waynguard's narrow minded views.
That's the deal with being a seer? It would never be something she could fix? She'd never see anything good? She felt like crying. She had been clinging to a secret hope that if she trained and better developed her powers she'd eventually see something positive. No such luck.
"Instant death spells don't have to be evil. What if someone was really ill and in incredible pain or gravely wounded? Couldn't you use the spell to put them out of their misery? Or what if you used it to defeat an enemy that was killing a lot of people? And pain can sometimes spark things to function. Mind control might be used to help break people free of hallucinations or delusions. Resurrection sounds dangerous and against the nature of things but what if you really needed information only a dead person had? Couldn't you reanimate them just briefly to learn what you needed to know and then restore them to their proper state?" she asked.
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Post by Claudia n' Friends on Sept 9, 2013 22:29:49 GMT -6
"I'm not in the greatest emotional condition to explain why you would be breaking almost every magical law in existence by attempting any of those four acts." Alladin flipped his watch open, conjuring up a small pamphlet. He tossed it to Erika. "Study the laws of magic before attempting anything that might get you killed or attract the attention of the wrong kind of people."
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 9, 2013 22:36:54 GMT -6
Erika was disappointed that he wasn't willing to properly explain the situation. Was that because he was too emotionally exhausted or because he had no logical explanation?
Regardless she accepted the pamphlet. She was eager to learn all she could about magic. "Laws of magic? Is there a magical law enforcement that will arrest me if I break them?" she asked curiously. She had a tough time imagining that any magical laws could really exist or be enforced.
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Post by Alladin Waynguard on Sept 10, 2013 19:39:51 GMT -6
"Um, yeah. He's rather thin, tall, pale. Wears a black robe, carries a big scythe." Alladin replied. "Whatever you do, stay away from him," pointing in the direction David had left in, "he's bad news."
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 10, 2013 19:42:56 GMT -6
Erika wasn't willing to agree to any such thing. The other person was an experienced mage as well and he at least agreed with her view point that knowledge was pure.
"Why?" she asked. "What exactly did he do wrong?" "And who's this guy with a scythe?"
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Post by Alladin Waynguard on Sept 10, 2013 20:01:51 GMT -6
"The guy with the scythe is Death. I was under the impression that was how he was popularly depicted. And he just killed several people not 10 minutes ago."
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 10, 2013 20:13:35 GMT -6
Erika rolled her eyes. "Death? Like the religious death that takes your soul and puts it up for judgement? Is now a bad time to tell you I stopped believing in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy when I was like three?" she asked sarcastically.
Did this other mage kill people? Or was that just Mr. Waynguard's bias talking? Maybe he was outright lying to her. He hadn't been forthcoming about any of her questions. Maybe this was his way of trying to get her to shut up and deal with him instead of probing the other mage for questions.
"You saw him kill people?" she asked, carefully gauging his expression. Maybe she would be able to tell if he was lying.
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Post by Alladin Waynguard on Sept 10, 2013 20:55:02 GMT -6
"No, I mean actual death. As in, if you try to do any of those four acts, you will most likely die due to backlash from the magic." Alladin said. "And he did conjure up a storm of magic thunder, which destroyed, by my estimation, about 4 blocks of neighborhoods on Tottenham Court Road. I'd ballpark about 30 dead, maybe about 40-50 wounded."
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Post by Erika Delicia Danielles on Sept 10, 2013 21:00:52 GMT -6
"Wait is death a back lash or is it something sentient?" she asked for clarification.
Thirty dead, maybe 40-50 wounded? Was that true? Had he carelessly used a spell that caused such destruction?! Or was it intentional? How was she to know? She didn't know either of the men.
"Was it an accident? He did say he hadn't tried the spell before," she pointed out.
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