Video Post - 01

[eclipse_of_time]

[If nothing else, this sort of broadcasting and storage and communication device isn't entirely unfamiliar to Ming. But everything else certainly is. First and foremost her own body. Where's the pulsing thrum of her magical energy? Even the mark on her chest is dull and decorative. It's a frightening thing to see. She can feel the passage of time, something only once felt briefly. And terrifyingly. The seconds are moving by her, taking her with them.]

[She realizes she can't feel any any magical energy. Not in the atmosphere, not in the earth, not in the large creature that follows her. It's an unfamiliar beast, but one that looks as though it would be right at home on the paradisaical beaches of her island kingdom.]

[If this is a kidnapping, it's a frightfully strange one. She's nowhere near Numara. This place isn't familiar at all! But she's not restrained. Quite the opposite. She's made it to a bench in the little village she awoke in, and then that overwhelming feeling that threatens to steal her consciousness slips upon her and she sits, shaking and confused, to fiddle with the portable teleson.]

What...what is this place?

[There's a high note of fear and confusion in Ming's lightly accented voice.]

Something's wrong...something's terribly wrong...what's been done to me?

What's going to happen to me?

[Without her magical energy, what is she? Her magic is her soul, her consciousness, her very being! She's never felt so tied to this human shaped shell in all of her existence. She's certain she can feel the decay and dying of mortal cells. Is this mortal death?]

Please...if someone can help me...

[It doesn't occur to her to explain further - there's not a single sentient thing in her world that doesn't know her face and who she is. What she is.]

[Surely someone can aide her!]

Comments

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

Woah, hey - it's gonna be okay.

[It may or may not be, but that's not what's really important.]

You're in a different world, but this place ain't too bad. No one's gonna hurt you.

[video]

[eclipse_of_time]

So I've been assured, but...it feels miserable, being changed for this world. I already had a body, why does it need to be altered?

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

Woah, wait, it changed your body?

[That's news to him. He didn't feel any different...]

[eclipse_of_time]

[Ming nods.]

It's rather complicated...and I'm afraid I only understand it a little myself...

In my original natural existence, I had no physical form. I was concious magical energy. But then I went to the world I call my home, and I couldn't exist there like that. So my energy was encased in a human shell, but my physical body was powered by my energy. It made my body immortal, ageless, and invulnerable.

My energy is...somehow closed off to me. By body is mortal. It's...most distressing.

[milliondollarpipes]

So it just turned you into a normal human. Huh.

Do you feel okay other than that? It doesn't hurt or anything?

[eclipse_of_time]

Yes.

No, I...I don't think so. Just different. Indescribably so.

[milliondollarpipes]

That's good. I guess.

[Small comfort, really. This isn't a subject Harvey knows a whole lot about, so he hesitates before trying to give more.]

...listen, I ain't an expert, but I know some guys who do this kinda dimension-travelin' stuff. Some worlds just can't handle certain things. I bet you'll go back to normal once you get outta here.

[eclipse_of_time]

I thought I was done with it. No, you're quite right, the laws of nature and reality are different in different worlds.

And I do not like things being done to me without my knowledge, even harmless things.

[milliondollarpipes]

Nobody does.

It doesn't seem like anybody knows how this happens though. It's just some kinda crazy universe thing. [He really wishes he had somebody to blame. But there just isn't anything.]

[eclipse_of_time]

Perhaps it's some natural phenomena. The universe is all connected, after all, energy in one can effect the energy of whichever words its on the same axis as.

[milliondollarpipes]

That sounds about right.

Have you dealt with stuff like this before?

[eclipse_of_time]

Technically speaking.

My first world and the world I call my home are connected. Due to events in that second world, my first world began dying. I traveled from one to the other, but the journey robbed me of all memories of my first world. I only remember small bits, and know what I've been told by others who remember it well.

[milliondollarpipes]

[He nods, and ventures:] Sorry.

[It seems like maybe the right thing to say? He's not sure. At the least, he can reciprocate.]

I can't say I've ever traveled to other worlds before this. But my world's had its fair share of visitors. Most of 'em ain't too friendly.