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[cuttypie]

Who: Luka Kovač
Username: un: 13371uk@
Warnings: None so far


[He know he's playing a dangerous game here. That's why he's on audio instead of video, in case he...slips up. Being an Avatar of the Stranger had both its benefits and its downsides, and sometimes he couldn't quite...help the way he looks, especially if he gets a whiff of fear. His voice is pleasant and perfectly normal, with a melodious Croatian accent.]

Hello everyone, this is Dr. Luka Kovač. If I haven't met you yet, I'm a doctor who specializes in emergency medicine.

Some things I still don't understand here, so maybe someone else might have some information or thoughts on it. I come from a world where you don't really see too much of the supernatural around, but here there are superpowers and superheros and terrifying things that happen all the time.

And I guess Avatars have the power to make those terrifying things happen, right? To feed the Entities? But what gives them that power?

I suppose what I was really wondering is that maybe some of the people we've encountered used to be good and then were corrupted, somehow. I'm a doctor, the first thing I look for is a way to treat the patient, maybe even so far as find a cure.

But is there a cure for an Avatar?

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[cuttypie]

It's nice to meet you. I've never met a real witch before! [Luka sounds a little brighter at that, like he's meeting some character from his childhood.]

I'm glad that you brought that up because I was curious of how it works for people who come from worlds with different powers and magic. Which is something I never thought I would say in my life, but here we are.

Maybe it is a curse, for everyone. It seems to be like one.

[edalyn]

[Eda snorts, but just in an amused way.] Yeah, I know I'm pretty dang cool.

[She gets more serious again after that.] At least other worlds aren't completely new to me... but I'm only used to there being magic in one. And if we were in that one I'd have more ideas. If it is like a curse... there are treatments there, at least. Not always cures but potions and elixirs that can help. But if everything here is powered by these things then I don't even know where to start.

[cuttypie]

It’s too bad powers cost something here, I would have loved to have seen a real magic trick from a witch.

[Alas, he can only lament.]

So in your experience, different worlds have different rules? Does your magic work on other worlds?

Maybe there are rules here too, on how the magic and powers here work. It’s like medicine, I guess, in a way. You start at the atoms and molecules and work your way up to understanding larger systems.

[edalyn]

[A couple of weeks ago she might have offered, but right now, for the moment at least, she's being more careful.]

Maybe there are.

Where I'm from... there's my realm and the human realm. Witch magic, the kind that comes from ourselves, that works in both worlds. [She doesn't feel like explaining she no longer has that in any world.]

There's also magic that comes from the land--which happens to be the rotting corpse of a magical giant, long story--and that doesn't work in the human realm.

Seems like everything works here... but only through feeding those things. But it's not like I'm gonna experiment. [...More than she has.]

[cuttypie]

That is…okay. Wow.

[The rotting corpse of a giant?! That sounds super interesting so he makes a note of it to ask about it later.]

I wish there was a way to experiment…ethically, of course.

I suppose all we can do is infer what we can from our observations.

[edalyn]

Believe me, so do I. But... seems like a bad idea. Especially if it might be a road to ending up one of those avatars.

[Then again, they do need to learn about all this somehow.]

[cuttypie]

The question is, does the use of a power automatically mean you get corrupted? Or is it just getting on an Entity’s radar?

I don’t actually know, but I wish we had some way of finding out.

[edalyn]

Two-for-two on the so do I. [But wishing isn't exactly getting them far.]

It seems like it ought to take more than that. [It must, right? After all, she still feels like... herself. Even if it's easier to give in to certain types of urges lately.]