Cat and Mouse - Aerilon

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Who: Ales [Open]
When: November 17
Where: Ales' Airship and Aerilon
Summary: Flying to Aerilon to search for the Black Moogle and looking around the city.
Warnings: None.

Good thing Ales was given permission to take one of the Airline's ships to search for the Black Mage Moogle, or else he'd waste so much time getting from one place to another. And taking other Heroes for the search would makes things go more quickly.

Ales spends several hours on the airship, keeping himself in the navigation room and only allowing Mimi inside to relay any messages one of the passengers wants to give him.

After that, he wandered the streets, greeting each member of the crowd that was closer to his size. The shops were filled with wonderful items, but nothing caught enough of his interest to pay for one of those expensive trinkets.

Fortunately, he found himself in front of O'aka XXIV's shop, eyeing one of the computers. He didn't have enough to buy one of those, but for now, looking at them made him feel a bit better.

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[whereishe]

"Celes isn't sure but he also seems the type who doesn't always pay attention." Which was true because right now he wasn't paying attention even though he was flying so close. If Yuna didn't know better she would have thought that he fell asleep in the air.

Her eyes moved from her moogle back to Ales. "I had something like these jobs back in my world. It was an invention by a friend of mine. He used technology to extract to pure energy and power from memories. Those memories held the skills that we then tapped into."

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Lazy Moogle, Ales thought to himself.

"Memories? Really? So would these crystal contain memories of whoever created them as well?" It would fit along well with how Jessie described retrieving jobs from crystals. "Or does the system here not match the one from your world?"

[whereishe]

Celes wasn't lazy, in fact he was expending a lot of effort to look cool and he was doing a pretty good job.

Yuna lightly tapped her chin. "It is similar but it isn't the same. We need a grid for the spheres to work properly. It's something that takes the power from the sphere or in this case crystal and makes it uses able. I can tell the crystal's have power I just wonder how we tap into it."

She brought the crystal from her pocket to inspect it closer.

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Ales took out his crystal as well, which was rather spherical, though not smooth at all.

"How does this grid look like? Can you sketch it out for me?" If he had some sort of basic blueprint, he could have more information on how these crystals stored jobs in the first place.

[whereishe]

"I can if you have paper and pencil." It was one thing that she didn't think to carry around with her. Her own crystal looked like a plan smooth sphere but the twist and turns of the cracks inside of it made it look as if a picture of a person might vaguely be seen in the right lighting. She pocketed the object and waved to Celes to come over.

"Can you give me something to write with." She paused. "And on." With a smile Celes fetched pen and paper handing over to Yuna. She lightly sketched its shape and a few of the runes that circled it. "They are designed almost like pages to a book."

[OOC: http://s2.hubimg.com/u/9109617_f260.jpg]

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Ales looked over the drawing carefully. "Is it really that simple?" He would imagine that the inner workings were much more complicated than they appeared. "Do those runes mean anything?"

[whereishe]

"Yes. Well the easiest way to explain it is that the panel that the spheres get inputted into contexts such that the circuit is complete while the ruins tell the spheres who to use their powers. Like instructions." She wanted to go home and ask ShinRa how he made it specifically but she has yet to have the chance.

Most of what she knows was just by playing with the spheres in her free time.

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He held a hand to his snout. "So it looks like the secrets are lost to us once more..." At least Yuna had some experience with job crystals. "So how to do switch jobs, then? Who activates it so that you get those abilities?"

He had never asked Mimi to change his abilities yet, since he was too satisfied with being a Scholar and Blacksmith, but he had a feeling that with those runes, Moogles weren't the ones in charge of managing Yuna's jobs.

[whereishe]

"The user. In this case it was me. Its just tapping into raw magic, though ShinRa attuned it to me so it would be easier." She folded up the paper and handed it to Celes to tuck away until later.

"But that is also in my world. It might not work that way here."

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Attuned...magic? That's just confusing to him.

"Do you will it to change? You use your own magic?"

Though if she had magical powers, then it'd make sense for this world to have removed them, rendering her unable to change her Jobs at will here.

[whereishe]

"That's right."

She was still annoyed that all of her training had been for nothing. She would start again from the beginning to try to increase her skills. Yuna had something to protect and it was important that she had the power to protect it.

"Do you not have magic on your world?"

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If only Yuna had been here last month, when everyone's powers were taken away, he might have learned something from this. She might have been the strongest of the Heroes, being able to switch Jobs at will. Maybe Mimi or Jessie would know more.

It took a moment for Yuna's question to register with him, and he realized that he worded his questions the worst way possible. He feared that he wasn't fast enough to mask a flash of panic at that question.

"Well, yes, there is...just...we don't use Jobs there. No one takes their powers from some crystal. Sure, the whole system of magic is sustained by Polokus, and the Heart of the World holds tremendous power, but we don't..." he motioned a little with his hands, trying to think of the right words, "we don't exactly depend on it to use magic."

Kind of? It's important in keeping the world in order, but the Teensies living nearby guarded it, not used it.

"Magic is a very vague word, describes so many various concepts and processes," his demeanor was upbeat again. "And I humbly apologize for my confusing questions. I was hoping to learn the specifics about those Jobs you use in your world, but it looks like my suspicions confirmed: this relies on our abilities to connect to the crystals."

That was a good deflection, and that theory made perfect sense. He mentally gave himself a pat on the back.

[whereishe]

She must have hit a nerve because he was rambling a little bit which was different from his answers before. Yuna waited patiently until he was finished before responding.

"Well to start, what I use is called the sphere grid, and though it helps boost my magic I don't need it to cast. I also had abilities outside of it entirely. Magic in my world is like life, its everywhere and can be used if you are in-tune with it. Also only three people can use the sphere grids since its so new." She began counting as she explained hoping that reveling some about her would help the little guy calm down.

His world sounded interesting but she wasn't going to pry. It sounded like magic there was a little different than her home world.

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Ales went through the steps in his mind. So, the sphere grids were a way to harness the magic of the jobs, but it was a new technology. He liked that. But magic was a force that everyone could use, but just like in his world, it could be used in different ways.

"So everyone can use magic in your world? Any species more in tune with it than others?" If so, then he probably would understand her world better.

[whereishe]

"Well I haven't seen it among species but there are people who are born with that talent." Herself being one of those born with the ease to use magic.

She lightly taps her chin trying to think back. "There are some who don't use magic often like the Al Bhed but I think that is by choice more than ability."

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"Really, then? So magic is also an ability that most can use, but some of your have greater potential for it?" It made no sense. How would one human be more attuned to magic than the others, with not accounting for species? "In my world, not everyone has the ability to use magic on their own, though they interact with it often, but some, like the fairies and Teensies, are more in tune with the flow of nature and its magic."

He crossed him arms. "Of course, that doesn't account into those that specifically study magic, which makes them more adept at using more complex and rigorous types of it, but that's more based off of their...own...skill." His normally fast mode of speaking was thrown away at the end there, and he went into deep thought.

[whereishe]

Yuna listened carefully thinking on Ales's words. She didn't want to push him and she used his silence to gather her own thoughts. It sounded similar with very small differences.

She wondered about the magic in this world and how it worked. It had to have a direction to flow, magic was just energy and because of that it follows patterns.

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Ales stood there, thinking over everything he heard. What determined whether an individual was extremely attuned to magic, or not to it at all? Would this mean that Crystallis worked similarly to Yuna's world? That with the right technology, they could be able to switch Jobs whenever they wanted?

He was lost in his thoughts for several minutes before realizing that Yuna was still there. "Sorry, this got me bit distracted. Is there anything else you wanted to tell me?"

[whereishe]

She shrugged with a smile. Yuna hadn't really planned to tell him anything but she was happy to have someone to talk to that seemed to understand her.

"Not really. I might take a look at the shop some more."

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He smiled. "That's fine. I'll see if I can find the shop owner and try haggling with him on this computer."

[whereishe]

"I might see about the gunner job. It was nice talking with you though." She smiled down at Ales.

"Thank you."

Yuna liked the conversation, it was easy. Far easier than any other encounter thus far.