21 fact checking (Moore)

[Nephrite]

Next step is to see if Sylvie has any insights into just holding onto 21 makes her immune to its properties.

Beyond the memory loss and the fact that it seems to erode magic in general, do they have any further notes on anything else from the Deep Ethereal battle? Were people able to get their memories back or were they just completely gone?

[Anastasia]

Sylvie floating in the air, lying on her side as she watches you work in the laboratories. "Insights on that?" she says, "21 overcomes any source of evil that isn't from the Incarnations. Also..." A pause, "Are you able to remember the conversation we had with Baleruk about Cantasa Alexandria? I'm resistant to anathemic knowledge because of 21, too. Sort of helps with it."

[Nephrite]

"I remember what I remember... and remember what I didn't remember, if that makes sense." Moore says. "Hm... I guess the properties of anathemic knowledge and what the water does are kind of similar in a way... Hmm. I guess our best defense against it is..."

He blinks, then tilts his head, like he just thought of something. "I know you can use 21 offensively, Sylvie, but do you know if you can use it defensively?"

[Anastasia]

Sylvie goes still. "Please don't make me answer that." She keeps her voice level, calm.

[Nephrite]

He blinks a few times, taken a bit back by that.

There's a long pause while he seems to be carefully considering something.

"Okay." He nods. "You don't have to answer -- but I hope you can tell me sometime. I think I can puzzle out the issues just from what we've talked about before, so I think I understand what your hesitation is." He smiles a little and looks back at the water.

"In that case then, the best thing to probably due to protect ourselves in the future is use magic that either works on water itself like control weather or water, or...  maybe that spell to directly neutralize it... I wonder... maybe we could find a way to get that to be a continual spell...Hmm..." He taps his chin and flutters around in thought. "Now I know how Tepen feels... probably.."

[Anastasia]

Sylvie relaxes, "Yeah, if you can manage a wide range version of that spell, but find it or develop it from scratch first," Sylvie suggests.

[Nephrite]

"I think that's our best route for coming up with a defense." Moore concludes. "I'll talk to Tepen and Vul'lath and see if they have any ideas. Oh, hey, you had mentioned... uh, a while back... you can see auras and things, right? I'm just curious -- do you see more light within me lately? I never really stopped to ask you what you saw before."

[Anastasia]

"I see all of it, Moore. At least now," Sylvie says. She looks on at you, "Hey. Keep a secret?"

[Nephrite]

"I can't give you the same sort of guarantee that you'd give me in reverse." He admits with a small smile. "Shoot."

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+15
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 22 > [d20=7]

"Keep being exactly how you are," Sylvie smiles.

[Nephrite]

Moore tilts his head again. Was that it...?

"I will." Moore says with a smile. "After all, I'm the only me, so I should make sure I'm the best." there's no Moore who isn't Moore here, after all...

A pause.

"Hey, Sylvie, you helped me out with this, is there anything I can help you out with? Projects, anything like that? " He asks. "I feel like my skills could be put to better use than they have been lately."

[Anastasia]

"Of course there isn't," Sylvie says, "You're you and unique. Don't be silly about a Moore that isn't Moore."

Sylvie then turns to go, "Remember that, you're unique."

[Nephrite]

He blinks again, like there's a brief moment of him not quite being there.

"Sure. If you need any help with anything, let me know, okay?" He says with a smile. "Thanks, Sylvie."

[Anastasia]

Next on the todo?

Side upside since you aren't on IRC on Sundays. Got up at 5 AM on short sleep, have been up since then. Don't expect a serious posting run, I'm wiped. Hence why it took this long to post.

[Nephrite]

He's really not got anything to do so he'll just bum around unless someone needs his help or A Quest Appears.