NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7860485" data-attributes="member: 93670">Or... Magic is a science in eberron & the planescape books were written from the assumption of native to sigil or a cargocult interpretation of magic like FR/Greyhawk/etc...  Lets call that FR/GH hailing immigrant Andy & put in an Eberron hailing immigrant Beth.Andy gets to Sigil & meets people who have a far better understading of the universe & how magic itself fuctions than all but a tiny handful of eleminster types from his world.  He is confused but occasionally useful at getting stuff done.  Those who benefit from his services* might occasionally try to help educate him, but the chasm between what a normal person knows and what Andy knows is so great that all but the most basic concepts taught to pre & post-pubescent children quickly prove themselves to be beyond his capability so they eventually throw up their hands and declare "magic", "The gods are powerful worship them", or some other excuse that ensures Andy will bother someone else or return after gaining enough knowledge to almost understand "Beginners intro to scratching the surface on $topic"An Eberron native who spent years attending school with what might be mildly enchanted books that help the reader understand their content & fit right in.  Beth gets there & understands the magic as a science well enough for the quick 30 second box cover/back of the book explanations to be ample for her understanding & self guided instruction into topics that interest her.  Maybe her services are also useful & she is able to engage in mutual cross education into esoteric topics.  One day Andy is leaving Beth's Local friend's place mumbling the names of gods & their portfolios while on the lift with Beth.  Andy had just been told about the "Gods" by their mutual friend & Beth is intrigued bout the fact that Andy's mumblings seemed to suggest these were real verifiable individuals.  Beth came to show off her Carousel Hazard construct to Dave because she'd talked about it several times with him & he always seemed interested; but today Beth has finished building or commissioning the construct needed for play & has flasks with dozens of different drinks loaded in it.    Over the course of the game, Beth mentions the weird guy she met in the elevator & how she tried to explain the construct to him but eventually gave up & simply declared "It's a magic game".  Dave bawls with laughter & nearly falls out of his seat  while describing Andy & how he gave up explaining just minutes before she had arrived with a "they are gods" explanation.  Both of them laugh & agree that those poor souls who bound themselves to planar energies & eldritch machines to serve the needs of  security & the like at the expense of some free will deserve respects & all, but it's not like nobody understands the process of divine ranks so Beth cackles as Dave loses a hand only to have the construct dispense a flask of Zil Absynthe to him... She knows the game is hers.You can cargo cult down science, you can't science cargocult* Lets call this guy Dave</blockquote>

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