Night 56: Main Hallway, 1-Center

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[ from here]Tolten tried to seem confident as he took the lead, proceeding further into the dark corridors. There had been nothing overtly threatening so far, but his heart was racing in his chest even so. He couldn't shake a sense of lurking danger, of shadowing hidden fear. He tried to tell himself he was being foolish, but experience told him

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Ted wandered after Tolten, glancing around at his surroundings and idly shining his flashlight at things as he walked.

"There's no magic in my world," he answered, shrugging. "But we will have some most outstanding inventions in the scientific realms. Like phone booths that can take you on excellent adventures through the circuits of time, anywhere you want to go. But it's only in the future that they'll be invented, and that's only if me and Bill save the world with our music. Right now, it's just boring school and stuff." He sighed.

[ I might be posting slow for a while; college term is ending soon and I'm tied up with settling admin stuff. /o\ ]

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"No magic at all?" How strange! Even before people could use magical energy, it had existed. And he supposed those from the other world had always had magic.

"Without magic, I don't imagine man could survive without rather amazing inventions and machines," he went on, wishing he felt more sure of himself. Idle chatter certainly kept the bulk of the fear at bay, but did it distract from how utterly perplexed Tolten really was? "Apparently we - my people, that is - lived like that until just a decade or so before I was born."

The next bit made perfect sense to Tolten. When Ted mentioned saving the world at a later date, the young king thought he understood more of what was going on. "Ah, you're the province of prophecy!" That honestly brought a true smile to Tolten's face. There hadn't been any prophecies in Uhra for centuries, but a forsworn hero to save the world was a forsworn hero to save the world! Whatever world it was he came from

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"We've gotten along okay without magic," Ted said. "But it would be a most excellent addition to our world."

Anything would be possible, then, he thought. But it might also give bad guys the ability to do some egregiously heinous things, like dominate the world with evil superpowers and turn everyone into purple frogs. At least it would more interesting than green frogs, he decided. Green frogs were totally mundane.

Ted had no idea what 'province of prophecy' meant, but Tolten seemed to like it, so he just smiled in reply.

He appraised the door before them. It did look like a main door. Or at least a big one, and big doors tended to be main in some way or other.

He nodded. "Yeah, it does!"

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"Sometimes it can do more harm than good," Tolten admitted on the subject of magic. "The use of too much magic can...change a world. Upset the natural balance of nature and...cause a great many problems. And I will say this: I trust machines more than I trust magic." A man could at least see how a machine worked. And stop it easily if there was some sort of a problem. From what he had seen, a mage couldn't call back or cancel a cast spell.

"Saints be praised, I think we may have luck on our side!" Though this much luck made the young king hesitate a moment. What if there was something terrible beyond those doors? A great giant monster or...something?

"And I pray I didn't curse us just then..." No sense in standing about wondering what was beyond the doors. Tolten approached them, noting once more the just slightly off sense of architecture in this place. "I...I suppose we'd best open them, then...."

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Ted looked at the door. It looked innocent enough, for a door... no mysterious green gas wafting out from the top, no disturbing sounds of evil creatures that he could discern, and when he placed a hand against it, his hand remained completely intact, not sucked in to be slowly digested by forces best not thought about.

"Yeah," he decided, with a nod. "I think it should be safe."

So thinking, he opened the doors.

[ooc: Is this the door to the Entry Room or elsewhere?]

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And with that, the painful pressure of having to make a decision was lifted from Tolten's shoulders. It was so much easier when other people were calling the shots! And clearly Ted was a braver and bolder man than he - thank his ancestor.

He was proud that he didn't utter a single 'are you certain it's safe...?' or similar phrase as Ted pushed on the door's handle.

[Entry Room!]

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