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[ourlastbesthope]

I never understand how anything in those worlds work. I used to think that science was unchanging. At least the concrete details. Avogadro’s number, vacuum permeability, the lift equation. Those are all very real and set in facts. But these ports seem to bend those numbers and equations in nonstandard ways. Making it look like magic. [Because he

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[stopthat_destro]

What's there to discuss? You were a very off-putting woman.

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[ourlastbesthope]

Nothing, really. Care to tell me what happened in the parts I missed?

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[stopthat_destro]

No. It was insipid.

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[ourlastbesthope]

Was it? Why?

[championoftime]

I can explain the rooms bigger on the inside. ...At least, as I know how they function. If you've the time sometime.

[ourlastbesthope]

I always have the time for that.

[championoftime]

I would say if you knew enough to construct a device to reignite the sun [baby Hand of Omega material there] it would be something we could translate. How about tomorrow during lunch?

[ourlastbesthope]

I only had a part in the conception of that, but I'm sure I can grasp it.

I'll see you tomorrow.

[timesbureaucrat]

Sometimes different universes operate under different laws of physics. What may be fact in one universe isn't in another. Not long ago the Time Lords discovered a universe of anti-time, where causality itself--past, present, future--didn't operate under the rules as we know them. I imagine this "magic" is similar. Alternative physics at work.

[ourlastbesthope]

I could accept that.

Can you tell me more about that universe?

[timesbureaucrat]

Only a little. The CIA reports were sketchy, since the team that was dragged there were nearly all killed, including my predecessor Coordinator Vansell. The chronon particles that make up anti-time--anti-chronons, I suppose you could call them--are inimical to real time, like matter and antimatter.

[ourlastbesthope]

How?

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[paradoxlol]

Are you free tonight?

[Pause.]

And nice lecture. I always enjoy your theorizing.

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[ourlastbesthope]

I am, unless Rex needs me for something. Which I doubt. Why?

And thanks. I tried to keep the poetry out of it this time.

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[paradoxlol]

[.....god it's so weird that your inmate is his twin.]

Because I can't do anything strenuous for a few weeks, and I'm already bored. So I thought I'd live vicariously through action movies tonight.

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[ourlastbesthope]

How can you be bored?

But yeah, I can do that.

I saw your post but...it seemed like it was under control. What happened?

[strangehstorian]

Well, it isn't my department, but on my world magic is a manipulation of energies provided by something called ley lines. The ley lines are what provide the energy behind the miscellaneous forces of the universe - gravity being the main one, I believe.

[ourlastbesthope]

But, if you're talking about the universe, gravity isn't really a force. It's simply a warp in space time, so how can you draw energy from that?

[Pause.] Wait, no. It's alright. You said it's not your department.

[strangehstorian]

One doesn't draw energy from gravity, I don't think. Gravity is... well, sort of 'powered' by the ley lines just like magic is. We... tend to prefer it to physical forces bending time. It isn't very neat.