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[not_as_special]

[The handwriting appearing on the scroll now is an ornate script - carefully written and by no means messy, but sacrificing a certain amount of legibility in favor of aesthetics. Those who take the time to decipher it will find that it reads as follows

Comments

[notvitiligo]

So far I have successfully made:
Furniture
A Monopoly set
Cooking ingredients
Magic-based healing items
Various complicated electronics

and of course the buildings. Everything is about equal under normal circumstances. I have personally worked with things that I could understand the interior workings of myself but one person here made a video game system and does not know anything about how those work so I do not think it obeys natural laws.

Also it gets weird and valentineifies things a lot.

oops, wrong icon

[not_as_special]

It's reassuring to know that it is not necessary to understand how things work in order to make them. Goodness knows I have only the vaguest understanding of electronics.

What do you mean by "valentineifiying" things?

[notvitiligo]

There are occasional design alterations, generally involving the color pink, hearts, flowers, rainbows, that kind of stuff. It is really annoying.

[not_as_special]

Well, I suppose I shouldn't use it to make any clothing, then.

[Voice]

[swarmoflies]

Oi, you! What's all this words on paper nonsense? Talk proper, so real people can understand ya!

[Voice]

[not_as_special]

Plenty of real people can understand words on paper. Do you yell at everyone who uses the Vine's text function in this manner?

[swarmoflies]

I do.

[not_as_special]

Doesn't it get dull after a while?

[existwithoutme]

[The script that replies is also ornate, but flowing rather than forced--though it is a bit forceful, even in its intricacy.]

A better term is never wanting. I could think of many more, offhand, with a less prosaic sound.

Clay of creation, mystical soil, dreaming sand, wishing dust, the earth that engenders, the loam of miracles.

Be more imaginative. Don't use words you find lackluster simply because others do.

[Kuja has not yet made anything, but she doesn't see the use in mentioning that.]

[not_as_special]

[Oh, that stings. And it's hard to argue with. Damned if she's not going to try, though.]

Well, I am terribly sorry if I didn't take the time to ensure that my brief query on the Vine was a stunning work of prose.

[existwithoutme]

You need not apologize to me, as it is only your writing that suffers.

You took the time to consider the term "magic dirt", decide that you did not care for it, then wrote "for want of a better term". Were you someone who used the term unthinkingly, I would have said nothing, but you must have at least a nascent aspiration to reach greater compositional heights.

If I chide you, it is for your own benefit. Don't be petulant.

[not_as_special]

Well, I suppose I should be thanking you for being so magnanimous as to offer your literary critique, then.

[alchemistsquery]

I have made a swimsuit! It was really easy! I just thought of it and the dirt turned into one! Isn't that amazing?

-Alfimi

[not_as_special]

Yes, I find it quite interesting. It's especially nice that anyone can use it, don't you think?

[alchemistsquery]

Yes! I don't know much about "magic," but I didn't think it was something I could do. But its best that anyone can make anything they like. I should try to make more things.

[not_as_special]

Yes, I am looking forward to trying it as well. Although really, I'm not sure where to start.

[esoteric_rose]

The most complex thing has been my place of residence, duplicating it from my memory. It was as easy as simply wishing it into existence while holding the sand.

[not_as_special]

Really? I was aware that many people had used it to make buildings, but I had assumed that this would require a good deal of effort or expenditure of energy.

[esoteric_rose]

It depends on the degree that you want it to be similar to whatever you are recreating. If it is an exact copy you wish, little effort at all is needed. If you wish to change it-as I did-then it requires more dirt, time, and thought. As well as suffering the strange effects of the Wild Places.

[not_as_special]

I see; I suppose that makes sense. Are the effects worse for more difficult projects, then?