Eighth Order

[coolblueiceman]

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[Chrono's return from the outskirts of the Adventus base is, much like the last time he returned from an Adventus mission, marked by exhaustion and mana depletion, though it's from the Asura's dedicated teleport bay, and it's with the Fury (and Arika and Kamille) in tow taking up most of it; after taking Tatsu to the Chalice's infirmary for

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[crystal_energy]

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[Before Chrono could leave the infirmary, Arika grabbed his sleeve]

Tatsu's gonna be okay, right?

[coolblueiceman]

...I'm not trained in Devices, so I don't know for certain, and she's not exactly like anything I've seen before, either. But I think she'll be fine. She pushed the Fury beyond its limits, which passed strain to her, I suspect. It's not uncommon with mages where I come from, at least. She just needs rest... or in her case, likely repairs.

[crystal_energy]

Like... when I overloaded my Robe?

[Arika'd been sore and bedridden for a week, but she'd turned out okay in the end]

[coolblueiceman]

That sounds equivalent, yes. Except that you have your nanomachines to fix you up when something happens. So if you push yourself too hard, you'll be tired and maybe sick for a while, but you'll get better on your own.

Mages like myself have to wait for our magic to stabilize, and repair our Devices; I'm assuming something similar is true for Tatsu. She burned a little too much power, so her body will need to be inspected to see if anything is broken, and the Fury is seriously damaged. It'll be a little bit before she's really "okay", but she's probably not in danger.

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[chases_aliens]

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is wait. [And have a Dita, leaning on the doorway as she stepped up towards Chrono.]

How are you? Rested yet?

[coolblueiceman]

Don't I know it. The whole time I was gone before, I worried about what trouble everyone was getting into... and now that I'm back, I'm still worried, I just get to watch.

I'm all right, Dita... a little tired yet, but that should fade quickly enough. Did you manage all right with all this mess? [He gestures at the screen, showing a convenient still of the battle.] We had to fight pretty hard to keep up out there.

[chases_aliens]

I managed. I let everything guide me in that battle. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't have been able to get the finishing blow in. I do wonder though about Yolanda's last words.

"In another world..." sounds really like anything's possible, doesn't it?

[coolblueiceman]

...I was wondering about that myself. But then, I fly a spaceship, through dimensional space. I've seen a lot of things. There are all kinds of theories, about other versions of yourselves existing in other dimensions, about places that exist outside time. There's one tale of a restaurant perpetually moving before and after the end of the universe, though nobody's ever found it.

There's a legend of a colony, somewhere in dimensional space. It was called Al Hazred. Their technology, through magic, was amazing. It's said they could bring the dead back to life, travel through time on demand, their weapons were - are - the stuff of legend... The whole colony was destroyed in an accident that caused a chain reaction, and the remaining artifacts were scattered across space-time. They're the prime examples of what we now call Lost Logia.