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[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[More images of tattooed hands, the same as in his last post. He's still working on that "positioning himself in focus" thing.]

I've no desire to use this technology any more than I have to. It's only more magic by another name. But I have a question, and it needs to be asked.

[He finally moves himself properly into focus, leaning over the terminal.]

I've seen complaints about victims of the tower who share their names, but this is different. Has the tower been known to alter memories? If one man remembers one path of events, and his friend another, could that be the doing of the demons and mages who control this place?

I cannot be the only one so afflicted. Tell me. Does this place change a person before they even arrive?

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[fifty]

These are computers, not magic. Anyway, I guess this place can bring people from different versions of the same world.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

They're implements that show me faces and voices from halfway across the tower. It's magic, and a dangerous sort--not as if there's any other.

You "guess."

[fifty]

It's technology. Just 'cause you don't get how it works doesn't make it magic.

Well, I know, actually.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

No one has explained to me how technology is any different than magic, and the results are similar enough.

How do you know?

[fifty]

It uses science. People call lots of totally explainable stuff magic just because they don't know how it works and it freaks them out. But this is all computers and stuff, it's not magic, anyone can build a computer if you know how.

'Cause there are people from different versions of my world here.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[He looks impatient up until that last part, when he looks down at the body of the terminal itself, frowning faintly, unsure what to make of the idea: something that operates like magic, but can be made by anybody. It manages to be both alarming and faintly reassuring, and he puts the idea aside for now. He'll ask someone more about it later.]

Different how?

[fifty]

Sometimes it's just that different stuff happened, but there are some that are girls who should be boys, too.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[Baffled pause.]

That is...a very strange thing to have changed.

[fifty]

I know, it's pretty weird.