forward-dated to August 1st - un: j.griffin

[onebetter]

Three things:

A.) If anyone needs me, don't bother with my room. I'm in the infirmary, by Keith's bed. As some of you may know he and Ruby have fallen comatose after we went on an ill-advised mission to the Outlands. Please keep them in your thoughts.

B.) Is anyone here good with amphibians? I'm not comfortable leaving Keith's bedside, but I have a friendly glow toad who might need a little water fun from time to time. If you want to play with a toad, feed him some more toad-appropriate food than 'a quarter of my sandwiches', etc... I'd appreciate it.

Here he is. [ Image Attachment: Sir.png. Desk included for scale. ]

C.) Hope everyone is having a good summer. If you want to tell me about it, I could use the distraction.

Action Option

[ If you want to just directly come see James in the infirmary, absolutely feel free to! He'll be reliably in there until August 4th - that's the day Keith wakes up and he starts sleeping in his own room again. ]

Comments

[nor_iron_bars]

ok the thing you need to understand here is
yes, this is totally against the laws of physics
but i'm literally magic and i don't give a shit.
i break the laws of everything else, so why should thermodynamics get a free pass??

[onebetter]

Put that way... forget I asked.

Though this begs a new question: is there going to be consequence? Magic equivalent exchange? One end of the lamp gets hot while the other is cold?

[nor_iron_bars]

[See, you're learning already. Very sensible of you.]

not with this kinda setup, nah.
could get into the details of how that works, all the ways magic interacts with physics as we understand it.
but that takes like 3 hours minimum and unless you're going for a specialty in that kinda stuff all you really need to know is "nah".

[She's not opposed to explaining it, she just feels like giving him a few walls of text that amount to a very, very large magitechnobabble infodump is a little excessive.]

did put a switch in the side that flips it between cool mode and hot mode, tho.

[onebetter]

Well, I have the time. It's not like I'm going anywhere soon.

[ You know, bedside of his comatose boyfriend and all. ]

I won't ask you to go through this much extra effort, but I am curious.

[ And hungry for distraction. ]

[nor_iron_bars]

[You know what, that's fair. She can understand the desire for a distraction, under the circumstances.]

you wanna learn new stuff, that's cool.
i'm sure the fuck not gonna discourage it.

[Jail enjoys indulging her scientific curiosity as much as anything else. And, like everything else she enjoys, she does it frequently and thoroughly.]

gonna send you some links to a few things.
should be an ok basic explanation of the kinda thing i did there, if you wanna look through 'em.
think one of them might be a rickroll cause it's kind of a reflex at this point.
the rest should be legit, tho.

[Sure enough, of the five links she sends him, one is an excerpt from a fairly advanced book on elemental magic, two more are scholarly essays on the interaction between magic and physics, one is a screenshot of her own notes on certain types of magitech, and one is a brief clip of Rick Astley.]

[Somehow, it's a dubstep remix instead of the original song. ...It's actually kind of catchy.]

[If nothing else, it's probably enough reading material to keep him busy for a while, if he finds it actually interesting.]

[onebetter]

I'd say that announcing the rickroll kind of defeats the point of leaving it in, but I'm beginning to understand that defeating just about any point is your thing.

Thank you a lot for the materials though, I'll go through them carefully :)))

[nor_iron_bars]

you catch on quick, kid.
have fun with science.