I'm not sure if I'd call it not cooperating, but completely non-existent. Everything where I'm from is made of shinsu, whether it's living or not. Manipulating shinsu can be used to attack others, or fortify oneself, but it's also used to power pretty much all the technology and equipment too.
Is it something everyone knows how to manipulate? Or is it similar to our situation here? [That's been a pretty big identifier between everybody's home environments.]
That would be a wave controller, I'm a light bearer. [ pointing at the cube. ]
Wave controllers don't have any tools usually other than their hands, but they don't need much else. If you can control Shinsu you can control other people's bodies, the flow of water and gravity...you get the idea.
[Power sure does lead people to do rotten things.]
I do, at least in the sense of my own world. It's normally machinery that can process large amounts of information using mathematics and an energy source.
Given my idea of a lighthouse was a little old fashioned, though, I wonder if our computer isn't quite the same, either.
That's still closer than most people I've met here.
[ a small smile creeps onto his face. ]
Using our lighthouses we can connect to terminals that only light bearers have access to, a vast network of data on locations, items, people...everything in the Tower. If you know what you're doing you can get the layout of a floor or make trades that can't be done in the daylight.
Both. Everyone I've met here lives in what we consider the Outside World in comparison. It makes sense if you believe the old texts, that humans aren't native to the Tower like some other species are. But once you enter the Tower you can't leave, and those on the outside are barred from entering unless they're chosen.
[ tower of god world building is really an entire thing. ]
[We now return to a thread where life was less full of stabbing.
He hums as he quietly rises to his feet, a muttering of his incantation allowing his broom to materialize with a small little hop from Solomon to sit himself on it side-saddle, crossing one leg over the other.]
Mmm, that makes it sound pretty alien... Is it something that was created, or that's simply existed?
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I'm guessing that whatever powers it isn't cooperating now that we're stuck here?
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Is it something everyone knows how to manipulate? Or is it similar to our situation here? [That's been a pretty big identifier between everybody's home environments.]
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[ energy/matter... close enough. ]
Everyone interacts with it in some way, but there are those who specialize in it.
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Wave controllers don't have any tools usually other than their hands, but they don't need much else. If you can control Shinsu you can control other people's bodies, the flow of water and gravity...you get the idea.
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[He leans back in his seat, lifting a hand to his chin and tapping a finger to his lips.]
What makes a light bearer different? Is it just the usage of a tool?
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[ even if he wasn't himself, that's just how life in the Tower is. seeing a man get bisected in public is just another Friday. ]
Mostly, but we also have access to—do you know what a computer is?
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I do, at least in the sense of my own world. It's normally machinery that can process large amounts of information using mathematics and an energy source.
Given my idea of a lighthouse was a little old fashioned, though, I wonder if our computer isn't quite the same, either.
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[ a small smile creeps onto his face. ]
Using our lighthouses we can connect to terminals that only light bearers have access to, a vast network of data on locations, items, people...everything in the Tower. If you know what you're doing you can get the layout of a floor or make trades that can't be done in the daylight.
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[Have you met the forest cryptid? We have a forest cryptid. He would not be surprised if Ithiqua doesn't care what a computer is.]
What would that make the Tower, then? A structure, or a larger system?
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[ tower of god world building is really an entire thing. ]
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He hums as he quietly rises to his feet, a muttering of his incantation allowing his broom to materialize with a small little hop from Solomon to sit himself on it side-saddle, crossing one leg over the other.]
Mmm, that makes it sound pretty alien... Is it something that was created, or that's simply existed?
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Even knowing about native species is closely guarded knowledge, kept within the Ten Families who assist the King in governing the Tower.
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Is that due to your role as a light bearer, or something else?