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[Celes considers all that, it does sound like everyone has been pretty complete, though it is always possible with all the different types of magic that must exist here that someone's may do something, or they just need to find another plan.] Has anyone attempted to study how the barrier is made? Do we know it is magical, or anything about it besides it's seeming inability to be broken?

Now that's somethin' I've thought 'bout. It's beyond any technology in my world, but if it's generated by some machine, it's gotta come down sometime, even if it's just for a second 'cause everything breaks and needs ta be updated at some point. Don't know if that'll ever happen while we're here or checkin' but it could. If it's magical, I'm thinkin' someone either has ta maintain it or it needs ta be redone every so often. That means it'll be weaker from time ta time and I'm pretty sure that happens 'cause Things have gotten through. [Duo's going to get up when he's done so he can go get that pizza.] You can either ask your next question loudly or wait a second. I'll be right back with your pizza.

_{[Locke is quiet for the most part; being raised far away from Vector as he was means he has much less exposure to technology than Celes, though having Edgar as a friend means he isn't completely ignorant. And with his own background and being forcefed the guide, he has a couple ideas of his own, though he waits until Duo comes back to ask them.]} Has anyone tried to go under this thing? It's not often that people remember to guard against invasions from below, and if they do remember, they often don't sink their foundations far e-

_{[And that's when he gets an idea that just stops him midword, an uncharacteristically serious and troubled expression on his face, as something just slams into his brain. He waits a moment before asking it, with a grimace, because he isn't sure he wants to know this answer.]} Duo... how often are these kidnappings? Often enough for the Malnosso to harvest their victims' inborn power for use in powering this shield?

[And after Locke's statement, Celes is just going to nod to show she agrees with that. In fact that was pretty much exactly what she was going to ask, minus the bit about the kidnappings, the mere thought of that has her horrified and that is likely evident from her expression.]

[Duo's sitting the fresh pepperoni pizza on the table as he listens. A few quick strokes with a knife and he'll have it cut. He'll also be touching the pan a lot and stroking the table. He's dispelling some of the heat so they can eat it right away, but his motions stop at Locke's last idea. He starts up again very slowly.] I hadn't thought 'bout it. But then, why would they take people like me? I'm just human 'cept for the magic I learned here and that's not much. I know the barrier goes all the way down and then around like the top though. Friend a mine has a lotta power with the Earth and he said he checked. But usin' us to power it? It only makes sense with people like him who have 'nough power ta use it.

_{[Locke shakes his head, spreading his hands in a "who knows" gesture.]} Who can tell why they do what they do in the first place? They have to have their reasons for bringing us here in the first place, even if it's just that they're completely insane. _{[Speaking from personal experience there.]} But they're never going to tell us about them. And there has to be a reason for bringing the people they do, because I'm probably more human than you and yet I'm here. Maybe it's something they do during the kidnappings; maybe everyone has some sort of power that isn't dependent on any abilities they have. But it makes an awful kind of sense. It's like putting coal on a fire before it burns down.

_{((OOC: So, so, so sorry about the extremely late tag here. LJ didn't tell me anything was posted, so this is soooo late.))}

Don't know 'bout the bein' more human thing. We don't even have magic in my world. But ya might have a point there. 's not like I'm a civilian in my world or somethin'. Maybe they are after somethin' we have that's got nothin' ta do with magic. Or not the way we're thinkin' about it. Didn't someone say they're havin' some sorta problem with the barrier? I don't know. Damn, I'm gettin' soft here. I need ta pay more attention ta this stuff. [He'll push the pizza toward them and flop down on a chair.]

(ooc: Don't worry about it. It happens and I think we all saw the messages about it going on. Do you have Celes-mun's contact or is this thread over?)

[ooc: I'm watching it, just didn't have much to say to the last but other than agreeing, and well that would have been a lame tag indeed.]

[Celes does take a slice of the pizza and finds that it is actually quite good.]

It would be hard to say, there is much that we don't even know about ourselves. I know at least in the world Locke and I come from, the Empire did take energy from living beings we call espers and it was used to power technology. We called it magitek. Other worlds may well have done something similar, and the Malnosso made use of it.

It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, and it should be looked into as a potential theory.

Edited 2009-08-19 09:27 (UTC)

_{[Locke groans and pushes a hand through his hair, messing up his bandana and shaking his head.]} Our world just turned into hell, literally - we're probably more used to thinking of the worst than you. But I'm no one special where I come from, I'm not noble or anything. I don't like using magic and can't use it anymore anyway. So why take me? It just doesn't make any sense unless there's something about me that doesn't have anything to do with magic as we think of it. I don't know - I don't know if I want to know.

(ooc: Oh! I didn't realize you were. Yeah, that would have sounded stupid. I understand.)

[Duo leans back in his chair and laces his fingers behind his neck. Eventually he ends up balancing on two legs of the chair. He's thinking that over.] Ya know, there might be somethin' to that. Didn't even think you could actually do somethin' like that, but if you guys are doin' it, they could be doin' it here too.

It took a lot of machines and a lot of power to do it - the people who ordered it done were definitely evil. _{[He's being very careful to not refer to Cid in that group; he got the impression that the man was actually very decent, all things considered.]} Bastards. They drained the life out of the espers, using it to power machines called magitek. But the espers were magic themselves - they all had something that wasn't unusual by esper standards, but was unknown in the rest of the world. So if we're looking at this in the same way...

_{[He glanced back and forth between the two of them, looking more grim as the discussion went on.]} In this case, we're the espers. For better or worse we all have something they want to examine. We might need to find out what it is.

[Good plan not referring to Cid, Celes would definitely not be a happy girl if he was referred to as evil, she thinks of him as her grandfather since she doesn't exactly have a real family.] Don't forget about taking their power to give to humans like myself. I know what price my powers came at.

I wonder if when people are kidnapped if the Malnosso also try to find a way to take any special abilities we may have...

[Duo's going to look at Celes for a moment. He's working through what she just said and letting that sink in. Then he'll shake his head and shrug it off. It doesn't sound like something she wanted to happen and she does sound remorseful about it so it probably won't happen again. Besides, she seems like a nice enough person.] That's the kinda thing I was thinkin'. There's somethin' 'bout each of us that interests them and when they understand it, they send us back. But why keep me and send Quatre back? I'm just a pilot, but he had the closest thing I've seen ta magic in my world. He had ta be harder ta figure out than me. Could the experiments be them testin' out stuff they've learned from us? Like messin' with the weather. People here can do that. And takin' away the light.

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