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[ex_matricide319]

Christ. This place is boring as fuck. What do you guys do to entertain yourself when the gods aren't trying to kill everyone?

[Kiran has his phone on the ground, camera pointed up at the sky, as he slowly fans himself with a raggedy piece of scrap paper. His forehead and collar is drenched with sweat.]

Hey. I've got a question I've been meaning to ask.

How many people here use magic, and where do you get your magic from?

I keep worrying about using up all of mine. Not sure how it works here.

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[nowherewolf]

[Yeah, he figured this kid wouldn't take the bait. Good though.]

God, that's so crazy. A gnome runs the bodega around the corner from my apartment. I see gnomes like, every day. But okay, so you probably just have humans, so that leaves... everything else.

[This could take a while.]

You know what elves are? A lot of people from other worlds seem to have that one down. And dwarves. Gnomes and halflings are short like dwarves, but they're built different. Got different cultures and stuff, too. Gnomes are closer to nature and stuff, halflings are just... They're just people that are small. Then there's dragonborns, and they're... I mean they're dragon people. And tieflings are demon people.

Most everything else is considered a monster. Even the sentient ones. [Like him, for instance.] The more... I don't know, "normal" races, they're pretty slow to be accepting of the other kinds. But there's lots of 'em. Giants, orcs, merfolk. Actual dragons.

[ex_matricide319]

Damn. That's... pretty different from where I'm from, I'll be honest. Like, totally different. It's so different I'm not even sure I have much to say...

[Not even in the way James is probably used to. Kiran has never been into fantasy stories or video games or any of that kind of stuff.]

Do all those different species and stuff get along with each other? I don't know how it works for you, but for me... humans have it hard enough just trying to get along with each other.

[nowherewolf]

Hah, not really.

[They get along in that there haven't been any wars for a long time, but.]

A lot of them distrust each other, and there's a bunch of gross stereotypes. Like everybody thinks halflings are thieves, or that dragonborns are dangerous. And god fuckin' help you if you're one of the monster kinds. It's a mess, but it sounds like every world's a mess. Ours are probably some of the better ones, since at least ours have magic.

[ex_matricide319]

What you're describing sounds pretty similar to my world. We just... treat each other like shit and stereotype people. Dunno about magic making anything better, though. Technically, we've got magic in mine too, but it doesn't make the world any better. [He snorts.]

[nowherewolf]

Okay well, maybe not better in the moral sense. But it sure as hell makes shit easier, and that's better in my book. I'd rather be in a crapsack world with spells in it than a boring one without.

[Priorities?]

[ex_matricide319]

I can understand that, I guess. I'd rather live somewhere with electricity and TV than someplace without it... [it probably just has to do with whatever you're used to, but whatever.]

[nowherewolf]

See? Exactly. There's trade-offs, but I think we got the better deal than some of these losers.