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[Sato's clearly recording from somewhere high up, but exactly where isn't clear; the background is nothing but cavern ceiling.]

Hello, fellow residents of Hadriel. I'm Sato.

I'd hoped I'd have something more important to say the first time I posted anything publicly, but it turns out I just have a question for all of you.

You see, where I'm from, there's no such thing as magic. But I know that many of you are from places where it really does exist in one form or another. So to those of you out there, I'd really like to hear from you about how it works, who can learn it, and anything else you wouldn't mind sharing.

After all, with dragons flying around, this seems like as good a time as any to talk about the fantastical.

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Oh? Somehow I have the feeling there's quite a long story behind that tidbit, if you're care to elaborate.

Oh, you bet. It was just about three hundred years ago now, though, so the details are a bit fuzzy at this point. I don't often like telling it, though. Power does strange things to some people, and it's not exactly a story that ends with a lot of smiles.

[Which is all that matters to Elmer, of course.]

The good news is, the story hasn't ended yet for a lot of us. I had just met up with some of the people that were there for the spell casting for the first time in decades or centuries! And I was about to see them again, too, heading off on a cruise together.

Well, unfortunately unless any of them are here in the city, they won't be able to help very much.

You'd mentioned you dabbled a little. I'm guessing that means somewhere below turning lead into gold or potions of immortality.

[He can't help but chuckle a little about that. It's such a different form of immortality than his own, but it's an interesting spin on the concept, in his eyes.]

No, not yet. Well, one was here, but he disappeared almost as fast as we arrived. So who knows, maybe he'll show back up, or someone else will.

Weeeell, I've helped some folks rather recently with some alchemical experiments, actually. Regarding a certain sort of immortality potions, I suppose. But the way we got it three hundred years ago was with a contract with the demon. No selling our souls or anything! All he did was place some caveats on it, which is top secret, I'm afraid. Though to be honest, I forgot what they were for several decades!

[He laughs. Priorities, man.]

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Immortality potions. [That sounds awfully like...] I don't suppose you know a young man by the name of Firo?

[Elmer tilts his head curiously.]

As a matter of fact, I do! Why do you ask?

Oh, it came to mind since he mentioned he'd become immortal through something like that. I'm finding more and more cases where there's a couple people from the same world here. Who knows, maybe someone from my own will show up one of these days.

[Elmer looks surprised as he thinks this over, but pleasantly so.]

He's an immortal. How about that! I had no idea. We'd never met before Hadriel. Perhaps he's from another world, but I suppose there are other immortals in my work that I've never met.

There was another immortal here with me briefly, when I first arrived, by the name of Victor Talbot. But he up and disappeared in a hurry. Apparently that happens to folks around here sometimes.

Oh, that's quite a coincidence, then! [As for inadvertently giving it away... well, it can't be that big a deal, right? At last not by his standards. Nobody here is hunting down immortals.

But that's not more a tangent, and frankly, he was more interested in addressing a pretty specific problem today...]

Before we get too far off-topic, I have to ask. Are there alchemical potions that do other things? After all, I've already got the immortality part taken care of.

[He chuckles, smiling. More than taken care of. To the best of his knowledge, this immortality potion seems a bit weak in comparison to his own abilities.]

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[Elmer taps his chin thoughtfully.]

There are! Transmutations are the most common. Turning one element into another. Mostly they're difficult to do, or don't work quite right. Otherwise, every Tom, Dick and Harry would be turning everything they could get their hands on into gold! And where would we be then?

I don't think gold is going to help anyone here, so that one shouldn't be a concern.

[he chuckles. It's useful information, but it still doesn't seem to be quite what he was looking for. Maybe not a dead end, but something to get into again later if the whole idea of magic lessons doesn't pan out.]

Ah, before I forget. On a completely unrelated note, I hope you don't mind, but I borrowed your Game Boy. I think you'll find it's charged now, though. I left it back on the shelf.

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[Elmer looks uncharacteristically surprised for a moment, before he gets up to look for the Gameboy, taking the phone with him.]

Wait, you had it? I thought it got lost in the zombie mishap. [He goes to the shelf where he had left it before the zombie invasion, and lo and behold, there it is. He flip it open and turns it open, his face beaming when the screen lights up.]

Amazing! Where did you find new batteries?

I found a fellow that was able to recharge it. Seems like some folks' magic can be very convenient, even when dealing with technology they've never seen before.

That IS convenient! Immortality is great and all, but I'm starting to wish I had something more proactive like that. I guess I owe you one, then. And I guess if we can get it charged, you're free to borrow it sometime!

If either of us finds a cartridge for a different game or two, I might take you up on that.

[Who has a big smile, two thumbs, and doesn't like JRPGs? This man.]

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