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[sufferably]

( the video begins with doctor mccoy, sitting at a desk in his room in sigyn. he looks particularly business-like, hair combed and expression serious, hands folded in front of him. before he speaks, he clears his throat—it’s almost as if he’s still a little uncomfortable to be addressing so many people at once, but that’s the only sign of it. )

Figure it’s best to get this out of the way while we’ve got the time. ( before another disaster or attack happens, he means. ) I like having a frame of reference—makes it easier to deal with people, and treat ‘em too, when you have to. I know we’re all working off the same magical system, here, but it’s better to account for specifics all the same.

That being said, here’s a list. Fill it out if you want, don’t bother telling me why not if you don’t want to. You can be as specific, or as vague, as you want, or leave out questions entirely if they bother you. If it makes you feel better, you can secure it and have my word as a doctor that I’ll keep it confidential.

( attached is this text form: )

name:
age:
species:
location prior to asgard: planet, city, country, realm, etc.
is your world more familiar with magic, technology/science, or both?:
which power did you receive in asgard?:
did you have any skills, powers or abilities that you lost once here?:
are conditions here generally better, worse, or the same as your prior location?:

That’s about all. Not much else to do on a rainy day, is there.

( ooc / a textbox, for convenience: <tt><big><b>name:</b> <b>age:</b> <b>species:</b> <b>location prior to asgard:</b> planet, city, country, realm, etc. <b>is your world more familiar with magic, technology/science, or both?:</b> <b>which power did you receive in asgard?:</b> <b>did you have any skills, powers or abilities that you lost once here?:</b> <b>are conditions here generally better, worse, or the same as your prior location?:</b></tt> )

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[hisstrength]

name: Beatrice Prior
age: 16
species: human
location prior to asgard: earth.
is your world more familiar with magic, technology/science, or both?: technology/science
which power did you receive in asgard?: healing
did you have any skills, powers or abilities that you lost once here?: none, I think. any "abilities" I might've lost had to do with technology that only my home world seems to have, so no matter if they're still there, they're kind of irrelevant now.
are conditions here generally better, worse, or the same as your prior location?: better.

[sufferably]

It's funny to think about, isn't it? What's contingent on your world and what you'd take with you anywhere. I think technology and magic both work like that.

And I'm glad this place is an improvement for some people, at least.

[hisstrength]

Probably. We take a lot of things for granted once we're used to them.

So it's not for you, huh?

[sufferably]

I didn't really think about it much, before I got here, but yeah. Lots of things in my world aren't perfect, but it's a good enough place to live most days.

[hisstrength]

I didn't realize it until I got here, but I don't even know the name of the city I live in because we don't know of any others. Being somewhere else puts a lot of things in perspective I think.

[sufferably]

No one travels, in your world? Or explores?

[hisstrength]

Everyone's got something to be doing in the city. It's pretty thoroughly organized, you don't get to wander off, and most people are too busy in the routine to even consider it. Or if they've got other reasons, I haven't found out about them yet.

[sufferably]

That sounds a bit too controlled for my tastes.

( says the guy who works for a militarily-inspired organization. )

[hisstrength]

It is really controlled. There's a fence around the city and everything. It doesn't seem so bad when you're raised in it, but then I came here. Like I said, perspective.

[sufferably]

I think a couple people might feel that way.
Makes you wonder about what will happen when this is all over.

[hisstrength]

What do you mean?

[sufferably]

If you like this place more than home, and they want to send you home. Can you go somewhere else?

[hisstrength]

Maybe they won't send people home if they want to stay. All the things we do here should be enough to earn that, right?

[sufferably]

I'd hope so. But the gods don't always make a lot of sense.

[hisstrength]

A lot of things here don't always make a lot of sense.

[sufferably]

I'm getting that, yeah.

Probably why I want to make sense of what I can.

[hisstrength]

Is that the reason you're gathering all this information?

[sufferably]

More like a side project.

This is mostly for medical data. So people can get the right kind of treatment, and so I know what I'm dealing with.

[hisstrength]

What's the difference between treating people who had powers before and lost them, and people who never had any in the first place?

[sufferably]

Some powers are biologically-based. As far as I can tell, losing those powers hasn't altered those people's physiology-- it's something else blocking them.

[hisstrength]

So that's something that isn't completely covered by the species question, huh.

[sufferably]

Not always.

And I admit I'm a little curious, too. I'm used to encountering people who can do things I've never even thought of, but this place takes it to a whole new extreme.