Physics... How Do They Work? - 002 [audio]

[juniorganymedian]

[The quick, light breaths coming from the audio indicate that the person speaking is performing some form of physical exertion.]

My apologies for any brusqueness, but I require the assistance of a healer immediately. I have just witnessed a person leaping from the edge of the tower in the Fourth District of Traverse Town. I do not know if they could have survived a fall from such a height, but if they have, I suspect my own first aid knowledge and potion will be insufficient to provide adequate care for such traumatic injuries. I am making all due haste to the area at this moment. Thank you for your attention.

Comments

[wavesinherheart]

Did they jump, or did they fall?

[juniorganymedian]

They jumped, miss.

[Jeeves' experience with suicide among his fellow soldiers is, thankfully, limited. There are also some less grave alternatives.]

They may have thought they could escape the realm of dreams by dying.

[Which is something Jeeves has been contemplating since arrival, but he's not keen to test the hypothesis. Particularly when repeatability is an issue.]

[wavesinherheart]

It might have simply been the fastest way down.

[juniorganymedian]

[There is a small pause as Jeeves tries to figure out if this woman - Aqua, he recognizes the voice from his review of the communicator archives - is attempting humor. It seems unlikely.]

While I am certain an analysis of the available routes would doubtlessly prove you right, miss, a swift drop and a short stop are rarely conducive to carrying on activities after.

[wavesinherheart]

That's why you have to control it.

[juniorganymedian]

I beg your pardon, miss, but I was not aware you could control the fundamental laws of gravity in this realm.

[He means this honestly, but it's half a question. Because that's incredibly disconcerting if that's what she's driving at.]

[wavesinherheart]

Well, there are spells that can effect gravity. But I meant the fall, not gravity itself.

Threadjack whee

[unrecovered]

[What the actual hell.]

...that's normal where you're from, isn't it.

[You keypeople are so goddamn weird.]

*adds to the threadjacking* >_> [audio]

[battleborndr]

...Everyone's got their hobbies.

[Despite the nature of his comment, he does sound a bit perplexed.]

[unrecovered]

I didn't know breaking physics was a hobby.

[battleborndr]

Sounds like a blast.

[wavesinherheart]

It's... not uncommon, I guess.

[unrecovered]

...of course it isn't.

[wavesinherheart]

It just... makes sense. But if he'd fallen it wouldn't have been the same, really.

[raisethemoon]

[That's actually fairly alarming news to Luna; though she herself can fly, she's perfectly accustomed to considering those who cannot. But perhaps she should not panic so quickly.]

Some of the humans can fly...or glide, at least. Didst thou see what they looked like?

[juniorganymedian]

[Humans that can fly and glide? They're nothing like humans he knows of.]

I am nearly to the site of the fall, Your Highness. All I could see was a shock of silver hair from the person jumping. I was not in the Fourth District. They lacked any form of wings or aerial aids from what I could see, though. I am uncertain how they might have managed any form of flight without these.

[raisethemoon]

With magic, naturally.

We have had several humans with silver hair, but I believe they have all wakened...I shall come to investigate, I believe.

[juniorganymedian]

[Naturally... Jeeves fears there is nothing less natural in his imagination than magic. He needs to make allowances for this world of dreams, though. The archives have shown it to be relatively common among the people here. And he'd been requesting magical assistance in the first place.]

I pray you are correct, madam. I will see you presently.

[raisethemoon]

[She nods.

Crack! A flash of blue light and hello, friend, she is here! She knows pretty much all of Twilight Town well enough to teleport through it by now.]

[onehandsomeslickninja]

I don't understand the problem.

[Edge doesn't distinguish between jumping and falling, unlike some of the others, because he once fell pretty much the entire height of the Tower of Babil, which stretches from the the Underworld to far, far above the Overworld, and the biggest problem after that was how to get out again.]

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[juniorganymedian]

[Jeeves has already come to the determination that universes beyond his own are completely insensible, but this is stretching beyond even that.]

On my world, sir, falling from such a height would leave the person dead or grievously injured. Princess Luna and I have encountered the gentleman who jumped now, though. He appears to be unharmed.

Please forgive my initial alarm. As with Agent Washington, I was unaware that the fundamental laws of physics as I understand them do not apply to certain persons.

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[onehandsomeslickninja]

It's nothing to do with physics, you just have to learn how to take the jump! I wouldn't recommend it for a novice, but a trained ninja can do more than that -- lots more, in the right circumstances!

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[juniorganymedian]

Ninja, sir? You are referring to the covert operatives of feudal Japan? I was under the impression that such persons had faded into relative obscurity during the Japanese unification some hundred years ago. Unless you mean to imply you are from such a period before the unification?

[People do seem to be from... different times based on what he's seen in the archives.]

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[onehandsomeslickninja]

None of that has anything to do with anything about me. I'm from Eblan, leader of the Eblan ninja clan! It's not the world you're from, I'm sure of it.

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[juniorganymedian]

No, sir. I don't imagine our worlds have very much to do with one another at all based on our varied understanding of the physically possible. [And is that a note of passive-aggressive annoyance? Quite probably. This gentleman is not endearing himself to Jeeves. The valet is ever polite, though.]

You'll forgive me my ignorance, I hope, but do you mean to say that your world is called Eblan or that the village or town in which you reside has this title?