accio_rp | First Song: Weekend

[The first week of classes are over-and aside from a few incidents in Potions, Mir has been cruising through without incident. There have been a few screams from the fifth-year girls room in the dungeon, but nothing too bad. Life is pretty good-and pretty dull. So in the interest of spicing things up, Mir is exploring the castle and the grounds today, instead of doing homework (already finished) or furthering her studies. After all, exploring the grounds is also a form of study, isn't it?

So many places to check out after all. Gotta climb all the towers, bother the paintings in front of the other House's dormitories, delve the dungeons, and walk up to the very edge of the area beaten out by the Willow.

Though, maybe she should have worn something a bit warmer than the dress she's picked. It's thin, it's gauzy, its got frills and bows, and it makes her look even paler and younger than she usually does. It is definitely not suited for the north of the British Isles, and she'll wind up shivering slightly in the wind when she ventures outside.]

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Oh dear. That sounds pretty bad.

The creation of the first Reyvateils triggered a war. the war involved an attack on the Tower of Ar tonelico-and the backlash from that created waves of distortion and destruction. The entire surface of the world was unlivable. All life retreated onto the three Towers. And that's how it's been for over 700 years.

Sounds quite rough. And it reminds me of the story of Ostia back in my world.

Did they blow themselves up too? And then have a revolution and a technological backslide and everything?

Not quite, but there was a massive war over the powers that be. It is a story for later.

It certainly sounds like a period I'd like to hear about. You know, if you happen to write it down or something.

I will see about transcribing it for later on. It is a very interesting story.

Hmmm. Perhaps I should confess my own misdeeds in the fall of Neo-Elmenia. Not for public consumption of course, one wouldn't want to bear all the evil one has done.

It would probably be something for later. Much later at least.

I'll be sure to release it on the 400th anniversary of the atrocities. Which...isn't that far away now. Just 50 years. Maybe stasis wasn't so bad for me.

Hmm that isn't so long away. I know I would be functional for that release.

Functional? At the rate modern technology is progressing? Won't you be on version 20 or something by then, assuming things don't change?

I'm already 2nd generation for the technology I am based on. However I am also based on technology from about 100 years later.

...you're telling me that you are constructed in violation of causality...

If you wish to call it that. The advances used to create myself has been applied for later work.

...Time travel shouldn't be possible. Not under any system of magic or science that I know. In fact,t he universe should conspire against it.

It is very possible for my own world. And something that made myself possible.

Humph. Not very fair of the cosmos to allow such a thing. If I could turn back time...

Well the actions actually changed time, making another timeline. Three of them by the time our actions were done.

[Mir is...flabbergasted a bit by that.]

Actually divergent timelines, or ones that were overwritten? It seems like it would be hard to determine the fact of the matter.

Divergent. There is the timeline Chao Linshen came from, and then another timeline where Asuna slept for 120 years, and then a third one. That one is where I am from, and it can branch into many other possibilities.

...Right. You know what, that sounds almost narratively convenient. Like a story more than something that should actually be possible. How do you actually know that these timelines exist, and this Chao wasn't a liar?

Chao is a genius with technology that allows both timeline jumping and time travel. Trust me, I've seen enough to admit it is real.

Nnnngh. I can take small comfort in the fact that by all accounts such a thing should be absolutely impossible in my world so I can avoid any more headaches from this.

And if I ever see any time Travelers, I'll be sure to deal so harshly with them that they will never annoy me again.

Indeed. But sometimes it comes out for the best.

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