Magical Lotus - Mahou Shoujou Byakuren - Episode 3, Part 4

[Hello Purvis]

>Nod.
>"True, but moderation can be applied based on the situation. But I think you can agree that higher stakes should require more care in approaching them?"

[Oldmansour]

>Nod.
>"True, but moderation can be applied based on the situation. But I think you can agree that higher stakes should require more care in approaching them?"

>"Again, it depends on the situation. Familiarity with certain situations can often negate the need for debate and consideration."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Quite true, but familiarity alone is can also serve as a bias in some situations. Discerning one from the other is not always as easy as one hopes."

[Oldmansour]

>"Quite true, but familiarity alone is can also serve as a bias in some situations. Discerning one from the other is not always as easy as one hopes."

>"On that point, I would agree. Familiarity and experience has its uses, but neither is an all-purpose solution to everything."

[DracoOmega]

>"In any case, I suppose the crux of what I'm trying to say is that with the most important of our aims already shown to be reconcilable with each other, the potential incursion of Makai-jin is yet another reason I see for why it is important for our kinds to cooperate rather than antagonize each other. What you wish is to free your people from predation and I also wish to see this. What I wish is to keep the people of this world safe from harm, and this is not incompatible with your own. And neither of us wish to see the denizens of Makai gain any foothold here; on this, I think we can easily agree. Conflict between our peoples squanders the resources that could otherwise be brought to bear in service of both our desires."
>"Neither of us knows for certain how Makai may act during the exodus of your people, and what threat it might pose to their new home. I acknowledge this. But however dire it might or might not prove, the fact remains that it is a threat whose magnitude grows the more each side of this conflict exhausts the other. I would like to avoid that as best I can, and I would hope you feel likewise."

[Oldmansour]

>"In any case, I suppose the crux of what I'm trying to say is that with the most important of our aims already shown to be reconcilable with each other, the potential incursion of Makai-jin is yet another reason I see for why it is important for our kinds to cooperate rather than antagonize each other. What you wish is to free your people from predation and I also wish to see this. What I wish is to keep the people of this world safe from harm, and this is not incompatible with your own. And neither of us wish to see the denizens of Makai gain any foothold here; on this, I think we can easily agree. Conflict between our peoples squanders the resources that could otherwise be brought to bear in service of both our desires."
>"Neither of us knows for certain how Makai may act during the exodus of your people, and what threat it might pose to their new home. I acknowledge this. But however dire it might or might not prove, the fact remains that it is a threat whose magnitude grows the more each side of this conflict exhausts the other. I would like to avoid that as best I can, and I would hope you feel likewise."

>"How I feel is mostly irrelevant, Magical Lotus. There is nothing I can do about it, so long as I am imprisoned here by you."

>Mistress, I've been thinkin' while you've been talkin'. Rin's voice interrupts cautiously. I think I might have an idea.

[DracoOmega]

>Yes?

[Oldmansour]

>Yes?

>If she doesn't want to tell you how her kind talk to each other, maybe you could get her to write a letter, or something. She's magic, might be more magical than us, maybe she could make a message-magic we could take back into our world.

[DracoOmega]

>That is an excellent thought.

>"That is not true, on either front. Your opinion is relevant, because you are a person, and because you have a great stake in the outcome of these times, regardless of your role in them. Even if it changed nothing else, I would be glad of having been able to share some piece of common ground between our peoples. But perhaps there might still be something you can do, even from here."
>"Do your kind have something analogous to writing letters? Some way to create a communication without having to deliver it in person? Your magic might not be able to reach outside this place, but that might not mean there is no way for worried to be ferried out via another."

[Oldmansour]

>That is an excellent thought.

>"That is not true, on either front. Your opinion is relevant, because you are a person, and because you have a great stake in the outcome of these times, regardless of your role in them. Even if it changed nothing else, I would be glad of having been able to share some piece of common ground between our peoples. But perhaps there might still be something you can do, even from here."
>"Do your kind have something analogous to writing letters? Some way to create a communication without having to deliver it in person? Your magic might not be able to reach outside this place, but that might not mean there is no way for worried to be ferried out via another."

>The Water demon considers that. "That thought had occurred to me as well. But I did not think it would be possible. I could easily encode a message into a physical form that any could carry, much as I produced those rings you destroyed. The other Champions would recognize my power instantly. But, as you said, everything I have thrown at the walls of this cell has proven incapable of penetrating the walls. I believe this would be the case for anything I gave you as well. It would either scatter or shatter upon impact with the boundary of this place."

[DracoOmega]

>"Is there any harm to be had in trying?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Is there any harm to be had in trying?"

>"I can't see any harm." the demon admits. "On the other hand, I see little help, either."
>"Although, I suppose that could be up to you." Louise adds after a moment.

[DracoOmega]

>"Little help in that you do not think the others would heed what you might have to say to them?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Little help in that you do not think the others would heed what you might have to say to them?"

>"Little help in that I don't believe my power can leave this place."

[DracoOmega]

>"Perhaps it might, if I were to carry it through myself. The barrier recognizes me."

[Oldmansour]

>"Perhaps it might, if I were to carry it through myself. The barrier recognizes me."

>"You would know better than me." Louise concedes. "This cell was your creation."

[DracoOmega]

>"And I see that we lose little by trying, other than a few minutes."

[Oldmansour]

>"And I see that we lose little by trying, other than a few minutes."

>"Time is one thing it appears I have in abundance." Louise remarks dryly. "Very well, I shall give you what you request. If nothing else, it will tell me one more thing about this cell."
>As the demon raises her hands up in front of her, Rin's voice returns, I hate to sound like a wet blanket, but, is there any kinda chance she could be tryin' to get one over on ya, Lotus? I mean, she could've agreed for her own ends.

[DracoOmega]

>I would like to hope not, but I cannot rule it out. I will see the form her message takes and examine it closely.

[Oldmansour]

>I would like to hope not, but I cannot rule it out. I will see the form her message takes and examine it closely.

>Louise holds her hands in front of her, palms facing each other. Blueish energy courses between her two open palms, and a globe of some sort begins to form between them, expanding outwards as Louise channels her power into the thing. "This will take a little bit longer than it usually does." she comments idly. "It's hardly every day I have to make something like this."
>When the sphere reaches the size of a large marble, energy stops flowing between Louise's hands, and you sense her no longer focusing power upon it. "It is done."

[DracoOmega]

>Get a good look at the sphere
>What can we sense from it?

[Oldmansour]

>Get a good look at the sphere
>What can we sense from it?

>The sphere appears outwardly to be made of a solid, dull blue material. It is the size and shape of a large marble, pocket sized.
>You could sense Louise crafting the thing out of her demonic energy, but now that the object appears complete, it responds to your mystic sense as inert, not unlike a piece of rock. There are still linger traces of Water Champion power around the object and the demon's palms, but not from the marble itself.

[DracoOmega]

>Do we see any etchings or other sign of how its message might be conveyed?
>If not: "And this sphere will be capable of conveying a message?"

[Oldmansour]

>Do we see any etchings or other sign of how its message might be conveyed?
>If not: "And this sphere will be capable of conveying a message?"

>Not what you can see from here.
>"Indeed." Louise says as she uses her power to float the marble in your direction. "I've keyed the message in the sphere to play when a keyphrase is spoken near it."

[DracoOmega]

>"Oh, I see. And what is the keyphrase?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Oh, I see. And what is the keyphrase?"

>"'I have a message from the Champion of Water.' If you say that while holding the sphere, it will play the message. Assuming of course, you are able to take it out of this cell."

[DracoOmega]

>"Yes, of course. Can it do this more than once?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Yes, of course. Can it do this more than once?"

>"More than once? Oh, you mean, can I make more than one message?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Rather can it transmit its message more than once? I wouldn't want to trigger it accidentally and waste it. Or show it to one champion only to run into another."

[Oldmansour]

>"Rather can it transmit its message more than once? I wouldn't want to trigger it accidentally and waste it. Or show it to one champion only to run into another."

>"Yes. It has enough power to transmit it message four times."
>"But there's five other Champions." Rin protests.
>"Forest will listen without any word from me."