Name: (Words) = Thinking (usually reserved for third person perspectives).
Words~ = Sing-song voice.
Words/ = Monotone voice.
*Words* = Sound effects/actions.
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There was once a planet which shall remain unnamed for reasons about to be told. It had two continents that were inhabited and one that was unexplored. One continent specialised in magic, while the other specialised in technology. They were prosperous and peaceful, that is until the third continent was discovered. There was a long and bloody war for dominance of said continent, until the people fighting said war had enough. They decided to band together, share their knowledge and fight back against both continents and attempted to bring peace between the two. They used their shared knowledge called Magi-Tech, to attempt this. Sadly, this wasn’t meant to happen at that time, so they were forced to banish both continents, and converted them into moons that orbited said unnamed planet. Peace was achieved, albeit a forced one, and this peace continued uncontested. That is, until the now known Magi-Tech Planet decided to release a project to both the Magical and Technological Moons that will attempt to bridge the gap between the two, and allow them both the chance to end their forced exile.
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Male PoV - Technology Moon- Immersive Reality Coma Ward
Immersive reality is great: No need to eat, piss, or shit! The nurses and doctors take care of all that, I just spend all my time watching cat videos or playing net games. Sometimes I even do both at the same time! How cool is that? Anyway… to pay for my cat video and net game addiction…. errr…. hobby, I lease part of my brain’s processing power to various corporations. VIVA LA ORGANIC COMPUTING!
How I ended up here? That’s easy: my girlfriends put me here (by accident). I was walking on the sidewalk, listening to music and minding my own business when I was bowled over by her… Her name was Suzuki. Her stalker Chuck... or Chock was it? I think it was Chock (how pretentious a name is that?) wasn’t paying attention, and she ran away, into me, kissing me in the process, and knocking me over the bridge I was crossing, into the path of the other reason… I mean girl: Izuki... Same process with her too, except I was knocked into a drainage ditch that time. They still haven’t visited me in the ward yet, after taking my first kisses, they must be shy… Or feeling guilty… Yeah! That must be the reason! They don’t have to worry, I forgive them, we can work things out. Long story short: harems hurt, you should stay away from them.
While checking for newly uploaded cat videos, I received a new mail notification. Hmmm… Alpha Test for [Armistice Online]? Virtual Reality? That’s already one of my vices… err… hobbies, maybe… Available races: Human, Beastkin, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Demonkin, Android. VIVA LA BEASTKIN! I have to see if lasers work on cat type Beastkin! For… scientific reasons… Yeah, scientific reasons! Wait for me Cat people~ Please don’t be jealous Suzuki and Toyota! Nurse~ I need more meds~.
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Female PoV - Magical Moon - Mana Immersion Therapy Ward
Bored. I am bored. They dump books into my prison, they take books out. Then they shower me with questions all day long over the [Whisper Crystal]. Escape is futile. Survival is futile. Ending the boredom is futile.
I am Half-Dryad/. Father captured Mother, and I was the result/. He was after Mother’s [Yggdrasil Archive] bloodline, which allows a Dryad to retain all knowledge and pour that into the tree they are bound to/. Those plans are futile, I am not bound to a tree to pour the knowledge into, and Mother’s tree is dying, so my source of nutrients will die too/. Dryad children eat fruit and leaves from their Mother’s tree until their coming of age ritual, which I never will partake in since my Mother is dead and her tree is dying/. I have been calculating how much longer I have to suffer this prison/. Mother’s Tree will die in 18 months, and I will starve to death/. Or, I can read one thousand more books and die from not being able to pour the knowledge into my tree, which I don’t have/. At least I am safe from Father’s advances/. Since I haven’t went through the coming of age ritual, I have no genitalia, [Yggdrasil Archive] will die with me/. Nobody knows of my imminent death, nor the fact that my Father cannot use me as breeding stock, and he never will. It is futile/.
My [Whisper Crystal] lights up:
New experience, hmmm…
Female?: [??? ?????? ??? ???? ??????]/
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Third Person PoV
Male: (Cat people~ wait for me~ laser~ woosh!) “Magitech sounds cool! [ Magical laser of +1 cat attractiveness]!” Race: Beastkin, Name: Mammon, Sex: Male.
Female?: “Something new/~. Hmmm… [Yggdrasil Archive] is still accessible. Cats are known to be the most free of creatures/. Both magic and technology are stagnating, so Magi-Tech/.” Race: Beastkin, Name: Fortuna, Sex: Female/.
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Mammon/Fortuna: “[Twin-Soul]?”
Mammon: “THEY WERE TRUCKS? Heh, Dodge.”
Fortuna: “It’s not my fault I don’t have them!”
Mammon/Fortuna: “MARRIAGE!”
Mammon: “Sooooo… How was your day ‘Honey’?”
Fortuna: “Dryads don’t produce nectar until after their coming of age ritual.”
Mammon: “So… Can I try some after you do that?”
Fortuna: “Sure…” (Doesn’t matter anyway, I can never do the ritual, and I will die soon anyway.)
Fortuna: I’m not gonna be surprised anymore…
Mammon: I didn’t even get a bachelor party….
Fortuna: That’s what you complain about?
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??? PoV (Imagine this happening on both Moons.)
???: WHAT!
Minion: “It’s called [Armistice Online].”
???: “They want us to what?”
Minion: “End our feud with (Opposing Moon).”
???: “Ha! Wishful thinking if I ever heard it! Gather a squad/cadre and destroy the Magi-Tech Embassy.”
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Almost simultaneously, on both Moons, the Magi-Tech Embassy exploded. All of the alpha testers died, and two of them were for lack of a better word: fucked.
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Casa de Madre - 3rd Person PoV
Mammon and Fortuna felt a soul-wrenching tug in their… well, soul? Mammon, isn’t a stranger to pain, so he weathered through it. Fortuna on the other hand, grabbed onto her umbilical cord, and tugged...
*POP*
Fortuna: “Was that bad? Why am I feeling weak all of a sudden?”
Mammon: “They’re the same?”
Fortuna: ”This changes everything!”
Since Blue Screen was allowed to force the skills onto them, they were able to follow the instructions quick enough without having to discover them first. Fortuna started pushing Mana out into Mammon, and Mammon started Absorbing it as Psy. Suddenly, Fortuna started getting sucked into Mammon.
Mammon: “I thought I was supposed to go into you?”
Fortuna: “You weren’t dying...”
Mammon: “Pffffft”
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Author’s Note: Holy shit tables, thank gawd I saved templates. Holy mother of tables and dialogues Batman! If the Real World stuff seems cliche, don’t worry, because it’s supposed to be. Real world stuff won’t intrude for a while, and even then, it won’t be all doom and gloom. No, there won’t be any NTR, rape or any of that crap. There won’t be a harem, but there may be one night stands and the like. Next chapter will be the proverbial “growing up” and explanation chapter.
