"Yeah. Sceo, in Colorado. I don't really have a big grand story like yours though." Kenna said, going over to the bar and grabbing a drink before sitting in a chair and leaning back.
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From Ragnar's face, Kenna might as well have said that her hometown was located in heaven.
"What was it like?" Ragnar asked, leaning forward and looking completely awestruck.
"What was it like?" Ragnar asked, leaning forward and looking completely awestruck.
"Very diverse. There's old stuff, moderns stuff and foreign stuff all mixed together. My apartment's in a skyscraper that looks like a giant microchip, but it looks out onto an old, small, English square. Lots of... stranger stuff in that city too."
As soon as Solaris closed the door, Pix quickly swirled off of her and onto the floor before rising back up into her normal form. Looking around the room, she smiled a bit. [color=80bb00] "Really nice place..." [/color] She said as she looked around before looking back to Solaris and tilted her head. [color=80bb00] "Alchemy...? What did you have in mind?" [/color]
"Kinda like a wide, cobblestone street with lots of shops and usually a fountain or statue or something in the middle."
"Really? I always pictured Holy Terra as being too crowded with palaces, temples and manufactoria to fit in wide, open spaces like that. What about the people? Living right in the cradle of mankind, right at the seat of the Allfather, they must be... well, I don't know. What are they like?"
"It's certainly better then sleeping in the hallway." Solaris said with a small chuckle, rubbing her sides lightly after Pix moved away from her. Sitting down on one of the chairs, she crossed her legs, rest her right elbow on the table, and her head in the open palm. "Starting with something relatively simple, transmuting things such as stone. This will open a lot of options, as you can transmute, for instance, fire spikes from the concrete walls of buildings, or create pitfalls in the ground. Just to name some examples." She explained. "Get a good grip on things like that, and we can move on to more complex things."
"Ah... I mean the Emperor. Sorry, its a bit of Fenrisian culture. That's what he is commonly known as on my planet."
Ragnar opened his mouth to protest this, but then stopped to think.
"Of course, you said that humanity had not reached Mars yet... That would mean that you come from... before the Age of Strife. And even before the Emperor revealed himself to the galaxy... Throne, how is it possible? How could these... whatever controls this arena, bring you here through time as well as space? The history of man before the Age of Strife is lost, but that would make you... well over 30,000 years older than I, anyway. Again, I mean no insult. I do not call you old personally, clearly you aren't."
"Of course, you said that humanity had not reached Mars yet... That would mean that you come from... before the Age of Strife. And even before the Emperor revealed himself to the galaxy... Throne, how is it possible? How could these... whatever controls this arena, bring you here through time as well as space? The history of man before the Age of Strife is lost, but that would make you... well over 30,000 years older than I, anyway. Again, I mean no insult. I do not call you old personally, clearly you aren't."
"Age of Strife? That doesn't sound good... I'm from 2013 AD. that's really so far in the past where you come from?"
"We can start right now. And the catch is that one: You may not be able to preform it. Two: Even if you could, you need to know the exact composition of whatever it is you'll be transmuting, otherwise the transmutation will fail at best, and rebound at worst." She answered with a small smile of her own. There's also a third... But you don't need to know that.
"That's a very... simple dating system." Ragnar replied. "When I was at The Fang, on Asaheim, the year was 846 M41. That's a simplified form of the Imperial calendar, but it means that we were in the 846th year of the millenium, 40 millenia after some major event in Terra's ancient history. No one knows what that event was any more, mind you."
"There's also months and days and stuff, I was just giving you a broad idea. As for this ancient event, I'm not a history nut, but if you are from the future, your year count thing might be the same as ours, and if that is the case I know what started it."
"I'm not sure. Scholars can never agree on why this is. Some claim that the seemingly imposible is a result of a person simply not having a good enough understanding of a certian field, others claim it has to do with how alchemical energies pass through the body when preforming a transmutation, while others have abstract theories about how one's soul comes into play. Whatever the case is, the bottom line is that some people can use a certain form of alchemy, and others can't.c" Solaris answered. "And a rebound is what happens when a transmutation is preformed poorly, resulting in things going horribly wrong for the alchemist. To name an example, if you didn't draw the part of the transmutation circle that governs the reconstruction of matter perfectly, chances are the matter will recontruct as part of yourself. It goes without saying that this is to be avoided."
OOC: @Gear: The birth of Christ doesn't spring to mind, considering that that's what our own dating system i based on? 
That's the beginning of the Imperial system as well, they just don't know it any more.
Ragnar looked briefly disappointed, but shrugged it off.
"Oh? What's that?"
That's the beginning of the Imperial system as well, they just don't know it any more.Ragnar looked briefly disappointed, but shrugged it off.
"Oh? What's that?"