this isn't Camelot....

[unflinchable]

Characters: Arthur and YOU
Format: [starting action tags]
This log is: open!!!
Location: grounds; Conquest dorms; cafeteria; computers; woods
Summary: Arthur familiarizes himself with the grounds, it's best to know enemy terrain after all.
Warnings: Arthur is a prat

[Arthur's first instinct is to explore the grounds, it can only be to his advantage to know the terrain. He feels a bit naked without his armor or sword (or knights) but the school uniform (so he can fit in) and his own knowledge of hand-to-hand combat will have to do.]

[The bedrooms, dorms, are much smaller than his own chambers and he's forced to share, but they're a bit more high tech. They can see at night without the use of candles, and warm the room without building a fire. Arthur hated it, absolutely hated it. Why did everything here have to be magic? If anything this strengthened his resolve that magic is, in fact, a horrible thing.]

[The kitchens and dining rooms were odd as well. The food was different, it didn't seem as fresh and he wasn't sure he liked it very much. He figured that he could just eat some of the fruits and vegetables, or perhaps go hunting in the woods he saw earlier. He would need to check out the woods later, familiarize himself with that as well.]

[Unfortunately before he can get to the woods he gets completely floored by a room of computers. What even are these weird glowing boxes with a smaller box with letters on it attached?? He's just going to. Stare blankly at it. Forever. Although maybe he should break it and see what's inside?]

[After his computers, what the fuck, episode, he does decide to go to the woods, it's almost familiar and calming. He likes it there.]

Comments

[pencilpremonition]

The school takes ten memories from each of us, to give us a reason to fight. You can earn them back. I've gotten... [CRINGE] I've...gotten two back....

[unflinchable]

A reason to fight. [he thinks about that for a moment] But why do they want us to fight? I don't see anything particularly advantageous in making strangers battle.

[he can tell she's upset but isn't sure what to do about it, women, who knew.] Two is better than none.

[pencilpremonition]

None of us have figured that part out yet, but I'm sure it's something.

[unflinchable]

Well, we will find out then. You seem to be, ah, more knowledgeable of the on goings of this place, can you tell me more about here?

[pencilpremonition]

I've been here since there was a here to be. There's not much to say that isn't in your rulebook, though.

[unflinchable]

[a nods] I've read it, I wasn't sure if it was a trick or fact. There is one thing it is missing though, there is nothing about magic.

[pencilpremonition]

It's not done with magic. It's done with electricity. Which looks a hell of a lot like magic if you don't know what you're looking at.

[unflinchable]

What's electricity?

[he hates not knowing things]

[pencilpremonition]

I...can't really explain it. It's a thing, it's...

It's....

Do you know how everything ever in your kingdom works? Do you know how to make bread or do you just trust that if you ask a cook for some you'll get some?

Electricity's not magic, but people who work with it are electricians and engineers and studied it hard to know how to make it work. I'm an artist. All I know is that electricity is a thing and it powers other things and it's awesome.

[unflinchable]

I know the basics behind how bread it is made even if I cannot make bread myself. I do not have the time to bake for the kingdom, I have Knights to train and a Kingdom to run.

Electricity is a type of science then?

[pencilpremonition]

That's right. I can even show you a little bit of it, but only a useless little bit, not the big stuff that makes stuff do stuff and look like magic.

[unflinchable]

You can show me then? I would like to learn, maybe I could make use of this science in Camelot.

[pencilpremonition]

Rub your hands together. Really fast, and a lot. Till they start feeling weird.

[Becca demonstrates this as well, then holds her hands a few inches apart, as if she's holding an invisible ball.]

Then hold 'em like this. You can't see anything, but you can feel it. Something's in your hands. Something's touching your hands. That's electricity, but a really, really, really, really small amount. When you get more of it, it looks like lightning. But if you get that much, it'll burn you if you touch it, you need special tools to work with it without hurting yourself.

[unflinchable]

You've managed to harness the power of lightning? That's amazing!

[pencilpremonition]

Yep. We can make lightning on demand if we wanted. But that's rea~ally dangerous. The more electricity there is, the faster you'll be dead if something goes wrong.