[ the look kaveh gives alhaitham could have peeled paint from the wall, the flagrant eyeroll of which is a mere punctuation mark lost in translation. but he obligingly grabs a fizzy drink of his own, popping open the tab with the air of a man settling in to roost. a sight for sore eyes, and four around the table - despite the circumstances, the familiarity grounds kaveh. it must.
the question is a very cyno one. kaveh cants his head. ]
In truth, everything is a new discovery right now; there's so little we know and so much of this new world on display that I almost feel a little like entering the Akademiya for the first time again. [ kaveh tastes a sip. he makes a face. ] Oh, by the Lesser Lord. This is supposed to be orange? What configuration of tastebuds must you have to make such a comparison?
[ kaveh slides the can over to alhaitham in all of its fizzy, orange glory so he can try it if he likes. he continues: ] First: death is impermanent. There is general consensus that if you die, you come back on the vehicle we arrived in, whole and hale safe for a missing memory or two, though the latter bit is difficult to prove. In any case, apparently you don't remember who killed you or why. Natural causes of death has yet to be tested [ here, kaveh nods to tighnari, the amurta in their group who might've had a question or two about it, ] but that's a variable that needs time and can't be induced.
Second, breaking some of the unsaid mores of society seems to cause the criminal to wake up in handcuffs. Nobody seems to know who puts the handcuffs on or why, but there was an individual who woke up one day with them, and had that for the explanation. I know a man who's been testing the limits and boundaries of criminal activity across the city on his own, but he hasn't been cuffed yet - public drinking, stealing a chandelier. The criteria seems to be more nuanced than 'merely breaking a law'. I suspect intentionality is part of the equation.
Third - Teyvatian elemental laws don't apply. Not here, and not from the stories that I've heard of other societies outside of our own. None of you have active Visions, correct?
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the question is a very cyno one. kaveh cants his head. ]
In truth, everything is a new discovery right now; there's so little we know and so much of this new world on display that I almost feel a little like entering the Akademiya for the first time again. [ kaveh tastes a sip. he makes a face. ] Oh, by the Lesser Lord. This is supposed to be orange? What configuration of tastebuds must you have to make such a comparison?
[ kaveh slides the can over to alhaitham in all of its fizzy, orange glory so he can try it if he likes. he continues: ] First: death is impermanent. There is general consensus that if you die, you come back on the vehicle we arrived in, whole and hale safe for a missing memory or two, though the latter bit is difficult to prove. In any case, apparently you don't remember who killed you or why. Natural causes of death has yet to be tested [ here, kaveh nods to tighnari, the amurta in their group who might've had a question or two about it, ] but that's a variable that needs time and can't be induced.
Second, breaking some of the unsaid mores of society seems to cause the criminal to wake up in handcuffs. Nobody seems to know who puts the handcuffs on or why, but there was an individual who woke up one day with them, and had that for the explanation. I know a man who's been testing the limits and boundaries of criminal activity across the city on his own, but he hasn't been cuffed yet - public drinking, stealing a chandelier. The criteria seems to be more nuanced than 'merely breaking a law'. I suspect intentionality is part of the equation.
Third - Teyvatian elemental laws don't apply. Not here, and not from the stories that I've heard of other societies outside of our own. None of you have active Visions, correct?