@ian.fowler | morningstar network

[wittingly]

Hey
Stop me if this is a stupid offer, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works, but
I heard about the whole gate problem, and the whole simulation thing, there's probably more going on too that I don't know about yet
I'm an engineer
You guys might already have a few, but just in case you're shorthanded
If there's anything I can do to help, I want to

I can also apparently do a weird tools thing now so that's
something

edit: if anyone's in the market for crazy experiments in there
you guys glitch the sim when you do your chest thing, right?
anyone tried organizing a group glow-off? overwhelm the system with too much at once, DDOS it into crashing?

Comments

[evocation]

yeah, basically
except i'm still not great at it
ask me how many times i've accidentally phased through a chair and landed on my ass

[wittingly]

I have so, so many things that I don't know you well enough to say so I'm gonna redirect here
how old were you when it started happening?
you ever try to couple your gift with engineering?

is there some kind of applied science theory behind magic that anyone's ever dug into, like physics, something that quantifies it and makes it more of a tangible thing, like how we go about defining and explaining gravity in some sort of mathematical way even though it's just

gravity

[evocation]

god, you're going to have to start numbering these

1. i was like four when the first hints popped up, but my dad was from this obsessive old school magical family so he was watching me like a hawk. some people realize later.

2. kind of. it's easier for me to control electricity if i know how it works, you know? but school drove me nuts and i never would have lasted in college, so there goes my engineering career.

3. yeah, people are studying it, but i'm not up to date on the latest theorems or whatever.

also you can't just redirect and leave me hanging
spill

[wittingly]

sorry, it's
kind of a life-long habit

[ and part of what helped a low-income poverty line kid make it all the way through high school, then into college, then clear through grad school despite all odds.

since you asked: ]

you ever fall through the toilet

[evocation]

nope
do you think i'd tell the truth if i had?

[wittingly]

I feel like we're developing a bond here, NYC
relationships are built on a foundation of trust and honesty

about whether or not you ever fell through a toilet

[evocation]

i don't know
what if i tell you and you end up breaking my heart?
i'd never recover

[wittingly]

go breaking your heart?
I couldn't if I tried

[evocation]

you're right
i'm too much of a badass
how about you tell me an embarrassing story and i'll tell you the truth

[wittingly]

does running away from a detached finger not count?

[evocation]

nope
pony up the goods professor

[wittingly]

the issue here is I don't have any big embarrassing moments

I need something to work with for inspiration, because apparently my history is smooth and classy
I don't know, ask me something specific

[evocation]

bullshit
what's the most embarrassing thing you've done while you were wasted?

[wittingly]

I wanna point out if you're wasted enough you won't remember
woke up on the roof of a car once
fell off a garage
DEFINITELY excessively hit on people who in hindsight were not even remotely interested but I missed the hint entirely

[evocation]

boring
but i guess it counts
i actually haven't fallen through the toilet
one of those times with the chair i ate shit and brought a whole bowl of soup down with me though

[wittingly]

by the power vested in me by the state of california
i legally require you to text me the first time you fall through a toilet

for now I'm satisfied with your soup failure.

[evocation]

does this mean we're bffs now?
sharing our deepest regrets and all
or is this like extortion

[wittingly]

are those two things mutually exclusive?
do I have to pick

[evocation]

yep
or else i'm giving you a shitty review on rate my professor

[wittingly]

it's extortion
100%

[evocation]

you're getting a 0
but only because i don't think it goes into negatives

[wittingly]

look at you already tanking my career opportunities
if I could double extort you I would
triple extortion
what's the maximum amount of extorted someone can get

that much is how much I'd extort you right now

[evocation]

like fifty probably
what else are you even going to extort me for?

[wittingly]

I don't know, what else you got?
Let's explore some options

[evocation]

i'm not going to help you extort me
you're on your own, mr. smarty pants engineer