OTA - Just some random time around now - These Thins Aren't Quite as Nice as Cell Phones

[want_to_belong]

Hey, anyone feel like talking into a rock is the start of some sort of prank?

[OOC: Just assume this is posted at a convenient time around event stuff.]

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[prettypurpleparlor]

[It's sweet that he tries, really, and she can appreciate that. It's certainly far better than the outright malice people have had towards monsters in the past.]

No, it's something our bodies replenish naturally. It isn't that far off from how humans convert the food they eat into energy, I believe- except that for you it's physical energy and for us it's magical energy.

Monster food will have magic infused into it either during the cooking process or while the crops are being grown. We can eat nonmagical food too, but it's... less nutritious, I suppose would be the closest way to put it, because it requires more effort for our bodies to turn it into magic, so we get less energy out of it overall.

[want_to_belong]

That's a bit over my head, but I'll just accept that it works and that's good enough.

[Major questions being, where did magical energy come from? How could it be infused? He was more scientifically minded, even if he believed in magic.]

I guess I'll just consider it like solar energy.

[prettypurpleparlor]

[She gives a rueful little laugh, conceding the point.]

I'm likely not explaining it terribly well, in any case. In my defense, I did major in business and economics, not magical theory.

[You want her to explain how magic affects the stock market, now, she can do that.]

[want_to_belong]

I get you there. I usually leave explaining stuff to Iggy. And planning stuff. And dinner.

[Without Iggy they'd be very scrawny, dirty, dead boys.]

Business and economics? Are there stores where you're from kinda like our shops?

[prettypurpleparlor]

Well, he is a very helpful man.

[Ignis Scientia can handle a lot of things, and she appreciates that.]

Quite exactly like your shops, I suspect, if they're anything like human shops on my world. I myself happen to run a bakery, selling to humans and monsters alike. We've been doing quite well thus far.

[Her business is basically her baby, and if the Storyteller hadn't reassured them all that time ran differently here she'd be panicking about leaving it without anyone to run it this long.]

[want_to_belong]

It'd be really cool to see a shop from your world. I'd love to compare it to the shops in Insomnia.

Say, how has your baking been going?

[prettypurpleparlor]

We'd be delighted to have you visit, dearie. It's always lovely to get new customers. As for my baking here, I still have less to work with than I'd like but things have been improving. For one thing, we've finally found enough other ingredients to grow that I don't have to keep making every single meal out of coconut.

[The last part is said with considerable relief. Muffet had been getting really, really tired of coconut over the last few months.]

[want_to_belong]

Yeah, really gotta work on the farming... I think we're doing pretty good, though! I can't help much with any baking, but I could always taste test for you!

[prettypurpleparlor]

That's always welcome, dearie. If nothing else, it helps to have as many perspectives as possible.