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It was a breakthrough. It would be his magnum opus, the proof that he was heading for greatness and the root through his own power. He could only laugh boisterously as he prepared the sigils and runes.
He had finished his birthright, he was going to make it happen this very day.
A quick flash of his magic circuits and he activated the sigil. His body burned as he poured his mana out. Still he felt as though he was reaching into that oyster to pluck the pearl from its resting place. Then the screaming started.
His whole body burned and he began to see the root just beyond his grasp. It felt like it was looking at him, and for a moment his hope blossomed.
It ripped his soul apart and used his circuits for its own goal before erasing the evidence with nature’s eraser, fire.
The crest was repurposed. The magic circuits were turned into communication lines, and the rest was discarded for being useless in the end.
Alaya had gotten something interesting… and decided that it needed to live a little. It knew random things and interesting things were coming up sooner or later.
Alaya has created a chat room, Type Moon Times…
Alaya has been made a (mod)
Adding 19 users…
Please enjoy. Rules are as follows:
1: Don’t ask for miracles. I am not listening.
2: Everyone is equal here. Your magic circuit count or job title means little to nothing here.
3: Do not question me on decisions. I will make sure you regret it.
Thank you for your compliance and no there is no escape from here.
PipesNSwords: um, hello? This is really inconvenient right now. I was making dinner and nearly boiled my face off… and my guest is making a strange face as well.
NoBugsPlease: Why. Is. This. My. Name!?
NeedGems: Okay! Who’s the wise guy who decided to try to hack my brain!
IskandarFanboy: Well, I know that tone already. Mage based communication based on connecting to our magic circuits. So that means that whomever did this is powerful beyond belief and probably has enough mana to rival the sun. And I’m certain it’s safe to say that we’re all magi given how anyone who wasn’t a mage would have had their bodies burned from the inside out and explode like a hot dog in a microwave. However! This name is an unbiased account and I demand that whomever named me this be lashed several dozen times already.
ClockTowerDevil: Brother, please quit your whining. You bring shame to all around you for complaining like a child who had their toy taken away. It suits you~
IskandarFanboy: Hell has never looked worse than it has been ever since I started this job. It has gotten so much worse…
LittleMissReaper: This feels a bit on the nose… also very invasive. Teacher, will we be okay?
IskandarFanboy: Given that we don’t have to focus too much and we seem to have parallel thoughts when communicating, I see this as merely an annoyance. At the very least, given I can see the mod, I feel that this won’t be as horrible as I think it will be.
LittleMissReaper: Oh, that’s a relief.
ClockTowerDevil: It means it will still be horrible since the only being that would use such a name as the mod is terrifying. So is this like those chat rooms you always speak about whenever you start to complain brother?
IskandarFanboy: …yes.
PipesNSwords: I didn’t like a whole lot of words that were mentioned there. None of them.
NeedsGems: Wait a minute… Emiya?
PipesNSwords: …shit.
NoBugsPlease: It is like my worst nightmare has manifested all at once. Truly, the world is shit now.
NeedGems: Jeez, and I thought I was angry. Though seriously, I threw out Emiya as a guess cause for some reason I can feel your tone…
Alaya(Mod): You’re welcome.
NeedGems: And now there’s that existential dread where nothing makes sense anymore. Also seriously!? You immediately say shit instead of making up an excuse!? Are you brain dead or something!
NoBugsPlease: No more than usual… why doesn’t it feel like I have a filter…?
Alaya(Mod): ;)
NoBugsPlease: Great. Perfect.
DoingThisForFamily: So I take it that this isn’t regular magecraft given how I haven’t figured out how to turn it off.
MissDocOck: Is that what you’re doing brother? I thought you needed to use the bathroom given the faces you’ve made.
DoingThisForFamily: Please don’t. Just don’t.
MissDocOck: Ah! I suppose there really is no filter. Though this is interesting… is this what that internet thing is like?
MissSwitch: Mom says I shouldn’t go on chat rooms like this… but I can’t log out… oh gosh…
SwitchFanGirl: At least it’s giving me something to distract myself…
MissSwitch: Are you okay?
SwitchFanGirl: No.
GhostGirl: Whoever decided to do this, quit it before I find you and kick your butt. Now.
DinoMaster: Well, this is neat. Is that you @GhostGirl
GhostGirl: Really? You too?
DinoMaster: It fits really well, and now we can talk whenever. Woo~!
ChurchMoney: So I truly do hear the voice of god now… or maybe this is merely the devil trying to tempt me. It shall not sway me though.
LonelyThirty: Why is that my name? I’m not lonely.
ChurchMoney: And why haven’t you found a hotel room?
LonelyThirty: I’m not lonely!
ChurchMoney: Say what you will. Your tone is all I need to hear to hear the voice of your heart. Perhaps I should call in all outstanding debts already.
LonelyThirty: Please forgive me and don’t yet. I am lonely. I really am.
ChurchMoney: Fufufu I can see that. Do not be afraid. God is now with you. You shall never be alone again.
MissKiss: Now I feel bad for you. How is that supposed to be a thing?
MissSwitch: It’s a good thing to be compassionate, you know.
MissKiss: uh-huh, and I’m sure it’s fine to do that for a stranger as well. I’m not exactly complaining. At the very least this gives me something I can do.
TsukiSenpai: Doing things is always good. I’m glad I can do things now as well.
MissKiss: That was stilted as all hell.
TsukiSenpai: The last thing I remember was a lot of pain before things got better. It still hurts.
MissKiss: Yikes. Well, we know the sad sacks already at least.
PraetorMoon: It could be worse? I mean, you can still chat at least. I mean I can understand why it would be tough. I think I’ve gone through something similar.
NoMoreBK: I’m awake!! I’m awake! Uh… there’s a chat room in my head and I’m on a plane…
NoMoreMT: Oh, is that you? I’m here too.
NoMoreBK: Ah, neat. Hi.
NoMoreMT: This is a shitty way to celebrate 2016.
Several Users are thinking…
NeedGems: So we’ve established that everyone is in different years. Is that correct?
IskandarFanboy: Tohsaka, I am the teacher here. I will lead these things… unless you prefer several dozen more papers to do?
NeedGems: Please don’t. Go ahead then.
IskandarFanboy: So we’ve established that everyone is in different years. Thirteen of us are from the year 2003. However, five of those are in a different parallel timeline. Two are in the year 2016. Two in 2025 and the last two are in 2030. That is correct, right. Also please only one person answer. We don’t need this chat bogged down by reiterating answer chains.
NoMoreBK: Sounds right. However, I am still wondering why the two of us are on a plane. I remember donating some blood then being given a meal and suddenly plane.
NoMoreMT: Same for me. Though it looks like we were able to pack things. Since that’s my Sugoi Princess backpack. Limited Edition.
IskandarFanboy: That is not that impressive. Also a foolish franchise to follow since it had such a terrible season… and realizing what I’ve said has made me feel stupid.
ClockTowerDevil: Did you just figure that out now? My, it seems as though that broken clock has just rung once today.
LittleMissReaper: Ms. Should we not be more supportive of teacher? He is solving mysteries right now.
ClockTowerDevil: I would have had my poor brother not brought up his otaku degeneracy to argue with someone from the future where it is obvious the series she mentioned is more popular now. It makes him look far too stupid.
TsukiSenpai: I think I remember that series… It ended fully last year. I think. It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about something like that.
GhostGirl: Sugoi Princess? The hell is that? Is that really what’s going to actually show off that there’s different timelines?
DinoMaster: I’ll buy it. No one could fake that given that we’ve never heard of the series before. There’s nothing really to watch now given how the world is.
NoBugsPlease: I still have major concerns. Mostly about having no filter up.
Alaya(Mod): Get used to it ;p
NoMoreBugs: Also I think I’m more concerned about the large planet shaped elephant in the chat room.
PipesNSwords: I don’t understand anything at all.
NoMoreBK: Same here.
NoNoreMT: Ditto.
IskandarFanboy: How much do you actually know anyways? The path of a Magus is a dangerous one. Death lurks around every corner, so it is important that you know what you’re getting into, lest you do something stupid like turn nerves into magical circuits or run directly into battle against a magus.
PipesNSwords: How dangerous is it to turn your nerves to circuits?
IskandarFanboy: You risk dying every time you do such a thing.
PipesNSwords: …uh
IskandarFanboy: @NeedGems Go to where PipesNSwords is and make sure he hasn’t destroyed his body. Now.
NeedGems: I got it, I got it. Emiya, if you are doing something like that I’m going to kill you myself.
NoBugsPlease: I will help.
PipesNSwords: Guh!
NoMoreBK: I didn’t even know that was a thing. Magic circuits, apparently I have some.
NoMoreMT: I feel the same. Though I think mom was a failed magus maybe? She had given up so who knows what’s going on.
LonelyThirty: Should you really be talking about that IskandarFanboy?
IskandarFanboy: We are all mages here. And from different timelines apparently. Unless you want to make our Mod mad.
Alaya(Mod): ;)
LonelyThirty: I am learning a lot about how the world works now… I don’t like it.
ChurchMoney: And the little lamb has finally found her path. As soon as she can work her budget then I’m certain everything will be fine.
LonelyThirty: That makes things even less assuring.
GhostGirl: Are you sure? I feel so much more reassured now.
DinoMaster: I’m pretty sure that’s only you. This is all crazy already.
TsukiSenpai: To be fair, my level of crazy and your level of crazy are two different things. This is probably a good number three.
PraetorMoon: I smell bullshit.
TsukiSenpai: Shut it.
ClockTowerDevil: So aside from a few of us, TsukiSenpai, PraetorMoon, NoMoreBK, NoMoreMT and PipesNSwords the rest of us are competent enough magi.
LittleMissReaper: Teacher is making a complicated expression, just like everytime he talks to Flat.
PipesNSwords has been incapacitated
NeedGems: Well, his circuits are shit and he’s lost a lot of nerves already. Idiot. I jump started his actual circuits… also I figured out who NoBugsPlease is.
NoBugsPlease: Which is not appreciated or welcome. Thank you very much.
NeedGems: It’s… a lot of things.
IskandarFanboy: Is he at risk of dying?
NeedGems: Not anymore.
IskandarFanboy: Then it was for his own good and should have been done much earlier so he wouldn’t have been in this situation.
NoMoreBK: We’re still in a plane for several more hours.
NoMoreMT: They didn’t even give us an in flight movie. It’s only the two of us and we can’t really access our bags.
IskandarFanboy: That is to be expected given that it’s probably a magus recruitment thing… However, do either of you have parents who were mages?
NoMoreBK: Not that I know anyone in my family does. The recruitment person said something about first gen and perfect compatibility I think.
NoMoreMT: Same for me. Though my mom was the child that didn’t have magic circuits and her sister died so now I’m restarting everything if what mom said was true.
IskandarFanboy: You shouldn’t explain your mage lineage so openly. Enforcers will come after you.
LonelyThirty: Would not. They haven’t done anything wrong.
NoMoreBK: I’m not gonna think too hard about it. Maybe I should sleep a bit more. This flight is still moving and nothing else is happening.
NoMoreMT: Sleep is for the weak. However, I am very weak so I agree. Aside from a chat appearing in our heads this isn’t too bad.
ClockTowerDevil: Speak for yourselves. Poor brother is livid and probably going to go crazy. It is hilarious.
LittleMissReaper: Mam, you should leave the teacher to his worries. I mean you have your own stress to deal with.
ClockTowerDevil: Fine. As fun as it is to tease brother, we must continue on with business. Brother, at once.
IskandarFanboy: Slave Driver…
ClockTowerDevil: The best and brightest, of course. Now work time. Or should I have Trimmau find you.
MissDocOck: This has all been troubling enough. Are we to keep our identities as secret as possible? Aside from PipesNSwords who was outed so easily.
DoingThisForFamily: Best to remain anonymous for now. Probably less headaches because of that.
MissSwitch: There’s no logging off…
Alaya(Mod): Nope~ ;P
MissKiss: You wouldn’t think it would be that easy now, do you?
Alaya(Mod): I mean it was easy to make the system. I just had to rip out a magus’ magic circuits and fashion his crest into a communication hub to allow everyone to communicate. Using his weird communication magecraft to try to commune with me is already stupid so I taught him a very valuable lesson. Would you like to know what it is~?
Alaya(Mod): It is this. Fuck around, and find out.
Several Users are thinking…