SPRING TEST DRIVE MEME

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THE TEST DRIVE MEME

Got someone you want to try out before you app? Well this is the post for it! Feel free to use anything that fits in the setting of Drift Fleet! Want to play bumper shuttles? Want to go wild in a med bay? Play around with the current plot? Have at it!

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ed's specialty aw yiz

[hermetics]

[ Ed had been a little wrapped up in attempting to see if they had anything regarding the chemical make up of the pollution in the air, wanting to see whether or not it was even any sort of compounds he may have recognized, anything he could think of to fix it, even. It would've been a rather good project. Manageable even for someone who no longer had alchemy.

And he was wrapped up in it enough that he actually ended up taking a second to realize that this woman was talking to him and not... just empty space. Good job, Elric. ]

They've got a couple in the bigger cities, yeah. What about you?

[bryces_pup]

[Congrats, Ri. You assumed correctly for once. A+]

No, nothing like it at all. There was a shop in the capital that displayed "wondrous" things from all parts of the world, but they were for sale and not just an educational display. I'll admit, this whole concept boggled me a bit at first.

[hermetics]

[ It was bound to happen eventually, right? Statistics. Or something.

He gives a small chuckle. ]

It's a little weird, I guess, if you haven't seen it before. Storing a bunch of old stuff in a room that people can look at but can't touch.

[bryces_pup]

Ah, yes. [She laughs sheepishly.] It does sound strange when you put it that way, too. But it does make history a bit more exciting than just reading about it. What sort of museums did you have in your world?

[hermetics]

Uh -- [ He takes a second to think about it, considering how long it's been since he's gone to the city. He scratches his head in thought. ] I don't know that I've actually ever taken the time to go, now that I think about it. Probably some stuff on old Fuhrers, famous soldiers, important alchemists. [ LIKE HIM. He really should go to his own exhibit. If it exists.

It should exist. ]

[bryces_pup]

So a lot of military, from the sound of it. I suppose there's something worth being memorialized in that.

[He said a few words that didn't make much sense to her, but wasn't that always the case when talking to someone from a different world?]

[hermetics]

Mmm. It's important for people to find a way to showcase their history, I think. People need to be able to learn from it.

[ He waved to the displays in front of them with one hand. ] Like here. They've done a pretty good job with documenting the pollution.

[bryces_pup]

The good and ill.

[Remembering past glory is all well and good, but remembering mistakes is just as important. Such as - yes, the pollution.]

It's awful what's happened here. Unable to breathe the air without risking illness... There was some talk about looking into the machines that are supposed to clean the air, but I have heard nothing of it in some time.

[hermetics]

Sometimes I think the ill is more important even. [ Even if Amestris was covering up all their ills for the sake of unity and calmness in the people. It made him feel sick sometimes.

Shaking the memories out of his mind, he scrunches his mouth in thought over the pollution levels. ] It doesn't feel like it should be so hard or needed to put off. Alchemists from home could probably separate the dangerous chemicals pretty easily if they had the right make up. Repurpose it, even.

[bryces_pup]

[See that blank face, Ed? All of that just flew over her poor medieval fantasy head.]

Er, forgive me, but none of that made a lick of sense to me.

[hermetics]

[ ... oops. He gives an embarrassed laugh, scratching the back of his head. ]

Uh - where I'm from, we have a science that allows us to analyze the make up of the various things in the world, from the air we breath to the metals in the ground, and the objects we use all the time. After we've got a good sense of what we're working with, alchemy is used to sort of... break them apart. So if you gave an alchemist a list of the make up of the pollution, they could pull out the toxins, and clean up the air.

[bryces_pup]

[...still a bit over her head, but less so. There's a bit of a pause as she tries to process it.]

So, you could analyze my shirt and see what sort of fabrics it's made up of? And then you could tear out those fabrics individually with this alchemy?

[hermetics]

[ He thinks about it for a second; it's the most basic level, but it's enough of an understanding, so he nods. ]

Basically. And then I could make things out of the pieces of fabric that I pulled out from them. Repurposing them. The same could be done with the chemicals in the pollution.

[bryces_pup]

Wow. [Her instinct is "MAGIC!" but even that seems like a stretch from what it's capable of in her world.] Is there anything it can't take apart?

[hermetics]

Mmm... [ It's obvious he's looking through the list of limitations in his head. ] I guess theoretically you can't take apart base chemicals. For example with water, while I could pull out the oxygen and the hydrogen atoms, I can't break down the atoms themselves. Nor can you use alchemy to create or bring back human life.

[bryces_pup]

Atoms...? [This is going to be one of Those Conversations isn't it] But that seems like a good limitation to have. No one should have access to that kind of power.