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"It seems pretty familiar. A little on the low-tech side, maybe. Hardly any neon lights anywhere." Rex said.
"Alchemists? I cannot say that I've met any of them before, though I've fought with the mortal armies of mankind a few times in the past. Never heard of any from other Wolves either. What kind of work is this alchemy exactly?" He was about to go on to ask what Solaris herself did for work when a thought occurred to him. Dimensions away? But that does not make sense. No other dimension can exist save that of the Warp. Certainly nothing from which any good can come, let alone humans.
"The act of transmutation." Solaris answered. "I won't weigh you down with the speciffics of it all, but basically, it's taking something, and turning it into something else. Say, for example, you have water..." She began to explain, setting her cup down, and pointing a finger downwards to the tea in her cup, then moving her hand upwards with the steam rising from it. "With alchemy, you can turn it into steam." Picking her cup up again, and taking another sip, Solaris rose to her full height, then pointed to the now-unblemished wall were Ragnar had punched a hole into it, and torn the wire out. "Another example would be the repair of the wall. The blonde woman with the fedora--the one who we thought worked here?--She did that, she's an alchemist." She said, wishing to move the focus away from herself.
Ragnar followed Solaris's pointing finger, frowning as he tried to grasp the foreign concept of alchemy. Though he did not recognise it from anything he knew of the wider Imperium, there was one source from which it did sound familiar, and that was enough to set off alarm bells in his head. Servants and devotees of the Chaos god, Tzeentch, could change the laws of time and nature through dark sorceries. Using such eldritch energy to fix a wall or evaporate some water seemed a mundane thing, but dabbling in the ruinous powers was the first, fatal step to being lost to them.
"I... I see..." Ragnar muttered, visibly troubled by this.
"I... I see..." Ragnar muttered, visibly troubled by this.
"You don't trust alchemy?" Solaris asked after taking another sip from her tea, noting Ragnar's expression. She thought about furthering his distrust of alchemy, only held back by having told Ness Solaris used alchemy herself, and thus knew doing so a thing could easily backfire. Thinking on it more, she realized she didn't see Ness use any alchemy in her fight, while Solaris would need to rely on the lie that she practiced alchemy to be even remotely combat effective. "I don't blame you. Alchemy can lead to horrors... And such things might overshadow the good it can do in some eyes. But then again, so can a simple object such as a knife. On my world at least, however, there are strict rules governing alchemy, and those who would break it are punnished severely." She eventually settled on saying.
As the paramedics had wheeled Carmen's corpse off, Ness followed after for a bit before getting shoved off after a while. [color=666666] ....There goes my chance to find out how to get off this floor... [/color] She had walked back into the lounge and was drinking a glass of water before taking out her PDA and playing an arcade shooter. Despite her looking distracted, she was listening to the people around her.
Ragnar did not look entirely convinced, though he did not look as though he was about to grab his bolter and start shooting either.
"An object such as a knife can be an instrument of the Emperor's will, or it can be a tool to carve blasphemic symbols and spill innocent blood, but there are other arts that began as chaotic, and that can never be redeemed." He asserted. "This alchemy... I confess, I do not know of it. And yes, that does worry me. Faith, duty, steel, these are all real, tangible things that I know to be right. Alchemy, Psykers, and the workings of the machine spirits... these are things that I do not understand, and I think it would be safer to leave them to people who know such things. At least it is controlled, I suppose. The type of power you describe... it does not sound like something that people should have unrestricted access to."
OOC: It's late, and now the internet's being a dick. I think that's my cue to exit.
"An object such as a knife can be an instrument of the Emperor's will, or it can be a tool to carve blasphemic symbols and spill innocent blood, but there are other arts that began as chaotic, and that can never be redeemed." He asserted. "This alchemy... I confess, I do not know of it. And yes, that does worry me. Faith, duty, steel, these are all real, tangible things that I know to be right. Alchemy, Psykers, and the workings of the machine spirits... these are things that I do not understand, and I think it would be safer to leave them to people who know such things. At least it is controlled, I suppose. The type of power you describe... it does not sound like something that people should have unrestricted access to."
OOC: It's late, and now the internet's being a dick. I think that's my cue to exit.
Looking back to Ragnar, Solaris gave a small nod, and finished her tea before speaking. "Indeed. That the average person shouldn't have unrestricted access to alchemical knowledge is agreed on where I'm from. When I mentioned state alchemists are given access to privilaged information, the types of knowledge that could be used to do great harm if used by the wrong people is what I meant. But these are military personal, so the parralel between this, and say you using that weapon you carry can be drawn. Since I should hope a citizen wouldn't have access to such a thing." She commented, then paused. "And furthermore, alchemy isn't some occult art, it's a science." How is "faith" in any form tangible... It's a concept, nothing more.
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[color=666666] ....Another one of those guys...? Odd... [/color] Ness thought as she listened to Ragnar. Hearing Solaris, she blinked a bit. [color=666666] ...That's true with almost any sort of knowledge... but yeah, alchemy especially. Still, it's worth learning... is what I want to say. [/color] Her eyes flicked up from the screen to Ragnar and then back to the game [color=666666] ...But I'd rather not risk ending up as a splat on the wall... [/color]
[color=666666] "Not... at all..." [/color] Ness said with a small sigh. [color=666666] "The commotion just jolted me up to the point that I can't fall back asleep again... So I'll just wait until I'm tired again..." [/color] She said as she looked up from the game for a moment and then looked back down, thumbs tapping rather feverishly on the PDA screen.
"Hmm... Maybe you should do something of intensity to help you get tired faster. Stay up all night like this, and it'll mess up your internal clock." Solaris suggest, turning to Ness after finishing washing her cup, putting it away, and drying her hands. "How about...? A friendly fight? Nothing serious, of course."
[color=666666] "Uh.... I-I'd rather not..." [/color] Ness said initially but thought for a bit afterward. [color=666666] Well, she's new so... If she fights with me now, at least she'd be able to not have to worry about fighting for the next week... Hopefully, she won't try to hurt me too badly... "...Actually, sure. The sooner you get the fight over with, the sooner you can relax afterward." [/color]
She stuck her PDA back into a pocket and got up off the couch, albeit a bit slowly. [color=666666] "You know the way to the Arena, right?" [/color]
She stuck her PDA back into a pocket and got up off the couch, albeit a bit slowly. [color=666666] "You know the way to the Arena, right?" [/color]
"I appreciate you accepting. And, no. I don't. Could you tell me how to get there?" solaris asked with a smile as she walked from behind the counter and approached Ness. If I'm going to keep up this act that I'm human, I'll need to learn to minimize the ussage of my abilities. You'll be the perfect to do so with. If not... Well, I suppose I'll be left with little choice, then.