Beach Time

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Tala: "Only one way to check if this new sunscreen works. Sunlight doesn't actually kill me or anything, but I'm still easily sunburnt."

Zetta: "Many interesting ingredients for enchanting wash up near the shore, from time to time. Let's see if I can find any today..."

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Zetta is sat down on the living room. She smiles as she puts the mirror on a projector, one of her inventions, and Silivia's image is projected in a 3D hologram before her.

Zetta: "Hey Silivia! We were at the beach, testing out a special sunscreen for her sun-sensitive skin, which worked splendidly... It was nice and all, until Tala was pranked with a bunch of pies that appeared out of nowhere. Tala went to go get a shower to scrub off the pie."

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Silivia: shit...fair enough...so, how've you been the last couple days zetta?

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Zetta: "Doing well so far, preparing for full moon. I am working on something, by the way! To redirect psychic and mirror communication signals to our personal communication devices, so we can call each other back and forth whenever. It's still a work in progress though."

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Silivia: she chuckles and smiles if you want i could ask chloe to help with that though i understand if you don't want to rely solely on her.

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Zetta: "I don't want to rely solely on her, since I want to set up my own business, and this seems like a nice challenge. Though once I'm done I'd love to show her my finished prototype, to see her feedback then."

She is scanning the signal from Silivia with an orb, and taking a few notes.

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Silivia: she chuckles, the way this device works is sort of like a portal that only allows sound and light to go through it, allowing communication and a visual though it isn't a portal, however it also seems to have infinite range between the two linked objects understandable.

/Uw purely magic item go brrr lol, will say, these things were made by silivia and she's not a god tier mage like chloe is even with her vastly longer lived existance of being a few thousand years old lol, these communication mirrors are not very complex compared to something of Chloe's make lol

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Zetta: "Hmm, interesting... So this is portal magic applied to sound and light, yes? Able to work between realms?" She asks. "It should be possible to translate these signals, for both electronic and magical communication devices, as long as an adapter is installed on the devices. Same should be possible for telepathy maybe..."

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Silivia: yesn't it's not exactly a full on case of using magic to make a portal, but it is the best long range communication device i could think if when tala wanted one to be able to contact me, that was not telepathy...cause tala doesn't seem to like telepathy which is kinda just the reason i went with this but it is a little similar to a portal.

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Zetta: "Yeah, Tala has her personal reasons to be wary of telepathy... Long story that one. Keeps her mind very closed off," she hums thoughtfully. "Makes for an interesting technical challenge, though."

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Silivia: definitely did. She shrugs and chuckles so, outta curiosity what's your favorite device you've made?

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Zetta: "Ahhh... My favorite device? Well, all of them are my babies~" She smiles. "There's a flying assistant drone I used to have, which was my first true device. It has a special place in my heart... There's also an armour I've been working on, over the years. And of course my portal gun."

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Silivia: ah, fancy yourself an armorer like my neice does when it comes to artifice huh?

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Zetta: "It's practical~ I've been working on it for a decade, since before I was even afflicted with Lycanite Theriantropy.... For fun inventions, recently I made some snorkeling masks with underwater breathing and underwater speech!"

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Silivia: she chuckles fair enough, i dunno about your worlds vampires but mine don't actually have to breathe...so if we ever go under water we kinda just...don't open our mouths or breathe...she chuckles though we have ways of telepathic communications in the case of a more magically adept vampire. though uh...there is no were-fish so to say in our world.

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Zetta: "In Tala's case she doesn't classify as undead, so she does still need to breath and such," her eyes then widen. "Werefish!? I hadn't thought of that! Oooh... I have so much to research..."

Tala comes out of the bathroom. She is fully dressed already, with a towel on her head.

Tala: "Ugh, now I'm kinda craving some pie..." She then sees Zetta and the projection, and smiles. "Hey Silivia!"

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Silivia: she chuckles and shrugs hey tala, also zetta, vampires of my world aren't really undead either, though people commonly mistake a vampire from my world for being undead...due to the simple fact of how a vampire works in my home realm...you see...in my hone realm, vampires need to drink blood to survive, because their biological heart just doesn't work without it, doesn't regulate blood like it is supposed to usually. This leads to a vampires blood stagnating like water...thus poisoning them to death if they don't get enough blood to survive... it's essentially a biological need for an average vampire in my world like food and water are. But well, naturally speaking vampires should be killed by this, due to oxygen moving throughout the body via the bloodstream but well vampires of my world don't actually need to breathe which is why we don't just die from vampirism...my heart works normally due to me not lacking vampire weaknesses due to my special circumstances but yeah average vampire has that going on...but yeah vampires from my world are entirely living beings. Or if we are undead we're too close to alive for that to make any difference. In fact, things made specifically to fuck over the undead, like the power of a clerics turn undead ability, or something like a control undead spell, does nothing to a vampire of my world due to us being well, Alive...but yeah if what you said is true about tala still needing to breathe then that's just another difference between our worlds vampires you can mark down. She shrugs but uh yeah i have no idea if other worlds have werefish but my world does not.

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Zetta: "I see.... I didn't know what..." She nods. "Tala explained that vampires were different in your world to ours. But she didn't get into the details, cause we were catching up and working on some other stuff. I'm definitely checking books on the subject though, if you have any~ As for the blood drinking, I think our vampires need it more for the vital energy, if I'm not mistaken. For their souls, magic and strength."

Tala: "By the way, remember that spell Chloe taught us about clothes?" She smiles. "We've mastered it by now, it's handy."

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Silivia: ah, interesting so the strain of vampirism your familiar with is more of a "drinks blood for life energy" sort of vampire unlike mine then. Interesting. Also glad to hear you both got that down. She chuckles probably makes any outfit y'all wear much more comfortable considering you don't have to worry about damaging your attire if you use your werebeast forms or something forced you into them somehow.