> skip back to: iteration 27, day 3, evening
> so listen
> i know we're planning to spend this loop brooding/getting suspended
> but someone wanted me to remind you
> do you still remember the animusphere address
Oh. Oh, shit! That's right! And I've got two full weeks now. Is that enough time? You think a letter might make it there and back? If I use air mail and include a return envelope...
> maybe
> do you remember it though
Uh... I think so? Maybe? Hold on. Let me see if I can get the mnemonic I used for it back...
***
> skip to: iteration 27, day 5, early night
AT THIS POINT IT'S CLEAR SOME OF MY ORI
GINAL CONCLUSIONS WERE FAR TOO SIMPLIST
IC. WHILE I BELIEVE THE "MANA SPECTRUM"
PARADIGM MAY STILL BE OF USE, EXPECTING
IT TO MAP DIRECTLY TO FORMS OF ELECTROM
AGNETIC ENERGY WAS FOOLISH ON MY PART.
A CASE OF ALLOWING MY PRECONCEPTIONS AS
A PHYSICIST TO INFLUENCE ME.
INSTEAD IT MAY BE MORE USEFUL TO CONSID
ER A "MANA HIERARCHY," OR EVEN A "MANA
PERIODIC TABLE." RATHER THAN G-ENERGY/B
ASE MANA BEING A LESS ENERGETIC FORM OF
THE OTHERS, THINK OF IT INSTEAD AS THE
PHOTONS THAT MAKE UP EM WAVES. OR THE Q
UARKS AND LEPTONS THAT COMPOSE MATTER.
WHICH IS THEN SHAPED AND CHANNELED INTO
OTHER MORE COMPLEX FORMS BY A MAGUS' CI
RCUITS.
IT DOES SEEM THERE IS STILL SOME RELATI
ONSHIP BETWEEN THE MANA TYPE CREATED BY
A SPELL AND ITS FUNCTION, ALBEIT ONE MU
CH MORE COMPLEX THAN I ORIGINALLY PRESU
MED. THE EXCEPTION IS Z-ENERGY, WHICH T
HUS FAR SEEMS TO RETAIN THE SPECIFIC, E
XCLUSIVE ASSOCIATION I HAVE NOTED ELSEW
HERE.
***
> skip to: iteration 27, day 7, late night
MAGIC, IT SEEMS, IS BY ITS NATURE DISCR
IMINATORY. ONLY CERTAIN FAMILIES AND GE
NETIC LINES CAN UTILIZE IT. HOWEVER, EV
ERY NOW AND AGAIN, SO-CALLED "WILD TALE
NTS" WILL EMERGE, BE IT THROUGH RANDOM
MUTATION OR SOME OTHER MECHANISM. UNFOR
TUNATELY, THESE MAGES TEND TO GENERALLY
BE LESS POWERFUL THAN THOSE FROM ESTABL
ISHED FAMILIES, AND ARE THUS TYPICALLY
THE SUBJECT OF DERISION.
ACCORDING TO Z, I MYSELF AM MOST LIKELY
A WILD TALENT OR DESCENDED FROM ONE. IN
EITHER CASE, MY SO-CALLED "MAGIC CIRCUI
TS" ARE SO WEAK AS TO BE NON-EXISTENT.
Z SAYS THAT AT BEST I WOULD BE ABLE TO
CHANNEL PERHAPS ONE-THIRTIETH OF THE EN
ERGY AN AVERAGE MAGE CAN PRODUCE. I AM
THEREFORE CONSIDERED BENEATH THE NOTICE
OF THE MAGICAL ESTABLISHMENT (Z INDICAT
ES THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING.)
STILL, THIS AT LEAST EXPLAINS WHY I HAV
E RETAINED MY MEMORIES OF WHAT I WITNES
SED DURING THE GRAIL WAR.
ALL IN ALL, IT SEEMS THAT THIS INFORMAT
ION IS NO MORE USEFUL TO ME THAN LEARNI
NG I HAVE A WORKING APPENDIX. BUT I WON
DER... THE TERM "MAGIC CIRCUITS" IMPLIES
SOME KIND OF MECHANISM. SUPPOSEDLY, THE
MAGE FAMILIES ARE ABLE TO PASS ON ABILI
TIES AND SPELLS TO NEW GENERATIONS VIA
SPECIAL CRESTS. IF MAGIC CAN BE EXPRESS
ED IN MATERIAL FORM... IS IT POSSIBLE I
COULD BUILD MY OWN CIRCUITS? REPLICATE
VIA TECHNOLOGY WHAT Z AND THE MAGI CAN
DO INNATELY?
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FanfictionAn eccentric nerd finds himself stuck in a time loop after something weird happens down the street at Shirou Emiya's place. Tom Tomonaga doesn't know why he's repeating the same two weeks over and over again. He doesn't know anything about magic, th...
