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Who: Shinichi Okazaki, Ling Yao, Edward Elric, Lucy Heartfilia, and [open!]
What: Mah-jong and misbehavior, continued from here
Where: Shin's apartment
When: January 16th, mid-afternoon

Rated: PG-13 for teenagers being stupid? Possible alcohol involved?

Carrying a bag of food as a peace offering in one arm, and dragging Edward Elric along with the other, Ling made his way to Shin's apartment as he'd been directed. He didn't even need a map, since he'd been there just the other day trying to save people from the fires that some weirdo had started.

"Now Ed, this Shin person is going to teach us how to play mahjong properly. And this was something I was never allowed to do at home. If you mess this up for me, I will have you know that I'll be very upset." Ling frowned sternly. "Be nice to these people and maybe we'll learn something useful! Perhaps even how to fight more effectively here, or how to get home."

Ling smirked at Edward as he prepared to ring the doorbell. "We may even get some dirt on Roy Mustang.... fufufuuuuu~."

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Ling was watching Shin with his eyes wide open as they could get. "Amazing," he remarked, quite breathlessly. He'd never heard sounds like that coming from an instrument! Sure, it wasn't in the same tones that he was used to in Xingese music, and he wasn't sure that he would call it a beautiful sound, but it was truly fascinating.

"Can you believe such a thing is possible," Ling mused aloud, scooting veryveryclose to Edward as he spoke. He didn't dare touch the guitars, simply admiring them with his eyes as if they were holy relics of some sort. "Using electricity to make music? And here there is a device to make sounds, like a radio, in someone's home. How technology has advanced, for him."

Ed's eyes also widened a little as he listened to Shin give them an example of the sound. So it was like a speaker... but instead of needing a microphone the cord seemed to send the sound directly through the box called an 'amp.' Focusing hard on this, he gave a distracted nod to Ling's words, but glanced up a little when Lucy mentioned magic. There were a lot of people here who he'd spoken to about the magic in their worlds and each of them were interesting to him in their similarities and differences.

"What kind of magic?" he asked over to Lucy, sitting up more and turning towards Shin and her as they made their way to get the drinks.

[[ooc: hit the enter key prematurely, apparently. x_x]]

Edited 2012-01-26 06:44 (UTC)

"It's not magic," Shin insisted, "it's just electricity and sound. There's no magic where I'm from." He opened the fridge in the kitchen and passed back to Lucy a bottle of cranberry juice and a water pitcher. From on top of the fridge he got a stack of red cups as well and another bottle of orange juice. He carried them back in and put them on the table that also held the mini-fridge. "Help yourselves," he said, indicating the drinks and cups as he went to get himself another can on beer, offering one wordlessly to Ling as well.

Hearing Ed return a question regarding magic, wriggled out a variety of feelings that she intrinsically and more innately held onto. Honestly, despite its simplicity, it was sort of nice to just hear the exact nuances of the word “magic.” Smiling, she nodded vigorously, “there’s all sorts of magic. From dragon slayer magic to celestial spirit magic.” She takes two fingers as if to motion two separates sides of the spectrum. “Though, I’ve heard of worlds where magic is limited or it’s more of an “exchange” of resources, in our world, individuals are born with magic inside of themselves."

... so there's no magic in Shin's world, though this fact is not entirely shocking, it was something of interest. She supposed it wasn't that uncommon of a situation between the guests of Death City either...

Seeing the pitcher and juice, she holds her hands out, grasping onto them carefully before following suit and carrying them over to place them on the same table. Lucy nods a small thanks in Shin’s direction before gingerly picking up her own bottle of juice. “Though, there are a lot of non-magical items, I suppose I’m not as accustomed to them. … so it’s pretty interesting to see things like these.”

Lucy gestures over to the amplifier and instruments graciously before passing a glance back towards the source of their current topic. "How about yours?"

Edited 2012-02-07 02:11 (UTC)

Ling lights up at hearing there's magic in Lucy's world, hands knitting together in excitement. "Wah, that's too interesting! I want to hear all about it sometime, Miss Lucy, okaaaay? I've never heard about real magic before. To be honest, I can't really imagine what that must be like."

"We don't have any magic in our world that I've ever seen or read of in my studies," he explained, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "We have alchemy to rearrange chemistry and alkahestry to use the earth's life energy to heal. But, it isn't a power that comes simply from nowhere or creates matter or energy from nothing. When I think of magic, that's what I think of. Like, you can use a spell to make the darkness light! Or perhaps make a flower bloom, or fly. We don't have that."

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lol it's "Shin teaches the kids about modern technology" party

XD And all he wants is to play majong

LMAO best kind of party. jsdhg and sorry, i tot. missed out on this! LJ never tells me Things!

oh ok!