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[littletonoidea]

"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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[littletonoidea]

"Like the kid who made that Literally-A-Miracle-Gro spell?" he offers, only half to be a shit.

[tarakan]

"All of the wizards on ship are idiots," he huffs. "Children included. Yes you can grow plants and magically remove viruses, good job. That means nothing if you do not have systems in place to pick up slack when you are gone, when flood is happening, when you are in coma, and so on."

[littletonoidea]

"Well, can't you say the same thing about science?" he asks, hooking himself on a pipe to put a pin in their movement. "It's not like if you up and vanished after making your fancy growth serum that like, ninety percent of the people here would know how to replicate it. Science is just as stupid and inexplicable as magic half the time, you know?"

[tarakan]

"But you can learn science," he points out. As Eiffel is stopping, Hilbert grabs a bit of wall so he can turn around and continue the conversation, stopping his movement as well. "With science, you can break things down to essentials. Step by step process that others can repeat. That is how it would happen back home, that is how it could happen here. With magic, everything becomes more fluid. How do you learn magic? Born to it? Study? Something inherent to your race? It is not predictable or repeatable like science is."

There's a pause before he continues. "Experiment is worthless if others cannot repeat it. That goes with everything here."

[littletonoidea]

Eiffel had half expected Hilbert to leave him hanging and keep going; that the scientist turns around to face him makes him jump a little.

"Wow," he says eventually. "You are really butt-hurt about the magic stuff, aren't you?"

[tarakan]

"I am not 'butt-hurt,'" grumbles the man who it's obvious is saying 'butt-hurt' for the first time in his life. He has no idea what that word even means, but can at least guess the context.

"I simply do not like it when things are this inefficient."

[littletonoidea]

Eiffel needs both hands to gesture bodily at himself. "You were on a ship with this for two years! Shouldn't you be used to inefficient by now?"

[tarakan]

"Your inefficiency was choice," he points out. "Given the chance, you could be surprisingly useful in getting job done. Inefficiencies here are by design."