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[There's ~~talking~~ yelling over the receiver immediately; it seems as though he's been ranting for a good thirty seconds before the phone actually picked it up.]

--this is another one of Jade's tricks I will flay him alive! All my clothes are gone and I've never been in this house before and there's a strange woman and I am going to kill someone over this if I don't get my clothes and robots back. In their sleep. With a knife. A gorgeous knife. That's on fire. Just watch your back, whoever you are. I'm very good at finding people, and I will find you.

[Beat.]

...But at least I can go outside again.

[This fact made the whole situation significantly less Not Okay, even, but far be it from Dist to not find something to bitch about.]

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Spells cast using the fon slots in your body. All matter has fon slots, though, which is why fon machinery works the way it does.

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tickingheart

And a fon slot would be?

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A fon slot is the place in your body where fonons are.

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tickingheart

And fonons are...?

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Basic particles of sound. They come in seven elements, and are an integral part of all matter, living or nonliving. Without them, fonic artes and fontech won't work. In addition, all matter has a fonon frequency, or a specific fonon-induced resonance. No two objects resonate the same way.

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tickingheart

So, your world uses sound-based magic for everything?

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I suppose that's one way of putting it, yes.

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tickingheart

Hm.

How do you make robots using fontech?

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[Normally, Dist would be sort of irritated at having to explain such basic concepts. None of this information is particularly unknown on Auldrant, but given how his interactions have gone thus far he's starting to accept that he might just not be at home any more.

Besides, it's an excuse to show off his genius! Such opportunities should always be seized.]

A fonist casts artes by opening the fon slots in their body in order to manipulate the fonons inside themselves and in their immediate surroundings. For example, casting an arte with the fifth fonon can cause something to explode. Fontech operates on the same basic principle, except that instead of using your own fon slots, you use the ones in the fon drive that powers the mechanism.

[A brief pause]

...A fon drive is where the power for fontech comes from. It's a specifically designed fon slot that can be manipulated by outside forces. It usually makes use of fonstones, which are essentially crystallized fonons. For obvious reasons, these can be used as catalysts for artes and for mechanical motion.

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tickingheart

[And this particular robot is quite interested in the whole scenario.]

So, you don't have robots that can operate by themselves? They have to be controlled by a fonist?

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Not always. I've made self-powering machines before; some are simply drones that go about doing whatever they were initially programmed to do, while others can perform more abstract reasoning to simulate intelligence. In addition, we have uncovered advanced machinery from the Dawn Age, a period of wartime long ago, but thus far reverse-engineering them has proved very difficult.