Good guess. Quartz are some magic rock that comes from our other world. The ARCUS is a tool that lets people channel that magic into spells [He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his own ARCUS. Flipping open the lid, he shows it to them. All eight outer slots are filled with smaller quartz of various colors. In the middle, there's a blue quartz the size of Crow's with a gold etching inside.]
The big one in the middle is called the Master Quartz. It has enough energy to power the ARCUS and give the user a number of abilities. The rest are regular quartz, they usually only have a couple spells in them.
My Master Quartz is called Canon, and it's a water element one. Not sure what yours is called Crow, but from the coloring I'm guessing it's a time element quartz.
[Rean would like to poke it. Thank you for understanding his childish needs, Crow.
He listens to Elliot's explanation, and he can follow along with most of it. He's still a little bewildered and lost, but these weird RPG mechanics don't seem too bad yet.]
Huh. Wonder why mine didn't come with one...? [Because it was expensive and I need points for your other bullshit, sorry, Rean.] Magic flip phones full of magic rock batteries, though, huh... if I wasn't touching this right now and if I hadn't already seen weirder, I'd have a hard time believing this was real.
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Hm?
[Don't mind if he peers over into Crow's, too. Oh, wow, that stone is lovely.]
Woah... so that's a Master Quartz, then? They're beautiful.
[A beat.]
...Haha. If that's the surprise inside cereal boxes these days, they've really upped their game since when we were kids, huh?
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[He smiles, reaching to run his fingers along that quartz.]
So...how exactly do these things work? They feel pretty energized but... are they like batteries or somethin'?
[He'll hold it out for if Rean wants to touch it as well.]
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Good guess. Quartz are some magic rock that comes from our other world. The ARCUS is a tool that lets people channel that magic into spells [He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his own ARCUS. Flipping open the lid, he shows it to them. All eight outer slots are filled with smaller quartz of various colors. In the middle, there's a blue quartz the size of Crow's with a gold etching inside.]
The big one in the middle is called the Master Quartz. It has enough energy to power the ARCUS and give the user a number of abilities. The rest are regular quartz, they usually only have a couple spells in them.
My Master Quartz is called Canon, and it's a water element one. Not sure what yours is called Crow, but from the coloring I'm guessing it's a time element quartz.
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He listens to Elliot's explanation, and he can follow along with most of it. He's still a little bewildered and lost, but these weird RPG mechanics don't seem too bad yet.]
Huh. Wonder why mine didn't come with one...? [Because it was expensive and I need points for your other bullshit, sorry, Rean.] Magic flip phones full of magic rock batteries, though, huh... if I wasn't touching this right now and if I hadn't already seen weirder, I'd have a hard time believing this was real.