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[spoilsfun]

This is ridiculous!

[There is a small boy scowling up into the console's video feed with a highly offended expression on his face. Not that it was easy to see that much. Even standing on a stool he is barely tall enough to reach the console.]

There can't be a turtle that big. If it was real it would be completely violating the square-cube law. Even presuming that it was possible for a turtle to grow this big, a biological creature cannot scale up like this. The larger an animal grows, the less its proportional muscle strength. According to that law, this turtle shouldn't even be able to move and there should be severe problems with its cardiovascular and respiratory functions. Even if we factor in the exception for buoyancy in sea creatures, this is still far too big. How is it possible for this to exist?

[Belatedly, he realizes that had been just a tiny bit advanced for an ordinary seven-year-old. He hastily pastes on a bright childish smile.]

I saw a program about it on television once! It was really interesting.

Comments

[Video]

[aprettyflyboy]

New here, I take it?

I've seen newborn creature that resembled a mothman grow around 50 times their size on the span of a few minutes, fight its equally newborn monster brother and then take fly carrying a group of people on its back. [He's not kidding, honestly. Poe has seen weird things while on missions.] Alien biology defies al logic.

[God save, Kid]

Must have been a really, really interesting program.

[Video]

[spoilsfun]

Aliens aren't real. Even a kid knows that.

[His expression reflected his opinion of the very idea.]

Mmm, I just got here. I read all the things at the welcome center, but a lot of it doesn't make sense at all.

It was! I like learning about things like that.

[pompous_today]

[Simon gives an amused chuckle.]

Do you have any better theories about where we are, then?

[spoilsfun]

Not yet. Theories need to follow evidence, and I haven't had time to investigate yet.

Video

[purrns]

You're going to have a field day with the soul gems if this is what you think about the turtle.

Video

[spoilsfun]

The soul gems?

I read the information they have on them at the welcome center. It's a strange idea, isn't it? Has anyone ever found any proof that they actually affect the soul?

Video

[drinkuntilidie]

[Kevas snorts.]

Really? Dere can't be? Cause dis second giant turtle I seen in my life.

[Sup there kid, try explaining this guy away.]

Video

[spoilsfun]

[Simple. This was taking place over a video connection. There were many ways to fool the camera. And that wasn't even counting the possibility of a disguise artist. The more interesting question was why. ]

Really? What was the first? And who are you?

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[ruinsprofessor]

[Oh, he speaks her language. The language of Science.]

Turtles of Tu Vishan's species have magical support for their biological functions, I believe. I take it you're from a version of Earth without magic?

[...It's an odd change in attitude, though.]

...if you don't believe it, I can show you the turtle from the air; my rheaird will carry two.

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[spoilsfun]

[The boy's expression closes in irritation. To Conan, saying that something happened because of magic was worse than having no explanation at all. Because Conan considered magic to just be what people called something when they couldn't explain it. When they hadn't bothered to try and explain it.

Considering most of his previous encounters with so-called magic had happened at crime scenes as the result of murderers trying to use cheap tricks to get away with their crimes? He wasn't really in the most accepting frame of mind.

But as much as he'd like to say exactly what he thought, he was still trying to play the part of an ordinary kid. He'd need to play along for now.]

Yeah, you could say that. All we have is stage magic. How does this magic support work?

Mmm, okay? What's a rheaird?

[Video]

[shroudofgray]

[Here, have a glowing magic girl who dips right into the uncanny valley.]

He is real, and alive. Though he sleeps deeply now. But his light is still strong.

Re: [Video]

[spoilsfun]

[Conan's first thought on seeing her involved calculating how much phosphorescent paint would be needed to reach that effect. ]

How do you know?

video

[unetrustworthy]

[Considering the intelligence levels of seven-year-olds by her time, Midii hardly blinked at the Science. In fact...she was actually kind of impressed. Denial was the usual response, but denial by logic? Nice.]

I used to think the same thing. For a long time.

But...as hard as it is to accept...the laws we knew growing up don't always apply here.

Re: video

[spoilsfun]

I don't think that's the kind of thing I could accept without proof.

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[witchcrap]

Haha, wow, you know way more about this than me.

Re: video;

[spoilsfun]

I don't know very much yet. Just what I could read at the welcome center.

video

[redfiend]

Well, you're not in your own world anymore, so that probably doesn't apply here. I mean, you can build and grow stuff on the turtle... what does that tell you?

video

[spoilsfun]

I haven't seen any proof of that yet.

[Everything he'd seen so far had only been photographic evidence. That was easy enough to fake. Which was why his next step was to see this turtle for himself. ]

And even if this is another world, that doesn't automatically mean that all the physical laws I know are invalid.

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[lasergrenades]

I'm gonna go ahead and say magic has something to do with it. Because it definitely does exist - either magic or physics is different here. Or something.

[He looks pretty young, and Pepper is... not sure what to make of him. He seems nice enough, at least, and she's smiling.]

You and my best friend Tony would probably get along really well.

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[spoilsfun]

[The small boy makes an irritated face. ]

Magic is just a word people use to describe something they don't understand.

[He'd accept that some of the laws of physics were altered here sooner than he'd accept that magic was a real thing. ]

Why is that? Who is Tony?

[mrsarcastic003]

[As someone from a universe where magic--while not exactly commonplace--isn't all that unusual (though always the most irritating explanation), Tim is sort of... popcorn.gif at this outburst. His tone when he speaks is extremely wry.]

There are more things on heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

[spoilsfun]

Why are you quoting Shakespeare at me?

[Video]

[flybyshooting]

[He had a good long laugh before replying.]

Well, your other option is that we're all suffering from a joint hallucination and delusions.

Though I suggest you mind what you say to the Kedan in regards to their beloved adamantoise. Touchy subject and all.

Re: [Video]

[spoilsfun]

I haven't ruled that theory out yet.

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[peridiot]

[Peridot scowls. Have a weird green dorito, Conan.] You organics think you know everything.

Re: video;

[spoilsfun]

Saying it like that, I assume you think that you know better?

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[pushtheboundaries]

[hey guess who's totally familiar with child geniuses. even allowing for biology not being his strong suit...]

Have you considered the theory of an alternate dimension holding altered laws? That putting aside the fact that by simply existing, it proves the law needing to either be updated or that there is some other force at work behind its nature.

Re: video

[spoilsfun]

How are you sure this is an alternate dimension?

[His theories were leading him in that direction, but Conan was curious as to what thoughts other people had here. ]