"Let us take matters one at a time. To begin with, the topics of Bios and Synthesis..."
Gilgamesh casts a glance at the raccoon which was still furtively watching them.
"If I am understanding correctly, Synthesis is merely a matter of Otherworlders engaging in some manner of cooperation. However, specifically, it seems to refer to acts which embody duality of some kind."
It was built into the name: Otherworlders essentially ... coming together, as it were, to solve problems, but manifested through some physical/symbolic act. Was that not, essentially, Synthesis?
"I have heard that all manner of touch can be a conduit of this ability, yet I think it more practical for each person to devise for themselves an act which, in any or most situations, including one such as that which we now find ourselves in, we can use to generate Bios."
That made sense, right? Because at any given moment in this world, they may -- in a pinch -- need to generate Bios. That was just The Way here. And therefore, it made sense for each of them to have an almost kneejerk, instinctive method that they honed for doing so.
"The method I have been honing has been to have an object on hand that both of us may grasp simultaneously, channeling our Bios and generating new." It was a simple and flexible method. Plus, he could summon shiny cool shit from his vault and do a lot of Dramatic Hero Pose stuff while grasping whatever object with the other person -- say, grasping the hilt his axe, or his tablet, or even the aXess Link, or another weapon. But, again, he looks at that creature...
"To the matter of your other question... well, I am no expert on such matters." He, too, was a new arrival, just like her. "But that seems both sensible and also what the natives have given us to understand as their own speculation. The question, to my mind, would be: Why? Why is it that these creatures are behaving as though they are starving for Bios? And just what exactly are these 'shadow creatures'? Are there merely nocturnal animals, or a manifestation of something more complex and perhaps more sinister? If Bios is light and life energy, and they are blackened... could it be that something has happened to the Bios within these animals' bodies?"
That was simply a guess on his part, but the combination of their hunger -- an apparent lack -- and their black, shadowy bodies: had the Bios within them been ... altered? Voided, somehow? Was that even possible?
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Gilgamesh casts a glance at the raccoon which was still furtively watching them.
"If I am understanding correctly, Synthesis is merely a matter of Otherworlders engaging in some manner of cooperation. However, specifically, it seems to refer to acts which embody duality of some kind."
It was built into the name: Otherworlders essentially ... coming together, as it were, to solve problems, but manifested through some physical/symbolic act. Was that not, essentially, Synthesis?
"I have heard that all manner of touch can be a conduit of this ability, yet I think it more practical for each person to devise for themselves an act which, in any or most situations, including one such as that which we now find ourselves in, we can use to generate Bios."
That made sense, right? Because at any given moment in this world, they may -- in a pinch -- need to generate Bios. That was just The Way here. And therefore, it made sense for each of them to have an almost kneejerk, instinctive method that they honed for doing so.
"The method I have been honing has been to have an object on hand that both of us may grasp simultaneously, channeling our Bios and generating new." It was a simple and flexible method. Plus, he could summon shiny cool shit from his vault and do a lot of Dramatic Hero Pose stuff while grasping whatever object with the other person -- say, grasping the hilt his axe, or his tablet, or even the aXess Link, or another weapon. But, again, he looks at that creature...
"To the matter of your other question... well, I am no expert on such matters." He, too, was a new arrival, just like her. "But that seems both sensible and also what the natives have given us to understand as their own speculation. The question, to my mind, would be: Why? Why is it that these creatures are behaving as though they are starving for Bios? And just what exactly are these 'shadow creatures'? Are there merely nocturnal animals, or a manifestation of something more complex and perhaps more sinister? If Bios is light and life energy, and they are blackened... could it be that something has happened to the Bios within these animals' bodies?"
That was simply a guess on his part, but the combination of their hunger -- an apparent lack -- and their black, shadowy bodies: had the Bios within them been ... altered? Voided, somehow? Was that even possible?