[Skulduggery's gestures are fairly obvious, at least, and the communicator he produces explains at least a part of the numerous (so very numerous) random transmissions Derris-Kharlan had picked up. Kratos watches for a moment, but the communicator doesn't seem to be much different from some of those Kratos has seen before. He turns away to examine the nearest street-light instead.
[Closing his eyes, he extends his mana sense around him. He can feel the dense population present, of a kind he hasn't felt since before the worlds had been split. Thrumming between all those mana-signatures is his sense of light and lightning. He can feel both, and yet -- neither are being powered by mana.
[It's incredibly strange, and incredibly off-putting, being able to feel the mana in the power produced without being able to sense how that power is being produced. Kratos shakes off the feeling to open his eyes and put a hand on the street-light so he can read it from a closer viewpoint.
[This is much more familiar; its circuits run on wiring not unlike raybits, but without the mana charge from an exsphere powering them. Instead the lightning-sense extends deep into the ground, where it becomes lost in the lightning charges flowing to everything else. There's no way he can trace it to its source in that din.
[Still. Something has to charge them; and apparently it's not a localised source individual to each device. He should probably avoid using any lightning mana, if the whole city is powered this way.
[Skulduggery's voice makes Kratos turn again, and he tips his head. The man just insists on talking, though at least that's going to increase the chance of Kratos understanding the language with any speed. They have as much time as Kratos wishes to use, to investigate this planet; and Kratos intends to be as thorough as is safely possible. What are the odds that humans could evolve on two different planets, even ones so near to each other?
[He may as well further his chance to communicate. Kratos takes a step away, indicating the street-light, and saying the word out loud in the hope Skulduggery will repeat it in one of his own tongues.]
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[Closing his eyes, he extends his mana sense around him. He can feel the dense population present, of a kind he hasn't felt since before the worlds had been split. Thrumming between all those mana-signatures is his sense of light and lightning. He can feel both, and yet -- neither are being powered by mana.
[It's incredibly strange, and incredibly off-putting, being able to feel the mana in the power produced without being able to sense how that power is being produced. Kratos shakes off the feeling to open his eyes and put a hand on the street-light so he can read it from a closer viewpoint.
[This is much more familiar; its circuits run on wiring not unlike raybits, but without the mana charge from an exsphere powering them. Instead the lightning-sense extends deep into the ground, where it becomes lost in the lightning charges flowing to everything else. There's no way he can trace it to its source in that din.
[Still. Something has to charge them; and apparently it's not a localised source individual to each device. He should probably avoid using any lightning mana, if the whole city is powered this way.
[Skulduggery's voice makes Kratos turn again, and he tips his head. The man just insists on talking, though at least that's going to increase the chance of Kratos understanding the language with any speed. They have as much time as Kratos wishes to use, to investigate this planet; and Kratos intends to be as thorough as is safely possible. What are the odds that humans could evolve on two different planets, even ones so near to each other?
[He may as well further his chance to communicate. Kratos takes a step away, indicating the street-light, and saying the word out loud in the hope Skulduggery will repeat it in one of his own tongues.]