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There are far too many magic systems to name that work in your fiction, all to the same general effect but none of them exactly depicting the truth.\n\nThe truth is that mana is a product of certain chemical reactions that simply manifests as an energy, an energy that is essentially made of matter but attatches itself to non-material concepts. That’s probably a difficult concept to comprehend, but that concept itself, for example, could be where mana comes from. I don’t suppose that makes it any easier either.\n\nIf you believe in a diety, that belief could be used to manifest magic, and the chemical reations from within a person’s own body could allow that mana to be created, and this works the same way for enchanters, healers, elemenentalists, and any other kind of user of what you, and many others in our world in effect, would call ‘magic’. A chemical reaction, or a concept, could be one of many, many things, expecially when you consider that there are more chemical reactions than you take for granted, it has a much broader definition and encompasses melting and boiling and the reverse as an example. The most important reactions though, are quite simply the ones that take place inside the body because the conciousness needs to do a lot of work to establish a living being. That doesn’t mean that a conciousness beeds to be a living being, in fact it’s a common practice to make a conciousness so that it can sustain its own mana and be used as a source for it. A conciousness, might I add, has its own broader definition in this universe. Far too complex for me to explain though, it’s a valued knowledge known only by the most learned of scholars.\n\nScholars, for another subject, aren’t solely dedicated to the subjects that exist in your world because in this world, the universe in fact, mana exists everywhere ready to be observed and understood, so it can be used and so that it can simply be known, such as for defence which is always easier when you know what you’re defending against. It’s possible to learn enough about mana to ensure that you can cast a living conciousness on a shield and allow that conciousness to react with the environment in some way generating mana and using that mana to prevent any reactions from occurring near that shield, thereby making it almost impossible to cast ‘spells’ on that shield, or disallowing interatction with any kind of matter.\n\nThe only known use of that same ‘spell’ is an enchantment placed upon a stone that is present at the core of the planet used to cap the power of mana so that it can no longer brink the universe out of existance as has happened in the past near the beginning of the universe, but that’s ancient history and of no importance to you. The only people who care about the beginning of the universe are the scholars that specialise in the area, but since I’m not teaching you how to use it and I’m just giving you an overview, I’ll leave the creation stories to the religious. 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The two rabbits being almost exactly alike and almost entirely plain, the only difference between these two snowy rabbits was the tone of their fur where Jacob was slightly brown, just enough to see after a small while but little enough that at first sight they’re mistakable for eachother. You have to really see them together to appreciate the difference, then you’ll wonder how you never noticed it before. The inhabitants of our world don’t always wear clothes, their fur being like a coat anyway, but some of them do and when in broad daylight or a formal occasion then almost all of them do. 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After a second, the light went green and turned into what can only be explained as a water vapour. There are many ways to create a hologram, there are many ways to ‘cast’ any ‘spell’, but they come down to the person that uses those abilities, they are custom and they don’t need to adhere to any kind of form. As long as you can conjure the mana, you can use it in any way that follows the way that it was conjured and the non-material ties to it, which in this case was mostly minor emotions such as sadness. Minor emotions, minor magic.\n\nJacob once again stood in front of Jack, smiling and practically laughing.\n“I knew you’d call back!”\n“Bad news I’m afraid”\n“Oh... What’s up?”\n“He just cut 4 crystals from me”\n“What? 4 crystals!? What did you do?”\n“He wanted me to come to the snuff party that he’s got going on, and he offered me some of their meat”\n“What a douchebag... That’s right, right?\n“Yeah, don’t know what it means”\n“Well, why did you have to say right now?”\n“Mostly I just wanted to see you...”\n“Aww...”\n“But also, I can’t make the party”\n“What? How much are you missing?”\n“Well, I need 1 for the web, 2 for food for the week, 1 for the mana charges...”\n“2 for food? I can’t believe that you’re living on 2 crystals a week, I’m living on 10!”\n“Don’t brag to me about it, that’s hardly going to help”\n“Look, I’ll give you 50 crystals, and that should last you a little while, just use it for food”\n“How do you have 50 crystals spare?”\n“I work hard, there’s not much more to it than that”\n“Alright, I really appreciate this. When can I get them?”\n“You’ve got them”\n“You’ve got them already?”\n“I told you, I had 50 crystals, not that I was going to have them”\n“If this thing doesn’t work today, I’m quitting, just like that.”\n“Want a kiss?”\n“I thought you were busy at the moment?”\n“Oh yeah, holograms are confusing...” He looked in a bit of a daze for a moment. “Oh, right”, and with that, the hologram ended again.\n\nGenerally, the magic of our world is easy to use, and it’s easy to incorporate into everyday life, but some are far better at using magic than others, and this was another difference between the two rabbits. Jack’s job was to create mechanical structures that generate mana and to enchant certain parts of the machinery so that it has a conciousness that can manipulate the mana in such a way that... Well, it’s complicated. He’s working on the multiverse transporter though, while Jacob works in human resources, not actually doing much but still earning a fair ammount of money.\n\nChapter 3 - A discovery\n\nNo one to love except his brother, who to be honest doesn’t count because it’s not a romance sort of thing; No real income, this week just being a measly 16 crystals, 4c under minimum wage; A crap job that means that he has to do the same thing again and again, for hours on end; No company around him, no one at all. He could give a request to someone, or he could make up a false friend (like an imaginary friend except real), but in the end the only person in his world was his brother and it’s all because of this job. Today had to be a good day, otherwise the job just isn’t worth it.\n\nHe thought to himself about a computer from their world and how he would love to use one, not a cheap clone made in our world, but an original from yours. He made a keyboard appear with amazing concentration like only experienced mages can, and it grew to twice the average size so that he could compensate for his lack of any practice with one. He didn’t intend to use it, in fact even if he wanted to it was nothing but false plastic and it’s not connected to anything because there’s nothing to connect it to. It was simply recreational, like showing himself the reason why he should connet to their world. That’s when it occured to him: what if we could program the computers using some of the knowledge of computers?\n\nI mean, why not? If we’ve got everything that we could possibly need to make the computers themselves, then all we would need would be one single computer to create the system that could ensure that the mana is created and goes where it needs to as fast as lightning, and electricity is a really easy way to generate mana because all it needs to do is have a chance of generating mana. No one knew exactly where mana came from when using electricity, but eventually mana generated regardless when the electricity had a conductor and nowhere to really go. Electricity can conduct mana if it’s embedded onto it, and you can use something enchanted to enchant the electricity. Part enchantment, part machine...\n\nPart enchantment, part machine!\n“Part enchantment, part machine!”\n\nHe heard himself shouting, but not before everyone else would have. It’s just lucky there was no one else to hear him, otherwise that would have been embarassing. But forget embarassment, this was an amazing though, and it’s amazing how this hasn’t already been done before, never in history. There are some mock computers made to represent real computers from your world, and ones made of magic that would pretend to work, and there may even be a working emulation of one somewhere in the world, but never, ever, in the history of the planet, had anyone thought of creating a hybrid computer-enchantment that would be capable of using mana mechanically.\n\nHe held his hands together, excitedly, and he called his boss\n\n“Boss, I’ve had a eureka moment here!”\n“What?”\n“I’ve had an apiphany!”\n“Just tell me already”\nUnable to contain his excitement, he shouted at his boss: “Part enchantment, part machine!”\n“...”. He was stunned.\n“Part enchantment, part machine!”\n“What?”\n“Part en-”\n“I know what you said, but... what?”\n“We could make a machine that uses electricity and mana at the same time”\n“Mana isn’t electricity, you dumbass”. He was clearly about to end the message, but Jack interrupted him quickly before he could.\n“No, but we could enchant the electricity with mana”\n“That... Wait, do you actually think that would work?”\n“Yes, we could make it so that we have some thing enchanted to enchant the electrons as they pass through, so we could have an electricity generator one side and pass it through this enchanter, then when it comes through enchanted then we could use the electricity to carry the mana and use it on a frame where the electricity would make an amazing current, and the mana that comes through it would form a loop...”\n“How...”\n“...Then once it makes a loop we could use a computer to interact with that voltage making a binary sequence within...”\n“Shut up a minute”\nJust like that, he stopped himsel from blurting out his excitement, which was very difficult to do.\n“So you think you could actually do this? Actually make a machine that uses enchantments like that?”\n“Well, not on my own, but...”\n“You’re promoted to project manager, and I’ll employ anyone that you’d need to make this possible. You find them, you can put them to work, and you can work with them to make this thing. Whatever you need, I’ll give it to you”\n“Really? Do I get a raise as well?”\n“80c If you come with me to the snuff party as my guest, 70 if you don’t”\n“80! I... Can I think about that?”\n“Call me back when you think about it, I’ll give you a 20 crystal bonus if you can get Jacob along as well and I’ll make sure you’re safe”\n“Do we have to eat?”\n“Nope, but at least one of you has to kill someone”\n“Okay”\n“Okay you’ll think about it or okay you’ll come?”\n“I’ll think about-” And the message went.\n\nWhat he had to do was obvious.\n\nJacob appeared up before him, for a third time in an hour, not that he was, although it was a close call.\n“Jacob!”\n“What?”\n“You’ll never guess!”\n“You got a raise?”\n“There’s more!\n“You figured it out?”\n“Part enchantment, part machine”\n“Part enchantment, part machine?”\n“Part enchantment, part machine!”\n“Part machine?”\n“Part enchantment!”\n“Oh my god...”\n“70c, 80 if I go to the snuff thing, a 20 bonus if I take you as well”\n“Oh my god...”\n“Do you want to go?”\n“Oh my god...”\n“I know! It’s such amazing news, isn’t it? You don’t have to go, but I don’t need the crystals anymore”\n“I was hoping you would go with me, but oh my god...”\n“I think I’ve got more than you now”\n“I’m only on 30, you’re going to be on 70?”\n“You’re rich and you’re on 30?”\n“Do you have any idea what this means?”\n\nAlmost as if he knew exactly what to say, A stranger came into view, another hologram. This guy was a tall, well dressed lizard with an ill-looking green set of scales, looking stiff and impressive in his black suit which covered the majority of his body. Jack felt as if he should have been kneeling.\n\n“This is an alarmingly impressive idea, young man”\n“I... My name’s Jack, this is Jacob and he’s from human resources. I take it my boss has told you about my apiphany?”\n“Yes, and he’s given you anyone that you could need. You might not realise it, but you’ve actually got the right to be above your boss. You’re earning far more than he is right now, and if I had the right to change things then I would ensure you’re owning the company and earning a solid 100c per week”\n“One... I think I might pass out”\n“I’m going to go now, you’ll want some privacy.” Jacob said, as he left”\n“Yes, this must be difficult news to take, quadroupling your pay like this” The lizard said with a smirk.\n“Yeah, you could say that... Oh, and it might be 70c, It’s 80c if I go to a snuff party with your boss”\n“That’s a hard deal, and I really don’t think that you deserve any less than 100c. I’ll see what I can do about that. In the meantime, I am yours and I am already hired unless you find a problem with this arrangement. I’m worth 40c if that means anything to you, and I’ve come from a job worth 60c”\n“Why would you give up a job worth 60c for one worth 40?”\n“I don’t know if you realise the chain of events that you’ve started, but I assure you that losing a third of my salary is well worth being a part of this. I’m the world’s lead researcher into electricity and I know that what you propose is certainly possible, but it will be difficult and will need a lot of research and maybe even an additional employee as a researcher. Besides that, I think we’d also need an experienced enchanter so that we could ensure that every single particle that goes through the enchanter is enchanted properly. Lastly, a conjurer and an alterer to ensure we have the correct parts for the machine and that we have something appropriate to enchant as an enchanter. Maybe an engineer or a specialised scientist would be appropriate as well.”\n“Are you sure that we need that many people? All I need is a little help to speed things along considering the concentration that we would need”\n“Two people is most definitely not enough, I still don’t think you undestand the seriousness of your situation. The instant you called your boss with those four words, you changed this universe permanently”\n“I think you’re over exaddurating a bit”\n“Actually, I’m under exaddurating the situation to make you more comfortable, this would affect the entire multiverse if it works, and I intend to see that happen”\n“That... the multiverse?”\n“You’ve single-handedly become the link from one to another and this means that you could change the way that every single one of them works when the machine is operational.”\n“But no one has ever done this before, and I’m hardly anything special”\n“Granted, as far as I know you’re not superior in any major way, but I doubt that a person that can change the multiverse would need to be special in any way. As long as you have the life in your veins, you’re able to contribute anything to the world, to the multiverse”\n“What I mean is, surely someone has caught onto this before, and if they hadn’t then how come I’ve suddenly had an apiphany and I’m the one able to do this?”\n“It doesn’t matter, the odds are against us but we can get any number of employees to assist us, and we have all the time in the world”\n“We really don’t need much though, we can start tomorrow and it would take only a week, all we need is an enchanter and a conjurer”\n“My, my... That’s surprisingly ambitions for someone who can so easily say that they’re ‘nothing special’”\n“I don’t think that’s ambitious, although we would need to make a circuit and that would take a week as well, and we’d need the help of someone that can make some simple circuits”\n“You really think that two weeks is a possibility?”\n“I think that two weeks is enough for a working prototype, and that if we want a fully finished, well polished model then we would need a month”\n“I hope that you’re smarter than you are optimistic, because you’d need to be to ensure that this works”\n“Do you think I could get my brother’s help? He’s not especiall gifted in anything relevant, but he can help me with casting because I can fixate my emotions on him and that would help me to concentrate and make the magic more powerful”\n“Your vocabulary is a little inaccurate, you sound like you’re in one of their fictions.”\n“Sorry”\n“Don’t be, we don’t truly have a word for the effects of mana so it’s appropriate anyway. As for your brother, if you believe that he could truly help you then I would consider it important and I’ll ask your boss this when I am discussing your wages”\n\nNot left with anything to say, he stared into space for a while, only finally refocussing to ask the lizard his name. “I never caught-”\n“Zack. Zack W. I have the initial W to signify not my bloodline, but my position as one of the great scholars of our time and I’m the first Zack of the great scholars. There are only around 200 of us, but that is enough to mean that we are an elite and private society dedicated to the persuit, exploration and expression of knowledge. Your boss was right to notify us, we’re already in the process of updating our books as history is being written.”\n“I’m going to need to take a lie down...”\n“I’ll tell your boss that that’s the case, you certainly deserve it. Might I also ask if you’re going to this snuff party? I would be there too, considering that it would be a chance to interact better with one another”\n“If I do go, will you protect me and my brother?”\n“Protect you? I should imagine that this party would be held in your favour! I’ll make that the case.”\n\nChapter 4 - Partying\n\nIt’s a very strange subject to translate into your world, and it needs some explanation so you know what it means by any measure. Death, in our world, is taken much more lightly because some inhabitants believe, with all their heart, that it is what they want and what they need. In result, it’s what they do, and nearly none of them regret it. It serves the population well considering the mating that is much more frequent and, in some circumstances, much more successful in terms of repopulation. In result, every day there are thousands of people killed each day simply for entertainment, or sometimes much more, for their entire life’s fulfillment.\n\nThe snuff party that Jack, Jacob, Zack, Jack’s boss and an unknown, near adult cat-boy attended was one for non-sexual reasons, as per only half of all snuff, and was consensual like almost every snuff party but not exactly all of them. If there were a law, non-consensual snuff parties would be against it, but as things are there are neither those for or against them and it’s simply two sides of a coin, not that we have coins of course.\n\n“Who’s the cat?” Jack whispered to Jacob when they went into the empty-looking resteraunt consisting of one room with an 8 person table.\n“He’s a friend of mine, he’s always wanted to get snuffed and he’s our snuffie. His parents were hoping that he’d change his mind, but he never did and he’s almost obsessed with it”\n“I can hear you, you know” The cat said, laughing a little\n“Sorry, but you’re really a snuffie then?” Said Jack\n“Quick, slow, I don’t care. I’m willing to do absolutely anything to get snuffed and I don’t have a preference for how. It’s not a sexual thing for me by the way”\n“I don’t think anyone is here for any of that to be honest”\n“I should hope not, I’m straight. I know most people are fine with both but I think I watch the humans too much, I like the idea of being straight and I don’t really like the idea of doing something with a guy anymore”\n“I’m a bit like that, I’m gay and I only like guys. Not herms or anything, just guys”\n“I’d talk to you about why you like them, but I think we’re about to start and I’m not going to miss this for anything”\n\nAs they got into the resteraunt, the cat boy, who didn’t seem to want to be identified at all, lied on the table shamelessly but a little embarassed now by his lack of clothing. He was a white cat with brown spots in certain places, one on his left eye, two on his right arm, three on his torso, two on his left leg and one on his right ankle. His fur though, his fur was luscious and it was a shame to spill any blood on himself. Jack couldn’t help but stroke his fur around, and It’s not that the cat didn’t like it, it’s just that he didn’t react much.\n\n“What are we going to do then?” He asked\n“I think it’s your choice, we’ve got a lot in the room back there, and even more in the basement” Said Zack\n“I really don’t care about what it is, I kind of hope it hurts a lot though”\n“What about a little bit of torture? Maybe it would help you to feel like it’s inevitable”\n“I said I wanted to get snuffed, not tortured”\n“Not even a little bit?” Said the obviously eager boss\n“No, no... Maybe you be rough on me, as much as you like, but no torture or anything”\n\n\n\nSo they together tied him up and glued his nostrils and his mouth up so he couldn’t breath, and gagged him just to be sure. After that, they simply chopped his body parts up, ignoring his attempts at screams. Although it was hard for them to tell, he absolutely loved every second of it. Especially where they were ignoring him, and they could tell that he loved it so they ignored him further.\n\nJack whispered to Zack, “are you sure that he’s enjoying this?”\n“Of course, he’s absolutely loving it. Look...”\nZack cut off a little bit of the cat’s little finger as slowly and as painfully as he could, smiling as the cat made sounds of agony and bliss, he couldn’t resist stabbing him in the hand a few times before cutting it off and eating it. There was no bondage in play, and there were no drugs or magic. This was raw, unaltered pain and it was incredible that the cat wasn’t lifting a finger to move, he wasn’t even reacting at all when he was being stabbed, not even a brief flinch, apart from his head which he allowed to toss and turn. Jack knew it wasn’t what he wanted, but he couldn’t help but stroke the cat reassuringly. The cat shook his head disapprovingly as if to say that he hated this, and so Jacob tried to compensate for this by cutting off that arm slowly so that he could eat it. The cat eventually ran out of air, but by the time he did so he might have died of blood loss first. Either way, he didn’t regret it for a second, and everyone knew this well.\n\n\n\n“I almost feel jeleous...” Said Jack, with a sigh, stroking the still lucious fur where it was not stained with blood\n“I know how you feel” Said his brother, starting to imitate him.\n“I think they need me, but, you know...”\n“No, you know I’m not a snuffie, he definitely enjoyed it though”\n“I wonder what humans would think of this stuff”\n“If we manage to get one of them into our world, you definitely shouldn’t show him this” Zack said\n“Why not?”\n“Because he’ll get all scared, and wouldn’t you be if you were one of them?”\n“I don’t know, I don’t watch them all that much, I mostly watch their computers and anything else electrical”\n“I’m a scholar, like I said, and I’ve learned about all humanity, not just what I specialise in. There are certain humans that would want to take part in snuff parties but they are few and even those who are, only the less sane would have the courage to do so”\nThe boss took an interest in this of course, “You mean we could taste one of the fleshies?”\n“Maybe”, replied Zack, “But you’d have to be very lucky to find someone that likes it”\n“I’d settle for seeing one of them kill a cub, that would be different”\nJack found a thought in his head, and decided to voice it. “You know, boss, I’ve never heard your name before”\n“Hugo, and I’m glad someone finally asked. I thought it was just the guys at work but even this lizard never asked”. He said this with a warm smile, a surprise to everyone, everyone alive at least.\n“Do you think we should tell the human though, bo- Hugo?”\n“If we ever do get a human, yeah. Zack’s got a point, but he’ll find out eventually”\nZack flinched at this, surprised and a little aggressive. “I know we’re bonding and everything, but I thought you would have more sense than that!”\n“Oh? So you’d keep it a secret forever?”\n“Of course not, that’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is we can find a furry, someone that likes snuff for one reason or another, and we can see how well he accepts it. If he takes it very well, we can use him as a basis and gradually try less and less snuff loving humans until we find the average person”\n“You think you’re so smart, don’t you? Well, It’s going to take forever to do that, why should we do it the slow way?”\n“Because otherwise, if they think we’re a threat, and we can get into their world, they can invade us and start a war!”\n“What makes you think that everyone will suddenly believe that guy?”\n“Because... Because maybe if they are allowed into our world, they can steal a hostage for proof”\n“I’m going to have to go with Hugo in saying that they wouldn’t come over and start a war...”, Hugo gave a smug laugh while Zack looked defeated, “But at the same time we don’t want this guy going insane so it would be best to use Zack’s method”. At this, their expressions changed places, then Hugo’s look of defeat took an agressive shift and he spoke his mind.\n“Alright, if you want things the slow way, that’s your own fault. How long would they stay here before you bring the next one in?”\nJack replied with confidence, which was a surprise for himself and came off as smugness for Hugo. “It depends how long it takes them to adapt, I mean if they don’t adapt and they’ve been here for a year then we might have to close down the portal. On the other hand, if they adapt in a day, then the next we can bring in a friend or someone from their family”\n“What if they don’t like it here and they want to go home?” interrogated Hugo\n“We’re not a prison, they can go home if they want to. Otherwise, They would have a reason to hate us already and things could end up badly”\n\nA little time passed as they finished their meal, eventually leaving few remains to the cat boy who still would not regret his death. The group remained talking their various subjects and they would occasionally become more agressive, smarter, or funnier but they would generally keep to the same drone. It became tiresome for Jacob who always felt like he was watching into the conversation and as far as he was concerned it was better that this meeting finish earlier than later, although it was already quite late in the day and the sun was beginning to set. Out of boredom more than anything else, Jacob put his hand on Jack’s leg, moving his hand closer and closer to his rear end, eventually resting there. Jack didn’t react much, but both of them knew that they were both enjoying the flirting. After a minute, Jack did react though, he wispered quietly to Jacob’s ear when Hugo and Zack were arguing once more. “I hope we can find someone gay as well...”\n“Hmm... are you thinking what I think you’re thinking?”\n“Is your hand where I think it is?”\n“I don’t know if he would be alright with us though...”\n“Because we’re furries?”\n“Because we’re related”\n“Oh, they don’t do that?”\n“Not often, no...”\n“Apparently they like to stay with one partner too”\n“Most of them do, not all of them”\n“I hope they’re not really old, they live really long on earth”\n\nI should mention that in their world, including a few of those who want to live longer which can mean hundreds of years, the average person dies at age 30. This is a very small average age, almost entirely because of the snuff that is so common. Where you have your pigs and chickens, we simply eat each other and anything we can grow, which is much different and far harder to use as ingredients because they do not mix well. Those who aren’t snuffed may wish to live longer though, and as I’ve said they can live for hundreds of years. Although, they may still get snuffed after that, and depending on how much mana has been used on anti-aging ability they might still look youthful and attractive for it.\n\nThis brings about another difference, a vital difference. Life itself is different because where in your world you would learn for a decade or two and then put that knowledge to use on often unpleasant career paths, we simply learn until age 8 and then persue any career that we wish, without any kind of qualifications ever required and only skill being a relevant factor. In your world, you would go for a job and their main criteria would be your qualifications, but in our world although it’s possible to get a job purely on good character your employer would mostly be interested in what you can prove to them during an interview, so it may be as simple and unorthadox as an arm-wrestle. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s virtually faultless considering that any jobs done are generally done well.\n\nJack and Jacob tore themselves away from eachother, and both of them clearly thought the same thing, so Jacob, having not said much that meeting, spoke the thoughts. “What about a Job?”\nHe interrupted Hugo’s situation accidentally, as he was making strange gestures with his hands. “And then we shove the- what?”\n“A Job, he’s going to need one if he’s not got any crystals of his own”\n“Let’s just tell him to go back and get his own, pick someone rich”. Zack facepalmed, disappointed at his lack of knowledge of the humans. “What?”\n“Hugo, they don’t have crystals.” Zack started. “They’ve got little metal coins and paper ‘notes’ for currency, and they’ve got emeralds and diamonds and other stones, but no actual crystals. The closest they’ve got is on the background of a game I once saw, I might have seen it somewhere else as well.”\n“Wait, but if they’ve got no crystals, what’s to stop them making their own money? I know they haven’t got mana, but they can still do some stuff”\n“They do make their own money, they just only have a few people making them. Sometimes they have people making fake money, but I don’t think they go unnoticed”\n“But paper? I thought that stuff was really weak”\n“It is, it’s amazing that it doesn’t just break all the time. They carry a lot of it as well, as well as the coins. If they want to buy some food, they’ll take out handfulls of coins”\n“So instead of handing over a crystal, or using the web...”\n“Oh, sometimes they’ll use the web, they have a different web though, it’s hard to explain”\n“It doesn’t use mana?”\n“It uses computers and different frequencies in the air, it’s very hard to explain”\n“These computers sound pretty amazing...”\n“Oh, they are, it’s astounding what you can achieve using different kinds of metal and some electricity, that’s why we need them for our portal”\n“I nearly forgot about that, we’ll have to start that tomorrow. I’d say 30 till 70?”\n\nTime works in percent in our world, it’s simply because that it can be read easily from a spell. To make things slightly easier, 1% of a day is 14 minutes and 40 seconds. We also use a different date format, where we have history seperated into different eras that then divide into years, then seasons, then weeks, then days. To give a date and time, you would specify a year, a season, a week, a day and then a percentage. A specific example, an example of this very moment, would be 8E 203 B9/3. Birth is the first season, followed by Love, Freedom and Death, which means that this is referring to a day in Birth, one that is close to Love, the 66th in fact, which would be in your spring but is still reasonably cold in our world. The four seasons of our world are almost the same as the ones from your world in fact: Birth would be Winter where many are born, Love would be Spring where hormones raise to abnormal levels, Freedom is Summer where people work least and live most and Death is autumn which is a lonesome, boring time for many. The weather and the way that everyone lives are both well confined to these seasons, unlike in your world where they are general guidelines that the weather follows. Also, for clarification, there are 12 weeks in each of the four seasons and there are no months, although if there were then they would be 28 day months, coninciding with the lunar phases and allowing the end of a ‘month’ to be a full moon. Also, each year is only 336 days instead of 365. \n\n“40% of the day? I’d say 50, half the day for all it’s worth. 25 till 75 and we’ve still got some time to sleep” Zack said\n“I’m sorry guys, but can’t we work on 70?” Jack said\nHugo choked on a leg that he didn’t realise he was eating, “70? 70% you mean?”\n“Well, yes. When I work I work hard and it’s what I was expecting from all of us. Boss, are you involved in this?”\n“I haven’t got any skill for you to take advantage of, but you can’t be serious about working 70% of the day”\n“20 till 90, and it’ll be a fortnight’s work”\n“I have to say, I’m impresed by your attitude and drive”, Zack began, “But even as one of the great scholars I’m not familiar with anyone spending 70% of their own time on anything”\n“Two weeks of work and we can have access to Earth, or we could take two months and still have only a rough prototype. Who’s with me?”\n“I am!” Jacob squealed\n“Go ahead...” Hugo grunted\n“It’ll be difficult, but I’m sure that if we-” Zack began\n“So we’re in agreement, just don’t screw it up”. And with that, Hugo left and everyone else followed suit. everyone happily went to their respective homes, apart from Zack whos expression was more sour although he went home regardless.\n\nChapter 5 - Electricity\n\nA week later and everyone has been working tirelessly. Jacob’s work was less difficult because he only had to give encouragement in any way that he could, like some sort of jester if you still remember what those are, but It’s difficult to maintain your own morale as well as the morale of the rest of the group. Jack was entertained easily by his brother because they were so much alike but Zack, on the other hand, was stiff and slow to laugh even with the most enguaging of entertainment and he didn’t seem to show how much he really enjoyed the entertainment which made it much more difficult to know what to say or do. Without his clothes he seemed more at peace, but the fact that he was unclothed was also an embarassment. The morale was somewhat drained, and everyone was exhausted but this week marked a milestone and it showed the electronics completed both in design and in creation. Although the contraption was made entirely from mana you wouldn’t know it, the entirety of the device was made solidly and soundly, almost perfect in design and in working and nearly to a molecular level. It was an amazing sight, but I can only explain it as a metal oval attatched to a box which doesn’t emulate the same feelings that it rightly deserves.\n\nOnce the device was made the morale came flooding back, although their exhaustion remained as it was and they all seemed ready to sleep, comfortably. Since only a few days of work, they had begun to sleep there and their area of work was a second home to them. In fact, the working hours for Zack had become as much as 85% of the day, while Jacob liked to sleep for up to 40% of it instead and Jack was in between although on a wednesday he didn’t sleep, which is when he obsessed about his newly found ways to accelerate the work. The day that they celebrated this milestone was a Friday, and they celebrated this at 63% simply by lying together in all comfort (Not that Zack ever seemed to relax himself). They’d make the occasional joke, often about the similarity of their names or a mistake encountered during the work.\n\n“I don’t think I can move another muscle...” kaos emn \n“I don’t think you’ll need to for a little while, Jack. If you do though, my tail still has plenty of strength in it”\n“I’ll bet it has, you haven’t used it at all” Jacob butted in. “Do you ever use that tail of yours? It’s certainly long enough.”\nIt was a long tail, the same olive green that spread all over his body, and it was a strong, powerful limb that was capable of nearly as much as his claws were. He found himself subconciously sliding his tail up his leg, and realising this he came to an alarmed state. “Right, I think it’s best that I sleep in my own bed this night.\n“I’ll take it you’re not straight”, Jack mocked\n“No, no I’m not. I don’t know how the two of you can surpress your hormones so well with it nearly being the season of Love.”\n“Well, not talking and thinking about it is the main thing. Now that you’ve mentioned it I’ll bet we have like 5% till we can’t control ourselves”, Jacob said\n“You seem to know what you’re talking about, do the pair of you research this or something?”\n“You could say that... 3%”\n“I’d give myself 1%. Unless you two want a threesome I’m going home right now”\n“We can do that...”\n“...Here?”\n“Here.”\n\nHormones are a major difference between your world and ours, because where you do have to suffer from some various hormone difficulties sometimes, we only suffer from arousal which still can be devastatingly powerful. Some interact with eachother (frequently), some interact with themselves (frequently), some hibernate, some carry out various hormone therapies to sedate themselves, and some just endure what becomes agony without doing anything about it if they are strong enough. The way that people go about solving this problem varies mostly by species with some needing to mate to survive but with some being strong enough to ignore the problem completely. Jack and Jacob were easily able to forget their problems despite how they enjoyed submitting to them, but Zack was in the opposite position and hardly able to withstand any arousal. It’s a difficult problem to overcome for Zack, and a private matter that requires disgression. After the acts, they fell asleep, but the next morning it was still in their minds.\n\n“Morning” They all said, in no particular order around 9%.\n“Do you think that what we did last night was okay?”\n“It worked for me!” Jacob laughed\n“I could go again if you two want to” Jack said, obviously sharing Jacob’s enthusiasm\n“Well... Only if it’s okay with Zack here...” And he looked as seductively as he could to the less eager looking lizard “Want to use that tail again?”\n“Go on then...”\n\nAhem... After another few percent, when they had finally gotten their fix, they began to talk at last about whether what they had been doing was appropriate and whether the human (should they be able to bring one into the world) would find it appropriate as well\n\n“Ah... I can’t see any reason for them not to like it, I mean you really can’t beat it”, began Jack\n“Even assuming that they are easily aroused and they can go without their species, I still doubt that they could honestly enguage fully. I mean, in general they hold their arousal to themselves and they can’t readily interact like this”. Zack didn’t sound very optimistic, he seemed sad that he believed this.\n“Don’t worry, if we can find a gay furry then he’ll love love it and we can probably all go with him”\n“Actually, that does raise another point. If he does like you at first then that’s enough to assume that he could like all three of us. I he truly is a furry then he should like to explore the diversity of our world”\n“No horses though”\n“Well, that depends on the size of that particular horse, and gender for that matter if they are bisexual”\n“There’s one thing that you probably aren’t thinking about though, they like to stay with just one partner”\n“Ah, yes. Monogomy... I’ve never fully grasped that concept but I’m sure that others in our world have and that he, or she, would be able to find someone that they can tie to”\n“Oh, it’s going to have to be a guy”\n“Why is that?”\n“I’m gay, and Jacob likes guys more as well. It’s just easier that way”\n“You’re gay? Why?”\n“What do you mean by why? Not everyone likes girls. I can be with girls, but I just don’t want to. Humans, they’ve got the right idea in sticking with what they like most, even if they are a little stubborn to accept that they’re not all straight”\n“It’s wierd”, Jacob butted in, “It’s like it’s not normal to be gay in either world”\n“No, but we pretty much don’t have sexuality. We just do what we want, You know?”\n“If he is gay though, what I mean is, he might not be comfortable with just... being gay...”\nZack offered comfort to the unpleasant idea, “If he isn’t, then being here could be exactly the situation he would need. If he feels uncomfortable with being gay, or bisexual, or just straight, then we can lend him a helping hand to ensure that he feels as at home as he possibly could be. After all, it-”\n“Eureka!”. The resulting shout blasted both Jacob and Zack half a dozen inches away, their eyelids even further still. “It’s not as big as last time, but I’m getting good at this apiphany thing”\n“What is it?” Jacob giddily prodded\n“A home! I mean, we don’t know if he’s going to want to stay here or go back, but we can’t garuntee he even can go back so we’ll have to make sure that he can stay here regardless”\n“And we can probably live with him in this home as well, as long as whatever he’s used to isn’t too wierd”\n“Human homes aren’t that wierd, they’ve just got less magic and more TV”\n“TV? I don’t know if we can do anything like that, there aren’t any people making the shows so it would be kind of pointless”\n“Eureka again!”\n“You can’t have two eureka moments in a percent”\n“We can teach him about mana and instead of having TV he would be so occupied with learning how to use his abilities that he would never get bored just learning how to do things he would never have dreamt of”\n“...Maybe you can...”\n“And then if he really does take to it then we could invite more and more humans to live with him, make a little village”\n“Maybe that’s a little too far though, they’ll all want in if we don’t limit their population” Said Zack\n“One per season?”\n“Done.”\n“And when they’ve got a tiny village, they can start to leave it and come join the rest of the world”\n“If we become immortals then we can govern them as we see fit, to ensure that they do not fall into chaos and anarchy”\n“We’re anarchy...”\n“Oh, point taken.”\n“I don’t think they need any kind of ‘governing’, the minute they’re not living like us, they’re living below us. Not to say they should be above us either”\n“So this means that they can be snuffed if they so choose, is that wise?”\n“Of course it’s not perfect, but they should have the same right to be snuffed as we have”\n“And if they go about butchering our kin?”\n“We’ll punish them as if they were our own, simple!”\n“Hmm... I have to say, your arguement does make an impressively moral point. If we’re not to govern them though, I still would recommend creating an immortal order of those dedicated to teaching them our ways. Immortality is cheap, and if we have a reason to use it then I’m sure many would jump at the chance. Don’t you agree?”\n“I think we should take a vote, a public vote, for what we’re going to do”\n“T-Take this matter to the public?! I don’t wish to offend them, but we’re in the minority as the well mentally equipped. You wish to degrade the average intelligence to include some of the least intelligent?!”\n“Yes. If the public is not ready for a civilisation of humans, this would be vital. And you need to lose some ego, you may be a scholar but the average person isn’t as bad as you say, I’m still just an average person myself”\n“You’re not an average person, and I won’t put you with the likes of them!”\n“Is Jacob?”\n“Y-... No, wait, what?”\n“Is Jacob an average person?”\n“I... I suppose he is”\n“And am I stupid?” Jacob said with a deviously challenging smile\n“I... Well I mean, you’re a jester of sorts, aren’t you?”\n“So you’re saying yes?”\n“No! No, no, no. You’re the splitting image of your brother, and you carry a mental resemblance as well!”\n“So you’re saying we’re both dumb?” Jack smiled, refraining from laughing\n“I... I...”\nThe two brothers couldn’t hold it any longer, they laughed aloud hugging eachother and shedding their tears of laughter on eachother’s shoulders. When they eventually stopped laughing, all three of them silently agreed that Zack had learnt his lesson.\n\n“You two can continue working on this from tomorrow and I’m guessing you could still make the device for a fortnight”\n“You’re leaving?”\n“No, I’m going to create a magnificent manor for the human to live in, and I’m going to ensure that everything is perfect. A week should be enough assuming I can use my crystals properly”\n“But we’ll probably need your help!”\n“I’ll still be here, I’ll need your help as well considering your tendancy for apiphanies. Anything you could say to help me, I’m sure, would be of great value.\n“Just make sure that there’s a ground floor for a kitchen, a dining room and a living room; a middle floor for the bedrooms and for a bathroom and anything else I’m missing, and then a third floor for all the training. You could add a basement and an attic as well”\n“Would he enjoy having a slave as well?”\n“Maybe, if the slave is there because they want to be and the human is alright with a slave”\n“I’ll make the preperations just in case, but I won’t employ a slave”\n“You’ve got a fortnight to make the mansion and found this order, make it count”\n\nChapter 6 - Housing\n\nAnother week had passed, and although the order hadn’t been made, or even named, the mansion was fully built and the portal appeared to be almost operational. All that’s left is a few minor issues, one being the order, which could honestly be the three of them and perhaps Hugo; One was that the mansion was entirely unfurbished due to lack of funding so no specialist designers or crafters can be employed; One issue was the lack of community support although news was quickly spreading and this seemed feasable; One issue was that the portal’s circuit needs to be perfect on a molecular level to ensure that thre are no gaps in the portal that would be responsible for loss of limb and the last issue is that so far it seems to be impossible to transfer anything from our side of the portal to yours. We can get some things into your world, but the minute we try to get something magical in there it sort of... splashes. If we made a ball out of mana, and we threw it at the portal, it would look as if it were a water baloon even if it were actually conjured diamond. Perhaps we would be able to walk from our world to yours, but I’m not sure what we would lose in transition. We might lose our ability to cast mana, or we might lose the ability to exist altogether. One way or another, no one had tried at that point in time and no one was planning to.\n\nZack was in the manor that he had created, and he had decided that it would be best to furnish it a little, even if he lacked any kind of artistic talent. He faced a wall on the second floor, in a room that was intended to be the human’s bedroom, and he put his arms in front of himself. His hands glowed a bright, lime green and this green crawled slowly around his body until he was glowing at all points of his body, differently coloured only for the non-green parts which meant almost exclusively his eyes which, if it interests you, were blue. Not totally blue, just as blue as yours would be because he still had the whites of his eyes and the blackness of his pupils. He closed those eyes, and began to clear his mind, only to sharply reawaken to find himself floating in mid-air with his arms and legs outstretched as if he were immitating an explosion. Also, he was wearing clothes, but now that he isn’t, it’s not worth mentioning them.\n\nHe began to glide towards the end wall, and started slowly approach it with an outstretched finger, and on touching he turned the wall into a mirror. He never changed his emotions, he hovered blank-faced and solemnly. He touched the wall gently and made a straight line, then he made another at the same length at 60 degrees, and he joined the two to make a triangle. When he lifted his finger from the wall, the shape he made tesselated into the wall, dividing the wall into triangular mirrors. He touched one of the triangles, and it faded black until it returned to painted wall. He moved his arm in an arc, and half of the triangles in the wall were black. He decided that he didn’t like this, and he put his palm to the wall turning all of the triangles to squares. He then adjusted the angle, and the squares became straight. He turned all of the mirror pieces as well as the parts of the wall that were bare to white tiles, placing additional wall where it was needed, and he thought that this would have its advantages but that it wouldn’t be ideal for a bedroom, so he touched the wall with his palm and this design became present on all walls of the bathroom where the bedroom adopted simple, white wallpaper. He made a line going downwards on the wallpaper, and another alongside and he drew two black lines. The lines turned to light grey and they stretched to the height of the room, then the wallpaper between the two lines became a lighter grey that was close to white.\n\nWhen he was happy with the colour of this strip of wallpaper, he floated backwards and the room faded into a pattern of white and grey stripes. He floated backwards more and there was a bed with bedsheets matching this wallpaper. He floated closer to the door, and the ceiling became white while the floor became a light grey carpet which was decidedly dull and unpleasant. When he reached the door, it became light blue. When he left the room and telekenetically closed the door, all grey became a subtle, light blue instead. The blue became pink for a moment, but changed its mind and became blue again.\n\nThe door became unpainted wood, and all the doors in the house copied this style. The doorframe became light brown wood, and all of the door frames in the house mirrored this. He continued generally changing the features of the house and making it more inhabitable using powerful, exhaustable magic. He was a scholar and he knew of power and how to use it, but he never showed restraint whenever he used it even despite the fatigue that resulted from it. The main source of his mana was his stomach where he used what he had eaten, but the obvious fault with this is that he would starve himself, without any regard for his own health. After this though, he would always generate mana from the air around him, and he would feed himself using this energy. He didn’t generally eat real food because he simply used his own mana, but as a result he was nearly composed of mana and he knew now that this would mean he could never experience the human world first hand despite him being the most suited to your world.\n\nHe had an idea of his own, and he saught to persue it, so he exited the house and he looked at it from afar. He stretched the house lengthways and then he came back to the empty room that was there. He closed his eyes and came to the same floating form as before. He re-arranged the house in his mind, and without moving a finger the house changed around him. The top and bottom floors were simply bigger with the staircase moved appropriately, but the middle floor where he hovered to was going to include three extra rooms. He made only his own bedroom as he knew he would like it (green) but the other two rooms would be a room for the bunny brothers and a room to be spare in case they didn’t want to sleep together. They were plain, and similar to the human’s room. He added a ceiling light to every room of the house connected to the web to be powered later, and then he created a basement that would lead a little into the ground. It was nothing but a dark room, so he added a few enchanted sconces to the walls and he made made a few restraining devices for a dungeon of his design. This could be used for sexual reasons, but at the moment Zack was thinking that it was possible that they would need to restrain the human at some point in time. He considered that they would need non-mana materials so that the human couldn’t manipulate them should he learn to use them, but it was almost impossible to find anything that wouldn’t be made of mana so he left leaving only a mana-made series of bondage equipments that would be only suitable for sexual purposes.\n\nHe left the basement and then he came back to it, his curiousity rising. He blinked and saw Jack in front of him in a frozen pose like a picture and after a second the hologram came to life.\n“Hi! Something up?”\n“No, nothing really, although I’ll need you to come over here a few percent later to help me decide anything else that the human might need. I’ve got a couple of questions though”\n“Okay, shoot!”\n“What do you two think about sleeping here?”\n“What, you mean permanently?”\n“I’ve given you both a bedroom as well as a spare one and one for myself”\n“What about the human?”\n“That’s besides the human”\nJacob emerged alongside Jack to speak for himself\n“We’re in the same room?”\n“You and Jack, yes”\n“That’s fine with me!”\n“Permanently?”\n“... Sure, I guess so. I mean, providing you’re not going to wake us up at 20% everyday”\n“No, I know how much you rabbits value your sleep. Well, you at least”\n“It’s not just that, it’s Love soon and it would be a good idea for you to not go in there at all”\nHis curiousity got the better of him once more, and he had to ask, “why?”\n“You know, various... Just don’t go in there, it’ll be a little messy”\n“How ‘messy’? This human might have to go in there some time”\n“I’ll leave it up to your imagination. The human would be able to come in if we just make sure that they’re alright with the bunny on bunny scene”\n“Okay...” He said, letting his imagination work, and remembering his next question all the more easily “And lastly, I’m building a bondage room.”\n“Ooh! I never knew you were like that!”\n“I’m... not. I could be, probably, but that’s not the point. The point is, it’s supposed to be for the human just in case we need it”\n“Why would we need it?”\n“Maybe the human goes mad, maybe they can’t control themselves, whatever the case do you think we would need it?”\n“No, we won’t need it. We’ll want it though. Tell me, are you still pre-aroused by the next season?”\n“Yes, we might need to wait a season before starting the portal.”\n“No, we can still go on even if you can’t. We can help you before then though”\n“What did you... what did you have in mind?”. His face flushed with embarassment and arousal\n“Hold yourself in the tightest bondage that you can, then use layer after layer after layer of mana based encryption to make sure you can’t even try to move your hands or feet”\n\n70% is When they finally finished their session\n\n“I think you’re getting worse” Jack said\n“Yeah...”\n“We should keep you down here all through the season, it’s not like you can do anything about it and you could pose a bit of a threat to the human”\n“I would need at the very least one full day for every three days, but I don’t think I would need to be trapped a quater of the year”\n“I was thinking that you should spend 6 days a week in bondage actually, that way on the last day you can still ensure that you aren’t distracted at all. If you’re going to be allowed to see the human, that’s how it’s going to be.”\n“What about the two of you?”\n“Want to switch every week?”\n“That could be fun!” His brother responded\n“Why is it called love and not lust, anyway?”\n“I guess cause if we had actualy partners, then that’s what it would be”\n“To make it easier on the human, let’s pretend to be husband and husband”\n“I don’t know about that”, Zack said, “I don’t know about pretending like that, I mean”\n“We don’t have marriages anymore though”, Jacob said, “and even if we did, I don’t think it would be worth it considering how long that would take\n“Regardless, you and your brother would make a good and convincing couple, I might even be able to learn the rites if I consult my peers”\n“The great scholars, you mean?”\n“‘Great’, indeed. I’m sure that they would find a quick but official way to marry” \n“It wouldn’t be legal though, we don’t actually have any laws”\n“Hmm... Without law, marriage doesn’t mean anything. It’s not binding in any way”\n“Alright, ‘in a commited relationship’ is enough”\n“What about me? Do I need to pretend to be in any kind of relationship to allow the human to be more secure?”\n“Not everyone is in a relationship, it might help to say that you have a job or something though”\n“A job?”\n“Where else would the income be coming from? That would be a radical change”\n“I believe we’re being paid for our work on the multiverse transporter still, couldn’t we just tell him that?”\n“Oh, I guess so...”\n“What about the mana manipulation though? We don’t know if he has the innate power to generate the mana, never mind the intelligence to discover its capability”\n“If he can’t use mana, that’s that. I think that if he can though, he could just use it naturally”\n“The top floor of the building is still intended to teach him how to utilise and improve his abilities, I recommend moving targets and some of the elements?”\n“I think it’s best left as an empty room so we can tutor him when ever he’s there”\n“Very well, I think I’m the most learned with ‘spellcraft’ so I’ll teach him as much as I can when I’m free”\n“Go easy on him though, I know you don’t reserve your own power. You starve yourself and you don’t even think about it”\n“Be that as it may I’m still a worthy teacher and he’ll become a truly powerful mage should he want to be”\n“You’re not listening to me, I’m saying that you shouldn’t teach him to be powerful, that you should only teach him to be capable”\n“But why? I see no point in him being powerless”\n“You don’t know for sure whether or not he could be power mad and if he does have a power lust then you could be responsible for teaching a human to rule the world”\n“Do you think that that is a possibility?”\n“If he recieves power over the portal and power over our world, he could easily enslave our world with his”\n“Okay, point taken. It’s probably best that I don’t overpower him with my knowledge”\n“You can teach him, but only when I’m present. It might only take a single session anyway”\n\nChapter 7 - Interruptions\n\nAnother week later and everything was essentially perfect, it turns out that all the portal needed was a crystal in the circuit to drain any excess electricity or mana. It’s not exactly clear why crystals were able to do this, but something about the crystals was necessary to ensure that the flow of electricity was perfect. Adding a second crystal caused the mana on the electricity to turn to light, and the crystal held the electricity as well although it’s not clear how much electricity it could hold or how to use this to any advantage. One way or another, the multiverse transporter was locked onto the human world and to a human’s house. A gay furry, but not much more about him was known. The portal was not active, and it wasn’t going to be for a little while, not till everything was certain. Everything was essentially certain, but then the order of human habitation (Jack, Jacob and Zack) were visited by another member of the great scholars with a surprising message.\n\nThe message was delivered by another lizard who this time was a depressing but beautiful, deep black. He never wore clothes and although he was 50 years old he was an immortal, which meant that he was ready and willing to live all of life without holding back or wasting his time on values like shyness. He was a bold lizard by all meaning of the word, and he was someone to be respected and feared. He came straight to the door of the mansion where the portal was now also housed and he knocked to get the attention of any one of them. Zack came to the door, clotheless as he was now accustomed to, although now it was a matter of embarassment and he felt like anyone from your world would if you were naked in front of a superior\n\n“Zack, I’ve heard about your project. As impressive as it is, I have an important warning to offer”\nTaken aback by this, he forgot his nudity and welcomed him in. “Oh, okay... Micheal, am I right?”\nThe two of them walked to the front room where the portal was stationed\n“Jack, Jacob, this is Micheal. He’s come to deliver a warning”\n“A warning? I didn’t know that any one else understood any of this” Jack said\n“Nonetheless, these events have taken place before”\nEveryone suddenly jerked in surprise to hear what this new lizard had to say, considering that they had researched thoroughly and never heard anything about the existence of any previous portal.\n“We’ve never heard anything about another portal. I mean, never!” Jacob said, “we’ve researched this and we’ve even had your files, but we’ve never heard even a whisper about there being another multiverse transporter”\n“Of course not, it was a secret and it still is to this day, a secret kept in my bloodline since the second era without the assistance of technology”\n“That means that it can be done!”\n“Of course, and although what you have done with only three members of your team is dramatically more impressive, this may not be the start to a new era as you wish it to be”\n“Thank you, but why not?”\n“I’m sorry, but I must ask you not to chance the reocurrence of millenia past”\n“What reoccurence?”\n“Back in the past, when the human race was not quite in existance, one of my ancestors took part in the creation of a similar device which also transported through time. A device which could travel through dimensions, through time and place, and be as stable as necessary was the product of not three, not a thousand, but uncounted millions of workers dedicated in their entirity to unravelling the mysteries that lead to the creation of the machine. Even when they had created the machine, they didn’t understand what they had created. They had set the time without any time co-ordinates and this resulted in reaching the humans in what is still their recent past.\n\nOnly one human was taken into our world, but this one human was enough to eradicate dozens of species that we have still been unable to recover. The world is not the same, and never will be again. We don’t even remember the name that the world once had, and so we can’t refer to this world any differently to theirs. You see, once he had learned of the power of mana, mana being the word that he gave to it thus staining our world with it already, he used ‘magic’ to live on this world but eventually to eradicate those he loved most. He was here for a year and a season, but when Love came, when foreign hormones lead him to love and loss, he lost control of his sanity and used his powers to seek vengence on our world. He fell in love and his love knew nothing of monogamy, so when she took part in a snuff party as a willing victim, he lost all control. He wrought havoc on avenging his loss, stopping not when he killed the ‘murderers’, not when he destroyed the village, or the continent, but when he died from overuse of the mana as it starved him for energy and he could not find alchemists to help him regain himself.\n\nIf you do not heed my warning, at least ensure that he does not fall in love with someone that can break his heart. Love is a season named by him, which originally was known as Lust, a reminder that we should be careful to at least respect the concept. If you do heed this warning, I can leave my state of immortality and I can entrust the secret to you, whether you want to keep it or let it die. If you do, however, heed my warning then I would request that you abandon your lives to ensure that the secret does die with you”\n\nA while after and the shock was obviously a lot for the three to take, but he considered himself a busy lizard and he disregarded patience.\n\n“Any questions?”\n“Was...” Jack sighed, and the lizard took this as a sign of his inability to ask a question\n“Anything else?”\n“Can we rely on you for help, if he shows signs of power lust and destructive personality I mean?” Zack said\n“For a decade, but after holding this secret for twice the average lifespan I would prefer to die at that point as opposed to keeping it and prolonguing my life. It’s... unnatural”\n“Remember how it’s unnatural for them to ‘commit suicide’ though, and how they live for up to over a hundred years without any immortality”\n“Yes, but they have an entirely different way of life, where you could live to be a thousand years old and still be unforfilled. In our world, fulfillment is in our nature and being fulfilled I feel fit to die happy. 60 Years for an ‘animal’ is simply not appropriate”\n\n“I’ll take my lead then, you can reach me by the web” His feet glowed a light blue for a moment and then he left the room and the house\n\n“Are we going to listen to them?” Said Jacob\n“No!” Laughed Jack\nZack nodded, slowly. “It’s a little too late now, we’ll just have to be careful”", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Chapter 1 - Energy

The first difference, the most important difference, between my world and yours is the energy that you would be quick to judge as magic. Magic doesn’t exist here or there, and it’s just a fools word, but it’s used in your universe for fiction and in my universe for tricks of which resemble what you talk about in that fiction from yours. It’s not magic, even when we say it is, the adaptation of mana to what we now refer to as ‘spells’ is what I’m mainly referring to.

It’s strange, we’ve been the ones able to observe your world since the beginning of time, but you’re the ones who are immitating our abilities in your fiction, which in turn is why we do refer to them as ‘spellcasting’. It’s strangest simple because you’ve never been able to observe this mana manipulation but despite that you have at times got the concept captured impressively accurately. Of course, there are certain... disagreements between our reality and your fiction. For one, you have serious problems with agreeing on one single basis for the existance of magic, the basis meaning how it exists, how it’s used and how it works. There are far too many magic systems to name that work in your fiction, all to the same general effect but none of them exactly depicting the truth.

The truth is that mana is a product of certain chemical reactions that simply manifests as an energy, an energy that is essentially made of matter but attatches itself to non-material concepts. That’s probably a difficult concept to comprehend, but that concept itself, for example, could be where mana comes from. I don’t suppose that makes it any easier either.

If you believe in a diety, that belief could be used to manifest magic, and the chemical reations from within a person’s own body could allow that mana to be created, and this works the same way for enchanters, healers, elemenentalists, and any other kind of user of what you, and many others in our world in effect, would call ‘magic’. A chemical reaction, or a concept, could be one of many, many things, expecially when you consider that there are more chemical reactions than you take for granted, it has a much broader definition and encompasses melting and boiling and the reverse as an example. The most important reactions though, are quite simply the ones that take place inside the body because the conciousness needs to do a lot of work to establish a living being. That doesn’t mean that a conciousness beeds to be a living being, in fact it’s a common practice to make a conciousness so that it can sustain its own mana and be used as a source for it. A conciousness, might I add, has its own broader definition in this universe. Far too complex for me to explain though, it’s a valued knowledge known only by the most learned of scholars.

Scholars, for another subject, aren’t solely dedicated to the subjects that exist in your world because in this world, the universe in fact, mana exists everywhere ready to be observed and understood, so it can be used and so that it can simply be known, such as for defence which is always easier when you know what you’re defending against. It’s possible to learn enough about mana to ensure that you can cast a living conciousness on a shield and allow that conciousness to react with the environment in some way generating mana and using that mana to prevent any reactions from occurring near that shield, thereby making it almost impossible to cast ‘spells’ on that shield, or disallowing interatction with any kind of matter.

The only known use of that same ‘spell’ is an enchantment placed upon a stone that is present at the core of the planet used to cap the power of mana so that it can no longer brink the universe out of existance as has happened in the past near the beginning of the universe, but that’s ancient history and of no importance to you. The only people who care about the beginning of the universe are the scholars that specialise in the area, but since I’m not teaching you how to use it and I’m just giving you an overview, I’ll leave the creation stories to the religious. All that you need to know is that mana can be, has been, and will be used as an incredible source of power.

Chapter 2 - The Web

The Web, also known as the world web, but not the world wide web, is the link of conciousness that spreads throughout the world allowing a certain spread of  certain information instantaneously in a very similar way to the world wide web, of your universe. Using this web, we can transfer a spell in any form or format that you might like, with holographic projections being a speciality because it’s so easy for you to tell one where to go and whether you want to recieve them or not.

-Jacob is calling, accept?-
“Yes, accept”

Jack, not to be confused with his twin brother Jacob, was a white rabbit that was responsible for working the piece of experimental machinery known as the ‘Multiverse Manipulator’. Watching the other universes was a natural thing, and since the beginning of time we’ve always been able to watch your universe, but it’s only if this machine works that we’ll be able to, for the first time, interact directly with the inhabitants of your world. Suffice to say, it’s an amazing device which is a result of thousands of years of work. Yes, thousands, and not a one of them living more than a hundred and ten years. It’s a legacy, not quite a bloodline but it is maintained mostly by the white rabbits of the world, and this is an example of racial grouping to conventions.

I hope you know what anthropopmorphism is, and you’re accustomed to the idea of walking, talking creatures that aren’t quite human. It would save a lot of time as opposed to defining the individual races of our planet and how they resemble those of yours. The two rabbits being almost exactly alike and almost entirely plain, the only difference between these two snowy rabbits was the tone of their fur where Jacob was slightly brown, just enough to see after a small while but little enough that at first sight they’re mistakable for eachother. You have to really see them together to appreciate the difference, then you’ll wonder how you never noticed it before. The inhabitants of our world don’t always wear clothes, their fur being like a coat anyway, but some of them do and when in broad daylight or a formal occasion then almost all of them do. At any rate, when the hologram played it was as if Jacob were standing straight in front of Jack, where Jacob were in reality not even moving an inch at his end.

“It’s the first test today, I think it might actually work”, Jacob began
“Don’t get all excited, it’s never worked before and I doubt it’s ever going to work”
“I’ve seen the work that they’ve been doing, I think it really would work”
“Don’t get me all worked up, you know me”
“Come on! It’s going to be awesome”
“Stop it!
“Alright, sorry. I don’t think you’re as clumsy as you think”
“I know exactly how clumsy I am because I know exactly how clumsy you are”
“Harsh... You’ve got a point though, try not to muck it up”
“That’s not going to help either, why did you call me anyway?”
“I... well, nothing really, I just wanted to see you again”
“It hasn’t been that long, has it?”
“You’ve been really stuck into your work, if it doesn’t pay off then I might have to give you a holiday for a little while”
“You really love your position, don’t you?”
“Seriously, cheer up already. It’s not the end of the world if this doesn’t work”
Jack sighed, looking suddenly less stressed and more depressed. “You’re right...”
“I know I’m right, cheer up and I’ll give you a kiss after”
His face lit up with this. “Alright”. And with this, the hologram faded out

Concepts like incest, monogamy and sexuality arise concerns in your world, but in our world things are just how they are, and no one pays much notice to them. In fact, there are a lot of concepts that our world is far more linient towards, and it’s a struggle to find something that would enrage the inhabitants in the same way that it would in yours. There’s simply no legality, morality or any other similar matter to bikker tirelessly about. Just because people don’t have a strict set of morals or an exact law though, doesn’t mean that people go around killing eachother. Well, they do, sometimes...

-Your boss wants to talk to you, accept?-
“Accept...”

His boss was a big, beefy minotaur. Not a nice guy really, but that’s not to say he wasn’t without mercy when it was a logical conclusion to come to. He was to be feared, and he liked it that way, regardless of his count of friends and enemies.

“We were gonna have a snuff pa-”
“No. I’ve told you this before.”
“I’ll give you a raise, you don’t need to offer yourself up as bait”
“I’m not just going to kill some prey for a raise, and I don’t know how you can stand to butcher them like you do”
“Fine, you alright with eating them tomorrow?”
“Jeez, you do that?”
“I’ll take that as a no, mr. vegitarian”
“I’m not a vegitarian, I’m just not a cold-blooded killer like you”
The hologram cuts out with the sight of his boss’s insulted expression
-Your pay this week has been cut from 20 crystals to 16 crystals-, the web echoed to him
“Damn him...”

Jack put his paws together and rubbed them, and when he pulled them apart slowly there was a blue beam of light that came between those two paws. A calm, light, transparent beam that didn’t seem to interact with the real world. After a second, the light went green and turned into what can only be explained as a water vapour. There are many ways to create a hologram, there are many ways to ‘cast’ any ‘spell’, but they come down to the person that uses those abilities, they are custom and they don’t need to adhere to any kind of form. As long as you can conjure the mana, you can use it in any way that follows the way that it was conjured and the non-material ties to it, which in this case was mostly minor emotions such as sadness. Minor emotions, minor magic.

Jacob once again stood in front of Jack, smiling and practically laughing.
“I knew you’d call back!”
“Bad news I’m afraid”
“Oh... What’s up?”
“He just cut 4 crystals from me”
“What? 4 crystals!? What did you do?”
“He wanted me to come to the snuff party that he’s got going on, and he offered me some of their meat”
“What a douchebag... That’s right, right?
“Yeah, don’t know what it means”
“Well, why did you have to say right now?”
“Mostly I just wanted to see you...”
“Aww...”
“But also, I can’t make the party”
“What? How much are you missing?”
“Well, I need 1 for the web, 2 for food for the week, 1 for the mana charges...”
“2 for food? I can’t believe that you’re living on 2 crystals a week, I’m living on 10!”
“Don’t brag to me about it, that’s hardly going to help”
“Look, I’ll give you 50 crystals, and that should last you a little while, just use it for food”
“How do you have 50 crystals spare?”
“I work hard, there’s not much more to it than that”
“Alright, I really appreciate this. When can I get them?”
“You’ve got them”
“You’ve got them already?”
“I told you, I had 50 crystals, not that I was going to have them”
“If this thing doesn’t work today, I’m quitting, just like that.”
“Want a kiss?”
“I thought you were busy at the moment?”
“Oh yeah, holograms are confusing...” He looked in a bit of a daze for a moment. “Oh, right”, and with that, the hologram ended again.

Generally, the magic of our world is easy to use, and it’s easy to incorporate into everyday life, but some are far better at using magic than others, and this was another difference between the two rabbits. Jack’s job was to create mechanical structures that generate mana and to enchant certain parts of the machinery so that it has a conciousness that can manipulate the mana in such a way that... Well, it’s complicated. He’s working on the multiverse transporter though, while Jacob works in human resources, not actually doing much but still earning a fair ammount of money.

Chapter 3 - A discovery

No one to love except his brother, who to be honest doesn’t count because it’s not a romance sort of thing; No real income, this week just being a measly 16 crystals, 4c under minimum wage; A crap job that means that he has to do the same thing again and again, for hours on end; No company around him, no one at all. He could give a request to someone, or he could make up a false friend (like an imaginary friend except real), but in the end the only person in his world was his brother and it’s all because of this job. Today had to be a good day, otherwise the job just isn’t worth it.

He thought to himself about a computer from their world and how he would love to use one, not a cheap clone made in our world, but an original from yours. He made a keyboard appear with amazing concentration like only experienced mages can, and it grew to twice the average size so that he could compensate for his lack of any practice with one. He didn’t intend to use it, in fact even if he wanted to it was nothing but false plastic and it’s not connected to anything because there’s nothing to connect it to. It was simply recreational, like showing himself the reason why he should connet to their world. That’s when it occured to him: what if we could program the computers using some of the knowledge of computers?

I mean, why not? If we’ve got everything that we could possibly need to make the computers themselves, then all we would need would be one single computer to create the system that could ensure that the mana is created and goes where it needs to as fast as lightning, and electricity is a really easy way to generate mana because all it needs to do is have a chance of generating mana. No one knew exactly where mana came from when using electricity, but eventually mana generated regardless when the electricity had a conductor and nowhere to really go. Electricity can conduct mana if it’s embedded onto it, and you can use something enchanted to enchant the electricity. Part enchantment, part machine...

Part enchantment, part machine!
“Part enchantment, part machine!”

He heard himself shouting, but not before everyone else would have. It’s just lucky there was no one else to hear him, otherwise that would have been embarassing. But forget embarassment, this was an amazing though, and it’s amazing how this hasn’t already been done before, never in history. There are some mock computers made to represent real computers from your world, and ones made of magic that would pretend to work, and there may even be a working emulation of one somewhere in the world, but never, ever, in the history of the planet, had anyone thought of creating a hybrid computer-enchantment that would be capable of using mana mechanically.

He held his hands together, excitedly, and he called his boss

“Boss, I’ve had a eureka moment here!”
“What?”
“I’ve had an apiphany!”
“Just tell me already”
Unable to contain his excitement, he shouted at his boss: “Part enchantment, part machine!”
“...”. He was stunned.
“Part enchantment, part machine!”
“What?”
“Part en-”
“I know what you said, but... what?”
“We could make a machine that uses electricity and mana at the same time”
“Mana isn’t electricity, you dumbass”. He was clearly about to end the message, but Jack interrupted him quickly before he could.
“No, but we could enchant the electricity with mana”
“That... Wait, do you actually think that would work?”
“Yes, we could make it so that we have some thing enchanted to enchant the electrons as they pass through, so we could have an electricity generator one side and pass it through this enchanter, then when it comes through enchanted then we could use the electricity to carry the mana and use it on a frame where the electricity would make an amazing current, and the mana that comes through it would form a loop...”
“How...”
“...Then once it makes a loop we could use a computer to interact with that voltage making a binary sequence within...”
“Shut up a minute”
Just like that, he stopped himsel from blurting out his excitement, which was very difficult to do.
“So you think you could actually do this? Actually make a machine that uses enchantments like that?”
“Well, not on my own, but...”
“You’re promoted to project manager, and I’ll employ anyone that you’d need to make this possible. You find them, you can put them to work, and you can work with them to make this thing. Whatever you need, I’ll give it to you”
“Really? Do I get a raise as well?”
“80c If you come with me to the snuff party as my guest, 70 if you don’t”
“80! I... Can I think about that?”
“Call me back when you think about it, I’ll give you a 20 crystal bonus if you can get Jacob along as well and I’ll make sure you’re safe”
“Do we have to eat?”
“Nope, but at least one of you has to kill someone”
“Okay”
“Okay you’ll think about it or okay you’ll come?”
“I’ll think about-” And the message went.

What he had to do was obvious.

Jacob appeared up before him, for a third time in an hour, not that he was, although it was a close call.
“Jacob!”
“What?”
“You’ll never guess!”
“You got a raise?”
“There’s more!
“You figured it out?”
“Part enchantment, part machine”
“Part enchantment, part machine?”
“Part enchantment, part machine!”
“Part machine?”
“Part enchantment!”
“Oh my god...”
“70c, 80 if I go to the snuff thing, a 20 bonus if I take you as well”
“Oh my god...”
“Do you want to go?”
“Oh my god...”
“I know! It’s such amazing news, isn’t it? You don’t have to go, but I don’t need the crystals anymore”
“I was hoping you would go with me, but oh my god...”
“I think I’ve got more than you now”
“I’m only on 30, you’re going to be on 70?”
“You’re rich and you’re on 30?”
“Do you have any idea what this means?”

Almost as if he knew exactly what to say, A stranger came into view, another hologram. This guy was a tall, well dressed lizard with an ill-looking green set of scales, looking stiff and impressive in his black suit which covered the majority of his body. Jack felt as if he should have been kneeling.

“This is an alarmingly impressive idea, young man”
“I... My name’s Jack, this is Jacob and he’s from human resources. I take it my boss has told you about my apiphany?”
“Yes, and he’s given you anyone that you could need. You might not realise it, but you’ve actually got the right to be above your boss. You’re earning far more than he is right now, and if I had the right to change things then I would ensure you’re owning the company and earning a solid 100c per week”
“One... I think I might pass out”
“I’m going to go now, you’ll want some privacy.” Jacob said, as he left”
“Yes, this must be difficult news to take, quadroupling your pay like this” The lizard said with a smirk.
“Yeah, you could say that... Oh, and it might be 70c, It’s 80c if I go to a snuff party with your boss”
“That’s a hard deal, and I really don’t think that you deserve any less than 100c. I’ll see what I can do about that. In the meantime, I am yours and I am already hired unless you find a problem with this arrangement. I’m worth 40c if that means anything to you, and I’ve come from a job worth 60c”
“Why would you give up a job worth 60c for one worth 40?”
“I don’t know if you realise the chain of events that you’ve started, but I assure you that losing a third of my salary is well worth being a part of this. I’m the world’s lead researcher into electricity and I know that what you propose is certainly possible, but it will be difficult and will need a lot of research and maybe even an additional employee as a researcher. Besides that, I think we’d also need an experienced enchanter so that we could ensure that every single particle that goes through the enchanter is enchanted properly. Lastly, a conjurer and an alterer to ensure we have the correct parts for the machine and that we have something appropriate to enchant as an enchanter. Maybe an engineer or a specialised scientist would be appropriate as well.”
“Are you sure that we need that many people? All I need is a little help to speed things along considering the concentration that we would need”
“Two people is most definitely not enough, I still don’t think you undestand the seriousness of your situation. The instant you called your boss with those four words, you changed this universe permanently”
“I think you’re over exaddurating a bit”
“Actually, I’m under exaddurating the situation to make you more comfortable, this would affect the entire multiverse if it works, and I intend to see that happen”
“That... the multiverse?”
“You’ve single-handedly become the link from one to another and this means that you could change the way that every single one of them works when the machine is operational.”
“But no one has ever done this before, and I’m hardly anything special”
“Granted, as far as I know you’re not superior in any major way, but I doubt that a person that can change the multiverse would need to be special in any way. As long as you have the life in your veins, you’re able to contribute anything to the world, to the multiverse”
“What I mean is, surely someone has caught onto this before, and if they hadn’t then how come I’ve suddenly had an apiphany and I’m the one able to do this?”
“It doesn’t matter, the odds are against us but we can get any number of employees to assist us, and we have all the time in the world”
“We really don’t need much though, we can start tomorrow and it would take only a week, all we need is an enchanter and a conjurer”
“My, my... That’s surprisingly ambitions for someone who can so easily say that they’re ‘nothing special’”
“I don’t think that’s ambitious, although we would need to make a circuit and that would take a week as well, and we’d need the help of someone that can make some simple circuits”
“You really think that two weeks is a possibility?”
“I think that two weeks is enough for a working prototype, and that if we want a fully finished, well polished model then we would need a month”
“I hope that you’re smarter than you are optimistic, because you’d need to be to ensure that this works”
“Do you think I could get my brother’s help? He’s not especiall gifted in anything relevant, but he can help me with casting because I can fixate my emotions on him and that would help me to concentrate and make the magic more powerful”
“Your vocabulary is a little inaccurate, you sound like you’re in one of their fictions.”
“Sorry”
“Don’t be, we don’t truly have a word for the effects of mana so it’s appropriate anyway. As for your brother, if you believe that he could truly help you then I would consider it important and I’ll ask your boss this when I am discussing your wages”

Not left with anything to say, he stared into space for a while, only finally refocussing to ask the lizard his name. “I never caught-”
“Zack. Zack W. I have the initial W to signify not my bloodline, but my position as one of the great scholars of our time and I’m the first Zack of the great scholars. There are only around 200 of us, but that is enough to mean that we are an elite and private society dedicated to the persuit, exploration and expression of knowledge. Your boss was right to notify us, we’re already in the process of updating our books as history is being written.”
“I’m going to need to take a lie down...”
“I’ll tell your boss that that’s the case, you certainly deserve it. Might I also ask if you’re going to this snuff party? I would be there too, considering that it would be a chance to interact better with one another”
“If I do go, will you protect me and my brother?”
“Protect you? I should imagine that this party would be held in your favour! I’ll make that the case.”

Chapter 4 - Partying

It’s a very strange subject to translate into your world, and it needs some explanation so you know what it means by any measure. Death, in our world, is taken much more lightly because some inhabitants believe, with all their heart, that it is what they want and what they need. In result, it’s what they do, and nearly none of them regret it. It serves the population well considering the mating that is much more frequent and, in some circumstances, much more successful in terms of repopulation. In result, every day there are thousands of people killed each day simply for entertainment, or sometimes much more, for their entire life’s fulfillment.

The snuff party that Jack, Jacob, Zack, Jack’s boss and an unknown, near adult cat-boy attended was one for non-sexual reasons, as per only half of all snuff, and was consensual like almost every snuff party but not exactly all of them. If there were a law, non-consensual snuff parties would be against it, but as things are there are neither those for or against them and it’s simply two sides of a coin, not that we have coins of course.

“Who’s the cat?” Jack whispered to Jacob when they went into the empty-looking resteraunt consisting of one room with an 8 person table.
“He’s a friend of mine, he’s always wanted to get snuffed and he’s our snuffie. His parents were hoping that he’d change his mind, but he never did and he’s almost obsessed with it”
“I can hear you, you know” The cat said, laughing a little
“Sorry, but you’re really a snuffie then?” Said Jack
“Quick, slow, I don’t care. I’m willing to do absolutely anything to get snuffed and I don’t have a preference for how. It’s not a sexual thing for me by the way”
“I don’t think anyone is here for any of that to be honest”
“I should hope not, I’m straight. I know most people are fine with both but I think I watch the humans too much, I like the idea of being straight and I don’t really like the idea of doing something with a guy anymore”
“I’m a bit like that, I’m gay and I only like guys. Not herms or anything, just guys”
“I’d talk to you about why you like them, but I think we’re about to start and I’m not going to miss this for anything”

As they got into the resteraunt, the cat boy, who didn’t seem to want to be identified at all, lied on the table shamelessly but a little embarassed now by his lack of clothing. He was a white cat with brown spots in certain places, one on his left eye, two on his right arm, three on his torso, two on his left leg and one on his right ankle. His fur though, his fur was luscious and it was a shame to spill any blood on himself. Jack couldn’t help but stroke his fur around, and It’s not that the cat didn’t like it, it’s just that he didn’t react much.

“What are we going to do then?” He asked
“I think it’s your choice, we’ve got a lot in the room back there, and even more in the basement” Said Zack
“I really don’t care about what it is, I kind of hope it hurts a lot though”
“What about a little bit of torture? Maybe it would help you to feel like it’s inevitable”
“I said I wanted to get snuffed, not tortured”
“Not even a little bit?” Said the obviously eager boss
“No, no... Maybe you be rough on me, as much as you like, but no torture or anything”

<Snuff>

So they together tied him up and glued his nostrils and his mouth up so he couldn’t breath, and gagged him just to be sure. After that, they simply chopped his body parts up, ignoring his attempts at screams. Although it was hard for them to tell, he absolutely loved every second of it. Especially where they were ignoring him, and they could tell that he loved it so they ignored him further.

Jack whispered to Zack, “are you sure that he’s enjoying this?”
“Of course, he’s absolutely loving it. Look...”
Zack cut off a little bit of the cat’s little finger as slowly and as painfully as he could, smiling as the cat made sounds of agony and bliss, he couldn’t resist stabbing him in the hand a few times before cutting it off and eating it. There was no bondage in play, and there were no drugs or magic. This was raw, unaltered pain and it was incredible that the cat wasn’t lifting a finger to move, he wasn’t even reacting at all when he was being stabbed, not even a brief flinch, apart from his head which he allowed to toss and turn. Jack knew it wasn’t what he wanted, but he couldn’t help but stroke the cat reassuringly. The cat shook his head disapprovingly as if to say that he hated this, and so Jacob tried to compensate for this by cutting off that arm slowly so that he could eat it. The cat eventually ran out of air, but by the time he did so he might have died of blood loss first. Either way, he didn’t regret it for a second, and everyone knew this well.

</Snuff>

“I almost feel jeleous...” Said Jack, with a sigh, stroking the still lucious fur where it was not stained with blood
“I know how you feel” Said his brother, starting to imitate him.
“I think they need me, but, you know...”
“No, you know I’m not a snuffie, he definitely enjoyed it though”
“I wonder what humans would think of this stuff”
“If we manage to get one of them into our world, you definitely shouldn’t show him this” Zack said
“Why not?”
“Because he’ll get all scared, and wouldn’t you be if you were one of them?”
“I don’t know, I don’t watch them all that much, I mostly watch their computers and anything else electrical”
“I’m a scholar, like I said, and I’ve learned about all humanity, not just what I specialise in. There are certain humans that would want to take part in snuff parties but they are few and even those who are, only the less sane would have the courage to do so”
The boss took an interest in this of course, “You mean we could taste one of the fleshies?”
“Maybe”, replied Zack, “But you’d have to be very lucky to find someone that likes it”
“I’d settle for seeing one of them kill a cub, that would be different”
Jack found a thought in his head, and decided to voice it. “You know, boss, I’ve never heard your name before”
“Hugo, and I’m glad someone finally asked. I thought it was just the guys at work but even this lizard never asked”. He said this with a warm smile, a surprise to everyone, everyone alive at least.
“Do you think we should tell the human though, bo- Hugo?”
“If we ever do get a human, yeah. Zack’s got a point, but he’ll find out eventually”
Zack flinched at this, surprised and a little aggressive. “I know we’re bonding and everything, but I thought you would have more sense than that!”
“Oh? So you’d keep it a secret forever?”
“Of course not, that’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is we can find a furry, someone that likes snuff for one reason or another, and we can see how well he accepts it. If he takes it very well, we can use him as a basis and gradually try less and less snuff loving humans until we find the average person”
“You think you’re so smart, don’t you? Well, It’s going to take forever to do that, why should we do it the slow way?”
“Because otherwise, if they think we’re a threat, and we can get into their world, they can invade us and start a war!”
“What makes you think that everyone will suddenly believe that guy?”
“Because... Because maybe if they are allowed into our world, they can steal a hostage for proof”
“I’m going to have to go with Hugo in saying that they wouldn’t come over and start a war...”, Hugo gave a smug laugh while Zack looked defeated, “But at the same time we don’t want this guy going insane so it would be best to use Zack’s method”. At this, their expressions changed places, then Hugo’s look of defeat took an agressive shift and he spoke his mind.
“Alright, if you want things the slow way, that’s your own fault. How long would they stay here before you bring the next one in?”
Jack replied with confidence, which was a surprise for himself and came off as smugness for Hugo. “It depends how long it takes them to adapt, I mean if they don’t adapt and they’ve been here for a year then we might have to close down the portal. On the other hand, if they adapt in a day, then the next we can bring in a friend or someone from their family”
“What if they don’t like it here and they want to go home?” interrogated Hugo
“We’re not a prison, they can go home if they want to. Otherwise, They would have a reason to hate us already and things could end up badly”

A little time passed as they finished their meal, eventually leaving few remains to the cat boy who still would not regret his death. The group remained talking their various subjects and they would occasionally become more agressive, smarter, or funnier but they would generally keep to the same drone. It became tiresome for Jacob who always felt like he was watching into the conversation and as far as he was concerned it was better that this meeting finish earlier than later, although it was already quite late in the day and the sun was beginning to set. Out of boredom more than anything else, Jacob put his hand on Jack’s leg, moving his hand closer and closer to his rear end, eventually resting there. Jack didn’t react much, but both of them knew that they were both enjoying the flirting. After a minute, Jack did react though, he wispered quietly to Jacob’s ear when Hugo and Zack were arguing once more. “I hope we can find someone gay as well...”
“Hmm... are you thinking what I think you’re thinking?”
“Is your hand where I think it is?”
“I don’t know if he would be alright with us though...”
“Because we’re furries?”
“Because we’re related”
“Oh, they don’t do that?”
“Not often, no...”
“Apparently they like to stay with one partner too”
“Most of them do, not all of them”
“I hope they’re not really old, they live really long on earth”

I should mention that in their world, including a few of those who want to live longer which can mean hundreds of years, the average person dies at age 30. This is a very small average age, almost entirely because of the snuff that is so common. Where you have your pigs and chickens, we simply eat each other and anything we can grow, which is much different and far harder to use as ingredients because they do not mix well. Those who aren’t snuffed may wish to live longer though, and as I’ve said they can live for hundreds of years. Although, they may still get snuffed after that, and depending on how much mana has been used on anti-aging ability they might still look youthful and attractive for it.

This brings about another difference, a vital difference. Life itself is different because where in your world you would learn for a decade or two and then put that knowledge to use on often unpleasant career paths, we simply learn until age 8 and then persue any career that we wish, without any kind of qualifications ever required and only skill being a relevant factor. In your world, you would go for a job and their main criteria would be your qualifications, but in our world although it’s possible to get a job purely on good character your employer would mostly be interested in what you can prove to them during an interview, so it may be as simple and unorthadox as an arm-wrestle. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s virtually faultless considering that any jobs done are generally done well.

Jack and Jacob tore themselves away from eachother, and both of them clearly thought the same thing, so Jacob, having not said much that meeting, spoke the thoughts. “What about a Job?”
He interrupted Hugo’s situation accidentally, as he was making strange gestures with his hands. “And then we shove the- what?”
“A Job, he’s going to need one if he’s not got any crystals of his own”
“Let’s just tell him to go back and get his own, pick someone rich”. Zack facepalmed, disappointed at his lack of knowledge of the humans. “What?”
“Hugo, they don’t have crystals.” Zack started. “They’ve got little metal coins and paper ‘notes’ for currency, and they’ve got emeralds and diamonds and other stones, but no actual crystals. The closest they’ve got is on the background of a game I once saw, I might have seen it somewhere else as well.”
“Wait, but if they’ve got no crystals, what’s to stop them making their own money? I know they haven’t got mana, but they can still do some stuff”
“They do make their own money, they just only have a few people making them. Sometimes they have people making fake money, but I don’t think they go unnoticed”
“But paper? I thought that stuff was really weak”
“It is, it’s amazing that it doesn’t just break all the time. They carry a lot of it as well, as well as the coins. If they want to buy some food, they’ll take out handfulls of coins”
“So instead of handing over a crystal, or using the web...”
“Oh, sometimes they’ll use the web, they have a different web though, it’s hard to explain”
“It doesn’t use mana?”
“It uses computers and different frequencies in the air, it’s very hard to explain”
“These computers sound pretty amazing...”
“Oh, they are, it’s astounding what you can achieve using different kinds of metal and some electricity, that’s why we need them for our portal”
“I nearly forgot about that, we’ll have to start that tomorrow. I’d say 30 till 70?”

Time works in percent in our world, it’s simply because that it can be read easily from a spell. To make things slightly easier, 1% of a day is 14 minutes and 40 seconds. We also use a different date format, where we have history seperated into different eras that then divide into years, then seasons, then weeks, then days. To give a date and time, you would specify a year, a season, a week, a day and then a percentage. A specific example, an example of this very moment, would be 8E 203 B9/3. Birth is the first season, followed by Love, Freedom and Death, which means that this is referring to a day in Birth, one that is close to Love, the 66th in fact, which would be in your spring but is still reasonably cold in our world. The four seasons of our world are almost the same as the ones from your world in fact: Birth would be Winter where many are born, Love would be Spring where hormones raise to abnormal levels, Freedom is Summer where people work least and live most and Death is autumn which is a lonesome, boring time for many. The weather and the way that everyone lives are both well confined to these seasons, unlike in your world where they are general guidelines that the weather follows. Also, for clarification, there are 12 weeks in each of the four seasons and there are no months, although if there were then they would be 28 day months, coninciding with the lunar phases and allowing the end of a ‘month’ to be a full moon. Also, each year is only 336 days instead of 365.

“40% of the day? I’d say 50, half the day for all it’s worth. 25 till 75 and we’ve still got some time to sleep” Zack said
“I’m sorry guys, but can’t we work on 70?” Jack said
Hugo choked on a leg that he didn’t realise he was eating, “70? 70% you mean?”
“Well, yes. When I work I work hard and it’s what I was expecting from all of us. Boss, are you involved in this?”
“I haven’t got any skill for you to take advantage of, but you can’t be serious about working 70% of the day”
“20 till 90, and it’ll be a fortnight’s work”
“I have to say, I’m impresed by your attitude and drive”, Zack began, “But even as one of the great scholars I’m not familiar with anyone spending 70% of their own time on anything”
“Two weeks of work and we can have access to Earth, or we could take two months and still have only a rough prototype. Who’s with me?”
“I am!” Jacob squealed
“Go ahead...” Hugo grunted
“It’ll be difficult, but I’m sure that if we-” Zack began
“So we’re in agreement, just don’t screw it up”. And with that, Hugo left and everyone else followed suit. everyone happily went to their respective homes, apart from Zack whos expression was more sour although he went home regardless.

Chapter 5 - Electricity

A week later and everyone has been working tirelessly. Jacob’s work was less difficult because he only had to give encouragement in any way that he could, like some sort of jester if you still remember what those are, but It’s difficult to maintain your own morale as well as the morale of the rest of the group. Jack was entertained easily by his brother because they were so much alike but Zack, on the other hand, was stiff and slow to laugh even with the most enguaging of entertainment and he didn’t seem to show how much he really enjoyed the entertainment which made it much more difficult to know what to say or do. Without his clothes he seemed more at peace, but the fact that he was unclothed was also an embarassment. The morale was somewhat drained, and everyone was exhausted but this week marked a milestone and it showed the electronics completed both in design and in creation. Although the contraption was made entirely from mana you wouldn’t know it, the entirety of the device was made solidly and soundly, almost perfect in design and in working and nearly to a molecular level. It was an amazing sight, but I can only explain it as a metal oval attatched to a box which doesn’t emulate the same feelings that it rightly deserves.

Once the device was made the morale came flooding back, although their exhaustion remained as it was and they all seemed ready to sleep, comfortably. Since only a few days of work, they had begun to sleep there and their area of work was a second home to them. In fact, the working hours for Zack had become as much as 85% of the day, while Jacob liked to sleep for up to 40% of it instead and Jack was in between although on a wednesday he didn’t sleep, which is when he obsessed about his newly found ways to accelerate the work. The day that they celebrated this milestone was a Friday, and they celebrated this at 63% simply by lying together in all comfort (Not that Zack ever seemed to relax himself). They’d make the occasional joke, often about the similarity of their names or a mistake encountered during the work.

“I don’t think I can move another muscle...” kaos emn
“I don’t think you’ll need to for a little while, Jack. If you do though, my tail still has plenty of strength in it”
“I’ll bet it has, you haven’t used it at all” Jacob butted in. “Do you ever use that tail of yours? It’s certainly long enough.”
It was a long tail, the same olive green that spread all over his body, and it was a strong, powerful limb that was capable of nearly as much as his claws were. He found himself subconciously sliding his tail up his leg, and realising this he came to an alarmed state. “Right, I think it’s best that I sleep in my own bed this night.
“I’ll take it you’re not straight”, Jack mocked
“No, no I’m not. I don’t know how the two of you can surpress your hormones so well with it nearly being the season of Love.”
“Well, not talking and thinking about it is the main thing. Now that you’ve mentioned it I’ll bet we have like 5% till we can’t control ourselves”, Jacob said
“You seem to know what you’re talking about, do the pair of you research this or something?”
“You could say that... 3%”
“I’d give myself 1%. Unless you two want a threesome I’m going home right now”
“We can do that...”
“...Here?”
“Here.”

Hormones are a major difference between your world and ours, because where you do have to suffer from some various hormone difficulties sometimes, we only suffer from arousal which still can be devastatingly powerful. Some interact with eachother (frequently), some interact with themselves (frequently), some hibernate, some carry out various hormone therapies to sedate themselves, and some just endure what becomes agony without doing anything about it if they are strong enough. The way that people go about solving this problem varies mostly by species with some needing to mate to survive but with some being strong enough to ignore the problem completely. Jack and Jacob were easily able to forget their problems despite how they enjoyed submitting to them, but Zack was in the opposite position and hardly able to withstand any arousal. It’s a difficult problem to overcome for Zack, and a private matter that requires disgression. After the acts, they fell asleep, but the next morning it was still in their minds.

“Morning” They all said, in no particular order around 9%.
“Do you think that what we did last night was okay?”
“It worked for me!” Jacob laughed
“I could go again if you two want to” Jack said, obviously sharing Jacob’s enthusiasm
“Well... Only if it’s okay with Zack here...” And he looked as seductively as he could to the less eager looking lizard “Want to use that tail again?”
“Go on then...”

Ahem... After another few percent, when they had finally gotten their fix, they began to talk at last about whether what they had been doing was appropriate and whether the human (should they be able to bring one into the world) would find it appropriate as well

“Ah... I can’t see any reason for them not to like it, I mean you really can’t beat it”, began Jack
“Even assuming that they are easily aroused and they can go without their species, I still doubt that they could honestly enguage fully. I mean, in general they hold their arousal to themselves and they can’t readily interact like this”. Zack didn’t sound very optimistic, he seemed sad that he believed this.
“Don’t worry, if we can find a gay furry then he’ll love love it and we can probably all go with him”
“Actually, that does raise another point. If he does like you at first then that’s enough to assume that he could like all three of us. I he truly is a furry then he should like to explore the diversity of our world”
“No horses though”
“Well, that depends on the size of that particular horse, and gender for that matter if they are bisexual”
“There’s one thing that you probably aren’t thinking about though, they like to stay with just one partner”
“Ah, yes. Monogomy... I’ve never fully grasped that concept but I’m sure that others in our world have and that he, or she, would be able to find someone that they can tie to”
“Oh, it’s going to have to be a guy”
“Why is that?”
“I’m gay, and Jacob likes guys more as well. It’s just easier that way”
“You’re gay? Why?”
“What do you mean by why? Not everyone likes girls. I can be with girls, but I just don’t want to. Humans, they’ve got the right idea in sticking with what they like most, even if they are a little stubborn to accept that they’re not all straight”
“It’s wierd”, Jacob butted in, “It’s like it’s not normal to be gay in either world”
“No, but we pretty much don’t have sexuality. We just do what we want, You know?”
“If he is gay though, what I mean is, he might not be comfortable with just... being gay...”
Zack offered comfort to the unpleasant idea, “If he isn’t, then being here could be exactly the situation he would need. If he feels uncomfortable with being gay, or bisexual, or just straight, then we can lend him a helping hand to ensure that he feels as at home as he possibly could be. After all, it-”
“Eureka!”. The resulting shout blasted both Jacob and Zack half a dozen inches away, their eyelids even further still. “It’s not as big as last time, but I’m getting good at this apiphany thing”
“What is it?” Jacob giddily prodded
“A home! I mean, we don’t know if he’s going to want to stay here or go back, but we can’t garuntee he even can go back so we’ll have to make sure that he can stay here regardless”
“And we can probably live with him in this home as well, as long as whatever he’s used to isn’t too wierd”
“Human homes aren’t that wierd, they’ve just got less magic and more TV”
“TV? I don’t know if we can do anything like that, there aren’t any people making the shows so it would be kind of pointless”
“Eureka again!”
“You can’t have two eureka moments in a percent”
“We can teach him about mana and instead of having TV he would be so occupied with learning how to use his abilities that he would never get bored just learning how to do things he would never have dreamt of”
“...Maybe you can...”
“And then if he really does take to it then we could invite more and more humans to live with him, make a little village”
“Maybe that’s a little too far though, they’ll all want in if we don’t limit their population” Said Zack
“One per season?”
“Done.”
“And when they’ve got a tiny village, they can start to leave it and come join the rest of the world”
“If we become immortals then we can govern them as we see fit, to ensure that they do not fall into chaos and anarchy”
“We’re anarchy...”
“Oh, point taken.”
“I don’t think they need any kind of ‘governing’, the minute they’re not living like us, they’re living below us. Not to say they should be above us either”
“So this means that they can be snuffed if they so choose, is that wise?”
“Of course it’s not perfect, but they should have the same right to be snuffed as we have”
“And if they go about butchering our kin?”
“We’ll punish them as if they were our own, simple!”
“Hmm... I have to say, your arguement does make an impressively moral point. If we’re not to govern them though, I still would recommend creating an immortal order of those dedicated to teaching them our ways. Immortality is cheap, and if we have a reason to use it then I’m sure many would jump at the chance. Don’t you agree?”
“I think we should take a vote, a public vote, for what we’re going to do”
“T-Take this matter to the public?! I don’t wish to offend them, but we’re in the minority as the well mentally equipped. You wish to degrade the average intelligence to include some of the least intelligent?!”
“Yes. If the public is not ready for a civilisation of humans, this would be vital. And you need to lose some ego, you may be a scholar but the average person isn’t as bad as you say, I’m still just an average person myself”
“You’re not an average person, and I won’t put you with the likes of them!”
“Is Jacob?”
“Y-... No, wait, what?”
“Is Jacob an average person?”
“I... I suppose he is”
“And am I stupid?” Jacob said with a deviously challenging smile
“I... Well I mean, you’re a jester of sorts, aren’t you?”
“So you’re saying yes?”
“No! No, no, no. You’re the splitting image of your brother, and you carry a mental resemblance as well!”
“So you’re saying we’re both dumb?” Jack smiled, refraining from laughing
“I... I...”
The two brothers couldn’t hold it any longer, they laughed aloud hugging eachother and shedding their tears of laughter on eachother’s shoulders. When they eventually stopped laughing, all three of them silently agreed that Zack had learnt his lesson.

“You two can continue working on this from tomorrow and I’m guessing you could still make the device for a fortnight”
“You’re leaving?”
“No, I’m going to create a magnificent manor for the human to live in, and I’m going to ensure that everything is perfect. A week should be enough assuming I can use my crystals properly”
“But we’ll probably need your help!”
“I’ll still be here, I’ll need your help as well considering your tendancy for apiphanies. Anything you could say to help me, I’m sure, would be of great value.
“Just make sure that there’s a ground floor for a kitchen, a dining room and a living room; a middle floor for the bedrooms and for a bathroom and anything else I’m missing, and then a third floor for all the training. You could add a basement and an attic as well”
“Would he enjoy having a slave as well?”
“Maybe, if the slave is there because they want to be and the human is alright with a slave”
“I’ll make the preperations just in case, but I won’t employ a slave”
“You’ve got a fortnight to make the mansion and found this order, make it count”

Chapter 6 - Housing

Another week had passed, and although the order hadn’t been made, or even named, the mansion was fully built and the portal appeared to be almost operational. All that’s left is a few minor issues, one being the order, which could honestly be the three of them and perhaps Hugo; One was that the mansion was entirely unfurbished due to lack of funding so no specialist designers or crafters can be employed; One issue was the lack of community support although news was quickly spreading and this seemed feasable; One issue was that the portal’s circuit needs to be perfect on a molecular level to ensure that thre are no gaps in the portal that would be responsible for loss of limb and the last issue is that so far it seems to be impossible to transfer anything from our side of the portal to yours. We can get some things into your world, but the minute we try to get something magical in there it sort of... splashes. If we made a ball out of mana, and we threw it at the portal, it would look as if it were a water baloon even if it were actually conjured diamond. Perhaps we would be able to walk from our world to yours, but I’m not sure what we would lose in transition. We might lose our ability to cast mana, or we might lose the ability to exist altogether. One way or another, no one had tried at that point in time and no one was planning to.

Zack was in the manor that he had created, and he had decided that it would be best to furnish it a little, even if he lacked any kind of artistic talent. He faced a wall on the second floor, in a room that was intended to be the human’s bedroom, and he put his arms in front of himself. His hands glowed a bright, lime green and this green crawled slowly around his body until he was glowing at all points of his body, differently coloured only for the non-green parts which meant almost exclusively his eyes which, if it interests you, were blue. Not totally blue, just as blue as yours would be because he still had the whites of his eyes and the blackness of his pupils. He closed those eyes, and began to clear his mind, only to sharply reawaken to find himself floating in mid-air with his arms and legs outstretched as if he were immitating an explosion. Also, he was wearing clothes, but now that he isn’t, it’s not worth mentioning them.

He began to glide towards the end wall, and started slowly approach it with an outstretched finger, and on touching he turned the wall into a mirror. He never changed his emotions, he hovered blank-faced and solemnly. He touched the wall gently and made a straight line, then he made another at the same length at 60 degrees, and he joined the two to make a triangle. When he lifted his finger from the wall, the shape he made tesselated into the wall, dividing the wall into triangular mirrors. He touched one of the triangles, and it faded black until it returned to painted wall. He moved his arm in an arc, and half of the triangles in the wall were black. He decided that he didn’t like this, and he put his palm to the wall turning all of the triangles to squares. He then adjusted the angle, and the squares became straight. He turned all of the mirror pieces as well as the parts of the wall that were bare to white tiles, placing additional wall where it was needed, and he thought that this would have its advantages but that it wouldn’t be ideal for a bedroom, so he touched the wall with his palm and this design became present on all walls of the bathroom where the bedroom adopted simple, white wallpaper. He made a line going downwards on the wallpaper, and another alongside and he drew two black lines. The lines turned to light grey and they stretched to the height of the room, then the wallpaper between the two lines became a lighter grey that was close to white.

When he was happy with the colour of this strip of wallpaper, he floated backwards and the room faded into a pattern of white and grey stripes. He floated backwards more and there was a bed with bedsheets matching this wallpaper. He floated closer to the door, and the ceiling became white while the floor became a light grey carpet which was decidedly dull and unpleasant. When he reached the door, it became light blue. When he left the room and telekenetically closed the door, all grey became a subtle, light blue instead. The blue became pink for a moment, but changed its mind and became blue again.

The door became unpainted wood, and all the doors in the house copied this style. The doorframe became light brown wood, and all of the door frames in the house mirrored this. He continued generally changing the features of the house and making it more inhabitable using powerful, exhaustable magic. He was a scholar and he knew of power and how to use it, but he never showed restraint whenever he used it even despite the fatigue that resulted from it. The main source of his mana was his stomach where he used what he had eaten, but the obvious fault with this is that he would starve himself, without any regard for his own health. After this though, he would always generate mana from the air around him, and he would feed himself using this energy. He didn’t generally eat real food because he simply used his own mana, but as a result he was nearly composed of mana and he knew now that this would mean he could never experience the human world first hand despite him being the most suited to your world.

He had an idea of his own, and he saught to persue it, so he exited the house and he looked at it from afar. He stretched the house lengthways and then he came back to the empty room that was there. He closed his eyes and came to the same floating form as before. He re-arranged the house in his mind, and without moving a finger the house changed around him. The top and bottom floors were simply bigger with the staircase moved appropriately, but the middle floor where he hovered to was going to include three extra rooms. He made only his own bedroom as he knew he would like it (green) but the other two rooms would be a room for the bunny brothers and a room to be spare in case they didn’t want to sleep together. They were plain, and similar to the human’s room. He added a ceiling light to every room of the house connected to the web to be powered later, and then he created a basement that would lead a little into the ground. It was nothing but a dark room, so he added a few enchanted sconces to the walls and he made made a few restraining devices for a dungeon of his design. This could be used for sexual reasons, but at the moment Zack was thinking that it was possible that they would need to restrain the human at some point in time. He considered that they would need non-mana materials so that the human couldn’t manipulate them should he learn to use them, but it was almost impossible to find anything that wouldn’t be made of mana so he left leaving only a mana-made series of bondage equipments that would be only suitable for sexual purposes.

He left the basement and then he came back to it, his curiousity rising. He blinked and saw Jack in front of him in a frozen pose like a picture and after a second the hologram came to life.
“Hi! Something up?”
“No, nothing really, although I’ll need you to come over here a few percent later to help me decide anything else that the human might need. I’ve got a couple of questions though”
“Okay, shoot!”
“What do you two think about sleeping here?”
“What, you mean permanently?”
“I’ve given you both a bedroom as well as a spare one and one for myself”
“What about the human?”
“That’s besides the human”
Jacob emerged alongside Jack to speak for himself
“We’re in the same room?”
“You and Jack, yes”
“That’s fine with me!”
“Permanently?”
“... Sure, I guess so. I mean, providing you’re not going to wake us up at 20% everyday”
“No, I know how much you rabbits value your sleep. Well, you at least”
“It’s not just that, it’s Love soon and it would be a good idea for you to not go in there at all”
His curiousity got the better of him once more, and he had to ask, “why?”
“You know, various... Just don’t go in there, it’ll be a little messy”
“How ‘messy’? This human might have to go in there some time”
“I’ll leave it up to your imagination. The human would be able to come in if we just make sure that they’re alright with the bunny on bunny scene”
“Okay...” He said, letting his imagination work, and remembering his next question all the more easily “And lastly, I’m building a bondage room.”
“Ooh! I never knew you were like that!”
“I’m... not. I could be, probably, but that’s not the point. The point is, it’s supposed to be for the human just in case we need it”
“Why would we need it?”
“Maybe the human goes mad, maybe they can’t control themselves, whatever the case do you think we would need it?”
“No, we won’t need it. We’ll want it though. Tell me, are you still pre-aroused by the next season?”
“Yes, we might need to wait a season before starting the portal.”
“No, we can still go on even if you can’t. We can help you before then though”
“What did you... what did you have in mind?”. His face flushed with embarassment and arousal
“Hold yourself in the tightest bondage that you can, then use layer after layer after layer of mana based encryption to make sure you can’t even try to move your hands or feet”

70% is When they finally finished their session

“I think you’re getting worse” Jack said
“Yeah...”
“We should keep you down here all through the season, it’s not like you can do anything about it and you could pose a bit of a threat to the human”
“I would need at the very least one full day for every three days, but I don’t think I would need to be trapped a quater of the year”
“I was thinking that you should spend 6 days a week in bondage actually, that way on the last day you can still ensure that you aren’t distracted at all. If you’re going to be allowed to see the human, that’s how it’s going to be.”
“What about the two of you?”
“Want to switch every week?”
“That could be fun!” His brother responded
“Why is it called love and not lust, anyway?”
“I guess cause if we had actualy partners, then that’s what it would be”
“To make it easier on the human, let’s pretend to be husband and husband”
“I don’t know about that”, Zack said, “I don’t know about pretending like that, I mean”
“We don’t have marriages anymore though”, Jacob said, “and even if we did, I don’t think it would be worth it considering how long that would take
“Regardless, you and your brother would make a good and convincing couple, I might even be able to learn the rites if I consult my peers”
“The great scholars, you mean?”
“‘Great’, indeed. I’m sure that they would find a quick but official way to marry”
“It wouldn’t be legal though, we don’t actually have any laws”
“Hmm... Without law, marriage doesn’t mean anything. It’s not binding in any way”
“Alright, ‘in a commited relationship’ is enough”
“What about me? Do I need to pretend to be in any kind of relationship to allow the human to be more secure?”
“Not everyone is in a relationship, it might help to say that you have a job or something though”
“A job?”
“Where else would the income be coming from? That would be a radical change”
“I believe we’re being paid for our work on the multiverse transporter still, couldn’t we just tell him that?”
“Oh, I guess so...”
“What about the mana manipulation though? We don’t know if he has the innate power to generate the mana, never mind the intelligence to discover its capability”
“If he can’t use mana, that’s that. I think that if he can though, he could just use it naturally”
“The top floor of the building is still intended to teach him how to utilise and improve his abilities, I recommend moving targets and some of the elements?”
“I think it’s best left as an empty room so we can tutor him when ever he’s there”
“Very well, I think I’m the most learned with ‘spellcraft’ so I’ll teach him as much as I can when I’m free”
“Go easy on him though, I know you don’t reserve your own power. You starve yourself and you don’t even think about it”
“Be that as it may I’m still a worthy teacher and he’ll become a truly powerful mage should he want to be”
“You’re not listening to me, I’m saying that you shouldn’t teach him to be powerful, that you should only teach him to be capable”
“But why? I see no point in him being powerless”
“You don’t know for sure whether or not he could be power mad and if he does have a power lust then you could be responsible for teaching a human to rule the world”
“Do you think that that is a possibility?”
“If he recieves power over the portal and power over our world, he could easily enslave our world with his”
“Okay, point taken. It’s probably best that I don’t overpower him with my knowledge”
“You can teach him, but only when I’m present. It might only take a single session anyway”

Chapter 7 - Interruptions

Another week later and everything was essentially perfect, it turns out that all the portal needed was a crystal in the circuit to drain any excess electricity or mana. It’s not exactly clear why crystals were able to do this, but something about the crystals was necessary to ensure that the flow of electricity was perfect. Adding a second crystal caused the mana on the electricity to turn to light, and the crystal held the electricity as well although it’s not clear how much electricity it could hold or how to use this to any advantage. One way or another, the multiverse transporter was locked onto the human world and to a human’s house. A gay furry, but not much more about him was known. The portal was not active, and it wasn’t going to be for a little while, not till everything was certain. Everything was essentially certain, but then the order of human habitation (Jack, Jacob and Zack) were visited by another member of the great scholars with a surprising message.

The message was delivered by another lizard who this time was a depressing but beautiful, deep black. He never wore clothes and although he was 50 years old he was an immortal, which meant that he was ready and willing to live all of life without holding back or wasting his time on values like shyness. He was a bold lizard by all meaning of the word, and he was someone to be respected and feared. He came straight to the door of the mansion where the portal was now also housed and he knocked to get the attention of any one of them. Zack came to the door, clotheless as he was now accustomed to, although now it was a matter of embarassment and he felt like anyone from your world would if you were naked in front of a superior

“Zack, I’ve heard about your project. As impressive as it is, I have an important warning to offer”
Taken aback by this, he forgot his nudity and welcomed him in. “Oh, okay... Micheal, am I right?”
The two of them walked to the front room where the portal was stationed
“Jack, Jacob, this is Micheal. He’s come to deliver a warning”
“A warning? I didn’t know that any one else understood any of this” Jack said
“Nonetheless, these events have taken place before”
Everyone suddenly jerked in surprise to hear what this new lizard had to say, considering that they had researched thoroughly and never heard anything about the existence of any previous portal.
“We’ve never heard anything about another portal. I mean, never!” Jacob said, “we’ve researched this and we’ve even had your files, but we’ve never heard even a whisper about there being another multiverse transporter”
“Of course not, it was a secret and it still is to this day, a secret kept in my bloodline since the second era without the assistance of technology”
“That means that it can be done!”
“Of course, and although what you have done with only three members of your team is dramatically more impressive, this may not be the start to a new era as you wish it to be”
“Thank you, but why not?”
“I’m sorry, but I must ask you not to chance the reocurrence of millenia past”
“What reoccurence?”
“Back in the past, when the human race was not quite in existance, one of my ancestors took part in the creation of a similar device which also transported through time. A device which could travel through dimensions, through time and place, and be as stable as necessary was the product of not three, not a thousand, but uncounted millions of workers dedicated in their entirity to unravelling the mysteries that lead to the creation of the machine. Even when they had created the machine, they didn’t understand what they had created. They had set the time without any time co-ordinates and this resulted in reaching the humans in what is still their recent past.

Only one human was taken into our world, but this one human was enough to eradicate dozens of species that we have still been unable to recover. The world is not the same, and never will be again. We don’t even remember the name that the world once had, and so we can’t refer to this world any differently to theirs. You see, once he had learned of the power of mana, mana being the word that he gave to it thus staining our world with it already, he used ‘magic’ to live on this world but eventually to eradicate those he loved most. He was here for a year and a season, but when Love came, when foreign hormones lead him to love and loss, he lost control of his sanity and used his powers to seek vengence on our world. He fell in love and his love knew nothing of monogamy, so when she took part in a snuff party as a willing victim, he lost all control. He wrought havoc on avenging his loss, stopping not when he killed the ‘murderers’, not when he destroyed the village, or the continent, but when he died from overuse of the mana as it starved him for energy and he could not find alchemists to help him regain himself.

If you do not heed my warning, at least ensure that he does not fall in love with someone that can break his heart. Love is a season named by him, which originally was known as Lust, a reminder that we should be careful to at least respect the concept. If you do heed this warning, I can leave my state of immortality and I can entrust the secret to you, whether you want to keep it or let it die. If you do, however, heed my warning then I would request that you abandon your lives to ensure that the secret does die with you”

A while after and the shock was obviously a lot for the three to take, but he considered himself a busy lizard and he disregarded patience.

“Any questions?”
“Was...” Jack sighed, and the lizard took this as a sign of his inability to ask a question
“Anything else?”
“Can we rely on you for help, if he shows signs of power lust and destructive personality I mean?” Zack said
“For a decade, but after holding this secret for twice the average lifespan I would prefer to die at that point as opposed to keeping it and prolonguing my life. It’s... unnatural”
“Remember how it’s unnatural for them to ‘commit suicide’ though, and how they live for up to over a hundred years without any immortality”
“Yes, but they have an entirely different way of life, where you could live to be a thousand years old and still be unforfilled. In our world, fulfillment is in our nature and being fulfilled I feel fit to die happy. 60 Years for an ‘animal’ is simply not appropriate”

“I’ll take my lead then, you can reach me by the web” His feet glowed a light blue for a moment and then he left the room and the house

“Are we going to listen to them?” Said Jacob
“No!” Laughed Jack
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