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Post by Kazura Uzaki on Sept 23, 2021 17:39:17 GMT -5
Kazura went to head towards the elevator when Akio mentioned he had a personal question. He stopped and listened, but was slightly confused. "I can't say that I have much knowledge of dragon streams, but I have heard of the other terms for the concept, yes. I am more familiar with reiryoku, reishi, and reiatsu, if those words mean anything to you, but dragon streams are not a particular field I have studied. Why do you ask?" Akio was fairly blunt, and that was good. Helped Kazura to know what to poke at to expose the root of their shared knowledge. If the three "r" words meant nothing to Akio, they would just sound like gibberish. If they did mean something to him, then the two would finally understand that they both were spiritually inclined to the Other Worlds.
The words had meaning to him, but that meaning was more of a permission to speak more openly about spiritual matters. "Reishi is the component particle of soul, reiryoku is the type of charge those particles have, and reiatsu is the tendency of a mass of soul with extremely dense reiryoku to repel other masses with equal or lesser density?" The exact physics of reishi weren't something Akio had a deeper knowledge of, but he knew enough to chart out its flows and redirect them when needed. "I've been more focused on the bigger picture, the reimyaku and the flow reishi towards or away from certain areas. Especially the vein that follows the Onose and Karasu rivers on the western side of Karakura." And that was the problem once he got talking, not only had he given all that information away for free, he just let slip that his studies had specialized in the environment.
Post by Kazura Uzaki on Oct 9, 2021 14:58:03 GMT -5
Kazura understood about half of what Akio was saying. His research into the spiritual world hadn't gone so deep as to involve living world Physics or anything. If he was honest, the list of spiritual words he listed were more buzzwords than anything else, something he knew the name of but not really the in depth concept of. When Akio went into more broad terms for environmental spiritual flows, Kazura honestly hadn't researched this at all, really. His research was more... practical, which made it lacking. "If that's your definition of Dragon Streams, then I can't say I have researched those rivers in particular at all. Is there something special about them?"
"My definition would also include flows above ground level." Akio's spiritual knowledge was impractical in many ways, nearly half of which had been a deliberate choice at one point. The rest had been a matter of not knowing what information in the field was traditionally focused on. Beyond that, the directly practical knowledge he did have was mostly in the form of reishi-based spellcasting, something he wasn't sure he should share at that point. "That particular vein does not appear unusual, beyond being particularly dense. I chose it primarily because my studies are limited to the local area." And that was the last reason, being too tied to Karakura to leave on short notice to make any real comparisons. "I ask because I considered trading information. Although I am not sure you would value what I have."
Post by Kazura Uzaki on Oct 24, 2021 18:45:53 GMT -5
Kazura thought for a moment. He was always interested in new research and information. What would he have to trade Akio though? What would Akio want in return? He thought back to their first meeting, which he was now recalling involved the discussion of Dragon Streams as well. His memory must be a little on edge, given all that was going on lately. "My offer of employment still stands. If you wanted a place to research and learn, Uzaki Enterprises would be more than happy to welcome you. All of its amenities, including travel options, would be there if you wanted to go out of Karakura and research these Dragon Streams more. I said I wouldn't ask twice, but here we are again at the same position we were at before. Regardless, yes, I would be willing to trade for some of your research. What would you want in return?"
"It would not be easy to leave my current employment, although..." Akio took a moment to deliberate, weighing the potential consequences of employment, and of running out of information to trade. There was also the fact that from his own perspective, he had a more mystic leaning than Kazura's seemingly purely scientific one. There was the old saying about science, faith, and sorcery, even if they were only really equivalent up until a point. The real potential issue was that he may not have had enough information to afford what he asked for. For a moment, he even feared his limited research would be exhausted at a rate too fast to support a job, especially one that seemed to be on such a large scale. "For what little I have to give? I would want the equipment and information to continue what I have been doing, as well as protection from some of the hazards involved in this line of research. That is to say, violent gods, the dead, and other such threats." He caught himself before saying any more, only to resume after the awkward pause. "Not to be selfish, but I would also ask for more mundane resources, I still have to afford basics like food."
Post by Kazura Uzaki on Jan 17, 2022 23:22:52 GMT -5
Akio requested reasonable terms. "I can't pretend that it's 100% safe here at this building, but I'm working on that. Gathering powerful people tends to attract powerful threats. As for protection on a broader sense, there are gathered a good group of people at this location that would 100% jump to your aid without hesitation. As for the mundane resources, that is completely reasonable and expected for any of my employees. So we're on the same page... Are you still considering my offer or are you simply negotiating wages and have already made up your mind to accept?" Kazura wanted to be completely transparent, so as to not get his hopes up unnecessarily.
Post by Akio Naito on Jan 25, 2022 22:41:01 GMT -5
"Merely considering. Although, now that I have said it out loud... It is hard to avoid that I would only be joining you for the resources, not for what your company is or does." The offer had left Akio with a lot of information to process, and he had only caught himself letting his desire for resources both mundane and supernatural be his motivation after asking. His thoughts were far more focused on risk-analysis than anything else; The core point of which was considering the potential consequences of aligning himself with Kazura's company. Consequences he couldn't gauge accurately with the amount of information he had to work with at the time. "Even in Karakura, magic is an expensive path of study when it dips into environmental research. Even so, taking a job only to fund that may be too much." That wasn't a fully transparent addition, but it was at least a translucent one as to why he had been studying the flows of energy.
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Post by Kazura Uzaki on Mar 8, 2022 19:52:43 GMT -5
Kazura nodded in understanding. If Akio wasn't ready to join UE, that was fine. It wouldn't be the first time he had someone decline a position with him, wouldn't be the last. It didn't hurt his feelings, they still had partaken of pleasant conversation and the chance he had to show off some of his tech was fun regardless. "Well if you're ever interested in just taking some time to trade stories, train, or work on creating something with me, I'll pen you into the "open my schedule" group. You have free access to my tower if you want. There's not a lot here to do for non-employees save for the gym on the third floor, the building is pretty packed with cubicles on most floors, but it's still a place I'd like to think is safer than many. At least, I'm working on making sure it is. Keep in touch?"
Post by Akio Naito on Aug 12, 2022 21:17:41 GMT -5
"Yes. I would like to keep in touch." It quickly dawned on Akio that he had probably just received one of the best possible reactions, given that he'd just been so overly honest as to admit selfish motives like that. "As to the offer to use your building, I would rather not train indoors. Stories or building something... Yes, I think those are possibilities. I assume the stories would be about past encounters with the hungry dead and similar beings-" He felt the offer had been tempting as spoken, but there were still questions of what exactly he could add to Kazura's creations, given the kind of engineering he'd just seen from them. "I believe you preferred the term 'Hollows' for them, before." It had taken the entire meeting before he's he'd even vaguely remembered the exchange from their first meeting, and even now he wasn't sure about the details. Only that he'd snapped back reflexively when the term came up. "Thank you for your time."
Post by Charlotte & Serenity Buckner on Sept 12, 2022 0:28:49 GMT -5
Counted 20 paragraphs for Akio, meaning he'll get a 20% Social Bonus for his next thread with Kazura!
Counted 18 paragraphs for Kazura, meaning he'll get a 10% Social Bonus for his next thread with Akio!
Charlotte & Serenity Buckner, Primera Espada "I know quite well that I can be beaten, but that does not mean that I am going to allow myself to be stomped into the dirt by some lowborn Shinigami with false power."