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.