[Thanks, fact the night is so shitty!]

... I wonder if it's linked to the things they took from us before we got here. I'd been wondering how they could restrict my access to magic...

[he holds a finger up,]

But if they could "take" my magic that would be a good catalyst for creating things based on what I was experiencing. Or,

[another finger up]

If we're in some sort of magic simulation it's easy enough to restrict the player's powersets by changing variables.

... of course, there's not an ounce of hard evidence to either speculation~...