Fenris smiles at Henry and turns towards Felix. "Did you check?"

"Yeah, they are the cluster. Too bad we didn't bring Temperance then, she is an actual wizard."

Robin leans back in towards the now-glowing flower, "Space telepathy is cool," he mutters, looking wistful, "But, man, imagine the stuff I could grow if I had plant magic." 

"What's the significance of wizards?" Erin asks. She sets the synthesizer to the side so she can pay attention to their guests, noting their unusual features now that she's paying attention. Tusks ain't nothing when you're secretly a lizard person.

Felix and Fenris exchange a look. "Well, apparently Fenris didn't tell you anything. Might be smart given the shapeshifter situation."

"I did tell them about other places having other things. But I didn't elaborate much. Also, the term is Magus, not wizard."

"Hey, the important thing is that they can make things go boom by poiting at it."

"Probably a good precaution to make," Erin agrees. Then she reiterates her previous question, "What's the importance of Maguses- eh, Magi? Then, in this context? Aside from being useful in a fight, I guess."

"Our cluster thing is classes. Felix can explain."

"Oh, okay. The magic that create these changes, will pick some sort of archetype or concept to base the creation process. Our cluster was classes, similar to D&D or video game classes. A Magus is a spellcaster stylized after wizards, they have spell tomes, versatile and strong magic, but are more fragile than say, Warriors or Champions."

Gabe waves when Felix says Warriors and raises Henry's hand for Champions. Henry rolls his eyes.

Caine knows a little bit about D&D. Not from playing it, but he read his way through the locl public library's collection of Forgotten Realms books one summer. "Champions are Paladin equivalents?" He guesses. 

Robin looks up at this point, "What's the plant magic class?" He asks.

"Exactly." Felix tells Caine. "And presuming that you're talking about Fenris' class. It's Shaman, they actually combine druids and warlocks which means that Shamans make deals with spirits - usually nature spirits - in exchange for their powers."

Caine leans forward, "So this force can create gods?" He asks. "Local ones, I assume."

"Do the classes only apply to your city or can we learn to do your magic, too?" Robin wonders. He's gone back to hovering over the flower. He has enough restraint not to literally poke it, but it's tempting. 

"Small local gods might be a good way to put. Though, Champions and their less fighty equivalent, the Saints, don't really need to have a faith. And the classes are teachable. Though we will likely have to deal with your shapeshifter problem first."

"Right," Jamie says, "How are we going to do that? Is there some way to make things go back to the way they were, or do we have to work within the system?" 

"There is a way to partially get things the way they were, but it's tricky. The source of the change is concentrated on a thing. We call it the Seed, it's somewhere in the affected area. If we give you access you will be able to edit things, changing some things back, but completely undoing everything makes the magic fight back."

"Even without it fighting back, it's likely somewhere hard to reach and guarded. If you're having a shapeshifter problem, I bet we will have to go through them first either way. Also, we given some our experiences it might be better to just ameliorate whatever problems the changes are causing. We managed to erase one kind of vampires, then the next city had another nastier kind of vampires which we even tried to make less nasty, but had to resort to destroying them as well."

I bet that's going to come back to bite them in the ass, Robin muses, finally turning away from the flower. He nods, "In that case I guess we'll have to work with what we have," he says. He gestures at Erin, "We've got the scanner, which can identify shifters if we check." Erin has just finished turning the scanner on each of them when he mentions it. He waves at Caine next, "Caine's dad left a secret room full of gadgets and weapons, though he took the weapons that are meant for fighting shifters specifically. Only problem is all the labels are in some strange language none of us reads." He shrugs, "And Jamie and I have some kind of space magic powers."

"We should still figure out where the Seed is, though," Erin argues.

"We absolutely should figure where the Seed is. I am just allocating a strong possibility that we still will have to deal with shapeshifters beforehand."

"I might be able to identify what your the weapons can do. What sort of space magic did the two get?"

"None of you are aliens, or something?"