smk_ooc | Character Meet and Greet: Winter Wonderful!

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i.Main Street

Main Street has settled in for January, but there are still Christmas Decorations here and there to liven things up a little bit. Feel free to shop, mingle with the locals or explore the castle grounds.

Though after hours there are still some shadows that venture into the streets. Not everything here is as peaceful as it seems, and it’s best to defeat the corroded trespassers before they cause trouble.

ii. Cookie Overload

Do you like free cookies? Of course! Everyone does. After the Christmas Rush, there are plenty to go around, available only after the sun goes down to any hungry passerby. There are cookies of all styles and flavors. But watch out for the dreader sriracha cookie. It will make you breathe fire in three flavors and gives a bit of heartburn after, but the aftertaste will leave you craving more.

iii. The Eighth Wonder of the World
Now that the jungle has been purified, Apprentices can wander through to explore all the things the jungle has to offer. Take a (still somewhat shambly) riverboat and explore the river, or come to chat and trade with the villagers. (Shrunken heads, two for one special!) But beware. Even though the jungle is purified, it’s not a safe place. In this kingdom of animals, someone is always hungry.

iv. Pin It On Them
Some smugglers are hanging around the outskirts of New Orleans, selling dubious looking items from even more dubious looking bags. Do you buy from them? Haggle? Steal? (not recommended) Or quietly try to alert any sort of authority (good luck) The choice is yours.

v. Battle Mesa Gate
While the jungle may be purified, many other Kingdoms are still seething with corrosion. Erstwhile Apprentices will find such corrosion on the banks of the Rivers of America, right where the jungle river joins in. Fight corroded creatures on the shore and in the water and be careful, they are stronger than they look and cleverer than they seem.

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"At least it doesn't work like the portal machine that Entrapta and Hordak built," Scorpia said. Not touching the conscription bit, nope. "When that one was turned on, a lot of things got broken. Like... reality. It was super weird."

And yep, Crowley, that's a seeming contradiction you'll have to get used to with her. Yes, she's basically a walking tank who could probably snap most people she meets in half without much trouble. But she's also a big, buff cream puff most of the time.

"Well, your loss then," she said, taking a big bite out of one of her cookies before she realized he'd asked her another question.

She attempted to reply, but quickly realized that the mouthful of cookie was making her words unintelligible. After quickly swallowing she tried again. "Nope, I'm the only one like me," she said. "Well, the only one like me now. Or at least I think I am; everyone in my family was a scorpion; maybe everyone in my whole kingdom! But... I haven't seen anyone else like me since I was really young. Not in person, anyway." There was the photo she had of her mothers, and the now nameless members of the royal Scorpion family adorning the walls of Horror Hall... but that was as close as she'd come to another of her people for as long as she could remember. Something else she tried not to think too hard about.

"How about you?", she asked, latching onto the natural change of subject. "Does everyone from your world have wings?"

Called out his wings drew themselves up much like a regal cloak behind him. Demons did take special care of their wings and Crowley's were especially glossy.

"No. Most of the people on my world are like them."

He bobbed his head to the crowd.

"Normal, everyday humans."

Lovable idiots most of them on the cusp of falling themselves but they did all have their little moments of brilliance.

"Do you have magic?"

Scorpia nodded as he indicated the humans. "Yeah, there's a lot of them back home too," she said. "Though there's a lot of other kinds of people too. You'd probably be surprised how many, really." Though that just made being the only scorpion person stick out that much more.

At the question about magic, she considered a moment. "Well they said that I have magic here, but back home? Nah," she said. "The Black Garnet never worked for me, so I don't have powers like the other Princesses do."

"Black garnet?"

There went his theory though. She looked like a magical being but maybe she was just an alien or an interdimensional being. There were a few of those around.

"It's my family's runestone," Scorpia explained. "There's only a few of them on all of Etheria, each one belonging to one of the royal families, and the Princesses of those families can each draw super powerful magic from their runestone."

"My grandpa gave up our runestone when he originally made the alliance with the Horde, though," she said. "Or at least, that's what the Horde told me. But like I said, I've never had any connection to the runestone anyway, so it's... fine really." She shrugged slightly, though she sounded rather like she was trying to convince herself as well as Crowley.

Stone of magical powers, no stone of magical powers... It was all the same to him really. Here she was just like everyone else. Stripped of her old powers and given new ones.

What was curious in that was that she seemed somewhat bothered by not having that stone. Sort put him in mind of being kicked out of his own club, a long fall into a world of never-ending evil for no reason he understood.

The feeling was dangerously close to pity and he tried not to let that show through his feigned demonic ambivalence.

"Hope you can get used to having magic then. Here everyone does."

Character Meet and Greet: Winter Wonderful!

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