Character Meet and Greet~~ At Night

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I. Main Street Usa!

It's twilight, edging to evening, and yet the streets are still alive with citizens and Apprentices (that means you!) alike. Take the time to admire the lights, pop in and out of the cafes or just relax in the garden.

Weapon shops and magic shops are open late into the evening this time of year, so feel free to enjoy yourself before you equip yourself for the life head.


II. Apprentice Training 101- Evening Class

Same commons behind the fire house, same weapons and wands available for practicing your skills-- though this time under the cozy street lights and the bright blues and tired purples of a fading summer twilight. Strike at the training dummy or try to catch fireflies with whispers, its all up to you.


III. Things that Go Bump

Are bumping. And they mean business. A few level 1 corroded monsters are scurrying around Main Street causing havoc and it's up to you to stop them. The question is, is it early in the evening or do you dare to face the creatures at the night's darkest hour?


IV. It's time to Sparkle!

Everyone has a spark of imagination. That is, in fact, why you're here! It's time to shine with your own scenario! Just try to keep from causing too much trouble.

Comments

[enhancomancer]

"Okay! But I've been thinking on that. You said we should ask Merlin if I came in older, and I didn't. I remember coming through the mirror this age, and the last thing I remember before, was watching the Vale. But if I did get tiny here, I wouldn't remember coming here like this, would I? Does that mean anything?" Ivy took his hand and cheerfully swung it in hers, doing her best to enhance his optimism -- having no idea that this was a fruitless effort, because Grey was an eternal skeptic, and yet always optimistic about Ivy.

"Is he named after Merlin or is he actually Merlin? Humphrey uses fountain of youth, that's how Stanley got young, and Dad used a time spell to travel back to Castle Roogna's past in the tapestry, but everyone knows the first King of Xanth traveled to Mundania to help King Arthur and never returned. This isn't Mundania, but it has money, and magic, so it's like a weird hybrid of both? Maybe there's an eternal youth spell on Xanth Kings? Does that mean I'll get to meet Grandpa Trent when he was still King? Or Magician Roogna?" Headtilt. "And maybe it overcompensated for me, because I'm not thousands of years past whenever, so instead of preserving me from when I'm King... splash! Like Stanley."

A huff. "I guess we better ask him."

[believe_it_or_not]

He laughed. No, she didn't need a spell to make him optimistic. "Then that sounds like you got dosed before you arrived here. But he might know how to bring you back to your proper age anyway." He kissed her forehead again. "And there are stories about a Magician named Merlin in Mundania too, so who knows. We had to read a lot about him in Freshman English, a class determined to make even that interesting a topic dry and boring. You think Centaurs are bad, sit through one week of Freshman English," he teased.

[enhancomancer]

"Well, he did travel there," Ivy nodded sagely.

"That sounds terrible," she made a face. "Like castor oil. Be careful going into a gourd, they make you face your worst nightmares like that." She squeezed his hand. "But I'll come with you and pull you out." She didn't know that the Night Stallion himself owed Grey and older Ivy a favor, of course.

And then she titled her head again, "I don't know much about what happened to Merlin in Mundania! I have a lot of books, but the Tapestry only really works for Xanth. What do the mundanes say? How come mundanes don't believe in magic if they know about Merlin?"

[believe_it_or_not]

He chuckled. "Oh, we've been through the gourd. Can't say the Night Stallion is my biggest fan, but it was an interesting enough trip all the same." And they got to help two people, which was always worthwhile. "Mundanes tend to think that magic is for good make believe stories. What little magic survives crossing the border, like rainbows and nightmares, are explained away in other ways."

[enhancomancer]

"Like what?" she just naively looks at him, because how could magic not be magic?

[believe_it_or_not]

"Reflected light, and an overactive brain. Or pepperoni pizza. A lot of people blame pepperoni pizza for their bad dreams."

Need: one laughing, one serious icon -- note to self

[enhancomancer]

All the giggles and that age old question every child asks repeatedly, "Why???"

So many giggles. "Who would have a nightmare about pizza pie?!"

LOL

[believe_it_or_not]

"Because Mundanes are weird." Easy answer to all Xanthain whys.

;)

[enhancomancer]

A sage nod for the widest and truest axiom of all.

"You never had nightmares of pizza pie, right?"

[believe_it_or_not]

"Thankfully I've never harmed a pie tree enough to warrant such a bad dream, so no." Though it had been a near thing that one time....

[enhancomancer]

Still more giggles!

"I don't remember my nightmares, supposedly you shouldn't. But Hugo got lots of daydreams so he showed me how to talk to Mare Imbri! She was a King of Xanth too, and saved it from the Nextwave invasion and horseman."

[believe_it_or_not]

"And you'll be the next king of Xanth."

[enhancomancer]

"Yes!" Giant beam. "Are you okay with being Queen? Since you are a Magician too?"

[believe_it_or_not]

That totally means something else, in Mundania. But he chuckled and smiled at her. "For you, yes."

[enhancomancer]

Yes, it does, though luckily(?) young Ivy doesn't have a clue. She gestures for him to lean down so she can kiss his head.

"I'm sure you'll make a great Queen!"

From anyone else under any other circumstances that wouldn't be a compliment, but she says and means it so earnestly!

[believe_it_or_not]

He leaned his head down obediently. He needed to get her back to her proper age. Like, NOW. "Thank you," he said with a bit of a rough chuckle.