Character Meet and Greet

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

I. Exploring Main Street! Take a trip through a little town taken straight from 1890's America. Visit the shops, dine at the restaurants- but don't forget you are here on a mission. As an Apprentice, you will need to gather some supplies. A weapon, or tool for producing magic.

But we understand if that corn dog cart on Market Street is your first stop.

II. Apprentice Class 101! Practice your spell casting and weaponship on the open commons behind the Firehouse. Sparring, casting or just general confusion abound here. Try not to hit anything or...anyone, the paint on the infirmary is still drying.

III. Look out! A level 2 corroded monster has managed to get onto Main Street! Protect the citizens and defeat the cur, and please watch the damage, the paint is still wet!

IV. One Little Spark! Go ahead, show us the strength of your imagination and come up with your own scenarios. Just, stay out of the Corroded Lands...if possible.

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Re: 1

[bigbadrose]

A snort.

"Are you so weak you'd let even magic-wielding humans manage to confiscate your materials and wipe your brain into forgetting it?" a sneer.

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[situational_ethics]

"Magic is a potent tool. Don't let the wielder fool you. One of my apprentices one time became the royal court magician to a besieged kingdom knowing less than a handful of spells, and those not even well. Taught him two or three more in the limited time we had to meet the army that was trying to destroy the kingdom we just got hired on to protect. Kid stopped the largest army his dimension had seen in a thousand years with a few spells and even fewer friends."

He was still in shock over that one, but to a stranger? He was going to boast it like Skeeve was the greatest ever. His reputation was good for business, after all. "In the right hands even a single spell can take out any opponent. And it's hardly like I'm an unknown entity in many Dimensions, especially Deva where most of the guilds that would be hired to take out someone like me could be found. In fact, old drinking buddy of mine? One time he stripped away a fellow Demon's magic. All of it, gone in a flash, stranded him weaponless and magicless in a low tech backwarder for nearly a hundred years." Wait, years? Months? Days? Weeks? Ah, he could never keep track of Kladish time. "With a simple summoning spell and a handful of joke powder. dime a dozen pounds on Deva. Never underestimate the combination of a little magic and a cunning mind."

[bigbadrose]

Something something magic, thousand year army...

Sadly, this doesn't convince Rose of anything, just makes her feel extra distraught. "Then what do they need us for?" she waggled her fingers. "Just solve it."

Covering for how completely useless she felt. If she was suddenly handed a Hogwarts letter and told there'd been a mistake in her universe, and all the magic had been sucked dry from it, she'd believe it. But landing in a dimension where she was expected to just know magic, have been born with it, and used it all her life? She was ready to throw in the towel... almost. She was scrappy, and a fighter. She'd make do... somehow.

[situational_ethics]

He snorted. "Just fix it, huh? Just like that?"

[bigbadrose]

"Why not?" an arm fold.

"If, by your logic, they're just holding us hostage, then there is absolutely nothin' I can do for 'em they can't do for 'emselves."

[situational_ethics]

He rolled those gold eyes again. "Listen. Being able to do things X, Y, and Z does not mean you can automatically do things A, B, and C."

[bigbadrose]

"Oh, so they can summon people who don't want to be here, take away the tools that would make them assets in the first place, and yet somehow not fight the superpower that's threatening everyone. Come on, that's way too inefficient. Maybe you're just scared, yeah?"

[situational_ethics]

Sorry, he's not rising to that bait. The look he gave her could dry paint fast enough to actually be exciting.

"The problem with saying any foe can be defeated because we have magic? Or weapons? Or nukes? Or cunning? Is whatever you've got? The enemy's probably got too. THAT is why you bring in outside consultants, off world expertise. For the angle you lack."

[bigbadrose]

"Off dimension. Yeah, I've been fighting the darkness a long time. I shot-"

Well Aahz said he was a demon so she should probably not bring that up.

"You've never heard of Earth, right?"

[situational_ethics]

"Been there a few times. Better culture than Klah, worse air and food." He shrugged.

Given how many of his pop culture references come from Earth, yes he's been. "Bit more backwards than most in some ways. Bit more ahead than others, of course."

[bigbadrose]

"Oh, all right then," Rose relaxed some. "I was born on Earth. One without magic, obviously."

Apropos of nothing. But it also meant avoiding bringing up Satan ever with Aahz.

She tilted her head to the side. "Didn't know demons used tech to get around dimensions. Not sayin' that's bad, that's what I used, just surprised is all."

[situational_ethics]

"different sorts for different Demons," he said with a shrug. "Tanda uses an impressive wiggle and clap move. Massah has a ring that I'm pretty sure was meant to be a necklace. People from Earth" and how you get Humans from Earth was beyond him, "tend to have lifespans too short to master magic and tech and weapons. And generally your lot pick weapons over the rest, with tech next... mostly so you can build better weapons. Now there is nothing wrong with a good weapon in its place." Usually its place was inside the skin of a foe, after all. "But once you get to be my age you appreciate a balance. Magic, tech, weapons. All working together with cunning."

[bigbadrose]

Rose's eyes dimmed even further, and her shoulders hunched.

"Is that the only way to fight the darkness?"

[situational_ethics]

"There is never only one way to fight anything. That's the problem with many of your sort of demons, thinking that there is only one way and charging blindly past all other options."

[bigbadrose]

"Good point!!!" she did a total one hundred eighty degree turn and fist-punched the air. "Then I am going to fight it with light!!! As soon as I figure out what the hell that even means!!"

[situational_ethics]

A bit of a snort. "When you figure out, be sure to tell me." He could use the laugh.

[bigbadrose]

"Wot?" Rose beamed cheekily. "You don't think a torch in their eyes won't impede them a bit, maybe even burn?"

[situational_ethics]

"Provided they have eyes," he said with a bit of a grin. "Creatures of darkness often lack them. Better to scream at them and hope for ears."

[bigbadrose]

"This is why I need my own sonic screwdriver," she huffed bitterly. "It can do sound and vibration and radios and anything that transmits waves. All right then, how do creatures of the dark sense how to attack and eat?"

[situational_ethics]

"Depends on the creature. I knew one race where they found food by the taste of the ground. Others use sound or scent, or vibration sure. Some have symbiotes to help them out. Too many Demons in too many Dimensions for a one size fits all answer."

[bigbadrose]

"So what you're sayin' is.... I really need a sonic screwdriver."

Sigh.

"All right then, how do you plan to fight? If you go the fightin' darkness route, instead a' bitin' off the heads of whoever you think has your D-hopper, yeah?"

[situational_ethics]

"Pretty sure that's the opposite of what I was saying, actually," he replied dryly. "What I was saying is that there is no one universal answer or tool. But my plan is to start with basic recon. Fighting the Darkness might not be the right play at all."

[bigbadrose]

"That's what makes the screwdriver so perfect, it's adaptable."

As for the rest.... "Riiiiight. Any way I can help? If they really do have my cannon, I don't want anyone touching it, they'll only make things worse."

[situational_ethics]

"The most useful and adaptable tool anyone has is their brain. The rest is just details. And could use the help," he said with a nod. "Mind using the fact that you're cute to get us some info?"

[bigbadrose]

Rose bit her thumb. "I've always thought that... But I'm lousy at school, and I can't do magic. Think it was sucked out of my universe or something."

She beamed at the request, practically glowing. "I think I'd be very good at that. Who d'ya need me to con?" The Doctor and Jack never let her use her cuteness to conquer!!! Clearly it was just too powerful!