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.

Comments

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"At this point I think I'd prefer Scotch." He winces as across the field, someone gets a particularly hard wack with a practice sword. Then smiles down at the cherubic being to be polite. "But tea might have to suffice."

[amber_angel]

"Scotch?" Kohaku asked, so confused, What... was scotch?

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"Something you're a little young for." And too young to even be here, honestly. Though there was something about them. "Are you here all by yourself?"

[amber_angel]

Young? Really? Well, maybe being stuck in this form made Kohaku seem weaker and younger than usual. But Kohaku nodded to the question. "God sent me here," Kohaku said softly. "As my punishment for going to Earth without permission."

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"God did?" That was curious. "Well I'm not sure that God is-- quite as direct as-- people might otherwise assume she is being. It can be difficult to tell sometimes so we must have faith that everything is working according to the Great Plan and that what she decides is for the best."

That being said.

"Are you sure it was God? Who told you?"

[amber_angel]

Kohaku nodded. "The three remaining Angel Masters came to give Madam Hisui and me our punishments for leaving Heaven without permission. Madam Hisui was stripped of rank as the Angel Master of Wind and banished from Heaven... And then they turned to tell me my punishment, and next thing I know... I'm here."

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"OH, you're an angel." Rather young looking, he thought. But it must be from a different place. Like an artistic representation of a cherubim come to life. He wanted to say that that was not necessarily God's decision, but who knew? And how many places did God have, anyway? No wonder she wasn't speaking to anyone with her attention so divided.

Best not to speculate.

He could believe the punishment anyway if it was the case. He had permanent assignment on Earth, so wasn't affected by this particular problem; but scuttlebutt was that angels who left without filling out the proper reallocation papers and filing them with head office, waiting for six to eight months for approval, were in for a stern reprimand. Rumor had it that one angel who had committed such an act had been assigned to the White House-- which was a Sisyphean task if ever he heard one.

As for this angel, well... Who could say if it was a minor infraction or not.

"Well, there there." He pats the angel's head. "I'm sure it's for the best. Perhaps you're needed here."

[amber_angel]

"Needed here? In my Cherubim form?" Kohaku's small head shook. "I'm no use to anyone in this form."

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"Well there must have been a reason." He folds his hands in front of him. "God's ways are often ineffable. We can't understand them. We aren't meant to. Ours is to obey and do the best we can."

[amber_angel]

Kohaku sniffed a bit. "But what reason? Was it really so bad to want to be with someone who isn't an Angel?" Except Madam Hisui hadn't been punished like this at all...

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"Yes..." he sighed. He knew this. Had always known it. But... "Yes, it is. We are meant to be above. To be a role model. An example to mankind. But also to deliver justice as God sees fit. How can we deliver justice if we care too much? How can we bear the weight of it?" He could never. Not fully. Which was why it was a horrible idea.

"The Almighty knows what she's doing."

[amber_angel]

"But of course we are supposed to care," Kohaku protested. "Master Ranshou says that my caring heart is why I am the only one who can wake the new baby Angels... And if we didn't care, why would we want to protect Earth?"

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"There's a difference between caring and caring too much. If you question your superiors you could be in great danger of Falling." Another sigh. "But that is a struggle..."

And baby angels. Oh, he feels sorry for that world. Children in general are... wonderful so long as they thoroughly belong to other people, but to be raised from infancy and not to appear fully formed in body and mind...He shuddered to think.

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[amber_angel]

"But... Madam Hisui did... Hisui ran away and fell in love with Satan's son. That's why I went to earth in the first place, to find the missing Angel, and then I met Shuichiro...." Kohaku swallowed. "And Madam Hisui got to stay on earth, didn't get sent here..."

[blessedarethebookmakers]

Good grief. The son of Satan. He doesn't think the other angel means the AntiChrist, but it isn't much better. Not that he is one to talk particularly, but he is wise enough not to..entirely act on it. Maybe he's already gone too far, though. Maybe he should pull back.


"I don't know what to tell you, my dear. You're the one who said it was a punishment and perhaps it is. Perhaps she is punished in her own way. I can't say. The point is we're here for the foreseeable future."

[amber_angel]

"Without Shuichiro?" Kohaku asked in a small whisper.

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"Apparently not." Unless they showed up, perhaps. But there was no need to get the other Angel's hopes up. And it wasn't as if he didn't have sympathy for their situation, but was at loose ends how to address it.

"it will turn out alright I'm sure. Think of it as a chance to build your spiritual fortitude." He hated that line, but it also worked in a way.

[amber_angel]

"I... am not sure I could even define that, let alone build it up," the other Angel said with a small watery giggle.

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"No, me either." It's always difficult to pin down. It was a mix of faith and resolution, determination and absolute will power to do Good regardless of the outcome. "But it's worth giving a try."

[amber_angel]

"But... what exactly would I be trying?"

[blessedarethebookmakers]

He had just said that, hadn't he?

This was why he preferred the company of humans, honestly. Much easier to talk to, or avoid.

"Just try to do Good as you were commanded to do."

[amber_angel]

"Well yes, I always try to do that...."

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"Then just keep at it." In the meantime he supposed he ought to be practicing something but he was really rather opposed to this whole thing. "I am going to get some lunch." And then out of deference to a colleague... of sorts: "You're welcome to join me. If you eat, that is."

[amber_angel]

"As in food?" Kohaku aske, eyes going HUGE.

[blessedarethebookmakers]

"Yes. As in food." He's not entirely sure he wants to know what caused that reaction.