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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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From:

situational_ethics

I.

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A scaled hand that had both webs between the fingers and sharp claws for nails dragged down a green face. "And where am I now?" he growled., His voice was not a kind one. At all, and the sharp teeth that showed from between what passed for lips were not generally comforting.

The Demon was not pleased. He was less pleased when he realized that every magical item he had been wearing or carrying was now gone. Which left him in loose pants and a linen shirt. He tried to cheer himself up with the thought of how much worse it would have been for Massah had she arrived here without her magical items, but it was a thin comfort at best. Unlike the Jhak in question, that was.

Aahz shook himself from his thoughts. He could be all pensive and broody later. First thing was first. He had to get off the streets, then do recon. He wasn't sure what dimension he was in, but it wasn't Perv, and that meant that he could cause a panic, just by walking down the street. His people were feared, and like most of his race, he generally worked to increase and use that fear. But when practical jokers kept summoning him to unknown Dimensions without his powers, being a Pervect alone could be dangerous. Generally more dangerous for the natives, but there was some chance that one of them might land a lucky blow.

Aahz wouldn't be considered impressive looking were one to judge on size alone. He was short, only topping five foot if one counted the horns on his head. He was, as Pervects were, utterly hairless, and covered from clawed feet to pointed ears in green hard overlapping scales. Fingers and toes had more webbing between them than Khlads did, than most non-aquatic humanoids did, really. And each of those digits ended in a sharp and nasty looking claw. Add the lean but muscular body that lent to compact more than small, the golden eyes, and the aforementioned very sharp teeth and you had someone who could inspire fear even in those who didn't know his species.

Those who did? Would probably rightly guess that he was someone who had been educated in both weaponry and magic, and that he could kill most living creatures without bothering to use his hands. Aahz himself had been stripped of his magic by a practical joke some years ago, but it hadn't stopped him from being deadly. And it wasn't just swords and knives, though he was skilled with those.

It was his mind. And that was the thing most other Demons forgot when they were afraid of the Pervects. It wasn't their magic, their martial skill, their brute strength, their claws, their fangs, their admittedly horrid breath that made them so dangerous. It was their keen intellect. And his was working a mile a minute, scouting out potential hiding places that would allow him a decent veiw of the street.

Spotting the closed down train station, he headed for it. As much as he wanted to get out of sight NOW he did not run or skulk. Better for the locals to fear him than to think him an easy mark. it wasn't that he had an aversion to killing, but he didn't know the penal system here yet, and didn't have a way out. What kind of example would he be setting for the kid if he went and got himself arrested and needed to be rescued before seeing if that was actually the smart play? After the grief he'd given Skeeve and Tananada over getting arrested in Jahk, he needed to play it smarter than that. The problem with both apprentices and friends was that they tended to have long memories only for the things one wanted them to forget.

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II. LATER

Reasonably assured he wasn't going to start a mass panic, Aahz showed up to training. He had procured himself a sword, some throwing knives, and some sort of odd vest with too many pockets. He stayed to the back, listening to the spiel about spells with interest. But he had been told only one class at a time. IT had been a hard choice.

They wouldn't be his powers, per say, but the chance to get his hands on magic he didn't have to buy off a market stall was appealing. But on the other hand, these people were only teaching one skillset at a time. And it made the most sense to stick with weaponry first, then reclaim magic. And besides, it amused him no end to think of a bunch of Khlads - for most of these people seemed to be Khlads - having to call him a hero. Wait till THAT got around the Bazaar!

From:

bigbadrose

"Another Universe! Isn't it fantastic?" a way too cheerful and perky blonde doesn't appear the slightest bit intimated, or inhibited by Aahz's appearance. "I didn't know I could find other world travelers fighting the darkness!! I was so focused on getting back to the universe I was born in, that possibility never crossed my mind!" she was over the moon... or void between universes with joy.

"I'm Rose, by the way! Rose Tyler! Nice to meet you!"

From:

situational_ethics

He rolled his gold eyes at her comment about being in another universe. That much was obvious, thanks.

"You can always find Demons doing any sort of thing, legal or otherwise. Assassins, inventors, mercenaries, heroes, villians." He shrugged. "Name's Aahz. No relation." He grinned a bit.

From:

bigbadrose

"Really?" Where Aahz was unimpressed by everything, Rose was the opposite. She felt like she expected this is what the Doctor had been aiming for when he first took her to the party at the end of the world. New people, familiar food, magical setting, adventure!!! Fun!!! Saving the world!! Although that might have been a key difference right there. Rose wasn't a big fan of people whose idea of fun was watching the world burn.

"Which are you?" a tongue-touched grin danced over the dazzled previously starry eyes. "All of the above?" she teased cheerfully, then flickered confusion, even as she offered a handshake, although with her luck, he was going to spit on her in greeting instead. Some cultures... "No relation to what? Or who? Or is it whom, I always get that mixed up."

From:

situational_ethics

Wow did she have a gob on her. Kind of like Bunny's moll act. Which of course made him immediately suspicious. Of course, even if she was hiding things, lying, and hiding who she really was, didn't mean he couldn't make use of her anyway.

"At the moment? *****ed off. They wanted my help, fine, they can approach me and ask for it. Or they could hire me. Tricking me into it will irritate me, but I can get over that for the right stakes. But kidnapping me and stealing my things? Not on my list of things likely to get me to want to keep someone's limbs in the right order."

He ran a green hand down his face as she asked the question, seeming too frustrated to answer. "Listen... kid..." which got him taking her in again. "Where exactly is your home dimension?" Klah, he was guessing.

From:

bigbadrose

"Tricking? Kidnapping?" bewilderment.

Did her Universe have a name? Until fifteen minutes ago, she thought she was the only multiverse traveler!!! For that matter, which universe was hers? The Doctor's, Peter Tyler's?

"What'd they steal?" Way easier to focus on that. "Maybe I can help you get it back. Um... but if you can help... you should--" Rose shook her head fervently, "I'm not making a moral argument, or nothing like that, but if we don't stop the darkness... you won't have your stuff either. It's been eating whole timelines, and universes... I've seen it. So even if you survive, your stuff might get eaten, yeah?"

From:

situational_ethics

"Yeah, but if I had my stuff back, I could get us help," he growled. "One of the missing things? My D-hopper!" he roared.

From:

bigbadrose

Rose nodded. "Dimension-hopper, yeah? My Dad made some, but we sealed off the universe to try to keep out the monsters, only the darkness started fraying the edges. The hoppers still don't work again, but I modified mine into a cannon, and localized it on repelling the void stuff, so it would try to expel me from his universe... dimension. 'S how I got here. I dunno that the people running this err... plane did you call it? I like that. More than universe, it sounds more... direct." A shrug. "I don't think they took it. I think it got stuck on the way over, and the only way to get it back... yanno... is to fight the darkness into spitting it back out. You ever have your hopper eaten by a black hole? That's what happened to my friend's ship. TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimension in Space. But he got her back, by fighting the black hole. Sounds mad, but it's true!"

From:

situational_ethics

He rubbed his forehead. Never thought he'd miss the kid's dumb dragon, but right now he was wondering if this girl would keep talking through a mouth full of dragon spit. Of course with his luck, Gleep would fixate on him instead.

"If your dad made some, and you modified yours, what do we need for you to build me one to get me back to Deva?"

From:

bigbadrose

"We don't." Eyeroll and stare like he's daft. "You have to fight to get it back."

From:

situational_ethics

"Wow, really drank the kool-aid, didn't you?"

From:

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.

From:

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."

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