PC: Gideon

[hardrocklife]

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[cavaliered]

It doesn't look like any of the ones I've been in either, and yet. Still, I'm compelled to knock everything off the shelves.

What kind of labs have you been in?

[hardrocklife]

Please don't. Some of this may be useful.

[He's looking over some more vials, trying to find anything that looks familiar.]

Usually those of sorcerers... both the guild-sanctioned types and the more eccentric "mad scientist" types.

[cavaliered]

Oh, so you've got magic? [a beat.] Or did, I suppose. Haven't heard much about sorcerers from anybody else.

[hardrocklife]

Yeah. I mainly specialize in shamanic magic.

[He opens a vial so he can smell it -- but not from too close; he's not about to burn his nostrils out if it's something dangerous.]

You have magic where you're from?

[cavaliered]

In so many words. Specifically it's necromancy, but I've gotten a few people who get all queasy at the idea of it, for some reason.

[she tenses just a little when he opens the vial - and when he doesn't immediately die, she eases.]

[hardrocklife]

[Wordlessly, he reseals the vial and puts it back.]

Is it any surprise that it's so controversial? I think it may be one of the few schools of magic that the sorcerer's guilds actually forbid.

[cavaliered]

[she raises an eyebrow.]

They forbid it? [this is so wild to her] That's all we do. Bones and dead guys and attaching your expired immortal soul to a body for a second so you can ask it what it had for breakfast.

[hardrocklife]

[He glances over and also raises an eyebrow. Doing what with souls...?]

Yeah... A lot of people don't like when their local gravesites get desecrated. Or when mad sorcerers try to raise skeleton armies. Or when stray zombies roam the countryside, terrorizing villages.

[cavaliered]

[oh, you know. normal stuff.]

Honestly, that sounds so much more chaotic than what I'm trying to describe. None of it happens against people's wills, mostly, it's a fuckin' honor to be the Lord and Lady's new sexy unflesh maid.

[i mean, clearly, she doesn't think so, but in a "that's lame" way and not a "that's horrifying" way.]

[hardrocklife]

Of course. You make it sound so appealing.

[It takes a moment for him to get past that absolutely poetic wording.]

So people actually sign up to be used for necromancy...?

[cavaliered]

[he's not the only one who has a hard time with the things that come out of gideon's mouth if it makes him feel better.]

Nothing as formal as all that, but they do get repurposed. It's just the way things are on the Ninth. I never really thought about it being different somewhere else.

[hardrocklife]

So your body might be getting "repurposed" for something right now, and that's fine with you?

[cavaliered]

[she makes a face.]

No, but it's not like I have a choice. What am I going to do, pull myself out of hell and reclaim my bones?