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hardrocklife) wrote2023-02-06 04:41 pm
hardrocklife) wrote2023-02-06 04:41 pm
[RNG says we're here at the Science Lab! Zelgadis has his hood pulled up as if it will somehow make him less visible as he paws around inside cabinets, pulling out suspicious-looking vials of mystery-liquids and holding them up to the light very carefully while pinching them between his stone fingers.]
What the hell is this...?
What the hell is this...?
[oh this is the best place she could end up, actually.
she glances over her shoulder at him from where she's rummaging, and then - without any ado or fanfare, wanders over to squint at the mysterious liquid.]
Hopefully not acid.
she glances over her shoulder at him from where she's rummaging, and then - without any ado or fanfare, wanders over to squint at the mysterious liquid.]
Hopefully not acid.
You never know, it could be. Looks like they didn't bother labeling most of this stuff.
Pass. You can knock yourself out if you like, though. [Potentially literally.]
[she makes a face.] No, d'you think I'm stupid?
[ok gideon] Find anything interesting in here?
[ok gideon] Find anything interesting in here?
[...... right. He puts the vial down.]
Not sure yet. This doesn't look much like any of the laboratories I've been in before.
Not sure yet. This doesn't look much like any of the laboratories I've been in before.
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?
What kind of labs have you been in?
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.
[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.
Oh, so you've got magic? [a beat.] Or did, I suppose. Haven't heard much about sorcerers from anybody else.
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?
[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?
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.]
[she tenses just a little when he opens the vial - and when he doesn't immediately die, she eases.]
[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.
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.
[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.
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.
[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.
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.
[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.]
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.]
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...?
[It takes a moment for him to get past that absolutely poetic wording.]
So people actually sign up to be used for necromancy...?
[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.
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.
So your body might be getting "repurposed" for something right now, and that's fine with you?
[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?
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?
[well this is short and to the point: catch gideon climbing over the counter in the fairway to just straight up try to steal one of the ugly knock off plushies. she is committing crimes, come join her.]
[He just stops and watches.]
Not even going to try to win it first...?
Not even going to try to win it first...?
Nah. What are they going to do, kill me? Send me to jail?
[A shrug. Fair point. He'll come over a little closer to see what's up.]
Is there even anything worth stealing here?
Is there even anything worth stealing here?
It depends on if you're stealing because you want something or if you're stealing because stealing. I, for instance, am doing the second one.
[she waves a grimy plush dog at him.]
[she waves a grimy plush dog at him.]
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