1st [video; open to both courts]

[invisibletouch]

[ooc: backdated to 02/02]

[Pink hair and red eyes greet anyone who's watching. Though, the top of her head seems to be covered by something. A hat, maybe?

What's definitely not hidden, however, is Lucy's face, and she's none too thrilled about this.]

The last world I was in wanted me dead. This one wants me alive, and to fight for them.

[She stares at the locket for a few moments.]

They don't care who they use?

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[uneulogized]

I'd be willing to bet money on it being way more complicated than all that.

[He says "he bets," but he knows it is.]

[invisibletouch]

I don't care if is.

[uneulogized]

You did phrase it as a question, so hey, what do I know?

[invisibletouch]

Do you know if these things can send a message to someone who isn't here?

[uneulogized]

Haven't tried, but I'd be willing to bet it's not happening anytime soon.

[invisibletouch]

Has anyone tried?

[uneulogized]

Why don't you go on and try?

[invisibletouch]

I'll have to.

[uneulogized]

You better think up a plan after that. Process of elimination says it won't help.

[invisibletouch]

I'll do what I always do.

[uneulogized]

Right, because that's not worryingly cryptic or anything.

[He sighs.]

Look, I'm not the guy to burst your bubble. But it's gonna happen. And whatever you do? It might not fly here. Unless it's go to war and kill people. I don't know what side you're on or what you plan on doing, but you're gonna get screwed thinking that way.

So try your phone home routine and move on.

[invisibletouch]

The killing doesn't bother me.

[uneulogized]

That'll speed things up a bit.

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[snakeskin_magus]

Why should they? [Given it wasn't late at night--Roa was broadcasting from inside a frozen cave, surrounded by half-frozen and easily irritable zombies.]

This indentured servitude of ours is profitable.

[invisibletouch]

How? This is just another prison.

[snakeskin_magus]

You say it as if it's some sort of obstacle.

There are those who profit off of prison systems, even within them.

[invisibletouch]

What sort of profit?

[snakeskin_magus]

Think creatively. What do you lack?

[invisibletouch]

What I could do before. I don't know how they did it, but it's different now.

I want it back.

[snakeskin_magus]

Not just that. Don't think about your old limitations.

What do you believe would make you perfect?

[invisibletouch]

Being faster, and stronger. Reaching farther.

[snakeskin_magus]

I can't enhance abilities like that. Those monarchs make it tough for me to do much at all to modify the living.

However, I can teach you some of the local tricks.

[invisibletouch]

Why would you show me anything?

[snakeskin_magus]

Why, indeed? As if I could explain my curiosity.

Haven't you ever seen something you wanted to spur along and grow?

[invisibletouch]

You're weird.

[snakeskin_magus]

Shush. You've simply never had a chance to think like that, before.

I advise you take as many selfish opportunities as you can to mimic that behavior.

[invisibletouch]

Am I the only one you tell this to?

[snakeskin_magus]

You're simply the only one who's listened this much, really.

[invisibletouch]

Nobody else wants to?

[snakeskin_magus]

Of course not. I'm surprised you're even humoring me a little.

[invisibletouch]

You haven't given me a reason to stop.

[snakeskin_magus]

Arguably, everything I say should be fair reason, but that doesn't seem to bother you.

I wonder what sort of life you've lived to find this all so trivial.

[invisibletouch]

My kind have already been rejected by humans.

[snakeskin_magus]

It shouldn't matter. Most humans are meaningless and easily terrified of anything different from them.

It's not much of a loss on your part.

[invisibletouch]

I don't care how they feel about me.

[snakeskin_magus]

Hmmm. So, all you want is to be the way you were, before, then?

[invisibletouch]

If I can have more, then I want it.

[snakeskin_magus]

Well.

How much do you value the lives of others, then?

[invisibletouch]

I don't.

[snakeskin_magus]

Good.

Then, why don't you become my apprentice?

[invisibletouch]

Apprentice?

What do you have to show me?

[snakeskin_magus]

Ooh! Do you want a test? It's been awhile since I've stretched my muscles even a little.

[invisibletouch]

Do what you want.