Video - Seelie/Unseelie

[teenyoda]

[He might have thought to lock it if he hadn't been so excited with his news.]

Oh my god! Okay, okay. So maybe this place isn't so bad. I got magic. That's apparently my gifty boon thing for getting my ass handed to me by the invading hoard.

[He pauses, blinking and grinning down at the locket.]

I'm actually living a video game now. I feel like I just leveled up. Now all I need's a familiar. But look. Look!

[He waves around a staff, then points the locket at the books that had arrived with the staff, symbols emblazoned on them and looking exactly like what they were; spell books.]

Dude, I'm a freaking magician. Wizard? Sorcerer? I don't really know yet, but I can do stuff. See?

[He'd already poured through part of a book and had memorized one incantation. He repeated it, the tip of his staff glowing before the comforter on his bed caught fire.]

Oh... uh, no. No, shit. No, wait I didn't, hey! Hey! Stop. Finito! FLAME OFF! FLAME! OFF!

[He drops the locket and the staff and goes to pull the comforter off to toss in the fireplace. Have fun watching that debacle.]

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[teenyoda]

Blipping? Blip blip blipping on the rada--

You know, you make it really hard to explain things to you when you don't know most of what I'm going to use as examples. Just... trust me. Your confidence at the moment is highly suspicious.

[bullhorned]

Your attempt to burn down our castle is even more suspicious.

[teenyoda]

Right, because clearly that was my intention. You come back and surprise, no castle. Go sleep in a tree.

[bullhorned]

Bloody uncomfortable things, trees. You sure you aren't one of the Unseelie?

[teenyoda]

I might have a little Unseelie in me. Or a lot. I don't know. But I'm here, so clearly there's a reason for it.

[bullhorned]

It's because you got a piece of shard in you. [He pauses and considers.] I killed a few Unseelie folk, but I didn't see no shards in them.

[teenyoda]

I meant here, as in in the Seelie castle.

Huh. You did? Were they like us or were they fairies?

[bullhorned]

No. They were ugly, with twisted ears and gnarled faces. Almost like us, if their faces had been burned up first.

[It was the best way he could describe them, because he's never encountered orcs before.]

[teenyoda]

I haven't asked if any of the, ah, creatures from here have shards in them or not. I'm going to go with no.

[bullhorned]

You reckon they're all locals then?

[teenyoda]

Maybe all the ones that don't have shards in them, since it looks like the shard thing is a... outside occurrence?

[bullhorned]

Funny thing that. You'd think they'd have the sense to keep these bloody shards in their own world.

[teenyoda]

You'd think. And yet here we all are with thees bits of magic in us. Guess they aren't too bright, huh?

[bullhorned]

They're stupid enough to give you magic. So seems you're right.

[teenyoda]

.. You know, it seems to me like you're just asking for your pants to get set on fire when you get back here.

[bullhorned]

Mayhaps I am. I'll be ready for you, wizard.

[teenyoda]

Yeah? I hope you are... jerkface.

[Cut feed.]