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.]

Comments

[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.]