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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[amplified]

Stiles! What's wrong with you? Setting fires? Are you out of your mind?! You could kill yourself!

[teenyoda]

Hey, don't freak out on me. I thought I was aiming it at the fireplace. I guess I have to work on that. But you saw that, right? I did that.

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[steeledskin]

...So. You've found something.

[ fire. how dreadful. but there are leagues between her and him, she supposes. she is stuck still a long march away from the castle. ] Good. I'm glad for you.

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[sangilak]

[ okay normally korra might get a good chuckle from someone screwing around with elemental powers, but this is fire and while korra's favorite bending style is firebending, she at least has respect for its power. ]

Hey, watch it! [ sorry if that comes off a little snappish, stiles! ] You shouldn't mess around with fire until you learn how to control it.

[amplified]

This coming from the guy who didn't even want me to try talking to them about leaving... ( She gives him a look. ) Please be more careful.

[teenyoda]

Hey, I didn't ask them about leaving. They just poofed this here. That's totally different. Seriously.

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What?

[teenyoda]

Looks like I did? I mean, it's not just that. I got books here with a whole bunch of stuff, but that was the first one I sort of memorized.

[He might need to work on his inflection more. But hey, Alayne, be proud of him.]

Means I'm not completely useless, right? How about you? You didn't wind up getting hurt or anything during the invasion, did you?

[teenyoda]

... Hey, it's not like I have a PhD in learning how to use magic, okay? This is new. I'm trying. It doesn't exactly come with full instructions. But there's more here than just fire, so, ah, maybe I'll stick with one of those for practicing.

[There's a novel idea, Stiles. How about not burning down the castle?]

[amplified]

I said be more careful. ( You heard me, Stiles. ) I'd rather you stay in one piece.

[teenyoda]

At least I wasn't in the bed when it happened, huh? That's a plus.

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[sangilak]

[ korra lifts an eyebrow. ]

Yeah, that? Would have been a real good start.

[sangilak]

...What's a PhD?

[ she might be going somewhere with this. ]

[amplified]

Maybe you should try to do more book work before you try anymore spells. You do call them spells, right?

[teenyoda]

The fire one was easy to pronounce.

[Logic, Korra. But he was already marking her as someone "NOT OF HIS WORLD" (TM).]

A... It's a doctorate. It's a degree you get when you learn something specific. Like being a doctor. Or a scientist.

[teenyoda]

Spells, incantations, yeah. One of the books here is for potions and elixers, so...

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[liugan]

Already such a professional. You must be very proud of yourself.

[teenyoda]

Yes, because that's what I need right now; snarky condescension. Thank you for filling in that void in my life.

[liugan]

Were you in short supply? How dreadful. I gladly offer my services in your time of need.

[teenyoda]

[He's giving the locket and the voice coming from it such a stink eye right now.]

Since you're in the mood to get me stuff, how about a fire extinguisher and some McDonald's?

[liugan]

[ yes good give him your frustrations and hate it is delicious ]

Oh, I think it best you deal with the consequences of your idiocy yourself. The second rule of sorcery, after all, is to use it wisely and responsibly.

[teenyoda]

[Does your dark side come with cookies?]

Hey, in case you haven't clued in, this is like, brand new to me. There's no heebie jeebie magic where I come from and we don't all go around having wizard's duels and stuff. A guy's gotta practice.

[liugan]

[ cheesecake ]

All the more reason for you to stop for a moment and think, before waving your stick around like a maniac? Or perhaps I am expecting too much from a novice.

[teenyoda]

[Curse you and your tempting evil desserts]

I thought I was directing it into the fireplace. It's not like the staff came with a freakin' instruction manual. 'Hold at a forty-five degree angle when talking out of your ass'.

[liugan]

[ why else do you think anyone goes to the dark side in the first place? ]

While it is highly entertaining for the rest of us, I'd suggest taking this as a learning opportunity. Choose a better location for practice. And you will need lots of it, I can tell.

[teenyoda]

[So what you're saying is that cheesecake was invented by Satan.]

Well, yeah, for practice, but I was just...

[Showing off]

Never mind. Whatever. Okay, yeah. Not in the castle. I got it.