27; grabbag + me myself and I; wow my future sucks; return of cefca

[sandinmyboots]

[This is Cefca, aka Kefka's younger self. This is Cefca, in a dark green uniform and corpselike blue make up, sunken in eyes and hollow cheeks and blue lips, waving at the community from a jail cell. He's got a bottle of something clear and unplesant looking and a jar full of ashes.]Helloooo, ducks. I am coming to you live from the, the ruins of

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[timey_wimey]

Don't you think you've had a bit much of that? Then again, I suppose if you've already drunk that much of it you probably won't think so at this rate, but never mind, it was worth a shot.

Well then. Go on, I guess, tell me about you, since you've probably not got much better to do sitting in a jail cell waiting for the virus to end. I'd offer to get you out, but well, no TARDIS. I won't lie, I'd be interested in hearing what you've got to say about yourself.

[sandinmyboots]

No, no, I know my limits. I get drink, drunk, pretty easily but I can metabolize a lot of it. Magic is weird like that. My body handles toxins and poisons easily but I'm thiiiiis light! I want a refund. Wait, no, I don't. Do I?

Right. What's a TARDIS? You're the guy with the circle words that older me talked to, right? I get some of his memories every time I show up here. He liked that. Do I start on a societal level, or just talk about myself? Do you want the epic life story? (It's really boring except for the parts where people die.) Or should I explain my hideous misbehaving self?

[timey_wimey]

I dunno, suppose it depends if you like being drunk without the downside of eventually getting alcohol poisoning or not.

The TARDIS was my ship. Best ship in the universe, she is, and oh, the times we had... anyway, that's not the point. Yeah, I'm the circle guy, or the Doctor if you'd prefer, that'd do nicely too. Start wherever you want, I suppose, I mean, we've got time...

[sandinmyboots]

Eh, that's nice. But. But I do stupid things when drunk, the inhibitions flitting away on the air and then everything's gone higgledy! But it could be good for a drinking battle...

Hi, Doctor! You'll have to introduce yourself to me again, the other one, later - I can get his memories but he can't get mine. Silly things. Hm. Do you want to learn about magic? Clothing? Social things? No, no, I should tell you about history. You like time and history, so I'll tell you about the world. And you can tell me about your ship.

All ready?

[timey_wimey]

Could be, could be. You'd probably win against most people with a metabolism like that.

Oh, I was born ready. Fire away.

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[sandinmyboots]

Yeah, but it takes too long. And alcohol poisoning is boring.

Ok, ok.

[Cefca shakes off some of his stupor and sits up, going into storyteller mode.]Once, there were three sisters who lived on an island. The island was surrounded by a great sea of nothingness, and sometimes monsters made of nothing tried to eat away at the island, but the sisters would chase them off

[sandinmyboots]

Meanwhile, the first soul wandered until it found the bird again. “What do you want?” said the bird, fearing

AND DONE

[sandinmyboots]

This is how the War of the Magi began

[timey_wimey]

That was... blimey. Lot to digest there. Good story though! I love a good Creation story, they're always worth listening to.

So is all of that true, then? The Phantom Bird and the sisters hidden away where nobody can find them? Or is this one of those stories that got a bit exaggerated as it got passed down the generations? To be fair, even if it was exaggerated it's still probably more true than a lot of my universe's creation stories, given that your world's actually got magic and mine is based on science.

[sandinmyboots]

They are! I should look at more Earth ones, I bet they're entertaining.

It's all true. Details are different, but the base matter is the same. I've seen the Phantom Train with my own eyes. (She is a train now. I didn't dare step foot inside.) And the sisters were hidden, but in this time...my older self found them. He's the one they were waiting for.

[timey_wimey]

Which ones have you looked at so far, if any? I could probably recommend you some. Or swap you a one from my people if you felt that way inclined.

Well. That is someth--

Hang on. What do you mean your older self was the one they'd been waiting for?

[sandinmyboots]

I'd like to hear those, yes.

And I mean, he's the one who found them again. He did research to find out where they were and how to wake them back up. He connived his way into being the Empire's inner guard, which meant he'd be part of the group that went to find them. He was able to fight as befitting someone equivilant to a general of the inner guard, plus defeat all the guardians to the Warring Triad.

Warrior, trickster, scholar. Fire and wind, lightning and holy, ice and poison. "Kefka Palazzo" possesses all these things. He is the new god of magic.