Downtime [Completed]
Character(s): Jack Skellington and Trisana Chandler
Content: Jack discovers the wonders of instant messenger, and the two have a little chat.
Setting: PIMP (Paixao Instant Messenger Program)
Time: Morning, while Tris was recovering and Jack was waiting for Gaston to wake up.
Warnings: Get the fire extinguisher! >.>;; Tris is sparking again....
A Good Scare:
tris chandler: wha?
A Good Scare: Oh, my....
A Good Scare: I didn't realize this was an option. I'm terribly sorry to bother you.
tris chandler: It's alright.
tris chandler: I can't do much anyway.
A Good Scare: A slip of the button. But it's nice to know it's possible to speak in real time.
A Good Scare: Oh? Whyever not?
tris chandler: I have stitches in my back?
A Good Scare: Goodness! That certainly would keep you from doing much. I'm sorry to hear that.
A Good Scare: Well, I hope your recovery is quick and easy. What happened, if I may ask?
tris chandler: Some stupid woman attacked my brother and then me.
A Good Scare: How terrible! Why would she do something like that? Is your brother well?
tris chandler: I think so.
A Good Scare: I certainly hope so.
tris chandler: Me, too. I'm not about to open up to him, though. I don't want him in the same pain I'm in every time I move my back.
A Good Scare: Opening up to him causes him pain?
tris chandler: ...No, it's just...
tris chandler: We have a bond, and if I opened it up to him in this state, he would feel my pain.
A Good Scare: I see.... So the two of you are empathic, then?
tris chandler: ..Empa... wha?
A Good Scare: Empathy. The ability to experience the emotions of others, and sometimes cause them to experience your own.
tris chandler: Hm, yes, but that's not all.
A Good Scare: Oh? Do tell.
tris chandler: We can share our senses, to a degree.
A Good Scare: Fascinating.
A Good Scare: I know an empathic fellow, but nobody who can share senses with another; that really is quite unique. Have you always had your bond to each other?
tris chandler: No.
tris chandler: It started when we were ten. We're not related by blood.
A Good Scare: I can imagine it's quite the story.
tris chandler: Mmhm. Involving an earthquake, our dog, our sister who's terrified of the dark, and our other sister, as well.
A Good Scare: I could keep a look out for your brother, if you'd like; I'm sure he'd be glad to know you made it out of that fight in one piece.
A Good Scare: Heavens.... Perhaps if we meet sometime, you could tell me about it. If you're comfortable with such things, of course.
tris chandler: Mm. Would you? He looks a bit Eastern, with olive skin and short black hair. He has tattoos on his hands- flowers that move and change.
tris chandler: Mm, most people on my world already know the basics of the story.
A Good Scare: Ahaha, but we aren't in Kansas anymore, so to speak.
A Good Scare: I'd be glad to; he sounds very distinctive looking, especially among the locals here. What name does he answer to?
tris chandler: Briar.
tris chandler: ...Where's "Kansas"?
A Good Scare: I'd say I'd keep an eye out for him if I had any.... But I'll certainly tell him how you're doing if I see him, and get back to you, as well.
tris chandler: ...You don't have any eyes?
A Good Scare: Ah, Kansas? I apologize; that reference is rather world-specific.... It's a place in the United States of America, in a world I visit rather often.
A Good Scare: Not anymore, I'm afraid.
tris chandler: ..."United States of A"--..... How do you SEE!?
A Good Scare: Haha, the same way I speak without a tongue. :)
tris chandler: ........
A Good Scare: The United States of America is a country, by the way. Quite a large one, in fact, and very important.
tris chandler: Y-you don't have a tongue either!?
A Good Scare: And I haven't been missing it, either.
tris chandler: ...
tris chandler: Dear gods.
A Good Scare: I'm sorry, am I upsetting you?
tris chandler: Deep breaths, deep breaths, it wouldn't be good to fry the bed.
A Good Scare: Fry the bed?
tris chandler: ...My hair sparks when I'm upset.
A Good Scare: Good gracious, that does sound unpleasant.... it must be quite inconvenient, too. Does it hurt?
tris chandler: No, I'm immune to lightning.
A Good Scare: Fascinating.....
tris chandler: Not really. I am a lightning-witch, after all.
A Good Scare: Ah! I know a fair amount of witches, but none of them really seem to have an affinity to the elements. I'll have to ask them about that, sometime.
tris chandler: Hm. Maybe they're academic mages.
A Good Scare: No, I'm quite sure we don't have any mages in our midst.... Just witches, and a delightfully frightful lot they are.
tris chandler: ...Huh. Where I'm from, a mage is almost synonymous with a witch.
tris chandler: Or a female rage, rather.
A Good Scare: Well, our witches are quite traditional.....
tris chandler: Ah. Where I'm from, there are two major types of mage, academic mages and ambient mages. I come from the latter half.
A Good Scare: Perhaps we're on the world-differences, again. How would you define your witches and mages?
A Good Scare: I see....
A Good Scare: Perhaps your first guess would be right, then.
tris chandler: Academic mages deal strictly in charms and spells and the like. Their power comes from the book-learning they put into their magic, thus the name.
tris chandler: Young academic mages born with that power often make pictures appear in fires or move their toys without touching them.
A Good Scare: They sound like quite a handful.
tris chandler: Ambient mages can use academic magic, sometimes.
A Good Scare: What barrier would stop them?
tris chandler: If they sound like a handful, young academic mages are worse. ...Why would you want to stop them?
A Good Scare: Our own witches work from books as well--recipes, mostly.
A Good Scare: I wouldn't want to at all; it just seems odd that there would be some reason a mage with innate talent couldn't use hard work to learn more.
tris chandler: Control comes easier to academic mages.
tris chandler: Ambient mages are often associated with one thing in either the natural world or in a craft or trade.
tris chandler: My brother has plant magic, and I have weather magic.
tris chandler: One of my sisters has thread-magic, the other has magic with all the things one would find in a smithy and a forge.
tris chandler: Or, rather.
A Good Scare: Quite intriguing.
A Good Scare: Just how does one go about becoming an academic mage? I have to admit, I'm rather curious now.
tris chandler: You have to be born with magic, I'm afraid.
tris chandler: In either way.
A Good Scare: Mmmm, now that is a question, isn't it? I haven't the faintest idea.
tris chandler: Hmm.
A Good Scare: Ah, I suppose it wouldn't work anyway; I wasn't really born with them, so it likely doesn't count.
tris chandler: True.
A Good Scare: You must be tired, after all you've been through; perhaps it's best I leave you to get some rest.
tris chandler: Mm, thank you.
tris chandler: Ah, I don't think we introduced ourselves to each other.
tris chandler: I am Tris, and you are?
A Good Scare: Ah, we haven't?
A Good Scare: I'm sorry! My manners just flew right out the window, it seems....
tris chandler: Mine, too.
A Good Scare: Jack Skellington, at your service.
tris chandler: Pleased to, ah, talk to you.
tris chandler: Good morning, then.
A Good Scare: The pleasure is mine. Good morning to you as well, Tris. :)
Content: Jack discovers the wonders of instant messenger, and the two have a little chat.
Setting: PIMP (Paixao Instant Messenger Program)
Time: Morning, while Tris was recovering and Jack was waiting for Gaston to wake up.
Warnings: Get the fire extinguisher! >.>;; Tris is sparking again....
A Good Scare:
tris chandler: wha?
A Good Scare: Oh, my....
A Good Scare: I didn't realize this was an option. I'm terribly sorry to bother you.
tris chandler: It's alright.
tris chandler: I can't do much anyway.
A Good Scare: A slip of the button. But it's nice to know it's possible to speak in real time.
A Good Scare: Oh? Whyever not?
tris chandler: I have stitches in my back?
A Good Scare: Goodness! That certainly would keep you from doing much. I'm sorry to hear that.
A Good Scare: Well, I hope your recovery is quick and easy. What happened, if I may ask?
tris chandler: Some stupid woman attacked my brother and then me.
A Good Scare: How terrible! Why would she do something like that? Is your brother well?
tris chandler: I think so.
A Good Scare: I certainly hope so.
tris chandler: Me, too. I'm not about to open up to him, though. I don't want him in the same pain I'm in every time I move my back.
A Good Scare: Opening up to him causes him pain?
tris chandler: ...No, it's just...
tris chandler: We have a bond, and if I opened it up to him in this state, he would feel my pain.
A Good Scare: I see.... So the two of you are empathic, then?
tris chandler: ..Empa... wha?
A Good Scare: Empathy. The ability to experience the emotions of others, and sometimes cause them to experience your own.
tris chandler: Hm, yes, but that's not all.
A Good Scare: Oh? Do tell.
tris chandler: We can share our senses, to a degree.
A Good Scare: Fascinating.
A Good Scare: I know an empathic fellow, but nobody who can share senses with another; that really is quite unique. Have you always had your bond to each other?
tris chandler: No.
tris chandler: It started when we were ten. We're not related by blood.
A Good Scare: I can imagine it's quite the story.
tris chandler: Mmhm. Involving an earthquake, our dog, our sister who's terrified of the dark, and our other sister, as well.
A Good Scare: I could keep a look out for your brother, if you'd like; I'm sure he'd be glad to know you made it out of that fight in one piece.
A Good Scare: Heavens.... Perhaps if we meet sometime, you could tell me about it. If you're comfortable with such things, of course.
tris chandler: Mm. Would you? He looks a bit Eastern, with olive skin and short black hair. He has tattoos on his hands- flowers that move and change.
tris chandler: Mm, most people on my world already know the basics of the story.
A Good Scare: Ahaha, but we aren't in Kansas anymore, so to speak.
A Good Scare: I'd be glad to; he sounds very distinctive looking, especially among the locals here. What name does he answer to?
tris chandler: Briar.
tris chandler: ...Where's "Kansas"?
A Good Scare: I'd say I'd keep an eye out for him if I had any.... But I'll certainly tell him how you're doing if I see him, and get back to you, as well.
tris chandler: ...You don't have any eyes?
A Good Scare: Ah, Kansas? I apologize; that reference is rather world-specific.... It's a place in the United States of America, in a world I visit rather often.
A Good Scare: Not anymore, I'm afraid.
tris chandler: ..."United States of A"--..... How do you SEE!?
A Good Scare: Haha, the same way I speak without a tongue. :)
tris chandler: ........
A Good Scare: The United States of America is a country, by the way. Quite a large one, in fact, and very important.
tris chandler: Y-you don't have a tongue either!?
A Good Scare: And I haven't been missing it, either.
tris chandler: ...
tris chandler: Dear gods.
A Good Scare: I'm sorry, am I upsetting you?
tris chandler: Deep breaths, deep breaths, it wouldn't be good to fry the bed.
A Good Scare: Fry the bed?
tris chandler: ...My hair sparks when I'm upset.
A Good Scare: Good gracious, that does sound unpleasant.... it must be quite inconvenient, too. Does it hurt?
tris chandler: No, I'm immune to lightning.
A Good Scare: Fascinating.....
tris chandler: Not really. I am a lightning-witch, after all.
A Good Scare: Ah! I know a fair amount of witches, but none of them really seem to have an affinity to the elements. I'll have to ask them about that, sometime.
tris chandler: Hm. Maybe they're academic mages.
A Good Scare: No, I'm quite sure we don't have any mages in our midst.... Just witches, and a delightfully frightful lot they are.
tris chandler: ...Huh. Where I'm from, a mage is almost synonymous with a witch.
tris chandler: Or a female rage, rather.
A Good Scare: Well, our witches are quite traditional.....
tris chandler: Ah. Where I'm from, there are two major types of mage, academic mages and ambient mages. I come from the latter half.
A Good Scare: Perhaps we're on the world-differences, again. How would you define your witches and mages?
A Good Scare: I see....
A Good Scare: Perhaps your first guess would be right, then.
tris chandler: Academic mages deal strictly in charms and spells and the like. Their power comes from the book-learning they put into their magic, thus the name.
tris chandler: Young academic mages born with that power often make pictures appear in fires or move their toys without touching them.
A Good Scare: They sound like quite a handful.
tris chandler: Ambient mages can use academic magic, sometimes.
A Good Scare: What barrier would stop them?
tris chandler: If they sound like a handful, young academic mages are worse. ...Why would you want to stop them?
A Good Scare: Our own witches work from books as well--recipes, mostly.
A Good Scare: I wouldn't want to at all; it just seems odd that there would be some reason a mage with innate talent couldn't use hard work to learn more.
tris chandler: Control comes easier to academic mages.
tris chandler: Ambient mages are often associated with one thing in either the natural world or in a craft or trade.
tris chandler: My brother has plant magic, and I have weather magic.
tris chandler: One of my sisters has thread-magic, the other has magic with all the things one would find in a smithy and a forge.
tris chandler: Or, rather.
A Good Scare: Quite intriguing.
A Good Scare: Just how does one go about becoming an academic mage? I have to admit, I'm rather curious now.
tris chandler: You have to be born with magic, I'm afraid.
tris chandler: In either way.
A Good Scare: Mmmm, now that is a question, isn't it? I haven't the faintest idea.
tris chandler: Hmm.
A Good Scare: Ah, I suppose it wouldn't work anyway; I wasn't really born with them, so it likely doesn't count.
tris chandler: True.
A Good Scare: You must be tired, after all you've been through; perhaps it's best I leave you to get some rest.
tris chandler: Mm, thank you.
tris chandler: Ah, I don't think we introduced ourselves to each other.
tris chandler: I am Tris, and you are?
A Good Scare: Ah, we haven't?
A Good Scare: I'm sorry! My manners just flew right out the window, it seems....
tris chandler: Mine, too.
A Good Scare: Jack Skellington, at your service.
tris chandler: Pleased to, ah, talk to you.
tris chandler: Good morning, then.
A Good Scare: The pleasure is mine. Good morning to you as well, Tris. :)