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Fifth Negotiation

Feb 06, 2011 22:31

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[Oh, gosh. How adorable. Today, there is what looks almost like a lemonade stand set up outside 1448 Mitchell Road, complete with smiling, cherubic face shining forth underneath a large sign that reads . . . um.

WILL USE MAGIC SPELLZ TO IMPROOF LIFE FOR MONEE OR COOKIES

Whoever passes by will be treated to a little boy shouting:]

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[Action] ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 03:42:53 UTC

[[Theta is limping along on her daily walk, and she blinks in surprise when she sees the sign. With a soft laugh, she decides to limp over and speak to the boy.]]

Magic~? How old are you, I wonder~?

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 03:49:13 UTC

I-It doesn't matter how old you are when you're the best black mage in all Mysidia!

[Young, Theta. The answer is young.]

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 03:54:14 UTC

[[She'd expected some sort of answer in the hundreds of years--she's starting to get used to all of the people that are much older than they appear, and to see a child advertising magic meant a logical jump for her. Nonetheless, her expression is curious rather than harsh.]]

And what kind of magic can you do?

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 04:03:43 UTC

I just said black magic, right?

[Pause. Oh, right, people didn't know about the proper schools of magic here.]

That's any magic that destroys or hurts or, um. Any fighting magic, really.

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 04:08:19 UTC

Ah...a bit in opposition to my sort of magic, but nothing I really need. Good luck~.

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 04:12:17 UTC

W-Wait! I can do other things, too! What kind of magic do you use?

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 04:27:56 UTC

[[That gets a very bright and arrogant-seeming smile.]]

I am an ergaleomancer. The only kind of magician recognised in my home.

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 04:31:16 UTC

....[Palom squints a little.]

Uh. Do you make disgruntled lions appear?

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 04:48:58 UTC

[[And that gets a bright and jolly laugh.]]

It means 'magician of gears and potential energy'. I make clockworks~.

[[She keeps one hand on her cane, but reaches up with her other one to reach under her scarf. She pulls out a large clockwork cockroach, made of mahogany and brass. She holds it down to him.]]

Things like this.

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 04:56:36 UTC

[Palom doesn't want to be impressed, because he is the best mage in the world, by golly, but he is. He squints some more, but this time to get a closer look.]

...... That's pretty neat, I guess. Why a bug?

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 05:05:17 UTC

[[The little creature fluffs its wing guards and wings, then turns and skitters up Theta's arm, situating itself on her shoulder to peer at Palom for a moment before turning and crawling under her scarf.]]

A naturally small creature, capable of flying, and not something that just anyone will squeal with delight over and want to steal from me~.

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 05:08:55 UTC

[Palom thinks about this for a few seconds, and as someone who would've stolen a mechanical puppy the moment he saw it, nods.]

That makes sense. How long did something like that take you?

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 05:25:45 UTC

[[She made a mechanical puppy once, but it wasn't getting stolen that disabused her of the idea of making such things again. Her cane and disability was testament to a failed endeavour.]]

Roachi is a bit of a special case, I started working on him when I was ten or so, but kept taking him apart and putting him back together until I was seventeen.

A project like him, though? I think I could have finished in a year or two, depending on how many projects I had going at once.

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 05:40:55 UTC

[Oh, good. If she had said anything much less than six months or so, Palom would've felt pretty threatened. His confidence boosts a little at that, though.]

It looks like you've even got it to mimic real life.

Anyway, I don't know how you use your kind of magic, but mine is pretty short-term. You want to hear what I can do and see if it might help?

ergaleomancer February 7 2011, 05:49:34 UTC

Roachi might as well be alive.

But...short-term...instantaneous magic? That could be useful, but it depends on the practical applications of it...

prodigious_mage February 7 2011, 05:53:59 UTC

[Being ten years old and selfish, Palom takes that as 'please show me how awesome you are'.]

Ah-hem!

Black magic is the most powerful of the schools of magic in Mysidia! Summoning is cheating. Please be impressed as I reveal the . . . the awesome ..... Um. ...Um. Yeah, I forgot my speech.

But here's what I do! Right now, I can make fire, call lightning, make blizzards, spew poison gas or knock-out powder, turn things into pigs or frogs or stone, drain magic or life, and teleport four or five people at once!

There would be more, but the dumb town still has most of it.

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