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[shutupmerlin]

[ The tablet displays a man in chainmail and plate armor face down on Charon's raft a few feet away - device still being held by the boatman. For a moment the body is still, and then a loud groan emits from it.

The head moves. Glances around. Stills.

A sigh and it's like the whole man deflates with exasperation. ]

Merlin. [ Tone just seething

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[slayerdom]

... You have so gotta be kidding me.

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[shutupmerlin]

[ And suddenly, from out of nowhere, Hark! A voice! What.

He stops. Glances around. Makes a kind of sour face, and says in a deadpan, to the air around him - ]

...Hello?

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[slayerdom]

Uh. Down here. Big, shiny electronic thing. Woo hoo. [ She waves, trying to attract his attention with movement. ] Yeah, hey. Princely guy. Got your answers. Or, well, sort of.

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[shutupmerlin]

[ Shuffling over warily to kind of peer down at the tablet. Not going to pick it up because, yeah, obviously sorcery, but just. Stare at it from up here. And a couple feet away. ]

So I show up in a mysterious cavern and a skeleton hands me an obsidian slab of rock with a girl trapped inside... All things considered, still not the strangest. How did you... [ looks a little sideways at the tablet now ] ...get in there?

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[hellsbellsharry]

[He's trying really not to laugh... but he can't help it.]

Oh man... best entry ever!

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[shutupmerlin]

[ Glancing around, looking for where those voices are coming from, what in creation -- Oh. Here's Arthur sauntering kind of warily back over to the tablet. Just gonna... stare at it from up here. And not pick it up. Because, what even. ]

I'm sorry? Were you saying something... little... talking slab of rock? With a face. Two faces. Do I even need to mention sorcery at this point or shall that just be taken as a given from now on?

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[hellsbellsharry]

Think of it as a magic mirror. I'm not in the tablet, I'm using it to talk to you through it.

But no this isn't sorcery. Yet.

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[shutupmerlin]

[ He straightens up a little, looking sort of tense ]

So it's a not magic-magical item. Are you planning on making sense any time soon, because 'helpful' is really what I'm looking for currently.

And how would one stop it from reaching sorcery?

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[uthergtfo]

[Morgana has spent the past few days setting up her house, watching the goings on of the Underworld through the magic mirror-thing, and just generally getting accustomed to the fact that she is the only person from Camelot here. And given all she's had to think about with recent events, it hasn't been such a terrible thing.

But then she hears that all too familiar and arrogant voice coming out of the tablet resting on her bed. She slowly turns to the device and reaches for it, a horrified expression on her face. For a brief moment she considers turning it off and just pretending that she didn't hear anything. It would be easy, he's even dropped the device and starting walking away like the pompous fool that he is... but she tells herself it'll only be a matter of time before he finds out that she's here. She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes. When she opens them again her expression looks pained, and she shouts]

Arthur!

[Video] 1/ sit tight, it'll be a while

[shutupmerlin]

[ At first he doesn't believe it. Thinks he might have finally become so desperate to find her that he's hearing things. ]

[Video] 2/idek

[shutupmerlin]

[ But then it occurs to him, that even if he were, even if the voice was coming from another side of a cliff with a deadly drop off, he'd still chase it. Just the smallest bit of something and he'd follow it. So when he starts walking back over to the tablet, he peers, trying to glimpse at the image displayed on it. ]

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[shutupmerlin]

[ The he sees her and he runs. Dives for the thing, and now he's got armored knees on the ground, holding the magic mirror thing up and he can really care less what kind of origin the object has - it is showing him Morgana. Something he's been waiting days, months, weeks, just praying to see. ]

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[nothumdrumvee]

...damn. I think I might have to track down some anger management for you. Not that, you know, anyone blames you for the righteous indignation. Could you get any more righteous about it?

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[shutupmerlin]

[ Oh look, a wild smarmy buttface has come to say hi. Have some glaring for your insolence, Tony ]

I probably could, would you like me to give it a try? I haven't even started on the offensive mistreatment of nobility or the negligence in filtering out the disrespecting peanut gallery.

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[nothumdrumvee]

Hey. Didn't your mom ever tell you to mind your manners? [Because "disrespecting peanut gallery" is totally the worst thing he's been called.]

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[shutupmerlin]

[ HIS MOM IS DEEEEAAAAAAD DDDD< Have more scowling. ]

And how's accurate labeling not minding my manners? I mean, I could have said things along the lines of 'wise-cracking git' or 'cheeky prat', but that would just be rude and that certainly isn't what's going on here between either of us.

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[neurotoxins]

I'm sure that throwing a temper tantrum like this will cause all of your answers to fall into your lap.

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[shutupmerlin]

[ You're a lady and thus does not get his snark, because Arthur's all Princely. He'll take this with humor instead, headtilting with a little laugh at himself. ]

It's garnered a few already so it can't have been too terribly bad of a choice.

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[neurotoxins]

You may be getting some of your answers, but I imagine you would get a lot more answers, as well as allies, if you weren't making such a scene.

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[shutupmerlin]

Then consider the scene halted. [ This is his 'look, peace offering, sorry I offended everyone butnotreally' face. ] My apologies.