[EVENT] - Medena's solstice

[marleneonthewall]

Who: Open!
When: Monday the 20th & Tuesday the 21st (post the day in your subject)
Where: The high school football field in Underwood, where Medena resides
Before/After: N/A
Warnings: TBA

[If Marlene has your phone number, consider yourself invited. If she doesn't have your phone number but has met you once, consider yourself run into on the street and then invited. (And then she probably asked for your phone number afterward.)]

[All the real partyin' is gonna be happening from twilight to sunrise, with some inn-owners volunteering the booze (they are not checking IDs ofc), some catering ala monster hunters and the bonfire, and a couple local bands volunteering some music--there's an even split of indie groups from Earth and performers that crossed over from Zen, even a few collaborations between them. Tip them if you like them!]

[This is pretty illegal actually, but nobody's going to try to stop them until the bonfire gets out of control late Tuesday night.]

Comments

[missmarionette]

[Missie brightens.] That's a relief! I'll try not to do anything offensive.

[...]

Is it fun, being a mage?

[shardstorm]

[Irena brightens, too! Yay, new friend! Though she's an Earther.. hmm.]

Yes! I've been learning a lot! About Earth and about magic. [That... might require some explanation?]

I only knew combat spells before. And teleport. That's how I can go back to Zenderael. Oh, and levitation...

But! Now I can enchant things and cast some defensive spells on myself and others and do transmogrification and am trying to learn translation spells because there are many people in the Nenakret who speak French and I've never heard French before. [...that was a lot. She stops and blinks at Missie to see if she caught all that.] ...And illusions. [Okay now she stops.]

[missmarionette]

[Oh, she can go back? Missie listens, staring mostly as she tries to take it in. She's always know about combat spells, but the other things-- the teleporting and levitating and translations!?! and oh my goodness gracious all the awesome parts of being a mage!]

[...]

How long does it take to learn all of that?

[shardstorm]

[Irena blinks. It had taken her aaaages to master combat magic! At least she thinks so? Did being controlled limit how quickly you could learn things...?]

I am not sure. I'm still learning most of it but can do some? It takes lots of practice and study! [And with everything going on she's been kind of lax on her studies, whoops.]

[missmarionette]

That would make sense. [Totally thinking about this... magic is so great...! Maybe she wouldn't need as much help with monsters if she knew some? Not that she minds Nadir walking her home sometimes.]

What's your favorite spell?

[shardstorm]

Ah? [Irena gets a quizzical look on her face. Did she have a favourite spell? She'd never really thought about it before.]

Levitation is a lot of fun? [Did that count?]

[missmarionette]

[Heck yes it counts. Missie claps.]

Floating, right? You can make yourself float?

[shardstorm]

[Approval! Irena smiles!]

Yes! [and of course this means she demonstrates, by levitating herself a half a foot off the ground and letting her feet dangle in the air.]

[But then she remembers the whole 'afraid of mages' thing and drops back to the ground a little too quickly, stumbling forward.]

[missmarionette]

[Oh dear! Missie reaches out to help catch and stabilize Irena so she doesn't fall after landing.]

[But she's bouncing a little as she does so.]

How does anyone ever choose anything other than a mage?!

[shardstorm]

[She appreciates it! And was about to apologize but Missie seems way too excited to have been bothered and she's bouncing?]

Ah... Becoming a mage is dangerous. [So nonchalantly that she might as well have said the grass is green.]

And some people just prefer close combat or mixing potions or playing with nature or... What the other guilds do.

[missmarionette]

[Oh, yeah, Missie forgets about that part...]

[But Irena seems perfectly fine hahaha]

But.

But floating.

[shardstorm]

But the other guilds can do fun things! [She tries to think of specifics...]

[Okay she doesn't know a whole lot about the other guilds, maybe she should... fix this.]

They seem to like their guilds anyway.

I like being a mage. [Noooot really helping.]

[missmarionette]

I suppose spellswords get those eyes of theirs! And assassins can disappear.

[IT'S NOT FLOATING]

We don't have guilds on Earth, so it's interesting...

[shardstorm]

Spellswords can see magic! I think they see it different... [Maybe she should compare notes... Maybe with Marlene??]

If the worlds merge all the way you will!

[missmarionette]

I guess that could happen. It looks like it's going to, isn't it? I hope not too many people get hurt.

[shardstorm]

[She hesitates. Earth hadn't been prepared for the monsters, from what she'd learned. If it kept going, there'd only be more.]

[Not to mention the war...]

I hope not, also...

But then you could join a guild and learn how to fight? And others could, too!

[missmarionette]

I guess we'd have to! But that doesn't seem so bad... It could be worse? There could be no guilds and monsters.

[shardstorm]

Ah? [No guilds...?]

There would still be people who'd know how to fight them... But it would be more difficult without guild powers.

[Irena is mostly musing at this point. She can't even imagine a world without guilds!]

How did Earthers fight them before guild members came?

[missmarionette]

Guns, I think? But there were adventurers too!

Maybe we could hit them with cars.

Oh, but we'd run out of cars.

[shardstorm]

Cars would not work against all of them... [Neither would guns, she didn't think.]

But they do not seem to come into the city anymore? Maybe people will be safe now.

[missmarionette]

Less and less. I think more people are able to help. But we had those crabs for a while...

[Missie shrugs.]

Most of it seems under control.

[shardstorm]

Sandsea. [She'd looked into it, and even killed a few of the bigger crabs (the smaller ones were cute.]

[...hopefully no more islands or chunks of land would appear in the sky and rain down on Earth cities. It wasn't just dangerous for those beneath but it ruined perfectly good Zenderael sites!!!]

[Suddenly curious what with all the talk of guilds, she looks at Missie inquisitively.]

What do you do?

[missmarionette]

Me? Oh! I'm a nurse. [Do they call it that on Zenderael?] I heal people, but not with magic or with potions... it's no where near as effective.

[Now she's frowning.]

I keep wondering if we'll be replaced.

[shardstorm]

You could become a cleric! Then you would be... replacing yourself? [A little confusing...]

But there are healers who do not use magic! Clerics are not always available. Or potions. Or a nurse could tend to someone until a cleric could get there?

[Mental note to read up on earth healing later...]

[missmarionette]

But if I were a cleric, no one would have to wait for one.

[She looks thoughtful again.]

Maybe if there are times magic isn't a good idea...