[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

[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...

[shardstorm]

Oh. [That was true...]

[The next part had her perk up though]

It happens sometimes! And then anyone who relies on magic cannot really help and feels useless... [She maaay have been there a time or two, she thinks] But then the people who don't are really useful!!

[missmarionette]

I guess it's always important to have a lot of options around.

And it's fun, too, the nonmagical way.

[shardstorm]

It is?

[Non-magic healing was fun? Was magic healing fun...? Curious...]

If you enjoy it you should keep doing it! [Nod!]

[missmarionette]

Right, that's right.

[Ah, cleric would be more useful, but mages... maybe it's best not to overlap skill sets!]

[It's something to think about over the night until the next thing distracts her.]