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text | 06. new abilities (un: mystique)
This is Mystique. These days you probably know me from the inconsistently gluey consistency of my campfire cooking. [Or from the fact she's still missing a foot, but she spares the network her self-pity. Suffice to say, though, she's a far cry from the reptilian ninja she once advertised herself as.]
I know we have pressing concerns. The animal attacks, disappearances, the stockade, corpses in day-glo crypts and other weird discoveries. Passing out after the Jumps. This isn't trying to take away attention from that, but I'm gonna assume it's connected somehow.
Our new powers. Some of you know what I'm talking about.
And by new, I mean since the crash. If you're an elf, this isn't elf magic. If you're a wizard, this isn't what you're used to doing with your wand. If you're a mutant, this isn't your mutation. Me, I've been able to make stuff out of thin air. It never lasts, but for a little, while it's real. Anything from bread to bullets. [Or an accidental tractor tire! Sorry, Bucky.] I've been getting better at it with every passing month.
Before we arrived here, while we were still aboard the tranquility, a lot of us started to display similar new abilities[OOC link]. These turned out to be connected to the murderous and eventually pro-van rijn entity that was 'haunting' the ship, but learning control seemed to relate to the way that we ultimately overpowered it too.
Do you have new powers? New theories?
I know we have pressing concerns. The animal attacks, disappearances, the stockade, corpses in day-glo crypts and other weird discoveries. Passing out after the Jumps. This isn't trying to take away attention from that, but I'm gonna assume it's connected somehow.
Our new powers. Some of you know what I'm talking about.
And by new, I mean since the crash. If you're an elf, this isn't elf magic. If you're a wizard, this isn't what you're used to doing with your wand. If you're a mutant, this isn't your mutation. Me, I've been able to make stuff out of thin air. It never lasts, but for a little, while it's real. Anything from bread to bullets. [Or an accidental tractor tire! Sorry, Bucky.] I've been getting better at it with every passing month.
Before we arrived here, while we were still aboard the tranquility, a lot of us started to display similar new abilities[OOC link]. These turned out to be connected to the murderous and eventually pro-van rijn entity that was 'haunting' the ship, but learning control seemed to relate to the way that we ultimately overpowered it too.
Do you have new powers? New theories?
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Have you tried out if the powers are stronger closer to the ship?
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and they don't stay where they hit.
I haven't. have you?
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That thought hadn't occurred to him yet.] How far can you shoot them before they vanish? And do you need a gun for it? [He never managed to acquire one and they seemed useful, but if he wouldn't even need one to shoot monsters...]
No, but if they come from the ship, they should be, yes?
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It's worth checking out. It seems like sometimes the way the ship works though, it's not like effects fade over distance. the tether seems to hold really solid, you know?
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[What is a tether... he nods, though. She sounds like she knows what she's saying.]
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[It takes a moment, but then there's an image attachment. It's an unconventional firearm, certainly, white and plastic, semi-automatic.]
Why do you ask?
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[So he'll try to get her to take it apart from him or show him his way around the firearm's innards in some other way.]
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you want to create a firearm?
Im sorry, how old did you say you were?
[aaaa someone save her]
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I am not sure, but over 400. [Or so he has been told. Time is a bit elusive to a child when it comes on that scale, even when said child is a nation.]
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[Why does he sound like a baby? She thinks about him, matches a face she's seen around camp to the voice.]
your voice sounds like a child's and that concerns me
Kids and guns.
does that make sense?
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[You can't beat "my father would be okay with it" in adult logic. Or at least he hopes that it will work that way.]
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What did your father intend for you to shoot?
back then. or when you got older
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[Or him, for that matter, though Muscovy is A. sure that Maglor would have objected to Muscovy trying to protect him because it would endanger him (which is just silly; Maglor's presence provided enough protection and other good things like plentiful food to make his absence even more dangerous) and B. knows that Maglor would have hardly needed it. But then Galadriel didn't either, and he still saved her back on the ship just by being there and refusing to leave, prompting her to run instead of fighting, so... And he wouldn't have stayed like that if he'd had no means to fight, even if his fighting then was less conventional than bow or daggers.]
If I cannot make a gun to protect myself I might get killed before I get older, yes?
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how would you feel about learning how to shoot a rifle? do you know what that is?
[The better to learn the basics. And to learn it hunting game, sooner than something small, concealable, prospectively problematic.]
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[If it is a type of gun, colour him very interested, though. He still stands by what he once told Newt - that daggers are better than firearms in small spaces and when you need to keep it as quiet as possible - but that doesn't mean that firearms don't have their perks, and quite a lot of them.
And Firo is already helping him with the daggers, which just reinforced that having a teacher (again) is quite helpful.]
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But hunting is how a lot of people learn. And they're less dangerous for reasons, not the least because they are more difficult to conceal.
[She's never met a child who learned how to hunt from their father at age four hundred, mind you. But. There has to be a legitimate comparison in here, somewhere.]
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[He'd rather not wield something that will catapult him through the next wall when he uses it, or the next tree or whatever applies here.]
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more table too. if you're a little guy, the kick can really throw you around.
[IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING.
Maybe.
The failure of the general public to object or interject is increasingly astounding ☉‿☉✿]
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I am strong for my size, but not very heavy. [He thinks on it for a moment.] But I know how to not get hurt when falling. [One of the first things Maglor made him learn when they started training, way back.]
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[She'd had to learn all about falling, herself.]
we can give it a shot. If you like. literally a shot.
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His smile grows at her words, turning from cautious to excited.]
When?
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Anytime around meals. morning, after breakfast?
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Where can I find you?
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Theres the tree that looks like a horse's head, do you know the one?
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I will be there.
how do u feel about picking up on session 2-3 in feb? =)
That sounds great!
[Now he only needs to decide if he wants to bring Rey or Firo...]