text | 06. new abilities (un: mystique)

[anybodies]

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?

Comments

[anybodies]

A rifle is a type of firearm. larger than the one in the picture you saw. there are a lot of different kinds, some of them as much for hurting people as animals.

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.]

[muscovy]

I'm not very tall. How long are they?

[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.]

[anybodies]

they can be a little big. But there are smaller ones. .22s

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 ☉‿☉✿]

[muscovy]

[The adults that he lives with help him train with daggers or condone this training. So at least from that side there're probably no complains forthcoming.]

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.]

[anybodies]

That's important. whoever trained you was very sensible.

[She'd had to learn all about falling, herself.]

we can give it a shot. If you like. literally a shot.

[muscovy]

[He nods.] My lord father is very sensible when he isn't mad. [Mad as in crazy.] And he didn't want me to get hurt. [It sometimes made things harder that they had different ideas of what would get Muscovy hurt.

His smile grows at her words, turning from cautious to excited.]

When?

[anybodies]

hmm. Well i cook for the camp, [...not that they'd mind seeing her go. ;( But she doesn't want to shirk her responsibilities.] but that's it.

Anytime around meals. morning, after breakfast?

[muscovy]

[He thinks on it briefly - time is a factor here, since he doesn't want to travel the jungle without daylight and his little family lives a bit of a distance away from the camp - but then he nods. Yes, that should be no problem.]

Where can I find you?

[anybodies]

How about the north edge of camp?

Theres the tree that looks like a horse's head, do you know the one?

[muscovy]

Yes.

I will be there.

how do u feel about picking up on session 2-3 in feb? =)

[anybodies]

if somebody's like your mom or dad around here now, I'd like if you would bring them along too

That sounds great!

[muscovy]

I will try to bring one of my adults.

[Now he only needs to decide if he wants to bring Rey or Firo...]