034. For Your Life

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[Brock's out in the woods by his cabin again, like he does, his journal open in case another giant commotion happens on the expedition side again. Not like he can do anything from way out here, but it makes him feel a little less ... useless, maybe, to know what's going on.

He is throwing knives at a target he's got set up, and the open journal might pick up the rhythmic thock thock thock sound as he hits it dead center every time.

He pauses to pen a filter, then continues throwing knives as he dictates to the pages.]

[Filtered away from First Gens or whatever and people who would tell them about this I guess]
So, not to make a shitty situation worse, but seeing as how everybody on the expedition is like ... trapped, kinda, for the time being anyway -- should we maybe plan this stuff out better in the future? I mean, more than half the castle's competent fighters are out playing Sepulcher Thief. Indefinitely now, with no real way of getting out, right? Yeah.

So what if those jackasses in the iron suits come and fuck shit up again? It happened when nobody was around before, and big obvious unfiltered cave-ins going across the journals isn't that inconspicuous. I'm just saying. We need to be more careful.

[He's done with that thought, because that's all he wanted to say. What a paranoid jackass you are, Samson! Gosh.

He's got something else to say though, so again there is a pause in his throwing knives as he pens another filter.]

[Filter: Fenris]
Hey. Let me talk to you about something.

Comments

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's what I figured, too.

A necromancer? Like... with the dead?

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I never really saw him do anything but astral project and turn into purple smoke, though. Maybe he levitated once or twice, too.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

Astral projection is pretty useful, actually. I can do that. And I used to be able to levitate. I can't do the smoke without a potion, though.

[She laughs]

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

"Used to" be able to levitate? What turned it off?

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

[She pauses. This isn't really something she normally talks about... but what's the harm, at this point?]

I used my powers for personal gain. That's kind of a big no-no when it comes to good magic. My powers were taken from me. I was given a chance to earn them back, though. So far I've only earned back the power of premonition.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[well, brock usually doesn't talk at length about being a spy, either -- but paradisa has the tendency to make you a little less guarded. sometimes.]

Oh. I didn't know there were limitations on magic stuff.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

I don't know about other worlds, but there is for us. Evil doesn't have limitations but we can't use our powers for personal gain or to hurt people.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Can't hurt people, huh? What about, like ... monsters, stuff like that?

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

Demons and evil beings are different. It's more like, we can't hurt innocents.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Oh. Sure, I can get behind that rule.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

It's kind of the default "good" rule. It goes for all of Wicca, actually. "An it harm none, do what you will.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Oh ... Wicca? Yeah, the guy I know who does magic is just like, a straight-up magic guy.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

I started learning more about Wicca to better understand the roots behind all of this. I don't follow every tradition, but I do what I can to stay true to the ideas behind them.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Sounds, uh ... scholarly.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

Well, I did go to college, after all.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

I tried that. Didn't work out.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

Oh no? What happened? If you don't mind my asking.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[oh, gee] Uh, it's a complicated story. I lost my scholarship, basically. It's fine, though; I joined the Marines and then did the whole spy thing, so.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

The Marines, too? That's impressive, really. With all that I don't think it matters too much that you didn't finish school. [She chuckles]

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yeah, I never really felt like I was missing out.

[kungfuwitch.livejournal.com]

That's the important part, I think.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

As long as you do something with your life, yeah.