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lostcarnival2018-05-21 09:14 pm
anti_nonsense) wrote in lostcarnival2018-05-21 09:14 pm
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Who: Rita and Syrlya
When: Day 60, after the gang returns from their outing
Where: Trailer 29
What: Rita wants to go through Strange's stuff while he's gone, gets Syrlya to help
It's only been a short while since the group returned from meeting the keepers of the Athenaeum, but with little time to rest or begin preparations, Syrlya will receive an abrupt radio message.
"This is Rita. I need to look at Strange's things, so I'm coming over."
And that's all the warning he'll get before she shows up at the door, not even three minutes later. She gives it a few impatient knocks to announce her arrival, then opens it anyway to let herself in.
When: Day 60, after the gang returns from their outing
Where: Trailer 29
What: Rita wants to go through Strange's stuff while he's gone, gets Syrlya to help
It's only been a short while since the group returned from meeting the keepers of the Athenaeum, but with little time to rest or begin preparations, Syrlya will receive an abrupt radio message.
"This is Rita. I need to look at Strange's things, so I'm coming over."
And that's all the warning he'll get before she shows up at the door, not even three minutes later. She gives it a few impatient knocks to announce her arrival, then opens it anyway to let herself in.
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"Hello, Rita." He raises a brow, closing the door behind him. "What exactly are you looking for?"
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"Strange kept notes on all the fae we've encountered and heard of. I want to take a look, see if there's any information that can help us deal with them." It probably won't be that simple. If the fae had any weaknesses that Strange happened to know about, he would have shared it already. Heck, he probably wouldn't shut up about it. But there could still be something... including things that may seem more important now, after they've learned so much over the past few days.
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Them both, really, but Strange's notes are what's overtaking most of the trailer. Syrlya looks briefly uncertain before moving to the kitchen table to try and root through those papers first. "You can search the desk."
That's Strange's space, but Strange is kidnapped and they could use all the edge they need, so there's going to have to be a little breech of privacy here.
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At the desk, Rita starts skimming loose pages, finding various notes on Athenaeum findings. A passage about the Silver Mirror...? She'll jot down a copy of it to add to her compilation. Strange probably won't mind, and even if he does, too bad.
Just as she finishes that, a hand mirror on the desk catches her eye, seemingly reflecting things that aren't actually in front of it. Rita reaches experimentally for the surface, and finds that her fingers slip right into it. She grasps something within the mirror-space, then pulls out... a pen? Rita shoots Syrlya a quizzical look. "He uses these for storage now?"
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"I--out of the mirror?" He squints, abandoning the kitchen table to approach the desk and try sticking his hand into the mirror himself. Goodness. "Well, he certainly didn't tell me he could do that!"
He tried, but unfortunately they got caught in a book before he got the chance. Syrlya grabs some papers on the other side and pulls them right out. "But I suppose if he can travel between--oh, I believe this is it." He tilts the paper so Rita can see. It's at least some of the notes on the Portland Fae.
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"Hmm..." Rita muses as she scans the magician's writing. "He sure had a lot to say about Nightshade." Not too surprising, considering what she did to him. There must have been a lot more to it than what Rita saw, too. In fact, reading between the lines in this description gives a pretty vivid picture of what that might have entailed.
But while she won't skimp on reading about the other fae, there's one she's particularly interested in, and Rita speaks up again when she finishes reading that part.
"Ignatius... right, that sounds like him. He tries to act like he's some honorable warrior." She scoffs. "Likes his duels... like any mortal with common sense would really take him up on that sort of thing."
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"He's the one to took Strange, correct?" He hums thoughtfully, and then looks down at Rita.
"You seem to know him better... be 'act like' would you say that he holds his bargains with little trickery?" He raises a brow. "Enough to, say, treat the terms of a duel as they are, without attempting to undermine them."
He gets the impression Fae are pretty bound by their contracts and deals, but that doesn't mean they can't use loopholes to their favor.
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It's not too hard to see where Syrlya's going with this, though, and she soon adds, "You think we can use that against him?"
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"I do." He nods affirmingly. "We can challenge him over Strange's servitude. A duel, that if he loses will have to release Strange's freedom and his life."
They'll need to set proper parameters, and appeal to Ignatius' desire to duel them. But if he's an honorable warrior, Syrlya doesn't expect it to take too much. In fact, he sounds very confident about this.
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"Come to think of it, I might have just the thing for that," she adds abruptly, looking over the desk once again. Where did he put it...?
Frowning, Rita turns her attention to the messenger bag left nearby, one she remembers Strange passing to Zangetsu just before he was taken. From it, she retrieves a stack of notes, the paper oddly stiff and the ink slightly smudged. But those get set aside and ignored as she continues fishing through the bag until she produces what she's looking for: a red-feathered quill.
"He ever show you this before?" she asks, waving the quill to show him.
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"I assume that you do?" With a lead up like that, it's pretty pointed. So he looks at Rita expectantly for an answer.
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"It's a magic quill. Came from the Ringmaster. When a person writes with it, it siphons a small portion of their blood to use as ink. And when you apply that to writing and signing a contract, it acts as a powerful binding spell, ensuring both parties adhere to the agreed terms precisely as they were written."
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But it is a possible safeguard. "We will take it. And I will supply the bloodstone. The Fae are powerful, and we could use every tool we have to bring ourselves closer to their level."
Or the Fae closer to theirs. Syrlya's dealt with these stakes before, but a little edge goes a long way when fighting something that could basically obliterate you with a gesture.
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"Bloodstone?" Rita's eyes light up with curiosity. "What's that?"
Something that can bring them closer to the fae's level? That sure sounds like something she'd be interested in.
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"It is dangerous to use, but when contesting the power of the Fae we may have to take that risk." And he's not sure if his small shard can get them to their capabilities. Actually, he's sure it won't. But it doesn't need to--it just needs to be enough for one victory.
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Yeah, she wants to try it. Even though he just said... well, she should ask to be sure.
"How dangerous are we talking?"
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"Potentially fatal. It is an artifact from Tyria, so I have not seen how it behaves with other forms of magic." Are the dangers of excessive exposure to magic the same no matter where, or does the nature of it change? There's some similarities between Tyria's flow and the Fae's, but it's hard for him to tell if the differences are only technicalities.
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"Know any ways to mitigate that risk?" she goes on to ask, then adds, seemingly realizing, "Maybe controlling the narrative would help..."
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