[OPENING] magical training log

[spellslash]

Who: Brie, whichever newbies want to show up.
Where: The beach.
When: Day 4
Open/Closed: OTA

[It's about noon on the island, based on the position of the sun. The newbies have had a few days to settle in, but that doesn't mean they've fully mastered their newfound abilities.

As much stock as Genette puts into telepathy, Brie is more concerned about their other newfound gifts. She's aggressively tried to wrangle as many newbies as possible onto the sandy shores of the beachfront area for some magic practice.

She's got a list of everyone's magic -- only a few vague notes, limitations are for you to discover -- and she's handing out missions for magic training. If you want to participate? Feel free. If you don't? Suit yourself.

But understanding your magic isn't just an activity that benefits the group. Learning your magic's abilities may be what stands between you and survival, which is something she makes perfectly clear.]

Comments

[rebells]

In my pocket?

[That's random enough to startle him out of his funk. He reaches into the pocket of his shorts and pulls out . . . a pamphlet???]

This certainly wasn't in here before . . . "Have you heard the good news?"

[potentite]

[Jake cocks his head, curious.]

Good news? [He comes closer, wanting to take a peek.] What kind of good news? I always like good news.

[rebells]

[He flips it open and thumbs through it. IT SURE IS A PAMPHLET FROM A PEST CONTROL AGENCY ABOUT HOW YOU CAN FIND THE LIGHT OF JESUS.]

. . . It appears to be some sort of religious document. The good news pertains to your impending salvation.

[This is said very dryly.]

[potentite]

[That is. Something. Jake has not been exposed to this sort of thing before. He's seen odd religious types in movies before but that's different.]

Golly, that's... pretty silly sounding. [Look, he's a god from a universe that involves world ending video games. Normal religious worries sound weird?] I don't think it'll do us much good around here.

[rebells]

No. I'm not an expert, but I don't think most religions have accounted for the possibility of magical world-hopping kidnappings. An unfortunate oversight, really.

[potentite]

I guess even I didn't think of it, so that's fair enough. [Like he's not surprised, he just didn't think of it despite the bullshit of his life.] I feel a mite bit bad that their scope was so limited but ah well. At least my power worked!

[rebells]

Your power . . . is to make religious paraphernalia appear in people's pockets?

[potentite]

Oh goodness no! It's, um, increasing the probability of an outcome! In this case, um, I was wrangling for an odd outcome and that was indeed queer.

[rebells]

[ . . . that is intriguing.]

I see . . . it seems like your ability could potentially be very powerful, then. I don't see how this would have ended up in my pocket otherwise.

[potentite]

It could, I think, with the right knack for fanciful thinking. [He's not sure he has that but oh well.] I do however tend to think just about anything is possible as long as you believe in it, so maybe it could suit me.

[rebells]

When you have a power that makes what you believe into reality, certainly, anything's possible.

[He says it lightly; he doesn't necessarily disagree that a great many things are possible with sufficient determination, but, well. That's complicated.]

[potentite]

Well, not anything but... many things, I think. Just trying to wrap my brain around it still.

[rebells]

Having trouble with the 'belief' part of it?

[potentite]

Maybe just a mite bit.

[rebells]

Well. You've already shown that it can make something quite improbable happen. The rest, I think, is just trusting your own knowledge of the world.

[potentite]

[He can't really dump all his insecurities on this poor stranger, so he just rolls with that.] Ah, true. Oh but what is your ability, if you don't mind telling me?

[rebells]

It's fine.

[By the tone of his voice it is not at all fine.]

I can "project my emotions" onto other people.

[potentite]

Oh. Goodness, that sounds like a doozy of a pickle for you.