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Genette ([personal profile] spellheal) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2017-10-05 03:53 pm

[HUB ISLAND | ICE BREAKERS]

Who: Coven Members
Where: Coven Base Camp
When: Day 90
Open/Closed: OTA

You're not doing anything right now, right? Good. Genette's using some of the resources taken from Aimintas to create a little get together. Even if you do have something going on, she's not averse to using a little force to make the evening magical.

In fact, the magic is exactly how she's pulling this off. Genette is offering you to a little get together at the base camp, which may be all it takes for you to follow her. If not? Your hand is tethered (or some other part of you) quickly and you're led to the camp anyway. This is important, darn it!

What's so important? A little "party" of sorts. There's an assortment of foods, some of which have been hastily made since some groups have gone harvesting for new resources, and a large water basin that's acting as a punch bowl.

The true purpose of this little activity is a 'get to know you' exercise of sorts. Genette's got a glass container of a large quantity of Elto bones that can short-circuit the tethers, but the caveat is that you have to participate in a little, tethered sharing circle.

(It's honestly a good idea to know who you're stuck within your little makeshift coven, but Genette is the pushy sort when she sets her mind to something.)

The way to be released from your Elto shackles? Tell everyone your name, where you're from, your magic (seemingly left a little ambiguous) and something else about yourself. Discussions are encouraged! The more people know, the better!

After you're done sharing with the class, food and drink is yours to have -- or you can just run off, that's fine too.

OOC: Characters who would have absolutely nothing to do with this can of course escape, whether fleeing in the first place or using Elto bones of their own to circuit out their tether.

      A ▢ This is it -- your character can breathe deeply, unlock their knees and get this little activity over with. All they have to do is share the criteria and they're free to go!

      B ▢ Afterwards, their free to stick around the area and mingle. There IS food and also drinks. They may also want to have a more private conversation about something they learned tonight.
rootbound: (into shapes that I know.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-01 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[turns that one over in his head. his tone is almost gentle when he speaks next]

...I think...we come from very different places. Do you have a lot of large cities in your world? How many of the kings are fighting each other actively?
Edited 2017-11-01 16:20 (UTC)
teratias: (Default)

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-01 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
We have big cities, but at present, not that many wars. Or that many kings, come to think of it. Democracies and republics are way more common.
rootbound: (so breathe in; breathe out.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-01 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't even know what democracies are...

I think that might explain it, though. Things are more...scattered...at home. You have the port cities and then you have a lot of small towns and villages, and because of the war the geography changes every year. So mages out in the villages fend for themselves in their own communities, and...well, that's how you get no schools. And no old families, come to think of it.
teratias: (05.Consideration)

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-02 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Waver nods along, listening. But...no. It doesn't check out.]

Well wait, my own country was like that for centuries, but we had schools regardless. Not just for mages, but proper universities for people like doctors and lawyers. Do you have any of that kind of infrastructure?
rootbound: (following the heartlines.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-07 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...not very much, that I know of...I mean, I haven't hung around the cities for very long, but if there were that kind of thing it would be obvious enough. What's a lawyer?

[there sure are some strange gaps here]
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[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-08 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Someone who...wait what's your law system like? I mean, if someone commits a crime, how are they judged?
rootbound: (leaves in the wind.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-08 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Where I was from, usually people either brawled it out or they took it to the headman or headwoman to judge. Nobles and merchants have the power to call a judging-panel in front of a law-sayer, though...they argue the case, and in the end the judging twelve decide if the criminal is guilty and should be punished. Or not.

[ah]

Is a lawyer the same as a law-sayer, then?
teratias: (09. Steal the artefact)

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-08 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like it is. But to get back to my point: how do they learn their job?
rootbound: (higher ground.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-09 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Presumably from other law-sayers...?

Look, I'll be honest, I've traveled a lot, but I've never been to any school, so I'm a bit hazy on how that works.
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[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-10 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
That's fair. [Waver shrugs then.] Every place develops differently too.
rootbound: (lead you through this wonderland.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-13 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I get a little jealous when I hear about things like schools...

[smiles, very faintly]

I guess I do know more about summoning than your average mage from home, though. I read everything I could get my hands on about it. So--it was a nice surprise to hear you have that, too.
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[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-13 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Just...don't, always, okay?

[Waver feels only a little bad trying to be discouraging on the matter. Clock Tower was and is hell as far as he's concerned, and no one else needs to go through what he has. He learned that lesson the hardway with his gran trying to warn him off of going. ]

Some things are universal, I reckon.
rootbound: (following the heartlines.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-15 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Vern considers pressing the point, but what he's picking up from Waver indicates it's not the best of topics to keep pursuing. so he settles for:]

...It's true, I suppose you get that most places. You don't seem particularly snooty to me, though.
teratias: (04. Shoves at)

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-15 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's because I'm not one of those ages old generation families who look down their noses at everyone else.

[Wait.

Shit.]
rootbound: (thoughts like these.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-19 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Is that what happens? That's...weird.

[he is definitely referring to the age-old generation families and not Waver, though he has raised his eyebrows slightly at Waver's discomfiture. he can't really imagine his own family pulling that off.]

And also kind of disrespectful to whoever started their family in the first place...? It's not as though they sprang out of the ether pre-aged.
teratias: (15. Regular conversation)

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-19 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well duh. They're so goddamn elitest that they forget all of that because by now they're old, old and established and who even cares about not being a dick when there's--

[Waver stops himself, then sighs.]

Sorry.
rootbound: (moon that breaks the night.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-20 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[shrugs, eyebrows raised a little in surprise, but not angry]

It sounds like you've had some issues with them. Not really a sting on me; I don't think I heard of anyone having magic in my family before my mother's mother, if that helps. Father didn't have any, either.
teratias: (15. Regular conversation)

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-21 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
No one likes hearing about it, that's all.
rootbound: (old friends.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-21 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not no one. If you need to vent, I don't really mind. It makes a change from listening to people be misinformed about magic users in general, actually.

I understand if it's not as satisfying as yelling about it to someone who gets more of the context, though.
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[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-22 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
The context is pretty important and...[Rider said it, didn't he? There's more important things out there than just this Grail War and the Association?

Ugh. Damn oaf.]


Anyway.
rootbound: (sunshine or rain.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-24 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[eh, he won't push it.]

Anyway. Subject change, or do you think we've discussed enough to escape and do something more pleasant?
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[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-25 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
If you've got an activity in mind, I'm all ears.
rootbound: (thoughts like these.)

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-25 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[points at the food tables]

Let's go rob those -- metaphorically -- and have a picnic on the beach.
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I think this is a good end thread point but MAN THESE TWO ARE GR8 TOGETHER

[personal profile] teratias 2017-11-25 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
There's nothing metaphorical, but okay. And keep maybe grab some kind of blanket so we're not plopping our food down in the sand.
rootbound: (lead you through this wonderland.)

8Db

[personal profile] rootbound 2017-11-25 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Very practical. All right, let's go.