IC Inbox - Rubi

[aban_aqun]

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[aban_aqun]

It's fine, thanks for that.

I'm all right.
As much as anyone can be after waking up naked in a new place.

[unconscionable]

Really picked a time for it, with the snow coming in. Everyone's finding increasingly creative ways to keep occupied.

[aban_aqun]

Yeah I noticed that.
Delivered wood to a woman earlier and she was looking for a little more than firewood.

[unconscionable]

Oh, that's not just the snow. This place is basically an ongoing town-wide sex party. It's just sometimes people are at the snack table or playing board games in between the orgiastic bits. Metaphorically.

[aban_aqun]

I think I can handle that.
As long as everyone's having a good time, I won't worry about it.

[unconscionable]

Yeah, pretty sure you won't have any trouble finding partners.

[aban_aqun]

That's never really been a problem. People like novelty. Or they think they do, but they figure it out pretty quick if it's more the idea they liked than the reality.

[unconscionable]

No shit, I guess I just assumed everyone looked like that where you came from.

[aban_aqun]

Only in some places. I've spent the last 20 years with humans, elves, dwarves. Mostly humans.

[unconscionable]

Interesting. I'm afraid it's all humans where I'm from — well, it's possible to craft abominations from the flesh of the dead, but the dead in question still used to be human. No other sentient species.

[aban_aqun]

... Yeah.

[Great, he's going to be thinking about that for the next three nights.]

We call mages who fall to demon possession abominations. But you're talking about sounds like darkspawn without the whole... flesh of the dead part. I've seen those though.

[unconscionable]

Yeah, I'm also not hot on demon possession, and magic that runs that risk is considered heretical. But constructs can range from shambling horrors to a nice guy who happens to be in a skeleton instead of a flesh body. Not really all that different to an elf.

[aban_aqun]

I can't tell if that was a dig at elves or skeletons.

Magic like that is heretical, but in the end it depends on who you're asking and who has the power.

[unconscionable]

I get the impression you're not the biggest fan of even stuff like this telepathy, hey?

[aban_aqun]

Having extra voices in my head is unnerving. I'll live, but I don't have to like it.

[unconscionable]

Can't say I disagree, though I'm getting used to the way other people think in sounds or pictures. And it can be useful. Can even be fun. You play chess?

[aban_aqun]

Yeah. The board I'm used to is a little different, but picking up on the square board hasn't been a challenge.

[unconscionable]

Brilliant! Do you want a game?

(( happy to handwave some telepathic chess rather than figure out their moves. ))

[aban_aqun]

Yeah, sure. You want to start?

((We can totally handwave a few hours! Or say they get part way through a game before something interrupts.))