At least there's no elevator music...

[thespaceopera]

[At least two weeks have passed since the Drift Fleet passengers woke up on this strange wing of the Marsiva... Some new passengers have even joined the group instead of being Shuffled off to a fleet ship! The large monitor in the central room remains quiet for now, so how is everyone holding up?

Have you been relaxing? Enjoying the Earth media? If you can even remember them, how have Calibrations been treating you? Has anyone started getting a little stir-crazy?

Don't worry... This ship has no shortage of mysteries, and you'll be seeing a few more soon.]


ooc: here's another mingle for the current game event! players can start or continue threads here from any point during the event. the additional setting information is still being postponed due to sickly mods, but y'all are welcome to post additional topcomments for reactions and investigation once it's up!

Comments

[delincuente]

Well... I once accidentally almost erased my family from existence. So basically, I haven't figured that out yet.

[experiencepoints]

... Honestly, being erased from existence isn't that bad, it's what comes afterwards that's the huge pain.

[Making a shitty joke about the situation is the only way she knows how to cope with this. What the hell is going on. Why does this person have unlimited cosmic power. No wonder Willow wasn't afraid of sharing a dorm with all of those other crazy assholes, she was probably the most powerful of them all.]

You can erase people from existence, you can transform things, you say you don't know if you have limits... But you can't do a basic cure spell?

[delincuente]

[Because Disney, that's why.]

I mean, they exist. There are wizard doctors, wizard dentists, all that stuff. But I never made it that far in my lessons.

[experiencepoints]

Lessons? So there's more active components to it than just the rhyming? Or is it just like how to use it effectively...

[She trails off, her manners finally catching up with her.]

Uh, sorry. I studied magic a lot at home, so I'm interested. If you'd rather not answer, you don't have to.

[delincuente]

Well, some spells you just have to memorize, and then there are magical objects, which are a whole other can of worms. But improv magic is what we always used the most. The lessons weren't, like, totally comprehensive. Just preparing us for the big competition.

[Which always gets the biggest reaction from her friends, so she takes a preparatory breath first.]

I'm not a full wizard yet. I was supposed to compete with my brothers once we grew up, and the winner would get to keep their powers and go on to learn everything else.

[experiencepoints]

... Wait. Competition? Keeping your powers?

[Good call, Alex.]

Okay, I must be misunderstanding that.

[delincuente]

Yeah. If I ever go back home I'll have a few more years until that, and then I'll probably not be a wizard anymore. My older brother's kind of a genius.

[experiencepoints]

... Okay, how and why?!

[delincuente]

I don't know. That's just the way the rules are.

[experiencepoints]

That rule is stupid and should be set on fire.

[delincuente]

That's what basically everyone has been saying for centuries. I mean, wizards are gonna die out eventually if they keep it up, but try arguing with a bunch of ancient white guys.

[experiencepoints]

I don't know how it works in your world, but the final for mage classes in my high school was a one-on-one duel, so sure, I'll argue.

[She's basically just talking big to try to make herself feel better at this point, because the thought of losing her magic again is probably the most horrifying thing she can think of.]

[delincuente]

What happened if you lost the duel?

[experiencepoints]

... I dunno, I won. You got a worse grade, I guess? We were being graded more on tactics and application of what we'd learned to the situation.

[delincuente]

You lost me at "tactics and". Stupid as the whole maze thing is, it sounds a lot less boring.

[experiencepoints]

A maze sounds less boring than a fight?

[delincuente]

I don't fight. It's too much work.

[experiencepoints]

... Yeah, I guess your magic isn't really suited for combat, anyway. It seems ridiculously overpowered, but thinking about it, it's pretty slow, isn't it?

[delincuente]

What the hell do you mean by that?

[Overpowered? Slow?]

[experiencepoints]

[erk. She immediately looks apologetic.]

Uh- Sorry. Was that- Was that not okay to say?