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Who: Sam Winchester
Broadcast: TEXT. Fleetwide.
Action: N/A (but we can if you have an idea, just pm or plurk me!)
When: Today!

These masks continue to be a pain in the ass, huh?

But I guess the alternative is being laid up in bed sick — which I don't recommend, in case you're feeling brave, because seeing the people who took off their masks isn't inspiring any faith here. As for me, I'm needing a little break from travelling around down there in all that questionable toxin. Not exactly my cup of coffee, you know? Prefer more open roads, more green and, uh. An ocean I can smell and not go into coughing fits over.

Maybe I'll just spitball some stuff to pass the time while I question what I'm eating from these kitchens? I'm feeling nosy. Call it an acquired skill set, being nosy. Back in the other place I was trapped in, I mostly gathered information about our bestiary; monsters from all kinds of worlds would fall into the world with us, and I did my fair share of fighting some pretty rough creatures. Including the killer rabbits that would try to sabotage my garden. They're small, fast, and aim for the jugular, FYI.

Anyway, pick a number, any number —

1. Favorite fairy tale, ghost story, or piece of folklore.
2. Favorite thing about the other worlds you've been to? (Least favorite, too, if you're feeling like getting it off your chest? I'm a crappy psychiatrist, fair warning.)
3. Ever run into people who know you from a book, movie, or game? Or, uh... manga?
4. War games — which do you prefer, and why?
5. Magic in your world: real or fiction?

I figure I'm being totally transparent, but I'm a big fan of information gathering. But it's also... actually really nice to be in one place long enough to get to know people. How often do you have the chance to learn about alternate universes? Small pluses.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

1. I was on a trip with some friends and translating it gave us a few clues. Like a scavenger hunt?
2. I just hope I can go back to the world I was in before this one. I'd like to think that Atroma could be that nice, but I have experience otherwise with leadership figures.
3. Oh, that sounds... Interesting? At least you're not mobbed or anything. That would be utterly appalling, wouldn't it?
4. Me too! Before I learned I was a witch they were one of my main sources of entertainment, alongside books, of course.
5. Maybe it's because it's right under their noses. All the stories have to come from some kind of truth, don't they? All stories, even the ones we tell children, have some beginning point, some reason they were written. I suppose magical stories like that come from our world and just click for those without magic.

1. Oh, really? Clues for what?
2. The world before this one? Your home world, or...?
3. Not mobbed, no. Luckily. It's a little... invasive, but I can deal. I've had a crazy fan before, though. It was something... special.
4. A witch, huh? I'm not used to good witches in my world, but I've met quite a few between worlds.
5. I can agree with that. Some kind of truth, sounds about right.

[like for him its thE BIBLE

NOT AS ACCURATE AS HE THOUGHT

THE FUCK IS A MARK OF CAIN AMIRITE]

1. Where to go for the next part of our trip, and some information about old relics that were important to the person we were fighting, and to us, too. It's lucky that one of us studied Runes at school and actually paid attention.

[ Suck on that, Ronald Weasley. ]

2. Not my home, no, but a place like the fleet that took people from their worlds and kept them there. It was called the Drabwurld and it's my home now - I have a family and friends waiting for me to come back. My 'own' world doesn't feel right anymore.
3. I've never had a crazy fan. Only a crazy woman that was out to get me until I dealt with her. I suppose there's no lesser of two evils in this situation, though?
4. I'm definitely a good witch, or I try to be. I don't think I'm like the witches in your world, from what I've experienced of other people telling me things. My world seems rather unique.
5. Maybe it's people from 'our' side of the world writing stories for 'their' side and making a few changes. That would probably make sense. It's not something I really thought about until I started growing up and realising the fairytales were true.

1. I'm gonna guess the person who studied would be you?
2. You didn't have anything to go back home to? Or did everything you care about move to this new world? Can't fault you for picking a place that felt like home.
3. Sounds like it, no lessers here.
4. I wish we had more worlds like yours, then. Witchcraft has such potential to do good, it sucks that most of it back home are used for some pretty dark dealings.
5. Maybe your world wanted to share its history, and people in the other world mistook it for fiction because it was too fantastical to them?

1. That's right. It's one of my favourite things.
2. I have family in the new world. The people back home - it's complicated, I think. They're done with their war, but there's still more to do in the Drabwurld.
3. Maybe we have crazy fans that watch this 'show'? That's terrifying.
4. That's a shame! Magic can be so amazing, and it can do so much, but people can so often misuse it and it breaks my heart. Magic is just... It's a part of me, and I don't want to see it be used for something evil again.
5. Oh, that actually makes a lot of sense! Muggles aren't prone to believing in magic, really, and they do like their science quite a lot.

2. You wanna talk about it? This war, I mean. You don't have to if you don't want to, but I wouldn't mind hearing more if it helps...?
3. Honestly... it's crossed my mind before. And it's possible. Lets just hope these fans never knock on our doors.
4. That's a good outlook to have. Who knows, maybe we just need more people around like you to give my world a magic makeover.
5. Muggles, huh?

[;)]

2. Honestly? I'm not sure there's all that much to say. There were two sides and I was on one, not through choice, until we realised the world was literally ending and we tried to save it. Now we're just trying to stop the war altogether.
3. Do you think they'd do that? Actually, from what I've heard of Atroma, they'd definitely do that. Ugh.
4. I would enjoy that. I always wanted to do some good in the world, and I suppose doing good in other worlds is the same thing.
5. Oh, right! Muggles are non-magical people, have I said that already? It's what people with magic in my world call people that don't have magic.

[ ;) ;) ]

2. Boy, I sure know how that feels. Trying to stop a war, and the world ending, and all that. I'm sure you'll come through, though. You sound reliable.
3. Ugh²
4. That's a good trait to have. If you're ever in my neck of the universal woods, I'll keep that in mind if you end up doing the same.
5. I see. Then I'm a muggle? But then, everyone in my world is able to use some magic... sometimes at a steep price. I was taught how to make hexes with the last witch I was... at the time friends with.

[a-awkward]

2. I appreciate the sentiment. We've been sent back thousands of years in time, so there's a good chance that we'll be able to change things.
3. Let's not think about just in case we make ourselves sick.
4. If I'm ever in your world I'll make sure to do my best to help. You have my promise on that.
5. It's a little more complicated, I think. When magic isn't as strict as it is in my world all the terms become a little meaningless, don't they?

Oh boy, time travel. My favorite. Be sure to bend your knees if you go flying through it; it's easier on the landing.
3. Can do.
4. I appreciate that. It'll be a pretty big job, but maybe someone can work on getting evil witchcraft out, good witchcraft in. That'd mean no more selling your soul to Hell, for one. And, you know. learning less lethal spells, for two.
5. I guess that's true; universe jumping tends to mess up definitions, huh? It's the same with us and vampires or werewolves.