interfaith dinner mingle!!

[stefanged]

Who: Interfaith Center regulars & the not-so-regulars (party crashers are welcome too!!)
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Interfaith Center on the Iskaulit
When: Forward-dated to November 4th

[The Interfaith Center sounds far more bustling and busy than usual - and anyone peering inside would quickly figure out that a communal dinner is underway! Take off your shoes and walk in: the lounge has extra tablecloths on the floor as well as buffet tables with non-alcoholic beverages and all sorts of food, including Jordanian cuisine (or the outer space equivalent of Jordanian food).

The board games are out of their hiding nooks; the furniture's arranged for the maximum seating possible; and even the teddy bears donated by Kitty & Winn are out for cuddling, should anyone want them.

The kitchen's bustling with helpers - Stefan's running around at vamp-speed to make sure everything's a) done on time and b) cooked to perfection - but he sure wouldn't mind an extra hand. And if you're still not up for some food? Well, the prayer rooms are open as usual. There's always a quiet moment to be found, even if the laughter's louder and the scent of freshly-baked mansaf's wafting through the long corridors.

Anyone and everyone who's ever been inside the Interfaith Center has been invited (via text message - and Stefan even used the fancy emoji). If you're not particularly faithful or devout? Well, drop by anyways. There's more than enough food to spare.]

Comments

[bythewaves]

It probably does come down a lot to style and preference. [ Maglor nods ]

I trained with a spear myself - as a calvaryman tis useful - but like you, I always seemed to come back to the sword.

[huaaaaagh]

Haha... all the more reason for me to be bad with them. I'm lousy at horseback riding.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor chuckles ]

You are not the first to say that - but I like horses, always have. Tis not that hard, when your steed likes you back.

[huaaaaagh]

Yeah. Maybe that was my problem. I usually get thrown off.

[It's hard to be "liked" by your horse when they're just ones and zeros powered by programming code. The zebra thing wasn't so bad on the desert planet, though.

Actually, now he's wondering-]

...Hey, do you think horses prefer gir- er, long hair?

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor shakes his head ]

Then I cannot blame you!

[ He blinks, startled by the question ]

Long... no? Not that I have ever observed. They are able to sense the mood of the rider - one who knows what they are doing and offers them trust will be trusted in return.

[huaaaaagh]

Huh... figures it wouldn't be that simple.

[He luck is not that kind.]

Maybe that's the problem, then. I wasn't one to trust easily back then.

[bythewaves]

To be fair - most people would wisely be afraid of an animal like a horse, which is many times larger and stronger than then. [ Maglor points out wryly ] Difficulty with trust or not.

[huaaaaagh]

Right? They're huge! They could trample anyone they wanted to!

[It's kind of intimidating when you're of average height at best.]

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor chuckles softly ]

Will it ease your mind to know that most horses are very reluctant to trample on anyone unless they are trained war horses, or stampeding in a panic?

[huaaaaagh]

....I think so? Maybe a little bit, at least...

[It would've been more reassuring without the "unless" bit, admittedly, but...]

[bythewaves]

If we meet some here, I will see about introducing you, if you like. [ Maglor offers ]

It alwasy helps to have someone who knows what they are doing. [ He adds wryly ]

[huaaaaagh]

Haha... I've been on the other side of that equation, so yeah, I get it. I'd appreciate it, though. You never know when that kind of skill might become necessary... it might not be possible to fly everywhere.

[Even little fairy wings need a decent space to work in!]

[bythewaves]

Fly? [ Maglor looks very curious ]

I did not know that you could do that - a very useful ability. Is it a machine as others use here or something different?

[huaaaaagh]

[It's tempting to just brush it off by bringing up the shuttles, but it's not like he's kept it particularly secret, so...]

Nah, wings.

[bythewaves]

[ Watch his eyes literally light up in wonder, Kirito ]

Wings? Oh, but that is a marvel - I took you for human, are you not?

[huaaaaagh]

[Honestly, Kirito can't blame him. He had the exact same reaction the first time.]

It's... kind of a complicated explanation... I am human, though. Just a human who sometimes has wings.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor blinks, considering ]

Is it a machine or are you more like Adalwolfe and his magic?

[huaaaaagh]

Magic's a good way to put it, actually.

[Considering even he doesn't know how the hell the avatars actually work here, it's the closest explanation that he can think of. And the fairy avatar is the one that has actual magic, anyway.]

Does your world have fairies?

[bythewaves]

Huh. [ Maglor hums thoughtfully ] A very interesting world you are from, it seems!

No - indeed, we do not quite seem to have "magic" the way some other worlds do, so far as I can tell.

[huaaaaagh]

[Kirito tilts his head curiously.]

But... you're an elf, or something like it?

[Don't elves and magic usually go hand in hand?]

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor chuckles softly ]

I am - or at least, that is what Men... humans, that is, have always called us. But although I can do many things, some of which you might consider magic, none of it is particularly outside of what my folk would consider "normal", I suppose, and certainly none of us would call it "magic", not the way I understand the term.

[huaaaaagh]

Huh.

[You learn something new every day, apparently. Though it makes sense that something normal for you would be magic for others. It's said that magic is just science that isn't explained yet, right?

Except in video games where it's literally magic.]

What kind of things do you mean? The, uh, not-magic magic.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor considers thoughtfully ]

Well, my cousins - Finrod, do you know him? - that branch of the family have very strong powers of the mind. Finrod's sister, for example, can read the hearts of those around her very clearly - enough that she is, basically, reading your mind, and she can do so over considerable distance. Both she and Finrod also get glimpses of foresight, although her sense of such is much sharper. But all of those things are things that are common to our people, it is just that their gift is greater than most.

[huaaaaagh]

Geez, yeah, that definitely sounds like something regular people would call magic.

[It sounds like the sort of abilities he'd read in some unnamed fantasy novels of his youth involving wizards and rings and short people.]

Lol is kirito a lotr fan?

[bythewaves]

Even so - you are not the first to say so, but we do not think of it that way.