[video]

[hot_mes]

[day 2 of the dust storm and...yo, Hadriel, Dr. Asshole needs a favor]

I don't suppose there's anyone who can give me a hand with something.

[he shifts the video from himself, past an enormous black flag tacked to his wall, to a gaping hole in the wall of his apartment. There's already a fine layer of dust collecting like drifting snow around the edges of the floor.]

My place took some damage in the Null battle. Fixing it wasn't exactly a priority until right about now, and I'm not exactly a carpenter.

If anyone can take care of this so I don't have to sleep in the hallway outside, that'd be great. In return I can use my ability to teleport you in and out, or anywhere else in the city.

[but Law, why can't you just find a new apartment? He has reasons, okay.]

Comments

[ghostlocked]

[LOOK SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.]

y?

[hot_mes]

[and you are the best man for the job]

reasons.

unless youre offering to come over and help me move?

[ghostlocked]

[ty for recognizing his expertise.]

do u even need help? i thought u had that crazy ability that let u bend space and time.

[hot_mes]

I need my hands free to use it, cant do that if I;m carrying shit. also, thats a waste of energy.

[he's also just being difficult because he can]

[ghostlocked]

yeah bc fixing a hole in a building isnt.
use ur ability to fix the hole then.

[hot_mes]

it doesnt work that way! even if I transport a bunch of shit up from the ground to here, that wont make it stick in the hole

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[ghostlocked]

so wtf is ur magic actually good for?

[hot_mes]

ITS NOT MAGIC

[this argument will never end]

[ghostlocked]

o my bad ur.
ability.
imagine that was in italics.
the question stands.

[He's genuinely curious but like fuck he would ever admit it in a way that isn't merciless harassment.]

[hot_mes]

[he can feel your air quotes, Harlan]

its good for keeping people from dying

also beating the shit out of lots of things but you saw that for yourself.

[ghostlocked]

o ok.
is that y u dont call it magic? u can only do like two things w. it?

[hot_mes]

thats not

NO

DAMN IT

look I dont have to explain shit to you if I dont want to

[so much for always keeping his vaunted cool]

[ghostlocked]

u dont have to but then im never gonna understand the intricacies of ur magic.
i mean ur ability.
still sounds like magic to me.
idg the diff.
but hey u do u. ill be over here runnin wild assumptions based on misinformation.

[hot_mes]

[by now he's definitely texting while half-drunk at the Speakeasy. Not that it's going to improve his texting...]

okay look, dumbass, Im gonna spell it out for you since you can read so well.

its a devil fruit

it turned me into a free modification human

I can modify anything within my room. ANYTHING

[ghostlocked]

so.
put up ur room around ur apartment mr. anything.

[hot_mes]

I cant keep it up indefinitely. its a stamina thing. anything I bring up will only stick together so long as the room is up, and I cant keep it up until the storm is over

[ghostlocked]

ohhh ok.
we have somethin like that where im from too.
its called an illusion.

[hot_mes]

[omg Harlan he will punch you]

I know what an illusion is you asshole

this is not an illusion!!

[ghostlocked]

idk man sounds p fuckin similar to me.
wtf good does it do if the effect is fleeting?
ive got illusion spells out the ass. sounds like its on par to me.

[hot_mes]

[he is not drunk enough for this]

illusions dont deal with actual physical objects, do they? I do.

[ghostlocked]

[such a level of inebriation would be a health hazard so that's for the best really.]

they can. i can kill ppl w. illusions. ive done it more than once.
in that case it doesnt matter whether or not its real. it has real effects.
and those effects arent permanent unless u can make it count sooo still sounds close enough to an illusion to me.

[hot_mes]

yeah come over here and let me stick your head to a wall and you tell me how illusory it is

[but you know that is some interesting info there, Harlan]

so what like. terrify people to death with visions or something?

[ghostlocked]

jfc u kno im fuckin w. u right?
settle down there tiger.
but yeah kinda. i can conjure illusions that feel real enough to do actual damage.
fuckin w. a persons brain is nothin to sneeze at.

[hot_mes]

[nope, because Law is easy to bait when he takes everything seriously. He has a long way to go to learn to read tone in text...

So he's going to conveniently pretend he didn't see that part and just forge on with the illusion bits]

no it really isnt. didnt think you could do anything useful besides throw hail at people. had a huge bruise from that by the way thanks a lot

[ghostlocked]

lmfao fuck off. i can do tons of other shit.
im not a one trick pony.
like some ppl.
js.
and look buddy a bruise is better than idk decapitation. impalement via laser cutter. etc.
yw.