Harlan Halliday (
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hadriel2018-05-18 09:33 pm
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[It's late when Harlan folds and decides to go to the network for a distraction. He would vastly prefer not to do this, but, well. That's why it's called folding.]
cant sleep.
tell me stories.
[ooc: feel free to threadjack and use this as a sort of storytelling free-for-all!]
cant sleep.
tell me stories.
[ooc: feel free to threadjack and use this as a sort of storytelling free-for-all!]
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what kind of shit do u like to do at home? besides the doctor thing.
tho u should look into the clinic. i bet they could use u.
my bf works there. michael.
theres tons of other projects and shit around town tho if that doesnt suit u.
lol ok. hm.
so i run an adventuring guild back home. seems like those arent a thing for most ppl but guilds are like mercenaries ig?
we do odd jobs that require specific skills and are usually too dangerous for the average person to take on. were not hitmen or some shit.
the city actually hired us once. couple weeks before the door sucked us back in. some asshole released a behir into the sewers so the mayor wanted us to go track it down.
so we did. took hours but we found it and killed it. those fuckers are strong too so we think were done and were on our way out right?
jk the behir had laid a bunch of eggs down there. were all tired and beat to shit and then weve got like fifteen nasty lil behirs rushin us.
im basically spent on magic at this point. dont have much left thatll do any good against a mob.
problem is thats my job usually? im good at crowd control. and the only reason i was even there was bc we were training some newbies. i dont go out on jobs too often these days.
anyway so were fucked right? but i have this ring.
it lets me fuck w. my spells via wordplay? i can change one letter in the spells name. then i just kinda cast it and see what happens. lol.
i have a spell called geas so i used the ring to cast peas instead. summoned a fuckin mountain of peas to block off the tunnel the behirs were comin from.
we were able to gtfo of there and hunt down the babies later w. more ppl.
but we took a pay cut on the job bc the peas sort of fucked up the sewer system. lmao.
clogged shit up in lower manhattan for days.
whoops.
i stand by it tho. it was hilarious.
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sometimes i go out for drinks which is what im doin now
but yeah, i found the clinic here on my first day
i think i met michael. the dead body guy?
[And also yelled at him, but you know. He doesn't need to know that.]
OMG
peas
peas is my new favorite spell, i love this story, this is way better than my laser eyes mobster story
[Nevermind that Avisheh isn't really familiar with enough spells to have much to compare against, but for real. Peas.]
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sounds like ur doin a good thing but u ever think abt takin on some assistants or somethin?
lmao. yeah hes the dead body guy.
i love him but i cant pretend hes not awkward af at first so dw i promise hes cool once u get to know him.
lmao. idk abt that.
ur mobster laser eye story had a twist. thats good shit.
magic is fun af tho.
i miss mine like u wouldnt believe.
u have magic where ur from?
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my receptionist was hired from the mob so i dont gotta worry about her but regular people are fucking snitches
ESPECIALLY when you're sort of blackmailing a god in a super religious place
he's brave for an awkward boy
i'm sure i'll get to know him better any other week when he's not trying to diagnose me
no magic in my world of origin, no, and not necessarily my home either
but people from other worlds come to the nexus all the time so it's around
mostly i encounter it trying to treat curses and shit
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lmao. he is but most ppl dont notice.
wtf happened that let u see his brave side?
yeah hes kinda highstrung this week. everyone is tho.
o shit. ur used to this dimension hopping shit huh?
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dedicated to the peas guy, may he forever rest in peas
basically he noticed i was highstrung and i didnt take it too well
and yeah but i personally only hopped between world tethers the once
to add to my growing list of interesting stories i impersonated a god to get me a free ride to a place with indoor plumbing and like, the internet
neither of which were popular where i was born
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one. holy shit i dont want to be the peas guy.
two. im not dead? wtf.
wait u got laser eyes but not indoor plumbing?
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id love to be the peas girl tbh, you dont know what youre giving up here
also i was like 13 when this happened we definitely did not have laser eyes where i was born
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the jump from indoor plumbing to laser eyes is pretty fucking significant either way.
how the fuck?
tech must move at the speed of light where ur from.
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i hopped worlds
went from podunk nothingsville to sci fi land
thankfully i was young enough to not be like twenty and not knowing how to work a cell phone, that wouldve been embarrassing
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sorry. memory isnt the best rn.
how old were u when u moved to where u r now?
lmao im glad u kno how to use tech tho. i feel bad for some of the ppl around here.
the ones from old timey worlds and shit.
must be some serious whiplash. like theres not enough shit to freak out abt here u kno?
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you should see me rn
i was 13
being from an old timey world sucks, i know that pretty much firsthand
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hm ig if ur gonna hop worlds thats a fine age for it.
old enough to not be totally fuckin lost but young enough to not have to play too much catch up.
u been on ur own since then?
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my brain is kaput right now, i cant do shit
ive been on my own since way before then lol
i wasnt joking about that backwater world being shit
but yeah basically
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that sucks.
my issue w. this event is that this shouldnt be shit anyone can take away from us u kno?
the other events are a mindfuck but this one is too invasive.
id know if it was just an illusion or some shit. been down this road too many times to not know whats up.
its not an illusion.
thats fucked up.
anyway sucks that u had shit luck as a kid.
sounds like ur doin ok for urself regardless. lol.
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nope
they knew exactly what to take to really piss me off
so yeah, i basically have no sympathy for the gods anymore
but yeah ive been ok since hopping worlds
got way more opportunities in more advanced worlds, even for orphan refugees like me
less than a natural born nexian but i dont give a shit what people say i cant do LOL
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what they do is fucked up but at least its temporary and not malicious.
ive run into demons that would pull this shit for fun. the gods are just loading quarters into a vending machine.
end result is more or less the same but my point is its not personal. hating the gods isnt gonna get us anywhere.
in fact since the null showed up id say hating the gods is just gonna get us all killed. we cant afford to split up the team rn.