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t w o . ( TEXT ) . we stood up, we stood up

General Notice:

I'm looking for people with powers to run some tests on. It involves being observed using your abilities, but that's it. Can't exactly give you much for it, unless you need an alarm system.

First wave of testing will take place in a week near the colosseum. There may be second or third waves in future. Testing is expected to take several hours overall.

Any questions?

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Don't get me wrong. ( because at least she's asking for volunteers instead of luring people away under false pretenses, and that's admirable. or something. ) You're going about it the right way, if ... there is such a thing for asking for volunteers for experimentation.

( welp. )

Why are you doing it, though?

[ aaaaay she developed morals in the last ten years! It's a miracle. ]

Observation. I'm not cutting them open, just asking them to use their powers for a few minutes.

+ It's the only way I can think of to get mine to work properly.

( good! morals are good! everyone should have them! )

I guess that's fair.

What kind of powers do you have?

( so he used to have them, and even if it's been a while, he can try to help. maybe? a little? )

To put it as simply as I can: I make things react to powers. Like, I could make a knife channel someone's fire powers, or make a pair of glasses see what powers people have.

It's not exactly common, even back where I come from.

( well ... color him intrigued.

not ... that that generally takes very much, given his natural curiosity, but. potato, potahto. )

That sounds pretty useful, actually.

What kind of place are you from?

What kind? Uh. A world with more interesting powers than mine. [ Or, at least, more immediately offensive or defensive ones. Most Superhumans don't have to sit and tap at items until they do what they want them to. ] What about you?

A place where the only people that have powers are in movies.

Unless you count magic. That's a little more common.

( still doesn't exactly fit into the powers category, sam. )

Magic? Like 'hubba bubba toil and trouble' or whatever it was?

[ that's... Probably not it. ]

( asdlkhg )

Double, double, toil and trouble, but you got the gist of it.

But not really. Not quite - even if there is a lot of mixing and incantations involved. Close enough.

( let it never be said that he didn't study his shakespeare. )

[ Or that she did study Shakespeare. ]

Huh. Always thought that was just Seers making shit up. Guess it comes from somewhere.

Everything has to start somewhere. Where do you think myths and legends come from?

Never really thought about it. Always seemed like they came from stories back home.

[ Now she's wondering if some of the stories her mum used to tell her have a basis in fact. ]

( well, it is a pretty well-known fact that parents make things up just to terrify the crap out of their kids. )

I'm not denying the fact that some things originated as stories and nothing else, but when you think about it, it makes sense that SOME things might have a little bit of truth to them, no matter where or when they were started.

[ it's part of parent training tbh. ]

You make a good point. Always preferred to think of stories as stories.

So, what else is true?

( there should be classes on it. )

Vampires aren't allergic to garlic.

( are we really going that route rn sam. are we. )

[ that's probably the true goal of parenting classes. ]

Why would they be?

[ wasn't it chili pepper in all the stories back home? ]

( it should be, if it isn't already. )

A lot of stories say as much. Along with aversions to crucifixes, the sun and needing to sleep in coffins.

( chili pepper? really? )

Huh. That's different to what I heard. The sun thing, yeah, but I always heard they slept like bats.

Really?

( that's interesting. )

yeah.

... Maybe it was 'in bat form'. Can't really remember.

( well that makes more sense than trying to picture a human-shaped thing hanging upside down from prehensile toes, or something equally strange. )

But now I'm thinking about vaguely-humanoid things hanging upside down by their toes.

It's an interesting mental image.

[ way less entertaining tho. ]

Thry keep all their strength in their big toe. You don't want to be kicked by one.

[ that's... Supposed to be funny. ]

( way, way less.

and she wouldn't know it, but he totally just chuckled. sincerely. )

Maybe somewhere along the line they got crossed with some kangaroo DNA - that would make them even more deadly.

( sam ... no ... )

[ sam yes. ]

... Would they hop like kangaroos?

( sam no. )

That wouldn't be very threatening, would it?

But ... maybe.

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