eswareinmal | Chapter 2 - Orb Post - 1st of Rebirth's Decline

There is an actual candy house.

[The Orb shows Giles, in the bright, sunlight, idyllic version of the Two Faced Forest quite unlike what several of you had to put up with last night. He's settled himself into a sitting position at the base of a tree.

He does not look at all pleased. In fact, he has his head in his hands, and looks quite tired, for a ghost]

There is an actual sodding candy house in this sodding forest. I, I didn't believe it when I heard it. Had to come and see for myself.

[You know it's bad when the normally quite soft spoken former Watcher is reduced to swearing.]

I confess, I waited around a bit just to check that no idiot children were about to come along and, and start snacking. Hung around long enough to see that there was actually a witch living there. At least, um, I assume she's a witch. Didn't stop to chat. [Yet. Give him time. Curiosity will almost certainly get the better of him.] Is that a story anywhere else? The, um, the candy house, and the idiot children who come along to eat it and they get out because the, the witch won't just tidy up the place a bit? Because it is back home.

But, um, that's...not important. Sorry. I know that I'm still frightfully new to this place, and a lot of this, um, really shouldn't be surprising. I'll adjust. I'm good at that, if nothing else.

And, and I know a lot of you are probably sick of hearing this, by now, but...about last night. I was wondering what the rest of you, um, might have seen, a-and what you think about it. Including the business with the thorns not showing up. Do they really block off this forest at night normally? I, I suppose that at least has the benefit of keeping us from, um, spending the nights beating off monsters. I suppose what I'm asking is, um, is if this place normally goes this mad at night, or were we just unfortunate?

Olindra and I came across a hideously large bird, for what it's worth. I'm inclined to call it a roc, but, um, I didn't exactly get a good look.

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I've heard that story as well. It seems like a lot of things from stories back home are real here.

And I think last night was the first time I haven't seen them show up... and with how everyone reacted to it, I guess this sort of thing is pretty normal for them.

Sorry, um, how do you mean, "normal to them"? I'm still not certain I quite understand what is normal, around here. Especially, um, not after finding this house.

They, they certainly seem to have a certain..."practice", I suppose, at deailng with horrible happenings, though.

Aaa-- like how they expected it to happen and everything! And it was everyone who expected it too.

And most of what's normal here seems to be things like you'd expect to find in a story book, I think.

I think that's what scares me the most about it, honestly.

Story books, um, b-by and large, tend to, um, not be very nice places.

It depends on the books, really. In almost all of them, there's always the will for good to win over evil, even if things seem impossible. Even in fairy tales the good are rewarded and the wicked punished, right? So as long as you know what to look out for, it should be all right.

Generally, yes, it, it does come out all right, in the end. For, um, for the protagonists, at least. Side characters can be a bit less fortunate.

And whatever the ending, it's always, um, something of an unpleasant battle getting that far to start with.

Aaa... un, most of us are more the side character types, aren't we? Aaa, that's a problem... [[so awkward. Yet at the same time so resigned...]]

But there's healing magic here, so as long as we're careful, it should be all right, right?

[...pinged.]

There's healing magic here?

Um, w-where? Who? W-What does it entail?

Aaaa--- Here. [[sheepishly rubs the back of his neck.]] And I think the other White Mage, the native one, he also can.

And it's a little hard to explain... it's sort of... mmm... like using spirit energy to get the body to repair itself at a really fast rate?

Do you think you could, um, teach it to someone else?

[Life would become so much less panic worthy if he had the ability to heal back. But, confined to only them magic from his own world, healing is something much too dangerous to even attempt.]

[[blink blink. That.. is a good question, actually]]

I'm not sure... I didn't have this back home, so I'm not quite sure how I learned it... But I could try!

I know the feeling.

I do have a scant few powers, in this state, but it's been, um, rather an effort to figure them out. And, of course, there might be other abilities that I haven't even thought to check for.

[[a nod]] There's no manual to check, unfortunately. Maybe you could try just seeing what happens naturally?

And we're back to "natural" again. Funny how that works.

[...] I suppose so. I, um, figured out that I could possess people mainly because...well, I was hoping I could, a-and it turns out that I can. The, um, the disappearing trick, though, that was a surprise.

Aaaa-- sorry. I just don't know any other way to suggest it.

Have you tried any poltergeist type tricks? Like moving objects or making the room colder or rapping on the walls or things like that?

Moving objects and, um...trying to physically connect with any handy solid surface, actually. No such luck.

...hadn't, um, hadn't thought of making the room colder, though.

It's a pretty common thing associated with ghosts, especially the non physical ones, so you should be able to, I'd think! Though I think it's more a side effect than an ability... Normally ghosts would be able to interfere with electrical things too, but there aren't any of those here...

Yes, um, well. I'd be amazed if I could do such a thing, even if there were. Anything electric beyond, um, beyond a household appliance tends to be a bit beyond me.

But that sort of thing wouldn't really matter, it's just the fact that you are a ghost that would do it, wouldn't it? That sort of energy just interferes with electric energy, since they're two similar things, but not similar enough to be comparable.

[[pardon him, his occult nerdom is showing]]

I, I suppose so. But, um...ideally, wouldn't I be able to achieve, um, specific effects? Turning things on or off, o-or changing the power, or...something? That just sounds...well, random, unpredictable, a-and useless.

[In a few seconds, Giles will realize that he is actually being out-occult-nerded. For now? Well, Bakura's theories seem sound enough.]

Well, here it would be, but if you needed to sabotage something, or give someone a warning who couldn't see you, it could be pretty handy!

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