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maskormenacelogs2016-01-30 07:39 pm
lasthugs) wrote in maskormenacelogs2016-01-30 07:39 pm
Entry tags:
- fuu hououji | zephyr,
- harleen quinzel | harley quinn,
- † akito/agito wanijima | fang king,
- † billy kaplan | wiccan,
- † carl grimes | n/a,
- † euphemia li britannia | n/a,
- † fly | n/a,
- † gogo tomago | n/a,
- † jimmy mcgill | saul goodman,
- † kaneda shotaro | n/a,
- † ken amada | n/a,
- † kitty jones | n/a,
- † komasan | the youkai king,
- † mathieu carver | shadow,
- † miles vorkosigan | admiral naismith,
- † perry the platypus | agent p,
- † riku | darkeater,
- † robert callaghan | yokai,
- † tetsuo shima | n/a,
- † winry rockbell | n/a
welcome home feast!
WHO: OPEN MINGLE
WHERE: Xavier School Dining Hall
WHEN: January 29, 30; all day both days
WHAT: Cass and Callaghan opened up the school's dining hall for ALL imPorts, -- prisoners, diplomats, military, rescuers, even people who were uninvolved and just want the food -- to come in and recover from the ordeal with warm, free food, blankets gathered from god knows where, and each other.
WARNINGS: This should be relatively tame! But please mark your own warnings in the necessary places.
As announced here, Cass and Callaghan have opened up Xavier School to offer food and a resting place to ALL imPorts! The room is kept warm, and there's food and drinks -- non alcoholic! -- and enough space for a bunch of people to sit around and fill their stomachs. The buffet line is stocked with all sorts of food, and Cass is keeping pots of coffee ready for the people who would prefer that, too. There's no junk food, but she stress baked enough to feed a small country while everyone was gone, so there's plenty of pastries and bread to go around as well.
WHERE: Xavier School Dining Hall
WHEN: January 29, 30; all day both days
WHAT: Cass and Callaghan opened up the school's dining hall for ALL imPorts, -- prisoners, diplomats, military, rescuers, even people who were uninvolved and just want the food -- to come in and recover from the ordeal with warm, free food, blankets gathered from god knows where, and each other.
WARNINGS: This should be relatively tame! But please mark your own warnings in the necessary places.
As announced here, Cass and Callaghan have opened up Xavier School to offer food and a resting place to ALL imPorts! The room is kept warm, and there's food and drinks -- non alcoholic! -- and enough space for a bunch of people to sit around and fill their stomachs. The buffet line is stocked with all sorts of food, and Cass is keeping pots of coffee ready for the people who would prefer that, too. There's no junk food, but she stress baked enough to feed a small country while everyone was gone, so there's plenty of pastries and bread to go around as well.
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Yeah. The government bred 'em special. They could shift between human and wolf largely at will. Though when they got angry, they tended to lose control...or when they got excited.
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I don't know. I...never talked to them. [ A pause. ] We were too busy killing each other. [ But that's said with weariness rather than bravado. It's not something she's happy about. ]
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I don't blame myself for it, either. The one time I really tangled with them, they were going to literally rip me to shreds. I don't regret surviving. I just wish that they hadn't been so...obedient.
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No. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could ever take away free wills. That was why magic was set up the way it was - the spirits were enslaved, but their wills were their own, and so it was a constant battle of wills between magicians who had to come up with clever ways to make the spirits do what they wanted and the spirits who tried to evade those techniques. And the spirits, I'm pleased to say, frequently won. No: everyone retained their selves.
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... Good. I had something of a different impression when you mentioned they'd been enslaved.
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No. Thousands of years of research into magic, and all humans were ever able to do was come up with worse tortures to try to break them. Never, in all that research, were they ever able to crush their personalities. It's not a happy story, to be certain, but...There's a certain amount of satisfaction, knowing that the spirits in the end retained the most important sort of freedom: freedom of thought.
[ And then she turns an evaluative look on Miles. ]
That different impression of yours. It upset you?
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Yeah. Most of them would, as well. The spirits, I mean. [ She hesitates, then allows: ] Many of them. A lot of them have gotten to the point where they just do what they have to do in order to avoid more misery. It's really horrible to see, honestly.
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[ She grimaces. ]
I wish I'd...taken more time to speak with them. When I was younger. I spent years thinking they were only mindless, wicked things. I didn't even know that they were worth fighting for. The story that gets told to us is that they're demons which the magicians only barely keep in check.
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However did you guess?
[ And then, less sardonically: ]
Their system truly was elegant. Teach us to fear the spirits so that we never get close to them, show the spirits evidence of our hatred and fear, and just like that - their two groups of enemies are kept apart. No co-conspiring possible. It's why I taught myself magic - so that I could get in contact with the spirits, to propose teaming up.