The babysitter being a white court vampire feeding off children's resentment / frustration / rebelliousness would have been fun, if implausible.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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[X] Swing by Harry's place to pick up Mouse for a night on the town. We'll take him and Rosie out for ice cream, then just enjoy a few hours of freedom. If that also involves Mouse riding around with his head sticking out of Black Rider's sunroof, then so be it.
[X] Meet with Harry and Mouse for ice cream, or if Harry's not in the mood just with Mouse
Still not a good plan to drop in on strangers with Rosie in tow. It needlessly complicates things and has risks associated with it.
I mean, it's worth noting that Rosie is as low on the totem pole as it gets; in the ocean that is the supernatural world she's somewhere around krill.
We can protect her to a degree, but she's still really vulnerable. Anything that goes wrong will be more complicated and riskier for her involvement.
There's also the potential issues with just being seen as interesting in the wrong place and with the wrong people.
Which we aren't actually guaranteed to catch, similarly to how we didn't know people where watching Dresden's place closely enough to drop a sniper on it with less than a half hour's warning until they took a shot at us.
Not that I expect something dramatic to happen, but there are plenty of potential issues that could come up that aren't.
My general point here is that we should keep in mind that this isn't Harry Potter. The supernatural isn't friendly, or even terribly nice, most of the time and humans aren't the ones running it.
While not quite as bad, for someone like Rosie in the Dresden Files poking the supernatural is a lot closer to 'Warhammer fantasy peasant finds a glowing doodad' than 'muggle sees a house elf'.
[X] Meet with Harry and Mouse for ice cream, or if Harry's not in the mood just with Mouse
Still not a good plan to drop in on strangers with Rosie in tow. It needlessly complicates things and has risks associated with it.
I mean, it's worth noting that Rosie is as low on the totem pole as it gets; in the ocean that is the supernatural world she's somewhere around krill.
We can protect her to a degree, but she's still really vulnerable. Anything that goes wrong will be more complicated and riskier for her involvement.
There's also the potential issues with just being seen as interesting in the wrong place and with the wrong people.
Which we aren't actually guaranteed to catch, similarly to how we didn't know people where watching Dresden's place closely enough to drop a sniper on it with less than a half hour's warning until they took a shot at us.
Not that I expect something dramatic to happen, but there are plenty of potential issues that could come up that aren't.
My general point here is that we should keep in mind that this isn't Harry Potter. The supernatural isn't friendly, or even terribly nice, most of the time and humans aren't the ones running it.
While not quite as bad, for someone like Rosie in the Dresden Files poking the supernatural is a lot closer to 'Warhammer fantasy peasant finds a glowing doodad' than 'muggle sees a house elf'.
Good night guys, see you tomorrow evening maybe with an update depending on how tired I might be by then.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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We need to hurry up and get the king and the kingdom so we can take her to a nice safe nurturing environment.
I am not sure how sarcastic I am being.
And in this case "good" means "jump straight up to the clouds from sea-level and balance on one foot on top of water vapor".
Goldfish
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For everyone voting to meet up with Harry, can I convince any of ya'll to leave Harry out of the equation and just roll with Mouse tonight? Harry is an adult, and Rosie knows Molly has a hardcore crush on him, so his presence could make things weird, you know? Also, she might see it as an excuse for us to hang out with him.
If Rosie's first post-Splattercon introduction to the supernatural, sans Molly adjacent weirdness, is Mouse the amazing talking (via Burny) dogosaurus, they can have a fun and relaxed girl's night out without need for anything serious or dramatic.
If Rosie's first post-Splattercon introduction to the supernatural, sans Molly adjacent weirdness, is Mouse the amazing talking (via Burny) dogosaurus, they can have a fun and relaxed girl's night out without need for anything serious or dramatic.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
Yes that is exactly what I meant. Flight is still better. In fact Gravity-Rebuking Grace (**) seems entirely redundant for us now.
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[X] Swing by Harry's place to pick up Mouse for a night on the town. We'll take him and Rosie out for ice cream, then just enjoy a few hours of freedom. If that also involves Mouse riding around with his head sticking out of Black Rider's sunroof, then so be it.
Next time we need to intimidate something we need to do the levitating t-pose just for the memes.
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Does that meme even exist yet in-universe?
We can make it exist. Also its good for intimidating older things that know a lot about magic because of how dificult/impossible it is.
Solar flight charm is twice faster than any flight method available to Infernals.
...It costs way more, though, so that assuages the pain. Some of the pain, anyway.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
Eh, our speed charm also applies to flight so that isn't a problem.
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- New York
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[X] Meet with Harry and Mouse for ice cream, or if Harry's not in the mood just with Mouse
OctarineShrike
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Do you think we need to give Rosie the laws of magic talk?
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'I took Rosie out to see my new car, meet a cool dog and get ice-cream.'
Good fucking luck getting angry at that.
[X] Swing by Harry's place to pick up Mouse for a night on the town. We'll take him and Rosie out for ice cream, then just enjoy a few hours of freedom. If that also involves Mouse riding around with his head sticking out of Black Rider's sunroof, then so be it.
OctarineShrike
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[X] Swing by Harry's place to pick up Mouse for a night on the town. We'll take him and Rosie out for ice cream, then just enjoy a few hours of freedom. If that also involves Mouse riding around with his head sticking out of Black Rider's sunroof, then so be it.
At some point yeah, but it's probably not necessary yet since she doesn't have the capacity to even try breaking them yet. Even with the first dot of dream magic she can't really do enough to be at risk.
That said, when we do have that conversation we will probably also need to come clean about what Molly did to her.
Her intentions were good, but what Molly did to Rosie was still a huge violation by most standards. Not letting her know that even as she comes to trust and rely on Molly more with every week that passes is screwed up.
Even setting that aside, which I don't think we should, she's studying a variety of mind magic and will eventually get involved with other practitioners at some level. She's got better odds than most of figuring it out herself eventually.
On further thought, would this be pretty damn close to "thou shalt not swim against the currents of time" law violation? I mean, FTL and FTL-like effects don't like causality.
