You could yeah.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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You could yeah.
- Location
- Australia
Could we find them a driving instructor (person, program, etc.) from our kingdom, or are manually controlled cars (I'm guessing self-driving/automatic vehicles are the norm) operated too radically different to Earth (e.g. plugging in one's 'jack to direct uplink to and control a vehicle or just very different control schemes) for those skills to easily transfer? If the latter-case, could we find a historian or historical simulation on older vehicles in the realm (which are more like those of contemporary/modern Earth) to instruct them?
Actually, now that I think about it, such a plan would perhaps even more so depend on how similar or different traffic/road rules and laws are between the realm and the US.
Manually driven vehicles are not unheard of but it is done though machine mind interface. Also even if you could find an instructor on antique vehicles they are not going to know the US traffic code.
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Arc 8 Post 61: Not Quite Asgard
Not Quite Asgard
18th of November 2006 A.D.
"Alex, Izzy, you're safe now, you are in a hospital, but something, a monster kidnapped you," it feels uncanny to be explaining things in these terms under the rippling low-rad lights, an entire detection system build to identify balefire cancer, a sickness you'd just cured. "The paralyses is going to wear off in about five and a half hours. The doctors know how to deal with this kind of problem generally, but they have never worked on humans from earth before. Harry Dresden, the wizard I told you about..." And got teased about. God I wish I was getting teased over 'original Chicago burgers' and a too-small side of fries. "Or third option I can make you guys some tea to balance your chi. That is one of the things I learned in my martial arts classes. I know you can't talk, but I can do some magic to guess what you thought so just think of the answer, then I will look and we will go at it from there. "
Silence follows, made awkward by the fact that Ameli and Dust are both obviously interested in Harry and your father and they are obviously interested in this place, each for their own reasons, but you are the only one who can translate. Wait no...
"Usum can you play interpreter for a bit?" you ask your... alter ego maybe? One cannot really call him a inner demon now and just 'my demon' feels creepy, not least because of how accurate it feels.
So he does. Harry asks some questions about magic use with an eye for potential secrecy that confuse the security people since the idea of there being particular laws that govern the broad use of magic makes about as much sense to them as broadly legislating the use of one's legs. Meanwhile Ameli questions Harry about his arcane talents which leaves her rubbing her hands in excitement. One of the hands in question is a steel clamp the other is an electrified drill.
Once the three minutes are up you ask light blooming from you and spinning into eyes uncounted: What did Izzy and Alec just think in response to my question?
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 6/15
Fear confusion, sheer horror at not being able to move a muscle. Tea, tea sounds less scary than 'medical procedure' or 'magic spell'. Where the hell are we? Tea then then if that does not work out just put me to sleep, from Izzy. Alec is concerned his grandmother is going to miss him so he chooses the doctors' attention if the tea does not work.
Ten minutes of flipping though the slate you have been given and then speaking to the palace SUTRA Guardian of the Brazen Flower, his avatar spiralling flame, his voice low and smoky you manage to get into the noosphere and get enough of a sense of what to ask for. Not Yin and Yang, but almost suspiciously close...
"Their vital-essence has been slightly Void-tilted, I'm going to need Sun-path ingredients to brew an antidote. Dried thunderfruit silverwing flish scales, crawling vine sap and three grams of magnesium for the flare." In a world without a sun it had somehow become a abstract representation, again and again in ancient martial arts manuals and alchemical scrolls, a six rayed sun, sometimes represented as four arms and two legs with the solar disk containing either a perfect human, tocatl, gurvel or seta is seen as the source of life, light and motion, where as its opposite, the Void is often represented as a black scaled dragon endlessly coiling around the world, the hungry dark that eats away at the edge of the world that it might not grow beyond its bounds like an intended garden and thus perish.
Back in Chicago the kinds of things you asked for would need someone to pop into Bok's if not even more esoteric and less reputable merchants, here you did the equivalent of asking for substances from the compound pharmacy, they show up together with a mobile prep-kit, military issue from the red lotus insignia in a matter of minutes.
So you get to measuring and brewing, recalling the principles Brother D had explained. What would the shih think about where you are, what you are? The question pops abruptly to mind. Would he take it as confirmation that you are something like a Yama King? No, you assure yourself, that is silly, this place isn't hell.
With that thought firmly in mind you set the tea one last time and pour it out, still steaming into the two steel cups on the table before you. Then, gently, you give some to Izzy and some to Alec.
"Whoo, how much Red Bull did you put in th's!" Izzy asks pushing herself up to sitting.
Alec who isn't quite as adventurous, but had opened his eyes to look around counters with: "Something tells me there's weirder stuff than Red Bull in there." He pauses a moment. "Maybe some monster energy."
"First visit to an alien world, make a bad joke and insult the locals. Trying to speed run the Captain Kirk award Alec?" the sarcasm in your voice does not do anything to mask the sheer relief.
"What is this place?" Izzy says, trying to look everywhere at once from the smooth curves of the monitors and analyses machines, more like art nouveau than medical equipment to the doctors dressed all in gold and black, well everywhere but at Ameli and the other tocatli.
"Remember when I said I was more like Thor than Superman. Well welcome to Asgard, I'm in charge." You do not have to look at dad to know he's smiling at them being OK and you feeling comfortable enough to make corny jokes, but the question remains, what next?
[] Get Izzy and Alec back home at once before they are missed
[] Tour the palace, learn more about his world by experiencing it
[] Get to know the leadership, find out how they are dealing with your arival
[] See if you can convince Harry that this is not just another Nevernever domain
[] Write in
OOC: And now this opens up.
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That's some good tea.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Harr Dresden
Anyway this worked out quite well. Thanks to whoever though of using the crown.
Anyway this worked out quite well. Thanks to whoever though of using the crown.
That is what they think of as the most sun-aligned thing in the sky, but their symbol for sun is six rayed circle. The sun in this world is not a physical thing, it is an abstract concept like Yin and Yang
[X] Plan to Each their own
-[X] Get to know the leadership, find out how they are dealing with your arrival
--[X] Until it's time for the meeting with the leadership:
---[X] Get local thaumaturgy experts to talk shop with Harry, ideally convincing him that this isn't just a NeverNever realm
---[X] Give Izzy, Alec and dad a tour of the palace. There are pilgrims, so, there are probably professional tour guides
---[X] Sit down for an interview to prepare the information for the press-release you promised in your introductory speech
---[X] Leadership excellency and others as appropriate
There's a meeting already scheduled mentioned in the previous update
I am open to suggestions and changes. But the main point is that we can in fact split the party.
-[X] Get to know the leadership, find out how they are dealing with your arrival
--[X] Until it's time for the meeting with the leadership:
---[X] Get local thaumaturgy experts to talk shop with Harry, ideally convincing him that this isn't just a NeverNever realm
---[X] Give Izzy, Alec and dad a tour of the palace. There are pilgrims, so, there are probably professional tour guides
---[X] Sit down for an interview to prepare the information for the press-release you promised in your introductory speech
---[X] Leadership excellency and others as appropriate
There's a meeting already scheduled mentioned in the previous update
We pretty much have to do that, so we can't exactly leave unless we go out and back again immediately. So, first option is not viable. There's some time until the meeting it due, so, get Harry talking shop about magic, get dad and our friends a tour of the palace, and sit down for an interview as part of what we have promised.
I am open to suggestions and changes. But the main point is that we can in fact split the party.
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
15 sux. Did we accidentally them Super Powers?
No, the tea's baseline is not magical enough for that, not by a longshot. You may have made it so they do not have to eat or sleep for the next several days though
Yzarc
The Spark of Madness
.....lame.No, the tea's baseline is not magical enough for that, not by a longshot. You may have made it so they do not have to eat or sleep for the next several days though
Get kidnapped by a Terror monster. Get rescued to a Magic realm where one of your best friends is a Princess. Meet a genuine Wizard and a Holy Knight sent by God, capital G for emphasis. Get fed tea made from ultra rare ingredients many Wizards will literally kill for.
And after all that.....all they got out of that was insomnia.
Worst Super hero backstory ever.
@DragonParadox does anybody have a spare cell phone, or other electrics devices. We need some translators.
Both Izzy and Alec were taken with their phones on them. Michael does not have his since he knew Harry was involved and would fry it.
Ask him what Lash tells of the place? (Yes, I know her botch means he won't, that's the joke.
)Wow, that's some goo...
I see I am too late.
[X] Plan to Each their own
[X] Phone Demons + Plan to Each their own
-[x] Offer to buy replacement phone for Izzy and Alec, use HMP 1 essence each on their phones so you have more translators available.
-[X] Get to know the leadership, find out how they are dealing with your arrival
--[X] Until it's time for the meeting with the leadership:
---[X] Get local thaumaturgy experts to talk shop with Harry, ideally convincing him that this isn't just a NeverNever realm
---[X] Give Izzy, Alec and dad a tour of the palace. There are pilgrims, so, there are probably professional tour guides
---[X] Sit down for an interview to prepare the information for the press-release you promised in your introductory speech
---[X] Leadership excellency and others as appropriate
We will see about making those phones permanent and leaving them here when we are getting ready to leave. So they can start building a translation program for the rest of the city.
-[x] Offer to buy replacement phone for Izzy and Alec, use HMP 1 essence each on their phones so you have more translators available.
-[X] Get to know the leadership, find out how they are dealing with your arrival
--[X] Until it's time for the meeting with the leadership:
---[X] Get local thaumaturgy experts to talk shop with Harry, ideally convincing him that this isn't just a NeverNever realm
---[X] Give Izzy, Alec and dad a tour of the palace. There are pilgrims, so, there are probably professional tour guides
---[X] Sit down for an interview to prepare the information for the press-release you promised in your introductory speech
---[X] Leadership excellency and others as appropriate
We will see about making those phones permanent and leaving them here when we are getting ready to leave. So they can start building a translation program for the rest of the city.
What, not even temporary superhuman strength?No, the tea's baseline is not magical enough for that, not by a longshot. You may have made it so they do not have to eat or sleep for the next several days though
That would admittedly be in theme for Yang aspected tea, but this tea was a a baseline meant to balance chi, making them Yang empowered would not be a success, it would be a fail state. They are presently the most chi balanced humans on the planet
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Dmol8
The Undead Unhinged Lunatic of the Web
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The part about what Harry would do is missing.
"because of how accurate" not "because of accurate"
"to them as broadly legislating the use" not "to them a broadly legislating the use"
"Would he take it as confirmation" not "Would be take it as confirmation"
Also jury is still out on that one if I'm remembering correctly.
No, the tea's baseline is not magical enough for that, not by a longshot. You may have made it so they do not have to eat or sleep for the next several days though
That would admittedly be in theme for Yang aspected tea, but thus tea was a a baseline meant to balance chi, making them Yang empowered would not be a success, it would be a fail state. They are presently the most chi balanced humans on the planet
So with the recording equipment present in this hospital does that mean that our people now have a cure-all for Void/Yin imbalances if they but study the recordings?