Vote closed, let's see how she takes it.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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- Crossover Fantasy
Wait, isn't the vote a tie right now?
So it is, I did not see the five more votes for the write in
Vote is reopened. Update will be sometime tomorrow probably.
Ok, third turn around since I have the rolls for what is now the winning vote (sorry again for the confusion) might as well see if I can get this out today
Arc 4 Post 23: Approximately Alright
Approximately Alright
20th of August 2006 A.D.
"Rosie..." Looking into familiar brown eyes you see determination, hope, not just for herself, but for the baby as well, but you see also the flare of desperation. She doesn't need detailed plans, not now not yet. "There might be wizard doctors and there might be wizard lawyers, I haven't met them, but there isn't a wizard world that way, too many other things crowding the Nevernever, gods and monsters, wonders and horrors. It's more Alice in Wonderland than Harry Potter I'm afraid."
As you talk you study her carefully, expecting, fearing really, that she would be devastated, marshaling arguments like soldiers ready to jump into the breach, but your friend disappointed certainly but not devastated as she digs into her sundae. Maybe she's read a few more old time Fairy Tales than you give her credit for.
"Or perhaps she is just stronger than you are willing to allow Majesty," Usum notes, a rare challenge in your thoughts.
"Oh well I guess I'll have to settle for not falling apart then, that's a useful skill," she says with feigned lightness, uncomfortably close to your own thoughts.
"Most people with talent live in both worlds, supplementing either their magic with mundane jobs, or enhancing their work with their magic..." you interject, your tone matter of fact, the impression intentionally flawed by motioning with an ice cream spoon to add a tinge of levity.
"So what I can be a magic shrink?" She sounds disbelieving, dismissive of herself without even bitterness, as though she isn't even worth that much and it pisses you off.
"Yeah, yeah you could be, I've seen you study we were in junior high together remember? I remember how you can get with stuff you are passionate about and that's not just magic."
Mouse takes the chance to nod approvingly under her hand.
"I don't know if I can be that girl Molls, scratch that, I know I can't be that girl with a baby." Her left hand reaches instinctively for her abdomen. Before you and answer to keep up the pep talk she nods once sharply to herself. "But I can try."
I Will Survive starts playing in the background, almost enough to get one to believe in musical serendipity, only... "Clippy is this your doing?" you tap into the phone.
"It seemed appropriate."
Approximately, but maybe that is the best any of you can do.
You get Rosie into her room just before midnight without drawing any more suspicion from the babysitter this time round and count this a night well spent and as you you curl up in bed an hour later your mind is already wandering to the next meeting you have planned. Partly so as not to think of the nightmares that are lurking just out of sight, but that too is alright.
How do you want to meet Rose of Autumn IRL?
[] Invite her to breakfast some place, breakfast is an ice breaker right?
-[] Write in stunt (Optional)
[] Ask her is she wants to go for a morning run
-[] Write in stunt (Optional)
[] Write in
OOC: Rather short because I could not think of a lead in that would not be jarring, especially if the introduction rolls happened to go poorly.
- Location
- Germany
Maybe offer the breakfast,or if she's more comfortable with safe territory Mac's?
- Location
- Earth
Mac's is also public, not sure she wants to be known to be associated with us.
- Location
- Germany
You meet people there, not necessarily friends or allies.
Summer and Winter Ladies met there.
I'll state this again and again. Visiting Mac's without Harry for our first visit is a bad idea.
- Location
- Germany
And I disagree with it each time.
It's a public place were supernatural beings can meet without violence breaking out.
Literally neutral territory.
As long as we behave like a good guest, politely introduce ourselves and don't forget to tip we are relativly safe there and other can think they are safe from us.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[x] Invite her to breakfast some place, breakfast is an ice breaker right?
-[x] Write in stunt: Mac's is accorded neutral ground which should help dispell any nerves also dispite being a pub primarily they do have a breakfast special on weekends so you don't need to worry about drinking.
-[x] Write in stunt: Mac's is accorded neutral ground which should help dispell any nerves also dispite being a pub primarily they do have a breakfast special on weekends so you don't need to worry about drinking.
- Location
- Brazil
[x] Invite her to breakfast some place, breakfast is an ice breaker right?
-[x] Write in stunt: Mac's is accorded neutral ground which should help dispell any nerves also dispite being a pub primarily they do have a breakfast special on weekends so you don't need to worry about drinking.
-[x] Write in stunt: Mac's is accorded neutral ground which should help dispell any nerves also dispite being a pub primarily they do have a breakfast special on weekends so you don't need to worry about drinking.
- Location
- Germany
[x] Invite her to breakfast some place, breakfast is an ice breaker right?
-[x] Write in stunt: Mac's is accorded neutral ground which should help dispell any nerves also dispite being a pub primarily they do have a breakfast special on weekends so you don't need to worry about drinking.
-[x] Write in stunt: Mac's is accorded neutral ground which should help dispell any nerves also dispite being a pub primarily they do have a breakfast special on weekends so you don't need to worry about drinking.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
"So Mouse how would you like to move up in the world? I know that you enjoy protecting Harry's place, but I have this hell that could really use a big dog to guard it."
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I am sure that we could help him grow into the job.Sadly he just does't have the head(s) for it.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
Honestly, I'm kind of imagining Mouse getting a text to speech device and becoming a lifestyle counselor himself.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Or possibly a morning television show host? Today with Mouse and Friends, maybe?
Most people would think it's just a gimmick, with a well trained dog serving as a prop for someone in a control room playing man behind the curtain, but not everyone would be misled.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
Doctor Phil, only not utterly godawful. The world needs Dogtor Phil.
- Location
- Germany
[x] Invite her to breakfast some place, breakfast is an ice breaker right?
Note that it says invade.
How the Council chooses to interpret that depends as much on politics and expediency as it does on principle.
Someone had to go into the heads of all the junior Wardens, with or without their permission and check for boobytraps left behind by Peabody after Turn Coat.
Conversely, Dresden and Molly used to train mental defenses by inviting each other into their minds and wage war.
And Dresden used mental magic on the poor lawyer that Madeline Raith mindfucked in Turn Coat.
Going to note that we rolled 8 successes on the Counselling roll. Rosie is WP3.
So the assisted willpower roll should be 11D10S7.
Not 10D10S7. Doesnt really change the roll this turn
Lol SuperMolly.
I wonder if any of the neighbors saw Molly doing her Superman impersonation.
I agree with @Yog actually.
Neutral territory means that violence cannot break out there without consequences from Mab.
It doesnt mean that surveillance cannot or will not occur there.
Or that people cannot follow you from there and start shit off the grounds.
Indeed, given its status as an acknowledged meeting ground in a major city, I would assume that anyone with the resources is paying to have it watched, and that gossip about what happens there spreads fast.
I would strongly suggest that our first visit there be in the company of either Michael or Dresden.
With regards to Rose of Autumn? We have two options:
1)Invite her to Mac's with Michael or Dresden, who both have a reputation in the local community to both vouch for Molly and serve as protection for Rose in case someone is watching and tries to take advantage afterwards.
2)Meet her in a mundane restaurant out in public with plenty of people, where she can have friends unobtrusively keep watch for her safety if she wants. Michael may or may not be present.
Same principle as a blind date off Tinder or some other social media site.
I'd prefer the restaurant myself.
Hard no to the run.
If someone Ive never met before invited me for a run to talk about something occult secret, I'd worry about getting bundled into a van if we were running on the sidewalk or murdered and dumped in the woods if it was a trail.
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