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[1019]

Name: Lucas Baker | UN: LCerberus
Date: 05/04
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Day 3. So who's growing in their special witch powers?
What about getting themselves bit by stuff, anybody trying that out yet??

[He types, flippantly. He's still... kinda treating everything going on here as a game. Not a joke, at least not anymore, but as a game he's a-rollin' with. Easier to throw up your hands and say "a'ight, a'ight, I'll roll with all of this for now! Looks like it's more good for me than not!" than it is to... think of yourself as "part of" it, what with all that talk back with Miss Nessie 'bout how every human being here has friggin' tapped-or-untapped magical powers.

And seemed to kinda assume that extended to all the folks here. Well, ha-ha, he sure don't like he's got any magical powers!]

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[subruo]

Magical powers don't sprout up overnight! And being bit hardly will make that happen faster - that's just asking for disease!

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[1019]

Uhh does turning into a werewolf or a vampire or something count as a disease?? Because I'm totally ok with asking for that!!
Take it from me besides, end up sick with the right thing and it can turn out to have an upside or two anyway.

[I... that sounds...

...Shady? Stupid? ...Kinda both, without context???]

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[subruo]

[WHAT IS HE READING]

First of all, turning into a werewolf from a bite isn't true. That can't happen. And vampires are a myth!

Honestly, I don't see what upsides could compete with things like, you know, death?

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[1019]

Uhh the first guy I talked to says different!
So did the witch lady by the way. :) According to her there're vampires running around all over the place in this city.

[She didn't... exactly say that, but... anyway. Vampires!]

What do you think that THEY would say if you came up acting like being a stiff's the worst thing in the world???!

[You say like you've ever even met one.

...You know, apart from that fella who responded first, if we're counting telecommunication as "meeting".]

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[subruo]

I'll believe it when I see it. Vampires are creatures that parents tell their children about to make them behave, that's all.

I'm not a stiff, I'm just cautious! You can't mess with things like this. I mean, unless you WANT to die, then that's another thing entirely.

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[1019]

You want pics when I meet one?
Joke's on you, though. Dying's kinda hard for me!!
It's not that I WANNA, I guess it's just that I'm a little bit more adventurous than most!

[subruo]

Excuse me? Pics? Pictures? You mean drawings?

[WHAT'S A PHOTOGRAPH]

There's a fine line between adventurous and insane but if you feel like you need to, go ahead.

[1019]

I mean photos???

[Yes but WHAT'S A PHOTOGRAPH.]

I mean I COULD draw you something pretty if you REALLY want!!!

[Yeah. He's not much of a visual artist and he knows it without, like, vectors.]

I mean they say the same thing about genius, so!
Guess that's why I get more done than the average guy. :)

[Really?]

I will buddy, thanks!!!

[subruo]

What's a photos?

[This man is........literally making no sense. Is he a madman? Is that who he's talking to here?]

That wasn't a go-ahead to do whatever you want!

[1019]

You can't have "A PHOTOS", it's PLURAL
Photographs???? Pictures you get from making an imprint of the light coming off of things???

[AT THE LEAST HE'S GATHERED BY NOW THAT "PFFFHA HA HA OHHHHHH, HE'S ONE A' THOSE LOW-TECH OLD-TIMEY WORLD GUYS...!"]

You know those?????

[Aaaand yet he's not talkin' like it. Alas, he's not got much of a filter.]

Do I need one, brother??????
I'm a grown ass man!!!!!!

[Deeeebatable.]

I'm a smart guy, you don't gotta worry about good old Lucas fucking Baker!!!!!!!!

[subruo]

You're making stuff up at this point. Vampires, now these photograph things? What do you mean, "getting an imprint of light"? That makes no sense.

[He very OBVIOUSLY doesn't know those. Magic is where it's at, man!! Technology is for OTHER PLACES.]

If you say so, Lucas fucking Baker. [Guess who doesn't know "fucking" is a curse word?? This guy.] I guess caution isn't a thing that really matters to you at this point, but then again what do I know.

[1019]

Are you kidding me?? No it's not hard to wrap your head around!! You stick this little screen in a box and when you let light into it it gets burned onto the screen! People learn this when they're like SEVEN.

[Come ooooon, if you can magic then tech gotta be easy! >80c

Alas, Lucas cares... less about that than never being one to not friggin' love when he knows stuff, ha-ha, I'm always the one who's operating on a level higher, I beat aaaaaall these other guys, leave 'em far away...!]

Don't wear it out!!!

[Aaaaand he could definitely live with being called "Lucas fucking Baker" henceforth. With, like, shit-eating levels of glee, even.]

Good question, too!!
Not what a fucking camera is from the looks of it.

[Yes, we've... established this.

It, uh... kinda afterburns a li'l bit acrid and bitter, though, after he types it. Face... sagging with a distant, distant "hmph"-ing exasperation.

He can't... really point back to the part where ha-ha, I said getting myself killed ain't too easy, didn't I? Caution's not something I gotta worry about without overdrawing his hand, here.

Again, what... the vampire said, whooh, shit -- ...!]

[subruo]

[He's just. Dragging his hands down his face. This is so much. It's enough trouble that he's stuck in a new world, but now he has to talk to guys like this who talk about things as if everyone should know them, even though light being used to burn things doesn't result in pictures, but a whole lot of fire. At least, that's how it works, right?]

I am trying to imagine this but I am failing rather spectacularly.

[And now that middle name(???) is appearing in front of another word he doesn't know (CAMERA???). By the goddess, he's definitely getting a headache, and it's hard enough already trying to type words on this device when he's used to writing.]

[The future is so hard. It's so hard. Save him.]

Let me just ask this - are you pulling my leg?

[1019]

[The future is now, Vashti.



There is no escape.]

About what, how a damn camera works or are we supposed to be talking about the vampires again?

[Which is it, Lucas? A damn camera, or a fucking camera?]

[subruo]

[PLEASE LET HIM ESCAPE HE WANTS OUT!!!]

Well I mean both, I suppose but

[wait a second]

wait what is the difference between a fucking camera and a damn camera?

[1019]

[ W E L C O M E _ A B O A R D _ M R . _ B O N E S ' S _ W I L D _ R I D E

-- But ALSO -- ! Oh ha ha ha ha ha BITCH don't get all smartassy with him -- !]

You asking that when you don't even know what a camera is at all??? SERIOUSLY????
How do you know there's NOT a difference and you're just not ready to get it yet?????????

[BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE DOING THERE, RIGHT?

GETTING ALL... SMARTASSY! JESUS, CAN'T A GUY CURSE???]

[subruo]

[He's just sitting back now to bite his tongue - okay, he can't lose his cool here. This "Lucas" is...........getting on his nerves! Yes!! But he has an image to maintain! He has to be nice!! Can't say things that show his true feelings about he hates all of this!]

Please don't patronize me, I'm merely trying to understand.

[Okay he will allow himself one (1) sort of smartass comment.]

Not everyone has the same things that you do on your world, you know. I'm sure you could be confused if I mentioned things that come from mine.

[1019]

[Hey, Vashti, you're on the sorta-internet.

In this land, everyone gets two images.

...So some would argue, anyhoo. But!]

Yeah sure you are.

[...BUT also, ha -- if avoiding letting himself sweat, so to speak, is what Vashti was going for! Apparently Lucas is in enough of a "key" that that don't register as... smartassery, quite.

More somethin' that mousetrap-snaps an "OH oh ho ho yeah. Thanks, teach."

A simple bratty flare and huff! off.

But still, a... return with attempted wide-eyed smartassery]

You don't even have SWEAR WORDS where you come from????

[subruo]

[The sorta-internet SUCKS! Why are there jerks on this thing who won't engage in nice and proper conversation!!!]

Yes? Of course there are swear words. [Wait....WAIT. IT MAKES SENSE NOW.] Wait, those were swear words??