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exsilium2012-07-02 06:49 pm
birdhousesoul) wrote in exsilium2012-07-02 06:49 pm
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Right. Let's make a few things clear from the start, shall we?
I'm Anders. I'm a mage. A spirit healer, more specifically. I do not work for the Initiative, nor can I give anyone Cheetos. I still don't know what a Cheeto is.
If you're accessing this message, you're either working for the Initiative yourself, spying on the network, or else you're one of us. Someone who's been torn from his or her own world, who's wondering what in the Void's going on here. Our hosts, or captors, whichever, call us transports. I call us conscripts, because that is exactly what we are. We've been conscripted into this war they're fighting, and since they give us food and shelter and spare coin, presumably they feel they've done right by us. They've no qualms about sending us into their ill-chosen battles, anyhow.
I don't like them much, if you hadn't guessed. The best thing I can say for them is: I like their enemies even less.
People are talking about making some sort of a guide, to orient new conscripts. Well, that doesn't do you much good, now, does it? So ... consider this an opportunity to ask questions. You might take the answers with a grain of salt, mind. Some of us have a sense of humor.
Oh, one other thing. If you're a mage, or use a power that could feasibly be termed magic -- I don't care what you call it, mana, magicka, gramarye -- anything that isn't sleight of hand. If you're a practitioner of magic, you're invited to our next meeting. I say meeting; really it's more just mages sitting around and eating pie. Not like you can organize mages, really. Write me if you'd like directions to our place.
I'm Anders. I'm a mage. A spirit healer, more specifically. I do not work for the Initiative, nor can I give anyone Cheetos. I still don't know what a Cheeto is.
If you're accessing this message, you're either working for the Initiative yourself, spying on the network, or else you're one of us. Someone who's been torn from his or her own world, who's wondering what in the Void's going on here. Our hosts, or captors, whichever, call us transports. I call us conscripts, because that is exactly what we are. We've been conscripted into this war they're fighting, and since they give us food and shelter and spare coin, presumably they feel they've done right by us. They've no qualms about sending us into their ill-chosen battles, anyhow.
I don't like them much, if you hadn't guessed. The best thing I can say for them is: I like their enemies even less.
People are talking about making some sort of a guide, to orient new conscripts. Well, that doesn't do you much good, now, does it? So ... consider this an opportunity to ask questions. You might take the answers with a grain of salt, mind. Some of us have a sense of humor.
Oh, one other thing. If you're a mage, or use a power that could feasibly be termed magic -- I don't care what you call it, mana, magicka, gramarye -- anything that isn't sleight of hand. If you're a practitioner of magic, you're invited to our next meeting. I say meeting; really it's more just mages sitting around and eating pie. Not like you can organize mages, really. Write me if you'd like directions to our place.