[audio] un: nah (forward-dated to the 3rd)

[damnable]

So turns out the beacon can swallow you up and spit you right back out after several decades in your own world - in case everyone else is as unaware of that being a possibility as I was.

Name's Red for those of you who didn't know me before when I was teenage-shaped and brand spankin' new to life. For those who did, sorry for the awkward, weird social situation the beacon's just created for us. Now that I'm wiser-to-life, I feel it's better to be up front about some things. I can see people's souls, auras, whatever you wanna call 'em. So I know a lot about someone from the get-go, and I can't turn it on and off.

So there's some options:

A) I can tell you what I see when I meet you in full detail so you know what I know.

B) We both pretend like I don't see shit. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, it's a fun little coping mechanism.

C) My ability malfunctions - can't control this but it happens here.

D) I can make some colorful description up, and we roll with it, cause why not? Live your dreams.

If you got a preference, let me know or I'll assume B is it. I'll be at the bar, drinking about a thousand drinks, and grappling with sudden onslaught of memories and emotions and all that messy fun shit. Cheers, and Happy Train day.

( OOC: Open to network responses and/or action spam. If you want Red to see your chars' aura at some point, feel free to fill it permissions here - I assume her ability just doesn't work if there's nothing filled out so no worries regardless. :) If you already filled it out on her old journal, no need to fill it out again! )

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[blackscales]

I've been in worse.

[ This, at least, is true. He drifts his eyes back to her, flicks a wan smile. ]

War is relatively commonplace, in my world, as are undead armies and invading demons. The one advantage I have here, lack of surprise.

[ Although it can backfire too. Familiarity with concepts can mean he projects incorrect assumptions. Just because they both have undead and demons, doesn't mean they abide by the same rules. ]

[damnable]

( Red meets his wan smile with a soft smirk of her own. )

...yeah, what you told me about before was pretty clear you'd been through worse than a siege and Hell. ( It's not like he had an easy experience coming into his world - let alone all the other shit the world might hold. Her eyebrow raises though briefly, and her smirk widens. ) So you've never been surprised by anything here?

[blackscales]

[ Surprised? He considers that, thoughtful. ]

I've not seen anything I struggled to believe possible.

[ So not surprised in that sense. Still: ]

At times, the behaviour of the magic is... unfamiliar.

[ That's more frustrating or confusing than surprising, however. Like knowing most of the words to a song, but finding unexpectedly some have changed. ]

[damnable]

( Red taps her fingers on the outside of her glass and then tilts her head with a little smile. )

So more like a sudden twist to something you already knew than anything that comes out of nowhere to smack you over the head in an exciting way, huh?

( She sips at her wine and then makes a mild face of commiseration. )

Sounds frustrating.