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[Good thing technology isn't unheard of in Phandalin, huh? But it's... been a week and she's been through the whole song and dance and is just going to be an absolute asshole about this now that she's really allowed to.]

Anyone else get the feeling that the kinds of people they must have dealt with before you had to have been absolutely braindead to need as much training as they offered? Goodness me, not that I'm saying any of you are or were that braindead, but it certainly seems to be who they thought they would attract the most attention from.

Which reminds me, what the hell is the point of all this nonsense? I get it, steal Pokemon or whatever, but for... what? Is it just some kind of weird power grab or is there some ulterior motive that those of us on the bottom rung aren't privy to? Because I honestly don't appreciate things being hidden from me.

Also~ Steven, I believe it was? If you're hearing this, darling, I would gladly take you up on that offer if you're still extending that particular branch. I'm sure I'm easy enough to find, what with still having a particular feature of mine being rather striking compared to the others here.

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They always are, but they were usually easy to put down with the right thing. These three, however, well. Let's just say they were a different breed than what we had ever dealt with before. [She's using we a lot but sure as hell isn't explaining who "we" even is.]

Your kind? [She's intrigued, given she's shifting once more to watch him far closer, a brow raised. He has her attention at this point, as far as she was aware, liches were the only type that used emotions in that sort of manner.]

Tell me, does your magic still work here? I have yet to figure out if it's because I'm mortal again or if it's something to do with this place in general. But if it were the former option, I would still have access to my illusion spells and those are also inaccessible. It's starting to become a problem that I can't say I appreciate. [At least her zorua can pull some kind of bullshit, but that's not the same.]

Yeah. Poor assholes that got abducted by the Fae and managed to find our way out of their realm. Being stuck there changes the way your body works, even how it looks. But we get a little magic out of it, at least.

And no. It doesn't. I'm just as human as I was before all that bullshit started. Jack says that every once in a while there's these weird weekends where people get their abilities and true bodies back, but it always goes back to being like this.

[Fae, if that's a word she hasn't heard in quite some time. She's rolling her eyes almost immediately, not at him but at her knowledge of that damn race in particular.]

Assholes, the whole lot of them. But that's to be expected of a race that thinks they're better than everyone else. I could understand that with humans before a certain point, but then they went after... you know what, never mind, I'll save that rant for another time. [Elves are finicky creatures. It's fine. This is fine.]

So I'm more or less going to be stuck like this until one of these weird weekends comes around. Unsure if that... is better or worse, to be able to have a taste of my lich form again. It would be nice to not have to worry about this mundane mortality shit, but then if I go back to this... [She's just gesturing to her whole body in general.] Perhaps it'd be better if I didn't.

Mm, yeah. That's the problem.

Although it occurs to me that we could do something spectacular on one of those weird weekends, with your necromancy, the more advanced of my two Contracts of Darkness, and whatever else the others can bring to the table. That's actually why I wanted to get a list of your capabilities?

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[Oh goodness, she's actually laughing a bit and leaning back again. This is fine, this is absolutely fine.]

Depends on how much you want to know about what I could do. The majority of my magic was self-taught, at least when it comes to illusion, but every elf tends to have some affinity for a particular school of magic if you're inclined towards magic in general. Necromancy I learned from a cult of stupid assholes that were so intent on becoming necromancers that when we got bored and upset with their uselessness we ended up as liches.

I still remember slaughtering all of them, to be honest with you. It's not that hard when it's primarily human wizards thinking they're special.

[He laughs too.]

I can imagine. And really, just a list of your more useful spells of either school would be nice. Mm, plus your lich powers.

Oh. And if I make my pledge to Autumn, maybe you and I could harvest some fear together when the next weird weekend comes. If you think fear would work as well as suffering, anyway. If not, maybe we could try for both.

[It's. Just so damn nice to have people he doesn't need to pretend at all around]

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I mean, the majority of my illusion spells can work on a large area to make the terrain look like something entirely different. Wonderland, for instance, everything in there was fueled on the suffering we stole to use our magic. It was, in reality, really just a huge empty building that made into quite a number of things. So, really, the sky is the limit when it comes to what illusion-type of things I could do. Name it and I could probably figure out a way to work with it.

[The sad part is that she's not even wrong, as for necromancy...]

I have been alive for hundreds of years, darling, I do not think there any liches more powerful than the two of us were. Reanimation is something I'm sure I could pull off if I was given half a chance, alternatively causing necrosis of various forms is more than doable.

Point is, I'm more... a situational mage than I am a "here is a list of all the things I can do" wizard would do. Magic of my kind is easily adapted to situations, after all.

[She is, however, intrigued by this harvesting fear thing.]

We hadn't really messed with fear that much, but depending on the source, I don't doubt that I could use it. But fear and suffering can go hand-in-hand rather easily, don't you think?~

They can. Sorrow and suffering too, if I can't re-pledge myself even during a weird weekend.

[He says this all a bit off-handedly, as if this is just a bit of everyday conversation to him. It's not, really. He wouldn't mind it if it was, but there are not that many perfectly terrible people in his life that he's willing to show his jagged bits to. More than there used to be. And he's more willing to actually admit to these thoughts. To let himself think them at all.

He's so glad Jack helped him get his head on straight.]

We'll see if there's anyone the Team needs to target that weekend. Might as well kill two birds with one stone.

Whichever way it works~ I'm never going to turn down an opportunity to cause some sort of anguish to the foolish. [It'd still be fun, either way.

It's good that she can talk to someone about this mess as well, usually she'd use her brother for these kinds of conversations, but given he's not here... She will take what she's given and this one certainly seems rather intriguing and agreeable to even her worst of moments.

How lovely.]

I look forward to it, to being able to show just why a pretty face is a dangerous thing if one isn't careful~ [Stop that.]

[He snickers.]

Can you ever not vamp?

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