un: wiccan

[demiurgency]

[voice:]

You know, I've been thinking. If I were back home right now--[Leaving aside everything that had gone terribly wrong back home, dealing with the interdimensional parasite that had brainwashed his parents and wanted to feed off of him and his magic for hundreds of years, his missing brother, et cetera]--it'd be time for auditions for the spring musical. I think this year was supposed to be Bare, which would have been amazing, especially since it would've been senior year, so, my last chance at a lead role, you know?

Maybe you don't, I mean, I know a lot of people aren't from Earth, or from the twenty-first century, but that's not really the point, sorry, I'm getting distracted.

The point is, I miss music, and I miss theater, and even with learning self-defense and first aid and reading everything in the schoolhouse and foraging and all the things we need to do here to survive, I still end up with a lot of free time. So, I was thinking, I'd love to learn some new songs, and new dances, and new stories. I don't know if there're enough people here interested to justify putting on a show or anything, but I thought it might be fun to get people together to trade those sorts of things. Share parts of our cultures, you know? Anyway, if anyone's interested, let me know, we can work something out.

[action, OTA:]

[Those who frequent the schoolhouse might run into one Billy Kaplan there after this broadcast, sorting through books on the shelves attempting to organize things by genre and/or season and trying to figure out what he has or hasn't read. If he isn't there, you might run into him in the inn grabbing lunch, or on the road heading to or from the eastern woods outside of town on a mushroom-hunting run. Wherever you find him, chances are he's humming under his breath, if not singing outright. What? It's been stuck in his head for a while now.]

Comments

[demiurgency]

No, not a genetic experiment. At least, not entirely? It's kind of a long and complicated story. How do you guys feel about magic?

[duel_wielding]

Magic is a really good thing in books. Oh, wait, no. Sleight of hand stuff is really cool too.

[demiurgency]

It is, but real magic is a thing where I'm from. My mom had magic, but it isn't like the casting spells kind, you don't just read from a book or whatever and things happen. She could alter reality. So she created my brother and me, sons for her and her husband, Vision. Vision was a cyborg, and he was created by an AI named Ultron. So technically Ultron is sort of my grandfather. Through a lineage thing, even if it's not genetic.

The fuck time travel joke must always be made.

[duel_wielding]

WOW! Magic is amazing then. I mean, altering reality is weird, but one of my brothers was really good at distorting time, so it seems a bit less troublesome than that.

Always.

[demiurgency]

It definitely can be. It can also be terrifying and kind of tricky, but it's amazing for sure.

Oh man, time's definitely tricky. Messing with that can get you some pretty weird results. How many brothers do you have?

[duel_wielding]

Seven brothers. And then Alpha and Beta, who are sorta like my origin and my sister. It's weird... But Gamma is really good at time manipulation but that's not necessarily good because it's confusing.

And his jokes aren't good.

[demiurgency]

Family's always a little bit weird, honestly

I have two little brothers who are biologically related to me, but my twin is actually my soul's twin, when he was reborn it was to a family over in New Jersey. More magic stuff. Anyway, you're totally right, time stuff is really confusing.

And bad jokes are just the worst. Are they like intentionally bad, or just totally not funny at all?

[duel_wielding]

He uses knock knock jokes.

[demiurgency]

Okay so the ACTUAL worst, got it.

[duel_wielding]

Yeah, North says that's the lowest form of humor. That even puns are better.

[demiurgency]

I do appreciate a good pun. Wordplay is a lot of fun.

So if you're an AI, are you directly linked with the comm or does North have to type for you? Sorry if that's rude to ask, I'm just really curious.

[duel_wielding]

He types for me. I wish I was directly linked to the comm because it would be easier for us. North has to be my voice, which isn't really nice for us.

[demiurgency]

Yeah, I can imagine. It must be hard to split this kind of stuff, especially if you're in the same body. Hey, North, thanks for doing this. I hope you guys definitely come to the meetup.

[duel_wielding]

I'm quite glad to help Theta. He's like a brother. We'll be by when it happens.