[Voice]

[stillwinningthehardway]

[Scout speaks briskly. She's familiar with networks, at least the voice-only kind, but always feels awkward trying to start a conversation like this.]

I was assigned 'Warlock' by... whatever assigned these things for us. I know a lot about what that meant on another world, less about what it means here. Hopefully here - I mean, I don't like being bound to something without knowing much about it.

[She coughs. Moving on.] So I've had a very vivid dream about what I assume is my patron here. She's some kind of fae, and... really excited about the other fae I've had experience with. Is this happening to anyone else?

[How warlocks know about their patrons and exactly what the patrons are like is up to players! One possibility is they're contacted in dreams.]

Comments

[stillwinningthehardway]

Fighter? Just... fighter?

[Scout's plain not aware of the different class names. 'Merchant' was already weird.]

'Fae' is another word for faerie, or the 'fair folk'. They're uh... a kind of entity that likes other worlds and is usually powerful, magical, and some degree of immortal, though depending on the reality they can be very different. Some are mischievous, some will bless folk, some are possessive, or all three. Usually they're hard-wired to keep their word but many aren't exactly trustworthy.

[bluechampion]

Yeah. It's not very...descriptive.

[Link lets out a long 'Ooooooooooooh!' at the description.]

There are fairies where I'm from. They don't interact with people much, but the dust they sprinkle around has healing properties. The Great Fairies are the ones that give out blessings. I've never heard of mischievous fairies before.

[stillwinningthehardway]

It just sounds like it'd apply to most of the people here.

You're lucky, then! Yeah a lot of the time there are greater and lesser ones and dozens of names for subcategories. I haven't heard about healing dust. Do you collect it?

[bluechampion]

The dust is a little hard to collect by itself, so I usually just catch the fairy itself and keep it in a bottle until I need some healing. There are people that cook with it to make fairy tonic though.

[stillwinningthehardway]

And they don't mind that?

[bluechampion]

It's kind of hard to tell. I mean, the fairies themselves aren't being cooked and eaten, but they don't talk either. The Great Fairies never mentioned disliking it, so I guess it's not really a big deal.

[stillwinningthehardway]

I... guess not. Well. Different world, different rules

So did you pick a bracer name that's your name, or is it something you like?

[bluechampion]

I guess so.

I just used my own name. Do most people give it its own name?

[stillwinningthehardway]

Some do, some don't, and don't ask me why 'cause I don't know.

I just went with Jedi, but I could have gone with Scout. That's what most people call me face-to-face.

[bluechampion]

I guess Scout is a nickname then? How'd you get it?

[stillwinningthehardway]

Oh, well - when I was a kid, I was a little faster at reading situations than anyone else. That doesn't seem to be working, here, but I've had this nickname too long to just change it.

[bluechampion]

You probably just have to get used to this place. Well, I guess if it's a lot different from where you're from. There's a lot for me to get used to.

[stillwinningthehardway]

It's also that sometimes, powers or abilities don't work in certain realities. And that's... kind of annoying really.

I'm sure. Is anything in particular weird?

[She thinks 'what's your world like' is a silly question, many worlds aren't so simply summed up.]

[bluechampion]

So...you've been to other realities then? Other than where you're from and this place?

[How many people here go world-hopping on a regular basis? Scout wasn't the only person Link had met to do that if that's what she was implying.]

Everything. This bracelet thing we're talking through, the lights that work with a switch in the wall and don't need fire, the training modules at the dojo that make it look like there's stuff around you when there really isn't, and automated machines that don't want to kill you...

I could go on all day. Hyrule has nothing like this.