trade my soul for a wish

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.

Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.


with Mark (kappa)

with Adanya (Aestrix)

with Sable (kappa)

with Ari (andaisq)

with Metella (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Steel (Rockeye)

with Daphne (Maggie)

with Edie (Maggie)

Comments

[from_scratch]

"I do. But some people who went on to become public figures did spend time as college students. I mean, I didn't, but that's because when you get in on the ground floor of a field like daeva summoning you can skip it."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That is true. But on the other hand, most of the B-Movie villains I've run into were human, and you have serial killers in your universe too, right?"

[from_scratch]

"Yes, but it's really pretty seldom they try to sacrifice people to things."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That guy was an outlier.
...I wasn't joking about chainsaw and hockey mask lunatics, though, I've met two of those. Did you know that some chainsaws won't cut through an aluminum baseball bat?"

[from_scratch]

"Hadn't occurred to me to contemplate that particular collision."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Also, chainsaws are literally the one melee weapon that needs to be reloaded. The first time I survived by managing to run and hide until he ran out of gas, and then snuck up on him while he was refueling the thing."

[from_scratch]

"Good for you."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That one's the only 'human' incident that makes my top ten. It was my first time, so I didn't have as much of an idea of what I was doing."

[from_scratch]

"And now this is just routine? Are the cops going to recognize you?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Oh yes."

[from_scratch]

"They probably think you're some kind of vigilante."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Oh, probably. But I've literally had a mechanic testify in court that the damage to my car couldn't have been deliberate one time."

[from_scratch]

"What happened to your car?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"A belt in the engine wore out. I had to push the thing to the mechanic's, and apparently the wear pattern meant I couldn't have cut it and the grease patterns meant I couldn't have removed a good one and replaced it with a shoddy one."

[from_scratch]

"And then when you were stuck in the middle of nowhere you were beset by goblins or something?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That was the ghosts one."

[from_scratch]

"Grand. Ghosts. Tell me about ghosts."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"They were pissed off about being dead. I recommended a good therapist. One of them was a Borgia University student before she died. I managed to help her get her scholarship back and disability accommodations."

[from_scratch]

"So ghosts are basically insubstantial people?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yeah. Some of the older ones, if they're all by themselves and haven't had human contact in a long time, go insane and warp into something else, but barring daevahood ghost seems to be the most reliable good bet for what happens when you die. I mean, hope for a real afterlife and all, but."

[from_scratch]

"What determines whether somebody turns into a ghost, then?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"If I could figure that out for sure I would be telling people. As far as I can tell it just happens sometimes. It's more likely if you're murdered, more likely if you have strong negative emotions about your death, and less likely if it's of old age."

[from_scratch]

"Figures."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I mean, you won't hear me arguing that the world is sensibly ordered. I just live here."

[from_scratch]

"I like mine better. But with one or two assumptions this one can probably be brought around."