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]

"Yeah. Man, 1999, your internet is probably terrible."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I'm sure your internet will seem terrible to people several centuries in your future too."

[from_scratch]

"Yes, yes, they'll probably have a workaround for the lightspeed delay or something."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Besides, most vampires are old. They don't reliably use the internet we have. What I'm going to do is tell Jaromira, and she'll tell Kanimir, and he'll start writing letters to people."

[from_scratch]

"I actually get a lot of paper letters, but that's because that's the best way for a demon to receive correspondence from distant locales."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Vampires use them because most of them think the telegraph was a new-fangled invention and not to be trusted, let alone anything else."

[from_scratch]

"I'm a hundred and seventy-two and I like to stay on the bleeding edge of technology. Are you sure vampirism doesn't cause luddism?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Oh, they're not all like that. Jaromira has a cell phone and computer, and Kanimir has his castle wired for internet."

[from_scratch]

"He has a castle?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"He has a mansion with castle-like architecture. I call it a castle."

[from_scratch]

"Aw, I was imagining a version of Pennsylvania with fortified parapets everywhere."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That would be fantastic and hilarious, but alas no."

[from_scratch]

"Well, I think I can live with it well enough to not need to go for a flyover and add a bunch."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Not that I'm not amused by the idea of you being a ridiculous movie thing that happens to people."

[from_scratch]

"I think I'll manage that without architectural intrusion. But I'm some utopian protagonist, not a serial killer, so."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"To be fair, several of my more improbable encounters did not involve serial killers. But you do you, utopia sounds way better than just not actively malicious."

[from_scratch]

"I have immense ambitions."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Good for you."

[from_scratch]

"Thank you. So how far is the police station?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"About another five minutes, it looks like."

[from_scratch]

"Cool. I'll get out of the car and hide somewhere?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I mean, it's five minutes by car, not five minutes on foot. You might want to wait a couple more minutes."

[from_scratch]

"I mean when we're closer. I don't really want to try giving the cops a statement in my current array of limbs."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Then sure. How long should whatever you knocked him out with last?"

[from_scratch]

"I've been giving him small booster doses. After I stop, maybe ten to twenty minutes."