[Jaunt] That Monk is Terrifying

[failgoyle]

Okay, okay, so, everyone stay the hell away from Matthew. I don't know what the hell he's doing, but he's some kind of monk, and he's talking to ghosts, and he and the ghosts are freaking terrifying and tried to kill me! And he was gonna interrogate me with this scary as hell tree-lady-ghost-thing who wanted my blood, and I barely got out of there alive!

...and...uh...he kind of startled the crap out of me, so I...ah...lost my tail, and I...er, well...he's...still got it...

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[failgoyle]

Some ghost who turned her fingers into wooden vine thorn claw things!

[capital_asset]

...So not a Jubokko, then.

[It occurs to him that he has not seen or heard mention of any nonhuman spirits, aside from occasional references to dragons. He's probably going to have to be careful about who he summons for the time being.]

Were you injured? Aside from your tail, I mean.

[fridgeninja]

The end of the world was going to be unpleasant, too.

[tailforbrains]

Now a gargoyle, I know. Okay, that makes sense.

And, well, tiefling is somebody who's part demon. Like my old grandpa came up from the hells to... enjoy the nightlife, or something like that. I don't know who it was. I don't know my parents.

[failgoyle]

Not a what then?

And no, no, I'm fine. A couple bumps and bruises from when he dragged me in through the window, but nothing major.

[capital_asset]

Jubokko. A tree that drinks blood.

I'm glad you weren't badly hurt.

[failgoyle]

Well, yeah, but...but...

[So it might be harder than he'd like to psychically communicate trailing off in a high-pitched deflating balloon sort of noise, but that's so what he's doing wherever he is right now.]

[fridgeninja]

You sound like you could use a drink.

[failgoyle]

But that all sounds exactly like something a True Fae would pull! Fae are all about promises. Twisted promises designed to stab you in the back or blow up in your face somehow, but seriously, there are all sorts of contracts and rules, it's just that some of them don't operate on logic the human mind can comprehend.

And oh, sticking with people...that's...that'll do it for some people.

[leftbehindagain]

She had no reason to roll back the fog if she had no intention of keeping her word. But she did. [Put it that way, she also didn't have any reason to resurrect the lot of them, and here they are...]

It sure will. We stuck with each other, and we stuck with humanity's better points after she set up her experiment to show off its worst points.

[failgoyle]

Really? Like demon-from-Hell-Hell?

That's genetically possible? And doesn't that come with being insta-damned or something?

[failgoyle]

...I think I saw one of those in Faerie once.

Thanks. I'm mostly just glad I'm not dead, even if losing my tail is a pain in the ass.

[failgoyle]

Yes. Yes, I could use a drink.

I might not stop, but I could so use one.

[failgoyle]

Yep, Fae logic. That's how they roll, too.

Well, that's...good for you guys!

[Not that this helps him out much here, so he thinks, but hey, go ahead with your successful motley over there.]

[capital_asset]

Really? Interesting... They don't usually have much to do with each other in my world.

[There's a joke to be made here about the loss of one's tail being a literal pain in the ass. Raidou opts not to.]

Not dead is generally good, yes. Losing your tail wasn't painful, was it?

[leftbehindagain]

She's not fae. It's probably just a common mindset in beings on that power scale. [And yes, that probably includes the Trumps. Oh well?]

[fridgeninja]

I don't have one. I was just checking.

[willyousee]

[.......somewhere in town Alcuin is doing an excellent job not facepalming.]

That is better than might be expected, having been so surprised.

[Not everyone is a spy. You can't assume everyone is going to already have a simple identity in their belt pouch. What kind of name is Gilligan anyway.]

Somehow I doubt he believed any of it, however, it is a start. How did you escape?

[failgoyle]

...well, yeah. If you're that powerful, you're not worrying about the little guy.

[failgoyle]

You see all kinds of crazy stuff in Faerie. It's...not pleasant.

And nah, I do that all the time. You know how lizards lose their tails to try to avoid predators? It's like that. Unpleasant, but it only stings a little.

[leftbehindagain]

She was, in her way. It just came out sideways, and because she started from flawed parameters her result was flawed.

If you need a drink that badly, I have some extras hanging around from the holiday party, but you'd have to get to Liminal Space to pick it up. On the other hand, I think it's mostly Ragnaroks.

[failgoyle]

That's not a problem, I think the local hobs drafted me into bringing food back, anyway.

...Ragnarok? Isn't that the end of the world for Vikings?

[leftbehindagain]

Local whats?

Probably. But in this case, it's a drink. Might have a few Divine Winds kicking around, too, but most everything else got spoken for at the party or immediately afterward, including the comparatively normal stuff.

[Part of Naoki is almost sad he didn't bother making any Kamui. It'd be a good laugh for... lots of people who aren't Jules. But he's not actually that mean-spirited, and besides, it's too much of a hassle to store in Traveling conditions.]

[capital_asset]

[That sounds a bit like the Dark Realm. Raidou's not so sure he wants to be discussing that over the network, though.]

Faeries in general are not to be trifled with. People forget that, I think.

[He still hasn't forgotten the faerie hunt outside of Harrogate. He still can't believe they'd gone out willingly.]

That's definitely better than the alternative.

[failgoyle]

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Oh. Thanks.