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[oi_theoi]

Who: Newbies and returns
When: Day 34, Mooorning
Where: Shine apt
What: Arrivals!

[I think you know the drill]


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[cloakanddaikon]

'Simple' may be a better choice over 'easy'. The wildlife is resilient and the plants may very well attempt to eat you.

[gestaltwandler]

So I've heard. I was being sarcastic.

[cloakanddaikon]

Should anything happen, one other thing you should know is that some number of the gods are capable of healing, and in the worst of situations, resurrection. The price for both can be high, and such alternatives should never be relied upon, but should it come to it , it is better to retreat with what can be restored over pursuing revenge.

[gestaltwandler]

I'm not prone to pursuing battles I won't win.

[cloakanddaikon]

[Nods.]

Having no means to judge that before seeing you in action myself, I would rather give you what information I have now. Neither magic nor personal interaction with deities was much present in Gilbert's earliest memories, and you are from those times.

[gestaltwandler]

No, there was no such thing.

[cloakanddaikon]

But there is you.

[gestaltwandler]

[a bit wry]

I'm neither magical nor a deity. Gestaltwandler. A story parents told their children to frighten them so they would behave.

Few know that the story is real. For the most part.

[cloakanddaikon]

Unless you retain your original mass between forms, there is some element of magic to it.

[gestaltwandler]

[considers, then shrugs a shoulder]

Perhaps there is. I've honestly never considered it.

[cloakanddaikon]

[Shakes his head, bemused.]

The capacity for those of your world to utilize magic and yet have no recognition of what it is has never ceased to puzzle me.

[gestaltwandler]

[I meet your bemused look with one of my own]

It is what it is.

[cloakanddaikon]

At times I wonder if it was ever truly lacking at all, or if it simply goes unrecognized.

[Closes his eyes a moment, thinking. His accent, when he speaks, is unsurprisingly familiar.]

Gestaltwandler . . .

[gestaltwandler]

It could be either. Most likely the later.

[both eyebrows go up]

Ja.

[cloakanddaikon]

As far as disciplinary messages go, I am afraid to say it would no longer inspire much in the way of fear.

[gestaltwandler]

Good. The stories were wrong anyway. We weren't doppelgängers.

[cloakanddaikon]

No. You were not.

[gestaltwandler]

[nods]

[cloakanddaikon]

Or at least not such as I would assume them to be.

If it is not unduly personal to ask, what were you?

[gestaltwandler]

If we were meant to have some purpose, no one in my family followed it.

[cloakanddaikon]

A race, then, rather than one born of circumstance.

[gestaltwandler]

Ja.

[cloakanddaikon]

[Lips twitch a little.]

Your heritage is showing.

[gestaltwandler]

[. . . raises eyebrow]

It does that sometimes.

[cloakanddaikon]

Out of curiosity, what other languages are known to you?