CLOSED | a disaster in motion

[mekhanikos]

Who: leo valdez and some peeps
When: early march-ish
Where: around town and in the countryside
What: influence jobs, baby
Warnings: bad jokes and misuse of magic, probably



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Comments

[ilves]

[That doesn't make any sense at all, based on Lalli's understanding of his own gods, but—well. He's (reluctantly) spent time around a foreign mage who didn't follow any of the rules he's accustomed to following; then there's, you know, this new world, full of strange new abilities and strange new customs...

Like, it's the not the easiest thing in the world for him to grasp? Just because he's spent so long thinking the world was one way and one way only, but while his brow furrows, he takes a few seconds to seriously... try... to consider these things.]

...No. [That's just him being honest.] Your gods sound... weird.

[Weird enough to give him a headache, actually, but he's still tryin'.]

What can you do? If that's... what you are.

[mekhanikos]

Trust me, weird doesn't even begin to cover it.

[ he gets a headache if he tries to think of it all too much, too. mostly because the gods don't really care about anyone but themselves, which sucks. and makes him mad.

at least lalli's question distracts him from that. ]

My dad's Hephaestus, so all his kids have a special pull towards anything mechanical. So I can build and fix stuff. And I also happened to inherit... this. [ he opens his hand, and a flame appears on it. ]

[ilves]

[Oh! Well, fire is tangible, which is why he blinks down at that nifty flame and decides to just... roll with this weirdness for the time being. Foreign gods having normal-looking kids? An ability that Emil would probably kill a man to have??]

...Ah.

[Normal people would probably ask more questions, or tell Leo how rad that display is; Lalli, however, just adds this to his list of strange things he's learned in Draega and then, like, shoves it to the back of his mind, where he can—and soon will!—forget about most of it. For now...]

That's why you wanted to do this.

[This being... the electric fence they're supposed to be building? His eyes flick over to whatever progress Leo has or has not made here.]

[mekhanikos]

[ to be fair — it's an ability leo's hidden for most of his life, not least because he believed it to have killed his mother, but regardless... it's not exactly something he's used to, people commenting on it in general, or thinking it's cool.

so lalli's silence serves both of them well, in that sense. and then, focusing on what lalli does say, he nods. ]

Yeah, exactly. I figured I'd be most useful here, even if I can't fix it with, you know, like I normally would. But it's good practice, right?

[ for the craft. and indeed, he's already managed to fix a good amount of the fence — it helps when all he needs to do to know what's wrong with it, which specific spot needs to be reconnected, is to touch it. ]