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shibrogane generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
4!
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:11 am
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Quote: 1. America 2. Horace 3. Jeremiah 4. Algie 5. Shun
Ezra didn't send an email. He just went to the bookshop, and loitered until he saw Algernon.
"Do you have a moment," he said.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:52 am
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"I haven't told anyone what I'm doing on the listserv.." Alg snorted. "You're arguments on the communal 'you' feels less than relevant to me," And Oliver Beaumont wasn't his husband's abuser either.
"You'll get your bloody finger print," Alg very nearly sneered, "But I don't trust you. And I don't trust your manipulations. I also very much doubt I have the option to say no." Very green eyes stared over the top of his glasses.
"The others, lying and secrets aside, are trying to do the right thing. Even if they are wrong it's the best they can manage with poor instruction," This entire journey, this unfolding of events, had been a test in poor instruction, "I also very much doubt they would torch me for disagreeing."
Alg adjusted his glasses and straightened, "I can't say the same for you. None of this has me fooled into thinking you're a person." Even put on a platform for discussion and assistance, there with all of them at the meeting, he'd been nothing more than a defensive, squabbling drunk.
Whatever Ezra had been once upon a time was gone. He was nothing more than a self-serving monster.
"Let's get it over with," He said finally with no pause or care for rebuttal or discussion. It didn't matter in the end did it? Him even speaking was venting more than anything else. Alg knew that here in his office, in his bookshop, in some version of the world that that was tenuous at best, that safety was only an illusion. No one was safe if Ezra was present and he knew a fraction of what the other was capable of, but this was honestly as polite as he could be.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:46 pm
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"A lot of words that mean nothing at all," said Ezra. "Of course you could refuse. Then Melany would die. And Pax, and Pride, and Noeh. It would only ripple out from there. Ascencion, this version, who never laid a hand on your husband. Renard, Liam, your fetches, your husband. All of you would die as the Charter collapsed on itself and dragged anyone with differentiated powers with them."
He pointed out where the thumbprint was to go. As he pressed his thumb to the paper, Algernon would feel a burning sensation, like he'd touched the pad of his thumb to a hot kettle. But then it was gone, and Algie's thumbprint was utterly erased from his skin. The print on the paper shone and then didn't. Ezra smiled down at the reversed Charter, and vanished it away. "Leaving only me."
But he was just as much a part of the Court as any of them.
wasn't he?
iloveyouDIE EZRA'S DECEPTIONAlgernon cannot reveal just what passed between him and Ezra in this thread, or that Ezra intends to approach others. Should he try, his right hand will begin to burn again; the pain will be such that he will be unable to speak for the duration. He can share anything that happened after he put his fingerprint on the paper, but nothing at all before that. However, in return for this, Algernon has gained a boon. Choose one of these three below: 1. Equalizer - Algie can smother the use of passive powers within his line of sight. Aleksy's Sight, Jeremiah's hardened skin, any magical talent that requires no action on the part of its user will be quashed for as long as he focuses on it. However, when he uses this power, it's everyone in his line of sight, including himself. As long as he can see you when this power is active, all passive powers are off. 2. Replicator - Algie can replicate magical traits from another's physiology through touch. So, for instance, he could replicate Zac's galaxy eyes or Jeremiah's scent. He could also replicate a were's current form. Abilities such as Aleksy's sight or Jeremiah's magic-detecting eyes that are not caused by a physical difference in the structure of the body cannot be copied. 3. Emotipath - Algie can not only read the emotions of others, he can cause others to feel them too. Within a 25ft radius of himself, he can select the emotions of one particular person and spread them to everyone in that area. The feelings are stronger nearest to Algie and his target, and weaker near the edges of his circle. This power can be maintained as long as Algie focuses on it. He cannot use his own emotions as the base of this power; it must be someone else's.
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 5:51 am
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Alg huffed a wry laugh, "Maybe it's time. Thousand of years its gone on? Maybe it's time for us all to die. I'm not a man who cares about winning or losing."
Though here was, still pressing his thumb down as it burned, seared, and with a hiss and a yank he was pulling his hand back. There it was on the paper and his finger, still tingling with the sensation, was rubbed and noticeably smooth.
"Wouldn't you love to be alone.. with no false or forced family to fill the holes in your empty life?" He shook his head and was breathy from the momentary pain but it faded as fast as it came. He still had the urge to run it under cool water.
Alg's expression curled and he gestured, "There's your agreement. I believe our business is done."
shibrogane Equalizer - Algie can smother the use of passive powers within his line of sight. Aleksy's Sight, Jeremiah's hardened skin, any magical talent that requires no action on the part of its user will be quashed for as long as he focuses on it. However, when he uses this power, it's everyone in his line of sight, including himself. As long as he can see you when this power is active, all passive powers are off.
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