Jonathan in the Whateleyverse
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No one is in charge of this party, no. Isaac seems to be having fun independently.

Jesse raises her cup to him. "Jonathan! Welcome to Coolkid City. Having fun yet?"

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"I'm not sure I know how, here!" he cheerfully admits.

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"Start with alcohol," Jesse recommends. "You're not a Warper or a Wizard, right?"

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“—uh, no, but my power is kinda fiddly to control—”

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She shakes her head. "I ask because their powers sometimes go out of control if they get drunk. If you're not one then it doesn't really matter."

She walks over to the drink table and pours him a cup of something purple. "Try this. It tastes weird, but it doesn't taste like alcohol, which is good because alcohol tastes terrible."

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…sip? Respectable gulp?


He looks around. “This does not seem to have unlocked Magical Partyvision."

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Jesse laughs. "Keep at it, you'll get there. In the meantime, you can dance, or we can talk, or whatever."

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“Well if I went over to the dancing that would be avoiding people. Ironically.

“Hi, fellow Whateley student, what's your power anyway?”

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She ticks off on her fingers. "Part of it's being able to see ley lines and other kinds of magic. I can also use that to dowse for water, minerals, et cetera, because they all affect the ley lines somehow. I'm also an Energizer because I can absorb geomantic energy to make myself stronger and faster. And due to that Energizer ability, I'm also a faux-wizard - I can take the geomantic energy and do stuff with it, even though I don't generate energy myself like a real wizard would." She lets the fingers fall. "None of it's all that powerful, but it's a pretty broad power set."

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“Huh, sounds kinda like mine. I keep figuring out new uses but it's all one thing, or maybe three things with a theme. I suppose Powers Theory will get to” — vague hand gestures — “power sets at some point if that's a thing. Can you end up draining the power from an area or is it a drop in the bucket?”

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She laughs. “Ley lines are big. I’m not Fey. -Fey was a mutant from before Detroit, she was a Sidhe mage who drew power from ley lines, but she did so much big magic with it that she sometimes caused tree blights and natural disasters by draining them. To be fair she had reasons to do a lot of magic, she was fighting the Necromancer and shit like that, but she really messed up the ecosystem for a while there.”

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“Sounds unfortunate but reasonable, but I'm not up to speed on local history. Uh, I was abducted from another universe," he adds belatedly.

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"I kind of heard," Jesse admits. "Whateley has a pretty vigorous gossip mill."

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"Really. What else have they got for me?"

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She starts ticking off on her fingers again. "You came from a universe without superpowers, you're a super weird new kind of telekinetic that the lab techs are all excited about, you fought a supervillain - probably Weißfrau, that's lower-confidence - and the general impression is that you're kind of a square but your presence at an illicit party is going to help with that."

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“Three and a half points. I object to the classification system, rather than my alleged place in it.”

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Jesse laughs. "There's room in our little society for all kinds of shapes, squares included. The term might be unfair - I could also say the general impression is that you're reserved."

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“Haven't met many people worth getting to know. Previously," he adds belatedly.

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Her eyebrows rise, but she smiles. "Nice save. What, Isaac's not your speed?"

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“No, I mean, before I got kidnapped. Isaac's — obnoxious but nice about it, I suppose, and previously people were just obnoxious. Or boring.”

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"Ah. Yeah, whatever you want to say about the Whateley student body, boring isn't usually the adjective."

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“‘Diverse,’” he suggests. “‘Surprising’. ‘Hot’. ‘Concerning’.”

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"All very true," she nods. "Don't forget 'hormonal'."

"Whom?" Isaac asks, popping up behind her shoulder.

She doesn't flinch. "You, obviously," she says with a roll of her eyes. "Did I just accidentally summon you?"

"No, I heard myself being called obnoxious and came to prove it. Jonathan! How's the party treating you thus far, my man?"

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“It's better, on average.”

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"Than what? Summer in Paris, a brick to the head, staying in with a good book?"

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