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Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.
He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?
Glam and Ashras in Wormverse
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"If it's just the carving that's important, I can do it."
"So what exactly is your power?" asks Miss Militia.
"So what exactly is your power?" asks Miss Militia.
the-long-dawn
"Where I'm from it's called combat magic."
He pulls out the fire pin yet again.
"This is a fire pin. It's the smallest possible magic weapon and it's pretty much just a lighter." He demonstrates how it makes fire. "If it was as tall as you are and correspondingly bigger around, it could throw a fireball that would put a hole in the wall. If it was a lot bigger than that, it could put a hole clear through the building. Fire weapons are made of steel; brass does force blasts, copper does lightning, silver does stun bolts. There's more, but I'm not an expert, I can only build the designs I personally remember."
He pulls out the fire pin yet again.
"This is a fire pin. It's the smallest possible magic weapon and it's pretty much just a lighter." He demonstrates how it makes fire. "If it was as tall as you are and correspondingly bigger around, it could throw a fireball that would put a hole in the wall. If it was a lot bigger than that, it could put a hole clear through the building. Fire weapons are made of steel; brass does force blasts, copper does lightning, silver does stun bolts. There's more, but I'm not an expert, I can only build the designs I personally remember."
"So more people have the same powers where you're from?" she asks.
"Apparently everyone can do it where he's from, and it's been around forever," Dauntless answers.
"Huh."
"Apparently everyone can do it where he's from, and it's been around forever," Dauntless answers.
"Huh."
the-long-dawn
"It's honestly a bit weird," he says. "I mean - imagine being transported to a planet where no humans are able to, I don't know, dance."
"It's that ubiquitous?" asks Miss Militia.
the-long-dawn
"Anyone can use a magic weapon. Genuine combat casters, who can do the magic without the weapons themselves, are a little rarer."
the-long-dawn
"I was attacked by a giant snake - not unusual, where I live - and then suddenly I was on another planet, which is very unusual indeed."
the-long-dawn
"Perfectly normal. Not even all that threatening, except to small children."
the-long-dawn
"They're just animals," he shrugs. "They do sometimes try to eat people, especially people who are in the wilderness alone, but they're not that hard to deal with."
Echo is looking at him like he's speaking some alien language and also has a horn where his nose should be.
"Can someone who doesn't know how to make one of those magical weapons use it?" wonders Miss Militia.
"I tried and couldn't," shrugs Dauntless.
"I tried and couldn't," shrugs Dauntless.
the-long-dawn
"You're all welcome to try lighting my fire pin if you want," says Ashras. "Normally it only takes a few tries to learn how. But it seems like people from this world just can't."
"I'd like to try," says Miss Militia.
"What should I do?"
the-long-dawn
"Hold this end, and try to make it light up. It's hard to explain how to do it, and it's usually not necessary; most people figure it out after only a few tries. It sort of... feels like squeezing an invisible aura around the pin."
She nods and frowns in concentration a bit, looking at the pin.
the-long-dawn
Nothing happens.
"Yeah, it looks like people from this world just can't use magic weapons," says Ashras.
"Yeah, it looks like people from this world just can't use magic weapons," says Ashras.
"Strange," she says, handing the pin back.
His costume gets made, a few slightly different versions in case any one of them gets ruined in a fight, as well as enough weapons (with Echo and Titania's help) to go out on his first patrol. As a new Ward, he can't patrol on his own, and he goes out with Titania and Dauntless.