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Changeling falls on Arcbright
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Hannah is shaping personal demiplanes for an apartment complex when something goes wrong. A passing plane snags on her building spellmatrix, and the bundle tangles. She shakes it free quickly, before the rift can stabilize - but now there's a pocket of unstable energy and a chunk of an alien plane. 

She dumps it in the middle of the street as her least-bad option.

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"Yeah that sounds more fun! I've never liked vidya that's, like, trying to replicate real experiences too closely. Walking simulators and sports games."

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"We've got a lot of real experiences to play with out here. I'll be glad to introduce you to kineball." 

She fishes out a star-shaped necklace from her pocket dimension, and passes it to Changeling in return for her VR headset. Then it's out the back door to a small enclosed yard amid simulated stars. "Mind you don't fall off the edge, yeah? It's a pocket universe, you'd get spit out into some random location in Arcbright. Maybe land on somebody, maybe show up high in the air - you get the idea."

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She whistles a low tone. "Not fun, got it. Not that a broken neck or fall from terminal velocity'd be enough to kill me."

She experiments with the charm. Does it allow her to TK things? Intuitively?

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It allows her to TK things quite intuitively! It seems to be will and intent based. 

Hannah picks up a fist-sized orange ball with her own TK and kines it over to Changeling. "Here, catch."

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She catches and holds it still. She starts bouncing it, eyes tracking it.

"A little trippy. At least I'm used to new senses and limbs."

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Hannah softballs two more balls at her. "Can you keep up? We need at least two balls to make the game make sense, four is best to start with."

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She's juggling three now. "Yeah, no, this is way way better than the VR game."

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She pulls out more balls and keeps tossing them until Changeling fails to catch.

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She manages seven, but a moment later picks up the eighth where it fell.

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"Alright, now let's fight over 'em." 

Hannah proceeds to demonstrate some basic techniques by using them against Changeling.

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This is fun!!! She has really fast reaction times and less practice than Hannah.

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It's a pretty fair fight! Hannah is going easy of course, but Changeling's faster task-switching time forces her to play a little more seriously than she expected. She gets tagged by a ball and laughs. 

"Nice one! Think you can move up to ten?"

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"Lemme get more practice in at eight! You keep like managing to send five at me at once how do you even-" Bopbopbop.

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"It's like playing the piano with both hands, you learn to develop secondary concentration and move in concert. Catch."

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She 'hits' two off in different directions at the same time, tries to leap to the side to avoid the third, drops all the other balls, starts laughing, tail wagging.

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Hannah grins. "Nice try. I think you're getting it. Want to keep going or switch to something else?"

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"Up to you! My scatterbrain isn't bored yet, kining is fun!"

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"Let's do some more rounds then, I want to see if I can train you up. That reaction time of yours is really something."

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"I'm really proud of it! 'Snot the kind of thing I can sell to people without a full-body workover though."

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"Yeah, sounds like it'd take some doing." She lazily tosses back Changeling's attack.

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"I'm gonna go all scaly and competitive again and then you'll see~" Bop bop bop, doublebop, bop...

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Hannah is definitely feeling some pressure now, but she's used to the sixteen-ball game so it just gets her to start pulling out more tricks. 

"That'll be fun.~"

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"Uhuh, just give it a few..."

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As she slowly transforms she definitely gets more aggressive, trying to copy Hannah's tricks and put her off balance.

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Oh, now it's a real game huh. 

Once Changeling picks up enough tricks the eight-ball game becomes a stalemate tug-of-war. Hannah laughs. "We need more balls, you've got the basics!"

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