Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Up until recently maintained as a museum, the childhood home of the Braddock family has been pressed into service as classroom space for the University. Additionally, the increased demands have led to the main ballroom being converted into a cafeteria for University students on a meal plan. The old library has been bolstered with college textbooks.

Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 2:45 am

"Probably," Sean said, "True werewolves were avatars of violence, so if violence calls to you it'd make sense a werewolf would call strongly. The question then is why, aye?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 2:53 am

"...I know some of the why. I guess I'm... neither here nor there, yet."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 2:56 am

Sean looked at Sam quietly for a moment

"Oh?" Sean asked.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 2:57 am

"...sometimes the bits of me add up less to 'Sam' and more to 'the Morrigan,'" she sighs.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 3:34 am

"The Celtic goddesses," Sean said, "You certainly would be an appropriate avatar, but that's..."

Sean stifled what was probably going to be a treatise on something he'd read in a dusty tome in some near forgotten library.

"Why would you think you cannot be both?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 4:30 am

"No reason I can't, I guess."

"Just sometimes, it doesn't feel like I'm either."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 4:36 am

"Why's that?" Sean asked.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 4:52 am

"Well I guess it's just the times when neither is really hitting on all cylinders. It feels... awkward? Disjointed?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 5:07 am

"Well, I can relate to feeling disjointed or out of place. I've always felt that something is missing myself that everything is being seen through some kind of... filter," Sean said cha give good the subject, "Maybe there's some kind of middle ground where both parts come together? Or maybe it'd more like possession of a sort where you and the Morrigan are constage try vying with one another for control. Or alternatively I dont know what I'm talking about, eh?:
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 5:15 am

"Sometimes it feels like they're... both me in a way. Just... expressed differently?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 4:37 pm

"Like you're made up of multiple facets? Perhaps three of them or four if you could be considered another part of the goddess?" Sean asked.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 6:22 pm

"No there's... definitely three. Just I think sometimes they can make Sam, and sometimes it's all war and death."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 7:00 pm

"Have the others... surfaced then? Or are they more just lurking around?" Sean asked.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 7:16 pm

She nods slowly.

"I've had times when the balance tips and I'm more one than the others."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 8:16 pm

"Ah, so you are something of the equilibrium between the three?" Sean asked.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 8:27 pm

"I guess? I mean, it seems that way. When I lose that balance, things get... exaggerated."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 8:35 pm

"Exaggerated in the way of violence becoming a symphony," Sean said, "Sounds like a fine line to need to walk between being a living myth and well, being you."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 9:45 pm

"I'm not... in it to hurt anyone who doesn't deserve it, believe me."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 10:05 pm

Sean stared at quietly at Sam for a moment.

"I do believe you," Sean said, "But if there's one thing every tome agrees on it's that gods and goddesses are not to be trifled with and to be cautious in dealings with them... Though those same books state that about other mages, the fae, spirits of various stripes, and well just about anybody who isn't you."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 10:42 pm

"...maybe I shouldn't have said anything."

"I mean, 'Sam the crazy girl' is someone most people can handle."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 10:53 pm

"Nobody really looks at you twice, aye? Since powers and mental instability seem to go together like fish and chips," Sean said opening his senses to the flow of magic around them. "But do you want to hide?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 17, 2017 11:19 pm

Looking at the flow around Sam is like looking at a river swollen with rain. On the surface it's placid, even pleasant. Beneath that though, there's some frighteningly swift and strong ones.

"I don't. Truth told, I'm kind of sick of people telling me I'm crazy."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 17, 2017 11:29 pm

"Then be whoever you think you should be," Sean said as he stares at the waters. He looks at the flow trying to find the source wondering if it's swollen because it's dammed somehow.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu May 18, 2017 12:50 am

The source of it seems to stretch back, deep into the Astral.

"Is... something wrong?" She cocks her head at Sean's staring.
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Thu May 18, 2017 1:06 am

Sean wasn't going to follow the current into the astral.

"Not wrong, no, just... taking in the flow of magic, around us," Sean said, "It pools and flows around you then back towards he astral plane."

Sean sighed.

"A poor description really, but it will have to suffice."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu May 18, 2017 2:35 am

"I've been in the Astral before. It's a pretty strange place."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Thu May 18, 2017 2:42 am

"I know how astral projection works... in theory at least, but I've only ever read about it," Sean said, "What was it like?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu May 18, 2017 2:50 am

"...overwhelming, really. I've only done it via the amplifier in the point."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Thu May 18, 2017 3:18 am

"Wait, you can project yourself there using telepathy? That's amazing," Sean said, "Never even considered that would be a possibility."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu May 18, 2017 7:20 pm

"Well it's like... everyone's minds, aye? And dreams, and superstitions and shite."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Thu May 18, 2017 7:30 pm

"It makes sense when you think about it that way," Sean said, "I'd just never considered that a telepath could breach the veil between the dimensions. Probably a bit safer really since your abilities can likely manipulate the plane itself."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri May 19, 2017 2:20 am

"I'm not really used to it yet. There's kind of a current there. It's hard not to get swept up."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Fri May 19, 2017 3:50 am

"Really? A current," Sean said, "Are you going to use the amplifier to go there again?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri May 19, 2017 3:53 am

"I've only really used it in emergencies, when I needed to find someone who was missing."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Fri May 19, 2017 4:01 am

"Oh," Sean said, "Suppose using an amplifier could be rather dangerous. Just was wondering because using the buddy system seems like a safer way to explore the astral, aye?"
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri May 19, 2017 6:27 pm

"Well I guess I could get better at it eventually."
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Re: Sometimes you just can't leave things alone ((Open))

Postby Sean Hall » Fri May 19, 2017 7:47 pm

"Nah, we're both just going to stay the same novices forever," Sean smiled. "Forever in the shadow of the old time X-Men or sorcerers for me I guess. Not sure if I really get to count as an X-Men."
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