2020-02-10 - Calamity Comes a-Knockin'

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Calamity Comes a-Knockin'

Summary: A very confused lizard interrupts a casual conversation.



Who: Calamity, SilverSight, Nathan Xeos
When: February 10, 2020
Where: The Usual Restaurant


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A tall, slender, and very blue anthro lizard slams the front door open suddenly. "Oi! Where'd my riverboat go? And the forest? And... where the heck am I anyway, eh?" The strangest part, aside from the oversized tuning fork in one hand, is whatever the heck her accent is, like some bizarre cross between Canadian and southern American.

SilverSight shakeshakes his head, "It's not that the weapons are enchanted. The ones I have RUN on magical energy. No powder or caps or any physical ammo at all. I pull the trigger and a small amount of magic energy is released from what's essentially a magic battery and goes through a couple refinement processes within the weapon and out comes a beam of energy to put holes in targets. But you can't make it come out as multiple beams or like.. a massive cone or anything."

Nathan Xeos still has his elementalism focus on his belt, He snaps his fingers, dusting the new arrival with snow. "Whoa, chill. It's called the Usual, and you aren't exactly in Kansas anymore there Dorothy." He nods to Silver. "I don't use ammo either but, fair enough. Different rules and all that."

Calamity flinches at the sudden snow, but then strikes her tuning fork against the floor and sweeps it up toward Nathan. The snow, having already melted, gathers into a small ball of water which launches itself harmlessly at Nathan's face. "I went to bed and woke up in the middle of the street in a town I don't recognize. Not in the mood for jokes." She does close the door rather more gently behind her though, using her tail without even bothering to look back at it. "Don't even know what a Kansas is, and my name's Chalchiutlicue, not Dorothy. Most folks just call me Calamity though. Sometimes add a Jane to it, dunno why."

SilverSight listens closely to the explanation of transport, "Well now that's interesting. People usually have a really good reason for why or how they've been put here. Magic portals, random explosions, teleport gone wrong.. Just.. random change in scene is a new one to me."

Nathan Xeos may not be a comedian, but it helped? He dries himself off with a little heat wave. "Random Happenstance isn't exactly without precedent. A kind of falling through the cracks if you will." He isn't even going to TRY to pronounce Chalchiutlicue, not after W'ckn'rav'a and the like. Stupid ancient beings and their inpronoucabillity. "The city's called Mabase. Welcome to the weirdness between worlds."

Calamity rolls her eyes. "I was asleep, how should I know what happened, eh? For all I know, it was those eggheads in Hollow doin' one of their hoity toity magic experiments again." Stepping up to the bar with long, limber strides, she slides the fork's handle under her belt and takes a seat. "Mabase, not any place I've ever heard of. Rest of it makes sense though. Plenty weird stuff where I come from, like Mictlan. Wanderin' woods, just up and move overnight when nobody's lookin'. Strange stuff."

SilverSight sadly hasn't heard of any of these locations. So it's entirely possible that this lizard isn't from Earth. Or at least not a 'regular' one. Maybe one where lizards ruled supreme and chose crazy names for everything because of how they pronounce things? Ahem. "Well either way, welcome welcome. Have a drink, get something to eat. The Usual can serve literally anything you could ask for in terms of edibles. If there's a way back to your home, you'll probably find someone here who could potentially do such a thing."

"Wasn't anywhere I heard of until I ended up here myself. Agartha usually doesn't lead to non-Earth locations, but it lead here with all it's wibbly wobbly timy-wimy-ness." Nathan shrugs, finishing up his coffee. "With that said, I'd take the pony's advice and at least get something to eat. Might help take the edge off."

Calamity glances at both of them, then orders a smoked salmon and a frothy mug of... water. Just water. "Kitty would kill me if she found I was drinkin' alcohol, eh." she explains, without actually explaining anything. As she waits for her order, her tail curls in on itself and she says, "Non-Earth? What, like ocean cities or something? Sounds like a waste of time to me, eh. Earth's a lot more stable, long as it isn't sand or somethin' like that."

SilverSight chuckles softly to that one, "Well that's an interesting language mixing there. The word 'Earth', when used as a proper noun, refers to the name of a planet as well. Most often populated by humans." He sips from his fizzy drink, "My name is Silver Sight, from the Equestrian Wastelands. Nice to meet you, Calamity."

"Earth as in the planet. Gotta love being able to get from anywhere to anywhere else with little trouble." Nathan says. "Nathan Xeos. Agent from said Earth. Well, one version of it at any rate."

Calamity gives them both a weird look. "That's stupid. Why would you name a planet after dirt? Couldn't at least be something cool like... Volcano, eh?" Shaking her head, she gratefully accepts her meal when it's finally presented to her, digging in and talking between bites. "So, I get the humans thing, yeah? Lotta those where I'm from too. Why's Silvery boy here on all fours though? Aren't you a spirit? You gotta at least have a human form, right?"

SilverSight chuckles softly, "People often name their homelands after themselves, or the most defining feature. If the people who named the planet knew it was more water than land, they'd have called it Ocean or something." He has to shake his head at the questions, "I am a unicorn pony. No humanoid forms for me. This is my natural state. I am very much not from Earth or any variant of it."

Nathan Xeos shakes his head. "I didn't name the planet. If I did, I would have called it Terra, or Gaia. Which would have been more appropriate all things considered. Anyhow, different rules for different folks. I'd show you what I have as 'Spirits' but the Welcome Center put the kybosh on me terrifying any new arrivals."

Calamity eyes Nathan, her tail's tip gently tapping the fork slung through her belt. "Good thing, eh. Wouldn't want a flood in here from a spooked lizard spirit. Would be a real tragedy, yep." she drily remarks, then turns her red-eyed gaze toward Silver. "Never heard of a unicorn pony before. To be honest, wasn't really sure what to make of you. But hey, guess we got somethin' in common at least. We're both not from a planet named after dirt."

SilverSight gives a small sigh and shakes his head, "You don't even want to hear the names my kind gave for even half the stuff around them, I assure you. But I don't know about any spirits either way. I've dealt with a lot of magic in my life, and have read about a lot more. Never anything so.. mystical as a spirit though."

Nathan Xeos just shrugs. "Their loss. I didn't even show them the drowning victims." He knows the UR is resilient to a fault. As for him, even if he wanted to, the Bees wouldn't let him stay down for long. "Or the ones from Vlad Dracul's castle. Real fans of piercings and acupuncture there."

Calamity finishes the fish pretty quickly, using one of its bones to pick her teeth. "Eh, it's not as glamorous as y'might think. Gotta protect and guide the humans, stop 'em from killin' each other and themselves, real tiring work honestly. I prefer fishin', can just relax and watch the day go by while they run into your net. Maybe get up to some trouble with Huey, but I don't think he came with me." She gives Nathan another of those odd looks, her frill flopping over one eye. "Oh, you mean ghosts, eh? Nah, I'm not one of those. Different kind of spirit."

SilverSight grins a little at the description of humans. That's pretty accurate according to his research in human history, "I do believe she's refering to nature spirits. The zebras of Equestria believe in them, but I never took any stock into it. I prefer to believe in what I can personally sense." The pony orders himself another drink, tea this time, "But the idea that there's a.. river spirit that ensures water flow or wind spirits providing good air.." He shakes his head.

"Yeah, we weren't so lucky. Most of the supernatural forest beings I got are the kind with a taste for 'long pig' if you get my meaning. Would put me out of a job if we had any remotely helpful spirits. The forest god in Transylvania doesn't count. He's too busy being a drunken leach." Nathan just ignores the comment about humans, because really, they aren't wrong. "Granted me out of a job wouldn't be so bad, it would mean all of reality wasn't in peril every Tuesday."

Calamity just shrugs dismissively. "Makin' water flow is somethin' I can do, but I'm not in charge of it or anything. I just got Tlaloc's fork by passin' a test out in the desert, nothin' special. Most of what I do involves boppin' heads, usually when Hatfield and McCoy are feudin' again... which is pretty much every week, eh."

SilverSight hmms, "Well every world has their own legends and ways of working. Some have magic, others may have higher levels of technology, some may have destroyed themselves in some fashion leaving only a relative handful of survivors. You'll meet all kinds here." He sips from his drink and approves of it, "Plenty of friends to be made as well."

"Friends, enemies, frenemies. All kinds of new and different people behind each corner. There's also the occasonal yawning chasm into the eternal abyss, but those are few and far between." He pays off his drink with Pax Romanae and normal British pounds. He checks his phone, frowning slightly. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat but other priorities seem to have reared their ugly head again." He says getting up and heading out the door with a wave.

Calamity puts in an order for some cheap booze, the cheapest the place has. Preferably free. "Well, Kitty's not here. Doesn't seem like a dangerous place. May's well get plastered, eh." she says with a dry chuckle, waving goodbye to Nathan as he leaves. "Technology though... Makes me think of the Institute in Hollow. Never liked 'em. Always actin' like they're smarter than everyone else, just because they come from a faraway land where everything's industrial. Some o' the things they do would get me thrown in jail for life, you know. Crazy world, eh."

SilverSight chuckles softly to that, "Well just because the Usual tends to be relatively safe, don't let your guard down outdoors. There's all kinds of people who have been displaced from their homeworlds and ended up here, some quite a bit angrier about it than you were. We get all manner of criminal scum along with the more heroic types." Tea is continued to sip upon, enjoying the flavor, "I've encountered a few groups like your.. Institute in my homeworld, though different in their own ways of course. Doesn't stop them from being insufferable jackasses just because they think they have 'better breeding' or the like.

Calamity taps her tuning fork with her tail again. "Yeah, I think I can handle a few bums tryin' to pick a fight. I'll give 'em a good whack or two if they try anything." she claims, wrinkling her snout at the smell of whatever swill she's just been served. It doesn't stop her from chugging it though. "Right? Buncha jerks, think they can get away with anything just because they're doin' it for 'science'. I had to pretend to be human any time I went out in public, you know. Kitty says it's 'polite', but it's just because they don't think spirits are real. They think we're just humans who learned how to shapeshift, and they think we're keepin' it secret from 'em."



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