one.

[freewolfmoon]

[ voice ]

I yield.

[The voice coming out of the communicator is low, little more than a growl. It's also bitter, bleak, and tinged with sarcasm.]I cast this device and its magics into your cursed fountain, and before I have taken ten steps I feel its weight on my belt once more. I abandon it underground and find it waiting for me when I emerge

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[servessithis]

It is not magic, it is technology.

[freewolfmoon]

Unlikely. Neither dwarf nor Qunari have developed anything close to its like.

[servessithis]

Qunari..? Ahem, well, you will soon find that technology here is far advanced than what you may be used to.

[freewolfmoon]

I have already seen strange things--stairs that move, lights with no fire--and been told they were "technology." I have little reason to believe it, and every reason to suspect this is a city of magic refusing to face its coming doom.

voice;

[direbunnies]

Do you need some twine? I wouldn't mind lending it out if you needed to borrow it.

[BECAUSE HE SAID HE WAS LOST.]

voice;

[freewolfmoon]

So you are involved with this. I am overwhelmed with shock.

[Yes, he's being sarcastic.]

voice;

[direbunnies]

Not on purpose. I think I was brought here a month ago or so. Someone told me to think of it as a vacation.

voice;

[freewolfmoon]

You were abducted and told to consider it a vacation. Did you listen?

[ voice ]

[specifics]

The ticking goes away when someone else's around.

Your other option's a pet of some kind, as far as I know.

[ voice ]

[freewolfmoon]

Charming options both. Give up my solitude, or be drooled upon.

[ voice ]

[specifics]

[ Mildly, ]

Unless you prefer madness.

[ voice ]

[freewolfmoon]

[A sigh.]

I am not getting a cat. I will not compromise on this.

A dog could be of use.

[orangetoughguy]

What's dangerous about it? Never say the wrong thing and you're good as gold.

[freewolfmoon]

The wrong thing?

[Pause.]

A mere word can summon demons from this, then?

[orangetoughguy]

What kind of demons are we talkin' here?

[freewolfmoon]

Any kind. I see no need to classify them as some do.

[ironmanic]

Are you mad, bro?

[freewolfmoon]

"Bro."

[ironmanic]

You pick up a few things when you spend some time on the Internet.

Either way, I know it's hard to look at, but without it you'd be trapped between a rock and a hard place. The rock being you wouldn't know anything until it was too late. A hard place being you'd be the last to know. Like the kid who gets chosen last in gym class.

Not that you'd know about gym class, Shakespeare.

[freewolfmoon]

The...Internet? Is this another magical trap?

[CLICK. He turns on video and peers mistrustfully into the screen.]

What is there to know, that it's worth entrusting myself to these spells?