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[the_gun_smoker]

[Someone just started coughing up a lung, or hacking up a fur ball, something that sounded just as disgusting, that's for sure. The camera was a little blurred however, on account of Badou just settling himself into a bath tub of steaming hot water. It was bliss, all he'd wanted since he arrived was a real old bath.] Finally got my lucky coat back

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[magerights]

That cough doesn't sound good. Have you seen anyone about it?

[the_gun_smoker]

It doesn't?

[Goes to cough.. stops himself and clears his throat instead.]

I'd not really noticed to tell the truth. Nah, I've not seen anyone bout it, didn't know there was anyone to see bout it.

[magerights]

Not in my opinion.

[In part because cigarettes aren't around where he's from.]

Well, there is a hospital here and I'd be happy to take a look at you. It isn't as though I've got more pressing matters either, if that worries you.

[the_gun_smoker]

[Badou's never really had to go see anyone about his chest before, maybe this has frightened him a little?]

You some kind of Doctor or like, a shrink or something?

[magerights]

Healer, actually. I use magic.

[Time to see what sort of reaction that gets.]

[the_gun_smoker]

Huh?

[Give him a second, let him think about this.]

Listen bub, no amount of phallic shaped balloon animals, are gonna shock me enough to heal my cough, okay?

[magerights]

...what?

[Now Anders is the one being shocked, when he'd expected it to be the other way around.]

No, I... what are you even talking about? Don't you know what magic is?

[the_gun_smoker]

What?

[And Badou confused himself, for at least a few moments.]

Oh, you mean the other kind? like all that reiki healing shit? I thought you meant the kind that hang out with clowns, magicians and all. Y'know... laughter therapy?..

[Man is he good at making an ass of himself.]

[magerights]

I... can't say I've ever heard of magic having anything to do with street performers before. But you're right in thinking of the... other kind.

[He's never had to actually describe what magic is before.]

[the_gun_smoker]

You haven't? Heh, I remember Dave takin' me to see a street performance when I was a kid, there was this pretty bad ass magician there, pulled a rabbit from a hat, took a saw and cut his assistant in two, then put her back together.

[Taking another drag from his cigarette, before coughing up a lung again.]

I guess I thought you were offering to saw me in half, man.

[An awkward laugh. Rubbing the back of his head.]

[magerights]

[The description gets an immediate frown from him.]

I hope you're not serious that he used magic to do that. No one in their right mind would do such a thing to a person or anything else, and I can't believe that the city guard would just stand by while some crazed mage murders some poor woman!

[the_gun_smoker]

[This guy was serious, wasn't he? Badou had only heard of mage's in computer games.]

Nah, I don't think anything the did was actual magic. Magic often goes by different names where I'm from. I didn't mean to offend you man, just, heh, never met a real mage before is all.

[His cigarette burnt out. Plucking it from his lips and setting another in its place. Coughing with his mouth closed.]

We don't have a city guard or anything like that. The place I'm from has kinda gone to the dogs, if you know what I mean. Its a shit hole.

[magerights]

Still, even if it wasn't magic and there weren't any guards, I'd like to think people would stop a madman from cutting women in half instead of just watching. Even if he did manage to somehow restore her afterwards, unless...

[Understanding dawns!]

Was it some sort of fakery? Like someone claiming to have a cure for illness but they've actually planted someone in the crowd to pretend to be ill? I've seen too many fall to those schemes. While there might be a city guard where I'm from, they don't tend to come to Darktown much. No one really wants to spend any time there, if they can help it.

[the_gun_smoker]

[Badou waits, take in what this guy was saying, listening as he was good at that, waiting a little longer then offering a smile.]

Yea, its kinda different where I'm from, people are actually entertained by fakery. They know its not real, they know there will be plants in the crowd, but if they pull it off well, people love that crap.

Darktown? that's where you're from? So like, you're the local healer or something?

[magerights]

[He can't imagine why anyone would enjoy being tricked into thinking that something was really hurting someone or whatever, but it's possibly just some bizarre custom on another world.]

Sort of. Darktown is part of the city of Kirkwall. The part with all the refugees and those too poor to live anywhere else with better conditions... as well as where the local thieves and smugglers like to spend their time. It might not be as nice a place to live as some of the other areas of the city, but it's a good place to hide. I ran a small clinic there, treating as many as I could for free, though donations and supplies were always welcome.

[the_gun_smoker]

[To be honest, Badou doesn't get it too, it was just a cheap form of entertainment when he was a kid. Its kind of interesting to hear how Anders' world is so very different from his own though.]

Sounds a lot like a place I've been to before. Only, you're version really is like something from a book to me, heh. Well, I mean, you're the pro right?

[He coughed again.]

I guess you're used to complaints such as a cough huh? What would you suggest? I mean, I don't mind having you check me out, you seem pretty trust worthy and all.