All out bulletin.

[connie_maheswaran]

Hello, all.

There are definitely few of us now, we've all noticed. I'm putting this out as a general call for all of us still here. I'm hoping we could get together and talk, maybe start to form a plan about what we do now that our numbers have dwindled and the ones that would usually call us together aren't around.

So, to start, how many of us are there? Name, rank, that kind of thing. It'll help to get the new people where they need to go for training, and we can maybe even start thinking about what we want to do going forward.

Comments

[phoenixwiz]

Harry Potter, just Harry will be fine. Star level Hero Apprentice. Hopefully this will suffice it.

[connie_maheswaran]

Hi again Harry. Glad to see you reporting in, as always!

[phoenixwiz]

Glad to be of any help, Connie.

[connie_maheswaran]

I'm very happy to know I can count on you, Harry.

[phoenixwiz]

You’re welcome anytime, Connie. If you need any help on something, just let me know.

[connie_maheswaran]

I will. Thanks again!

[grandduchess_anya]

(Is it safe for her to mention her actual name to the public, even Connie? Nah, she isn’t risking it today.)

Anya, just a Star level Princess Apprentice.

[connie_maheswaran]

Nice to meet you Anya! We did lose a pretty great princess recently, so having a new one is pretty comforting right now.

[grandduchess_anya]

Gee thanks, Connie. I’ll try my best to help out in any way I can for the Kingdoms.

[connie_maheswaran]

I really appreciate that, Anna! It'll be much needed soon, I bet.

[grandduchess_anya]

Thank you, Connie. I appreciate it since I am just the newest among the Princess Apprentices and I’m still working hard to master my Spell Classes.

[connie_maheswaran]

I'm sure the other princesses would be willing to give you some pointers, and there are always people willing to spar to practice their own magic!

[voidalviera]

[It takes a little while for Rice to reply, because she doesn't want to know how many have left at this point.]

Rice. Hero apprentice.
I can train in hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship.

[connie_maheswaran]

Hi again Rice.

You know, we really ought to spar sometime soon.

[smilingarmor]

The Great Sylvando, still present an accounted for. Star-level Warrior Apprentice, and entertainer extraordinaire.

[connie_maheswaran]

Sylvando! Always glad to see you!

Least helpful apprentice

[creepyoldguy]

[He would have ignored the notice, but....it was a chance to say his own Name. And so:]

Beetlejuice. I'm a demon, and that's more important than whatever those idiots with the mirror wanna call me.

I can teach you to curse someone out in dead languages and how to scare someone so badly they lose sphincter control.

Re: Least helpful apprentice

[connie_maheswaran]

Whoa. You can actually say it now?!

Uh. That's...I don't think I knew abut that last part.

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[creepyoldguy]

Right! Finally something positive about this place.

[He made a show of polishing his nails on his shirt front.]

I'm a demon of many talents, Nerdling.

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[connie_maheswaran]

Yeah, good!

Does it ever come in handy?

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[creepyoldguy]

Well, yeah! Can't haunt a house if you're not capable of causing a few ruined pairs of shorts!

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[connie_maheswaran]

Really? Is that in the ghost manual I don't know about?

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[creepyoldguy]

Pfffft. Not a chance.

That thing makes television instructional manuals look like the height of entertainment. There's a reason I burn them.

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[connie_maheswaran]

I was making a joke, but good to know anyway. So you're mostly off the cuff then. I'm assuming there's not a whole fleet of bio-exorcists.

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[creepyoldguy]

There's...not. Technically, it's illegal. Not supposed to let the breathers know about the Netherworld or the dead in general.

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[connie_maheswaran]

Oh. Well, its you, so that sort of tracks. How'd you manage to get mixed into that sort of life? Rebellion? Boredom?

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[creepyoldguy]

Banishment.

And--okay, a little rebellion. A lot of boredom.

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[connie_maheswaran]

Oh. Jeez. Sorry.

Those two can go hand in hand.

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[creepyoldguy]

Ah, y'know how it is. Tick off your mom, get banished to another world. Slowly succumb to madness after a few centuries of isolation. It's all gooooood. Totally fine.

Re: Least helpful apprentice

[connie_maheswaran]

Madness? Is that why you sometimes descend into the murder talk, or is that a fun quirk?

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[creepyoldguy]

That is being a demon. Murder is not exactly taboo for us.

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[connie_maheswaran]

Seems like its just a way to avoid your problems to me.

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[creepyoldguy]

Nah, murder is pretty confrontational.

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[connie_maheswaran]

Then it must be something you demons get into a lot. You definitely seems to suggest it more than people are comfortable with.

[electricdynamo]

[Alexis can be seen lounging on a beanbag chair wearing only an orange jacket over a bra - if she's wearing pants, they're off-screen. She's in the middle of eating a sandwich and talks with her mouth full.]

U'm bivy.

[connie_maheswaran]

What was that? Didn't quite catch that bit.

[electricdynamo]

[She scowls over her sandwich, swallows her bite, and wipes her mouth on her sleeve]

I said I'm busy. Whaddayou want?

[connie_maheswaran]

[Normally that might annoy Connie, if it had been anyone else that wasn't Livewire, but she was strangely getting used to the woman now].

I was doing a role call.

What are you even working on?

[electricdynamo]

[She snorts with something in between amusement and derision.]

H'okay, miss teacher, ma'am.

At the moment? This delicious sandwich.

[Evasive? Naahhhhhh.

[connie_maheswaran]

Eh, not really. More trying to keep in touch with whoever's still around.

Right. And then?

[electricdynamo]

Oh, you know, thought I'd have a nice lil' picnic in the park. Watch the kids play, listen to the band.

[You can't see her legs, but her posturing as she sits up and gets closer to the camera makes it clear she's swung them down so her feet are planted on the floor, and she leans forward with a leer]

You're awful nosy, ain'tcha?

[connie_maheswaran]

That does not really sound like your style somehow.

[Connie met her gaze with raised eyebrows].

Hey, I'm just trying to do my...uh, "second string" duty.

[electricdynamo]

So someone did die and make you boss.

Tell me, then, what is my style? I'm super interested.

[connie_maheswaran]

If I were boss I'd have way more to answer for. I'm just trying to see if there's anyway to get all of us together. Lost a lot of people so we're pretty disjointed right now.

Wily, unpredictable, somewhat manic. From what I've seen, anyway.