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[casner]

Hello. My name is Graham Casner, and as we all seem to be stuck here for the moment, I'd like to get a headcount and collect a few other potentially useful details. A record of who's here will let us know if anyone goes missing, and the benefit of cataloging what skills we have amidst the group should speak for itself.

In my day to day non-bullshit life I work as an adventure/survival guide; while I can't say for sure how much call we'll have for those services consider me on call for any questions about how to use what we have on hand. I also possess some experience in basic home maintenance, though for anything beyond simple electric/plumbing issues you're out of luck.

To sum up: please reply with your name and any skills, abilities, or otherwise you see as beneficial to our survival. Don't discount what might seem frivolous at first; creature comforts can go a long way.

Thank you for your time.

Comments

[casner]

[ The wry weariness with which Graham makes his inquiry can probably be just like, palpably felt through the phone, even for someone not psychic. Perhaps by a not-psychic dead person. On Mars. ]

Can I assume Craft to be some kind of magic?

[singularwidower]

You may.

[Oh, there is deep, deep amusement behind his brief reply.]

It's psychic-based and orderly, but to those without it, it does seem like magic.

pictured: casner driven to drink due to vastly underestimating how wild his own post might get

[casner]

[ x_x ]

Assume I'm incredibly simple minded and require very small words. Single syllables preferred.

[singularwidower]

I daresay you humble yourself too far. Someone capable of seeing a need for an inquiry like this in the first place surely has had at least one complex thought in his lifetime.

[casner]

Maybe two.

[ that's right, motherfucker.

.............you know, in a general sense, not particularly at daemon. ]

Gonna explain psychic-based and orderly to the plebian?

[singularwidower]

Forgive me, I'm not used to Craft not being a fact of existence. I don't know as I've ever had to explain what Craft is. A moment.

[Rather than a wall of text, Daemon opts for something as simple as possible.]

All the Blood have been gifted with power, and Craft is our practice of applying that power to the world, through spell and experimentation. This power is psychic in nature, and the spells themselves are recordable and repeatable, once all the variables are controlled for. Orderly.

[casner]

[ it's funny how while casner understands all of those words individually and yet strung together in this order, especially with what appears to him to be random capitalization, make absolutely not a lick of sense. however, like with cultivatory magic he's already decided since he can't do it, such abilities benefiting the group do not require any lightning-like epiphanies on his part. ]

You might want to get used to the idea.

[ of explaining. frequently. meanwhile: ah! they are now dry humoring at one another! this is bonding, yes? ]

And if you figure out a way to control any of the variables here, let alone all of them, I'm more than all ears.