trans_9 | Friendly Fire

Elsewhere on this ship, a war was being waged. A war for the hearts and minds, the souls and very sanity of this crew.

A war that Stacy wasn't certain that all would survive, hence why she released you. Replacements would be needed.

But that war is miles away from where you are. Or at least, so it seems. There are no screams of agony to greet you, no monsters trying to claw at you.

But that doesn't mean the Nightmare King can't reach you.

Prior to your arrival here on the Obs deck, reality had been shifted. Constructs of the current crew grew out of nothing. All of them look, sound, feel, behave, and scan as the crew member they're copying. They're as real as you are. And with smiling faces, they await your arrival.

They can't wait to welcome you. To your doom.

Won't you say hi?

[ooc: Nightmare plot is still on, people, and this is the newbie portion. For all current players, as stated above, the Nightmare King made copies of your guys, who are still stuck fighting nightmares elsewhere in the plot. You can tag in as the copy of your character, have them be friendly, get the newbies to let their guard down, and then the real nightmare can begin. Newbies, you can tag in, have fun, and suspect nothing until its too late.]

[Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have the copies of your guys greet the newbies.]

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"But I'm not a Wizard, I don't use a wand or a staff. And I'm not a sorcerer because I'm not that old." He shrugged a bit. "And don't even suggest Warlock. I get tired of telling people what it means." He smiled a bit and pushed off the ground, floating up in the air with ease.

"There was never a reason to learn. Like I said, I can fly on my own." He watched her for a moment. She was good to be weary. "I'll tag along."

"I would not think to call you a warlock. I would figure the gender association was a more pressing matter on words that are so synonymous," Yue pondered, "As the standard tools of magic are applicable to all words, it is only when you specialize in a fighting style do the terms mean different thing." Yue slowed to look at him when she spoke, before turning back to focus on flying forward. New terrain means you should be even more aware of where you fly.

"So, witch, do you have a name, and who would train you to fly freely before riding a broom?" She needed to investigate that detail. Even the Hero of the War, Nagi Springfield, began his training on a broom. He might have switched to unsupported flight. However he was the Thousand Master, hardly the bar you should set for a common wizard. Negi-sensei's flight was hardly as effective without a broom, it was more leaping than proper flight.

She really wished she could investigate MahoNet at this moment.

"My name's Billy, and you seem to know a lot about magic. But you gotta remember, not all magic is the same. We've got a whole department here, and they all have different powers, and all of them are magic." He starts to fly a bit more lazily. It was just from experience that he could do that.

"I wasn't trained by anyone. Back home, I'm kind of the odd ball out. No one could really understand how my magic worked. Well there was one person, my mother. But she's..." He shook his head and looked off a bit. "Dead. Or she's as good as."

"I don't know that much, although I am in the top of my class." Yue found that statement rather odd, without a real reason why her being in the top of her class was odd. Different types of magical systems? That would be interesting to do some study on, where they draw power, how their power works. Incantations vs. Charms. She had read in stories about magics that worked differently... books she remembered reading, but not when she read them.

"Your world must be like Old World, magic exists, but nobody realizes it." She read about her home, after she found out it was her home. However the other thing he said, caused her to pause in the air, something in her head and heart ringing out in response to it, "I'm sorry to hear about your mother. It would be hard to go on if you lose a loved one you admire." She applied far too many deductions to this. She assumed he admired her, why did she assume that. Not everyone has such a relationship with their parents. Where was the answer she was seeking on this topic? What was she forgetting?

Billy shrugged it all off and continued to fly beside her.

"People knew about magic back home, they just choose to ignore that it exists. Mostly because of it always causing the heroes one headache or another." Like how Doctor Strange was always battling some demon or another. Or how his mother had lost her mind and unmade reality. He shook his head and stopped thinking about that.

"I never met her. I guess that's the hardest part. Well that and the fact that there's a version of her here." And if that wasn't going to confuse this girl, he was sure nothing would.

"Magic is a secret in the Old World. We do our best to help, but due to how people have reacted in the past. The law is to hide, only a few humans know of magic," Yue recently became aware she was one of those few humans that know of magic. That she was not born to magic, or that world. "Magic does not seem to be that problematic to think about, at least for me."

"Another version?" Would that explain the two people she ran into earlier, the two Alessas?

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