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TEST DRIVE MEME

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OPTIONAL SCENARIOS

01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD.
The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks!

02. THE STATION.
Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms!

03. WILDCARD.
Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

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Not quite sure if it's intended to be a punishment, but if you're set on making yourself miserable I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities for it. Life is always good at providing that sort of thing.

And if by 'escape' you mean 'get home' then there's nothing I can do for you. Or anyone, at least that I've found. I suppose it's possible that there's someone out there who's figured it out and scarpered, but if they did they don't seem to have left the formula. Might be just as well, in some cases.

As for hiding.

[He smiles again, wide and wicked and as though Maglor is a little slow, spreading his arms.]

Take your pick. I don't have any particular boltholes, there's usually not time to get to them anyway, but I always figure that some direction away from the fighting is the way to run, if it's what you're interested in doing.

Life... or our own selves, maybe.

[ Maglor grimaces a bit - going home would be... well. If he thinks on it seriously, there is no going home, is there? Not for a kinslayer. What would he have done, if he returned now? Here is as good as any, but he wants no part in this war ]

Have you a chance to explore widely then? There are always places that will take those who wish to vanish.

Well, honestly, isn't that what life usually is?

[He may have a point there.]

I've explored some. The problem, as you shall find, is that there's rather a lot here. Besides, it's not much use just hiding away forever - if nothing else, I've found it pays to be a bit more flexible than that.

[ A whole wide world. Despite himself, a part of Maglor wakes up in interest. Lands he has never seen, lakes he has never drunk from. He looks up and out into the forests around them and wonders. ]

There is no home for me to return to whence I came. Yet, if I am to be trapped here, I would rather it be on my own terms, than our patrons. Forever may be a long time to hide, but I find it more pleasing than the thought of remaining here to fight another war.

Yeah? Seems to be a fair amount of that around here too. Personally, I have a home I'd be perfectly content to return to, but I doubt I'd be allowed to stay in it even then.

You spoke of something like that earlier. [ Maglor tips his head consideringly ] The masters you spoke of - they are not here, then, but in your home world?

Not strictly speaking my home, but I certainly do a lot of visiting. They can't seem to get anything done without their slaves, and certainly aren't keen on trying.

Mind you, the situation doesn't seem vastly different here, except a greater lack of organization.

Slaves? [ Maglor frowns a little ] That sounds ... unpleasant, Master Djinni.

As to that... You have the right of it, I suppose. I do not plan on making it easy for them, however. [ if there is a whole world he can hide in... well, he was planning on vanishing at home, anyway ]

You don't need to tell me twice, I've been the one who's had the worst of it all these years. And precious little time off-duty, too.

I should hope I do, I've seen enough of the same, through the years.

I am sorry to hear that Master Djinni. I suppose at the least here our masters have hopefully less sway than yours appear to have had on you in your own world.

I wonder how easy it will be to simply walk away. If it is as disorganized as you say, they may not even notice.

Well that's the way it's looked thus far. Except the death bit - half the time you don't even die properly, in these parts. And as for walking away... well, there's not quite a whole world to get lost in, but you can do your best with the land that's available.

I have had some experience in hiding. [ a wry shrug ]

Especially in times of war there are often many places which go unnoticed. I have time enough to find them, and plenty of inclination.

[ the statement about death gets a shake of his head ] Strange, the power of our patrons. The Eldar have ever been tied to Arda - what you are suggesting says that the Lord and Lady have power even to circumvent our fate and Namo's Call.

[He shrugs in turn.]

Don't we all! Honestly, it's in times of war that such skills are most useful, in my estimation. Those who disagree tend to also those who end up dead sooner rather than later. That they are welcome to.

Mm, yes. I've never been entirely clear what's supposed to happen to my kind after death, if anything happens at all and we do not merely vanish into the great void - which is the eventual fate of us all anyway. Doesn't seem to take here, though. Not that I speak from personal experience, of course.

[ a soft snort ] True. If death might release me, I would not shirk from it. But in this world prudence seems the better path. Tis a strange world indeed.

I suppose I am glad to hear that you have no personal experience, for I do not think it sounds like a pleasant one, whether in this world or your own.

[Bartimaeus eyes him. There's a slightly judgmental cast to the look.]

In my opinion, death has never been any great release. Perhaps it's different for humans. You are welcome to try, if you're that desperate.

I imagine not. I do intend to keep any experience in that area to a minimum if at all possible - I've had enough close shaves already, believe you me.

[ Maglor only shrugs - he knows, he knows. ]

For my people, it has been seen as such at times - it would not be uncommon, if the hroa, the body, was wounded enough, for the soul to flee. But I am not that desperate. [ yet hangs in the air between them ]

So then your spirit is forced out into the cold and then what happens to it? No, it's best to dodge that fate if at all possible.

"In my own world we would return to the Halls of Waiting." Maglor shrugs, it is not that bad a fate, in his opinion. "We are meant to be bound to Arda, so I know not what would happen here. I suppose it would be foolish to test that here."

[He looks rather unimpressed - it's been his expression for a good deal of the conversation.]

So you know death wouldn't be the release you want and you still are set on dying, are you? Well, it's a creative form of madness.

[ and he is likely to remain unimpressed, tbh ]

I never said I was sane. [ he is well aware that he probably isn't, at this point ]

Self aware as well - you do have a leg up on the competition, don't you?

I suppose that remains to be seen.

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suddenly a rekhyt! =p

he sneaks up on you

such a sneaky djinni

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