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[ceiling_cat]

Hey, Willow! Sorry for takin' so long, I think I've got something workin' most of the time. Bit busy last week.

[Between apple picking, scavenging and crisis management... what he wouldn't give for some nice convenient civilization.] Can send it by if ya wanna take a look.

Second order a business: anybody here keep chickens, and how much you want in trade for a layin' hen or two? I can try scavengin' up some stuff for ya, bang together furniture, your call. Any other kind of bird's fine too, just so long as the eggs're a decent size. Thanks.

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Look what I found. [He lifts up a dusty, slightly cobwebbed and partly empty bottle with an metal screw cap. The label's too mold-stained to read, but the color is a rich brown.] From the smell it's some kinda liquor. Think you'd be up for helpin' me figure out if it's any good?

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

[ooh, interesting!]

Does it really? ...the dead?

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Close enough! And yeah. The power's mostly accessible from what you were callin' the astral plane.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

So you've travelled the planes, too?

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Spend most of my time on what we call the UG. Astral plane, that is.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

why do you call it that?

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Underground, as opposed to the Realground -- that's the mortal plane.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

[records all of this to memory]

Right. [hmm. that implies he is not mortal but let's keep that to oneself for now]

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

[With Beat here, he's really not expecting that to stay much of a secret. She asks, he'll answer. ...To a certain degree of accuracy. Besides, if the stories about memory editing are accurate, he doesn't have much to worry about. There's no functional UG here.]

There's higher planes too -- like the one where ya met your teacher, from the way it sounds -- but those're for higher beings. Pretty exclusive, in the sense where most people'd probably just dissolve if they tried visitin'.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

Dissolve? [wide-eyed...I didn't dissolve when I went to one, but I'm not the one who became a higher being if what Angel said was true...]

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Based on their strength of will. Your standard resident of the lower planes can't take that kinda stress. You might be an exception, or maybe they're a bit easier ta cope with where you're from; couldn't say.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

I'm no exception, I'm just me. Must be easier where I'm from. [after all she's seen and done, she still has that self-doubt to her]

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Hmm. [Wavering a hand back and forth.] Maybe so, maybe not.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

[Willow doesn't do well in staving off a flush and tries to move on before she embarrasses herself]

So, did you uh...live? On the astral plane?

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Basically, yeah. I've got a coffee shop back home - it's set up ta downtune souls from the UG to the RG, so I'd say where I lived was more half an' half.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

[she has an expression on that shows she is clearly fascinated]

I can see the coffee shop thing.

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

We work that kinda thing with sigils more'n incantations. It's not too hard -- just get the sigil set up right and it handles the rest.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

Can you show me some of the sigils?

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Trade ya for some of your spells. [He smiles lazily.] I can't promise any of mine'll work normally here, what with the way the planes're screwed up, but I can show ya what they look like.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

Well, okay. I mean, I'll show you what I can. I've been trying to tutor a couple of people here as well. [she smiles, she wants to do good with her magic]

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan! When's a good time ta stop by? It's a bit tricky showin' ya things over a screen this small.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

We should meet somewhere we can't break stuff...

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Ha! How about the lake? Doesn't seem like anybody lives round there.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

Okay, when should I meet you there?

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Well, I was plannin' ta spend most of the afternoon there catchin' fish. Anytime that works for you's good.

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[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

I'll head out now, not doing much else.