fandomhigh | Magical Bestiary | Tuesday, period 2

When Bob showed up in class this week he was somewhat disgruntled.

Not that anybody could probably tell the difference.

"Right. Well, we're now a week behind, thanks to Harry's utter inability to speak to the fair folk without saying precisely the wrong thing." He sighed. "So, rather than speak of any one magical creature this week, we're going to talk about ways to handle all of them."

He wrote in the air: 1. THINK

"Please don't forget this one," he said with a long-suffering look. "Don't just blindly strike out at things - find out what they are and what they want."

2. ASK.

"You may have noticed a pattern in earlier classes of how to handle various beings, which often comes down to asking them what they want."

3. TRUST CAREFULLY.

"Look, I won't say don't ever trust anything supernatural - for one thing, we'd just be getting into a whole logical paradox which is not the purpose of this class, but please exercise a bit of healthy skepticism, all right? Beings may be dishonest, honest but misinformed, or honest but coerced. Please try to be careful."

He looked to the heavens for patience. "And please, please remember - deals and agreements are often magically binding. Never agree to anything unless you're prepared to do it, and be very, very careful of the wording." Harry.

"So, today, let's discuss - a lovely being in need shows up on your doorstep. They're in trouble. What do you do?"

Please don't just say "help them blindly". Bob had had enough of that lately.

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Carefully!

Kathy Li

Dante

Mabel Pines

Merrill

Kaylin Neya

Anders

Blue Sargent

Marvel at how Bob could possibly get even grumpier!

Look, Merrill was actually paying attention in this class! Despite what some people were going to think someday, Anders.

It was just that her definitions of 'careful' and 'prepared to do it' were different from pretty much everyone else's, that was all.

Bob will answer questions and give you scenarios as you go.

Dante squinted.

"How lovely?"

Sigh, boy.

Bob smirked. "Built. Totally stacked, with these really long legs, and curves like..." He stopped and cleared his throat. "Very lovely."

He was occasionally bad at this "responsible adult" thing.

"In that case, I don't tell her to fuck off," Dante said, "I just say 'What?'."

Because she could still be a demon.

"What kind of help are they looking for?" Kathy asked. "That seems like the most logical place to begin."

"A good start, yes!" Bob snapped his fingers. "They're in trouble with someone. Being hunted."

Thankfully, even Harry had gotten that far.

"How close are the hunters and how are they tracking them would be the next questions," Kathy said. "Knowing who everyone is and why they're being hunted are all well and good, but if I am going to be hiding this person, I need to know what I'm up against first. Then we can get into the nitty-gritty of whether I'm going to be helping or not."

Mabel really couldn't answer every question like this with 'check and make certain they're not gnomes,' but she was very tempted.

"I guess it all depends on what they need," Mabel mused, "and if there's anything going on behind the scenes that isn't obvious at a glance.

Like, say, did they want you to marry all ten thousand of them and get dragged off into the forest to become their gnome queen, or did they just want to devour you? There was a pretty broad range of possibilities at play, there.

"Good, good." Bob nodded. "And how would you find that out?"

"What kind of lovely creature are we talking about, exactly?" Merrill asked. "The sultry sort, like a desire demon, or more along the lines of being small and fluffy?"

What? She wanted to know.

"Probably more the former than the latter, though a bit of both. How would it make a difference?" Bob asked.

"Oh, I don't know. That would depend on what they wanted," Merrill admitted. "I was just curious, that's all."

"Don't answer the door," Kaylin said. "I wouldn't."

What a lie. She would never admit it or even realize it, but she was a total sucker for someone in trouble.

"So it's something like a desire demon, and it says it's being hunted," Anders said, summarizing what had gone before. "I would have to say no. You don't want to start dealing with demons. You lose control the second you do."

Don't ask where he was last week. You probably don't want to know.

Once he pings in!

Anders wouldn't admit it unprovoked, but he was totally judging anybody who said they'd make a deal with the creature.

Many, many thanks to

not_every_mage for last week. My brain was pretty nonfunctional for anything useful.

Standard SP-while-working disclaimer, but I'll do my best to ping back!

Edited 2015-09-29 04:54 (UTC)

Magical Bestiary | Tuesday, period 2

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