BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

[wiredweird]

All of Jughead's possessions fit inside a single backpack.

He didn't mind it. At least it was crammed as full as it could be crammed, that was good enough for him. And if he could keep people from figuring out that was the case, even better. This was supposed to be a break from –– everything. Riverdale and all associated drama.

Still, when he arrived in the lounge and checked his phone, he found himself wondering whether Archie even remembered he was moving today.

Whatever.

He dropped his backpack on the floor and leaned against the wall. Good. This seemed like a decent spot to stand in while eyeing everyone else warily.

[ooc: And we have moved! Welcome to a brand new DW edition of the traditional shuttle post. WAIT FOR THE OCD. OCD up, have at! EXCEPT YOU, WHO KNOWS WHO YOU ARE.]

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus probably warranted being eyed warily as he appeared in a flash of white light, holding a flaming sword with a giant scorpion stinger on the tip of it.

In all, it was a pretty cool way to arrive.

So. Yeah.

"...am I in a fantasy airport?"

Remove 'fantasy' and he was rollin' some suspiciously high perception checks.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[wiredweird]

Yeah, okay. That was an entrance that got Jughead to give up on being antisocial for a second. He was now too busy trying to understand what the falsh of light had been. A way over-powered cellphone flash?

He was also trying to understand the sword.

It seemed to be on fire.

"... I'm gonna go with 'no'," he decided. "I think this is just Baltimore."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

1. Magic.
2. It was the Raging, Flaming, Poisoning Sword of Doom. That's sort of what it did.

"Are you absolutely sure about that?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[wiredweird]

"Yeah," Jughead said.

But he was not.

And it was the sword's fault.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

In his defense, he had been murdering invisible, extra-dimensional legions before arriving here.

He looked at the kid, then at the sword before strapping that sucker to his back along with Railsplitter and his shield.

"Okay. Cool. Wrong foot there. My name is Magnus Burnsides."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[wiredweird]

"Jughead Jones," Jughead replied, not really seeming any more at ease even with the sword gone for the moment. (But then again, unease was kind of how he lived, far too much of the time.) "A pleasure, I'm sure."

Okay, that was a little dry. Possibly a lot.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

"Your name is Jughead." Oh god. Oh god. Where was Taako when you needed him?

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[thatsweirdright]

Annnnnd that's why the 'never escalate a battle' rule existed, because if it had been up to Jason, "dude with a flaming sword who appeared in a flash of light" would definitely have been interpreted as bad news. Except then sword guy didn't actually, well. Do anything remotely threatening.

"Dunno... is that any different from a regular airport?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

"...less security checkpoints?" Magnus ventured. Despite it not being something he should know about.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[thatsweirdright]

"You're right, that does sound pretty fantastical." Jason had to admit.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

"Oh, and magic. Definitely magic."

That was important.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[thatsweirdright]

"...Right, of course," Jason said, a little dubiously. Which, really. He had no right being dubious considering he was a member of a legendary team of warriors who called up their armor via a connection to a mysterious other dimension called the Morphing Grid.

But that was different, because it was science or something.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

Yeah, that was way harder to believe than an inter-dimensional traveler with forced amnesia, trying to save the world from a faceless, unending hunger.

With magic. That other people had, not him.

He was a Fighter.

"And airplane food, what's the deal with that?" Magnus asked with a goofy as all hell grin.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[junebug1500]

"... what the hell?" June said, frowning at him. "Is this some kind of weird test?"

In her experience, people didn't show up with flaming swords, oh, ever.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

Well, clearly she was missing out.

"I don't do well on written tests!" Magnus replied automatically a little panicked over the thought.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[junebug1500]

"Not a test for you, a test for us," June explained. "Maybe one about how we react if something completely impossible happens."

It seemed like something the Republic might do, if they weren't completely boring.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

"That's a sort of shitty test. You can't even study for it," Magnus said, making a face. "That shouldn't be allowed."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[junebug1500]

"If they only tested you on stuff you studied for, you'd be a pretty bad soldier," June pointed out. "You have to be able to improvise."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

"Improvising doesn't come from weird tests." Said the guy who ripped arms off of robots as part of his improvising. Slowly ripped them off. Maintaining eye contact with the poor, dead machine. "It comes from living."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[somethingwithturquoise]

That dude had a flaming sword. Sure, he appeared in a flash of light, too, but Summer was used to that sort of thing. Now a flaming sword, on the other hand...

She was trying to lay low, but, come on. How could you not quirk a brow at that at least a little?

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

That flaming sword also had an over-sized scorpion stinger on the tip. This is what happens when you allow an 8 year old design weapons for D&D.

Magnus looked a little awkward at that. "Cool. Cool, cool, cool," he muttered to himself. "Is that a no?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I think maybe it's more sci fi than fantasy," Summer offered, because now she felt kind of bad for staring.

And then she just couldn't help herself.

"Why do you have a flaming sword, dude?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

"You can have both. It's not a zero sum genre," Magnus grumbled, strapping the sword to his back. It looked pretty awesome. Also, the DM really liked putting robots and elevators in the game. "Why wouldn't I have a flaming sword?"

He was Azor Ahai.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Because we're basically in a glorified bus station?" offered Summer, although, really, if she took a second and considered her track record, she would realize that maybe having a flaming sword on hand wasn't really such a bad idea. In fact, now that she thought of it, she sort of wondered where she might get one. You know, just in case.

In the meantime, it might not hurt to make nice with the guy with the weapon.

"Are you any good with it?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[magnusrushesin]

Fantasy Costco. They had everything.

"Uh, yeah." Duh. It was on his character sheet. "I'm super proficient with most weapons."