RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
09-28-2022, 11:15 AM
>Adler: Well, you are very happy to see that Rebecca made a full recovery, and her "coven", as she puts it, might make a good batch of followers. At the very least you can steer them onto a devout path of seeliness in service of Fuma, proving to the world your own seeliness. Naturally, you won't have time to tutor them all in the finer points of the art of being seelie, but this could very well be the perfect way to put Rebecca's role as one of your apostles to the test. She can apply what she's learned about seeliness and japery and teach them what she knows, become a teacher in her own right. Having said that, you should still have a meeting with them so that you can"wow" them to ensure their loyalty. But, you should have them wait a while and maybe you could concoct a "test of worthiness". This would be good practice for future followers seeking an audience with you. Or maybe it would be better to have them meet you first so that they can hear directly from you that Rebecca will be their teacher. Perhaps the "test of worthiness" could be used later to test their loyalty before they learn anything of- Waaaaaait a minute...
>Rebecca: What?
>Adler: Your business focus breaks as what you just saw finally sinks in. Ask her to do that again, please.
>Rebecca: You oblige and snap your fingers with the same resulting sparks.
>Adler: . . . How did she learn to do that? Your lesson plan hasn't covered any magic yet.
>Rebecca: That's not entirely true. There was a section is Saint Reynard's book that covered pranks, and a number of those pranks made use of simple magicks.
>Adler: Oh, so she figured out how to read that part. But still, did the book actually explain how those spells were performed, simple though they may be, you assumed the reader would have needed prior knowledge on magick to use them. Were finger sparks covered in the book? It's a very simple thing to do, but... She said she could do that once she recovered from her attack. Did she have time to practice or was it immediate?
>Rebecca: You take a deep breath and prepare to happily explain yourself. Surely your dark, uh, Seelie Lord will be pleased and impressed by your story.
>Rebecca: What?
>Adler: Your business focus breaks as what you just saw finally sinks in. Ask her to do that again, please.
>Rebecca: You oblige and snap your fingers with the same resulting sparks.
>Adler: . . . How did she learn to do that? Your lesson plan hasn't covered any magic yet.
>Rebecca: That's not entirely true. There was a section is Saint Reynard's book that covered pranks, and a number of those pranks made use of simple magicks.
>Adler: Oh, so she figured out how to read that part. But still, did the book actually explain how those spells were performed, simple though they may be, you assumed the reader would have needed prior knowledge on magick to use them. Were finger sparks covered in the book? It's a very simple thing to do, but... She said she could do that once she recovered from her attack. Did she have time to practice or was it immediate?
>Rebecca: You take a deep breath and prepare to happily explain yourself. Surely your dark, uh, Seelie Lord will be pleased and impressed by your story.