3rd Fix

[technohippie]

[Quinn's still trying to get used to a "normal" day-to-day life in Mayfield... and just can't. This wholesome 1950s living is about the exact opposite of what he's used to. He's getting a bit stir-crazy. And now it's Halloween! His favorite holiday! Someone's got to be doing something, he hoped...]


H-Hey! Uh, I know I'm new and all here, and things were just kinda, shall we say, "hectic" in town, but don't tell me none of ya'll are havin' a Halloween party? Someone is, right? Talk about a waste... we should be partyin' it up. Time to kick back and have some fun after all that, ya know?


[Not exactly sure what to do with himself, Quinn will be sitting on his front porch handing out candy. He'll be dressed in an angel costume, because he thought it was kind of funny. He looks a bit mopey though. He doesn't remember the last time he's had a Halloween this lame, and he was starting to miss his family back home.]

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[prodigious-mage.livejournal.com]

[His first visitor is a boy dressed in the robes of a Mysidian mage. Costume, schomshtume, he wants the candy.]

Gimme all the brown crunchy ones! Oh, yeah, trickortreatpleasethanks!

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Brown crunchy ones? [He pokes through the candy bowl.] Might be somethin' like that in here. You're welcome to 'em!

So, what's your costume?

[prodigious-mage.livejournal.com]

Great, thanks!

[Palom will proceed to take every single Butterfinger in the bowl if Quinn doesn't stop him.]

What, this? It's just my mage robes. I didn't feel like finding something in the two days between getting murdered and Halloween.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[Quinn doesn't really care. They're all yours!

He grins a bit.]


That's what mages wear where you're from? Can't argue with that, though. This town is just....weird.

[prodigious-mage.livejournal.com]

It's what people from Mysidia wear, actu'lly, but we're all mages. The best mages, and don't you forget it.

[Butterfinger after Butterfinger vanishing. The great Butterfinger genocide.]

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Mysidia... I won't, buddy. What kinda mage are ya?

[He helps himself to a piece of candy as well.]

[prodigious-mage.livejournal.com]

The best mage.

[C'mon, Quinn, get with the program.]

I'm learning black magic, though.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

That's a good answer, kid! Black magic, huh? So ya can learn any kind where you're from? That's pretty cool. I'm a technomancer myself.

[prodigious-mage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can mostly learn whatever you want, although you kinda need the right personality, too. Cecil wasn't learning any white magic as a Redwing, that's for sure.

Is that like when you tell the future by dancing all funny?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Kinda works opposite where I'm from. Whatever your specialty is tends to have an effect on ya.

[he laughs at that.] Dancin'? While I do love that, no, that ain't it. I can talk with machines 'n stuff. Well, I will once the town decides I can have it back.

[prodigious-mage.livejournal.com]

Machines, huh? We'll have a magic duel sometime when you get that back, then. I've already got a ton of mine!

[For emphasis, the closest bush suddenly seems a lot less bushy and a lot more . . . stony.]

[electrowhipit]

[ He's strolling by, because frankly he could use the walk. He pauses as he's passing by. ] Nice wings.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[Gives a little wave] Thanks, man. You want some candy?

[electrowhipit]

[ Shrugs, and heads up the front walk ] Why not?

Hey, you sound kinda familiar.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

You too, man. Did I talk to ya on the phone?

[He holds the bowl out for you. Candy!]

[electrowhipit]

[ He takes a piece, inspecting it for a moment ] Probably. I'm Jolt.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Can't forget that name. I'm Quinn. How ya been?

[electrowhipit]

Right! Nice to actually meet you.

... Eh, been better, but I think that sort of comes with being stuck here.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Likewise, man.

I hear ya. Man, I ain't sure if I can handle this whole dad-and-husband, 9-to-5 thing they got goin' here. How did people in the 50s not go crazy with boredom?

[electrowhipit]

Do you have drones or actual people living in your house?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

One actual, two drones. I hear the town shuffles people through a lot, so I can only hope we fill up the house soon. The real kid in the house is pretty cool though. His name's Raz.

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

What is Halloween, anyway?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

What's Halloween?! Ah man, don't tell me ya come from somewhere without Halloween! It's a holiday for dressin' up in costumes, eatin' candy and having great parties!

[want-a-vacation.livejournal.com]

Just about everything here is new to me. Well, I've seen stuff like some of the things here in records on the UMN, but they're hard to come by.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Right, sometimes I forget people come from all kinds of far-off lands here. Well you've been missin' one hell of a holiday, that's for sure.