Act 010 [video]

[yayashton]

[Ryan is sitting on a couch in what looks like an apartment. It's not, but you're not going to get him to admit that.]

I have a question for those of you in HospiTown. My former roommate, Ed, hasn't been responding to my messages. [Ryan looks unusually concerned.] Has . . . anyone seen him? He's . . . black hair that looks like a mess, terrible fashion sense, sometimes wears a really ugly brown cloak, kind of an idiot.

Nevermind. [Ryan visibly shifts out of the concern.] Regardless of whether or not Ed is still around, I do need your help with something else. I keep a record of events, as some of you might know, but it has become rather difficult to keep track of events now that we're all no longer in the same place. Tell me, what has happened in HospiTown?

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[strengthinkindness]

[She laughed a little, mostly to herself.] I wish I could say that about my home...

[yayashton]

Are you from one of those worlds with magic that makes everything complicated?

[It's a genuine question. He just likes knowing where people come from.]

[strengthinkindness]

[She nodded.] Pretty much...though magic does make things pretty interesting back home...

[yayashton]

See, in my world magic just fixes things. Or, well, what passes for magic. We don't call it that. [Ryan shakes his head.] So it's so weird to me that magic could make things complicated.

[strengthinkindness]

Really? What do you call it then?

In my world, magic just...is. It can break as much as it can fix, depending on who's using it.

[yayashton]

[Here is where he would normally just call up the music and show her, but well. No powers. He didn't actually know how much he used them until they went pouf!]

We call it music. You know how you watch a performance and there's music even when people aren't singing? Yeah. In my world, there's music playing all the time and you can [He doesn't know how to say "you can warp reality to sing about stuff" without sounding crazy.] . . . do things with it.

[strengthinkindness]

Goodness...that sounds pretty exciting...

[yayashton]

Most of the time it is, but sometimes I just wish everything wasn't so fantastical.

[strengthinkindness]

Oh...I suppose that could get tiring sometimes...