cape town ♔ heard you moving up now in the city of gold

[withasouvenir]

♫ these streets -- bastille

WHO || Dawn Summers, Indra Crestrage, Sebastian Trevethor, Shawn Spencer, Taradiddle Gezuntheit, Thea Queen
WHAT || Cape Town Mission
WHERE || Cape Town, South Africa
WHEN || Summer 2016
HOW || Actionspam

The Knights fly into the port city of Cape Town in the height of summer, which luckily for them is actually a comfortable Mediterranean climate. They have come in search of Le Chien de l’Onyx to return it to it's former (and rightful) owner, the elf mage Nieulor -- it had been stolen from him in eighteenth century France and once Nieulor was freed from the Bastille, he had tracked its whereabouts across the globe trying to retrieve it. Finally, he has found it in Cape Town and the Knights have been asked to meet him for further information at the Blanched Escargot, a hole in the wall French restaurant on the waterfront.

Comments

[bloodrager]

[ indra, on the other hand, has only a light backpack, but she's definitely interested in what shawn has over there, and looks across the aisle to watch him for awhile. ] What are you doing?

[pwnspatrickjane]

[Shawn glances over at the pretty lady with a wide smile before leaning back so she can see the "crystals" that he's been running a long metal rod over.]

I'm attuning my psychic senses. Making sure they're sharp for when we start the treasure hunt.

[bloodrager]

"Psychic"? What does that mean?

[pwnspatrickjane]

[Someone who doesn't know what psychic means. Innnnnnnnteresting. He shifts to face her more and starts taking her in (spot 26).]

It means that I can commune with spirits. Learn information that may not be otherwise be observed by my more mundane counterparts.

[bloodrager]

Like a medium, of sorts.

[pwnspatrickjane]

Yes! Exactly like that. I was the head psychic for the Santa Barbara Police Department before I came through the Veil.

[bloodrager]

The world you came from... it was much like this one?

[pwnspatrickjane]

[He nods.]

More or less. Definitely less in terms of the magic and stuff though.

[bloodrager]

Such things were commonplace in my homeworld. All this... technology, much less so.

[pwnspatrickjane]

[Shawn tips his head to the side for a moment, because he is never not one for a little quid pro quo. There's a reason he's had 50+ jobs in his lifetime - he likes to know a little bit of everything.

Or maybe Gaz nailed it and he really just indecisive. Either way, there's an opportunity here.]

Maybe we can help each other. I can help with the cell phones and computers, you can tell me a little more about magic?

[bloodrager]

What kind of things do you wish to know?

[pwnspatrickjane]

Anything?

[He really knows nothing about magic.]

Maybe mostly practical stuff? Or cool stuff.

[bloodrager]

I imagine you mean 'cool' as in intriguing.

[pwnspatrickjane]

Yes. Though some things that are temperature cool can be both that and intriguing.

[He will not disqualify anything at this point.]

[bloodrager]

Like those who channel ice powers?

[pwnspatrickjane]

Yes. Yes, exactly like that.

[This is already exciting, please tell him more.]

[bloodrager]

There are some who have magic tied to certain elements. It's like that with my own bloodline.

[pwnspatrickjane]

Cool. What element is yours tied to?

[bloodrager]

Air, although that manifests through control over the storm itself.

[pwnspatrickjane]

[It takes him a second, and then he grins widely.]

So you can like ... summon a hurricane out of thin air?

[bloodrager]

Nothing so dramatic quite yet. But some day, perhaps.

[pwnspatrickjane]

Cool.

[He shakes his head a bit.]

Man, when I was back home, I never thought I'd see a place like this.

[bloodrager]

Your world was simpler, then? Surely it had its own beauty.

[pwnspatrickjane]

Oh, yeah. I lived right on the beach, it was great. But we didn't have anything like what they have on this side of the Veil.

[Which, for a guy like Shawn who has always been searching for the extraordinary, was always a little bit disappointing.]

[bloodrager]

I lived in a desert myself, so I am no stranger to the sand.