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[strokeofgenis]

[Genis is feeling all out of sorts. Yes, he'd been told that this massive headache and otherwise feeling completely lethargic and terrible would be gone by tomorrow, and so he would have considered putting this out there until then, but someone had told him that he looked somewhat familiar, that there was some older girl with the same hair colour. And while there were possibly a zillion people in all the infinite worlds out there that he didn't yet know about that had elder girls with a silver-white hair, the description sounded like a shoe-in for Raine. He had to make the post.

[But Genis looks just... terrible. He's tired and just feels just empty, not to mention hungry. You'll see a 12 year old's face just looking like he could use a really really nice sleep. And as a result, he's not afraid to be cranky. Granted, he's always unafraid to be cranky, but that's his excuse at the moment.]

I really hate to gripe about this first thing, but come on. I come straight from one world where I'm hated just for being a half-elf, and now I'm in a world where I'm hated just because I'm not from around here? Greeeeeat. You know, I'm beginning to wonder if there even is a world out there where people don't discriminate against other people for completely stupid reasons.

I mean, what'd you guys even do to the kedan anyway? Did you go out and kidnap everyone's kids or something? Because if it wasn't as big as something like that, I don't know what you could have possibly done to get them to hate you so badly.

[He says this with the most deadpan delivery ever. He then just shakes his head as if just in disbelief that he's already stuck in a world worse than the one he'd just left.]

Okay, at any rate, I don't know who exactly is out there listening to this, but... hey. I'm Genis Sage.  I don't suppose any of you know someone named Raine, would you?  Anyway, as for me, I guess I'm just a student at the moment, though I really haven't been attending school for a while since I've been travelling around my world for the past while with my sister and my friends.  Despite that, I could probably still graduate at the top of my class even without having been diligent on all my homework last year.  [He says this with a remarkable amount of pride despite his general malaise of feeling empty and tired.]

Anyway, I'd say that I'm looking forward to meeting all of you soon, but right now I'm much more interested in waiting for this massive headache to go away first. Though I'm told that's supposed to go away tomorrow, so that's one thing going my way.

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[video]

[strokeofgenis]

[Okay, Genis is pretty bright, but that one went over his head. Because he's short. Really short.]

Sorry, someone didn't bother mentioning that part when they went over the whole orientation process with me. Mind explaining that "life, death, and dreaming" thing?

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

This place is connected to a sort of afterlife -- 'Death' -- and the world of dreams -- 'Dreaming'. Or a world of dreams. Somewhere where our minds go when we're asleep (or find a portal) and we can control the landscape with thoughts.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

I suppose in retrospect that was a rather stupid question then, huh. Does that mean, if we're between all of those that three things meld together every now and again?

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

We've found our way into Dreaming. And Death, though that's a bit harder. Which is for the best.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

[That's one way to answer it.]

Next time you guys plan on going into Death, remind me to not get my permission slip signed to go on that field trip.

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

I haven't been myself. Can't say I want to change that,

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Well hopefully they've got this big huge sign right out in front of it to let us know well before we're even close to that.

[Honestly, with a name like that, who would want to go there?]

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

Normally, there's special archways with runes on the top. Sort of the obvious magical mark that something weird is about to happen.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

You mean people actually built portals that would transport you there? What were they even thinking?!

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

Some of them were under the sway of the thing we defeated. Some of them are just the sort of people who wanted to see what happened.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Well at least the first group of people are excusable. The second group are just plain stupid. Dark magic like that isn't just something you mess around with.

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[gathersnomoss]

That's never stopped people.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

I'll say. That's practically the story of my world, in a manner of speaking.

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

Same here. Most people can't channel that much power, have more sense, or do something stupid on a small scale, but the few that can, don't learn better and don't get themselves killed on a smaller scale...

[video] Teach him Dragon Slave? He'll be responsible...

[strokeofgenis]

And then risk everyone else's lives in the process. Yeah.

[But really, Genis seems more sad about that than angry, which is perhaps slightly uncharacteristic of Genis, though Zelgadis may or may not pick that up.]

Re: [video] Thankfully, Zel doesn't know that one and couldn't cast it offworld if he did

[gathersnomoss]

Spoken like someone with experience.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Yeah. I'd say he was my best friend, but he wasn't my actual best friend, just a friend I felt really close to... but maybe was completely leading me on the entire time.

All he cared about was resurrecting his sister, no matter the cost.

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[gathersnomoss]

I once ran into a mage trying to resurrect his dead lover. Nearly killed me.

... And my grandfather nearly destroyed the world -- twice -- trying to get his eyesight back.

[And, though he'd never got that bad, Zel probably fell in this category himself]

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Yikes. That's got to be rough, especially when it's your own family doing that. At least we only had the one guy trying to end the world over the course of several thousand years.

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

I take it he was an elf or dragon then. Humans generally can't live that long, even if they're sorcerers.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Well, kind of. He was a half-elf, so he would have lived for about a thousand years with just that. But then he turned himself into an angel, which pretty much meant that he stopped aging completely.

Re: [video]

[gathersnomoss]

People can turn into angels?

[angels don't exist in the Slayers-verse, but do seem to have some kind of legendary presence]

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Well, something like that, though it's a little complicated how they do it. It kind of sort of involves placing a special parasitic crystal on you, and then you have to add a Key Crest on top of it to stop the crystal from depleting your mana and causing your body to go out of control.

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[gathersnomoss]

That... doesn't sound safe or smart.

[video]

[strokeofgenis]

Well, Colette did have a pretty bad reaction to it despite having the Key Crest, but apparently that's pretty rare. Something like a million to one odds. But I've never really seen anyone else have a bad reaction if they had a proper Key Crest!