audio; un: eliasainsworth

[thornydisposition]

Good evening.

[Though the subject matter behind his reasoning for addressing the networks was far different now than the first time he had the previous month, his even, dispassionate tone of voice is exactly the same.]

I've come to realize that the time in which we will be returning back to Oska is very close to—if not exactly on—the winter solstice. [He's used to a duo of sing-songy fae stopping by his house and giving him forewarning. He actually had to use a calendar this time.] Though I doubt all worlds follow the same laws and traditions, it is a day of great importance in my own. There are several rituals I am... curious if anyone would wish to help me carry out, to give us auspicious passage through the winter months.

As I don't think the old gods of winter have any particular sway over these distant realms, I am fairly confident nothing will be dangerous.

Please let me know if you might be interested, or if you might have any questions.

Comments

[thornydisposition]

[He has only the few mentions of it and his memories of the simulation. It is disappointing one of the few missions that they had been called upon to protect something, they had failed. He still views their most recent mission as a failure in the respect of the planet they had visited, despite how the Timeline had ended up.

Elias nods, as if them finding all sorts of strange things in the woods wasn't all that odd to him.] Magical creatures tend to dwell well away from larger clusters of human civilization. And... unfortunately, things like kidnappings aren't... too uncommon.

[Particularly if the children had any kind of magical inclination. The fae saw humans with arcane gifts as beloved, and would often seek to bring them into their own world to keep them—they had tried to abduct Chise in a similar manner nearly immediately upon him bringing her home.]

I take it they were unsuccessful?

[twinpeak]

[ So he's learned. ]

Thankfully? Very. She doesn't deserve to be stuck as a gnome queen for the rest of her life. [ Shudder. ] We chased 'em off pretty good.

[thornydisposition]

[Having the eye of magical beings was a blessing and a curse.]

I'm sure she doesn't. [In Elias' knowledge, some humans were successfully carried off to the fae plane of existence; growing up there would instill them with fae characteristics, eventually robbing them of their humanity. That... was what he feared for Chise staying there too long, even if it would absolve her of the early expiration that her status as a sleigh beggy would ensure her.

No, no. He would find his own solution to that. He was sure.]

Very resourceful. Many and more children are usually tricked, as the fae have had... a very long time to discover the proper ways to successfully deceive. ...Well, I'm not sure about gnomes, though.

[They weren't the cleverest.]

[twinpeak]

They're not very smart.

[ You know, just to echo those thoughts aloud. ]

At least the fairies tended to leave us alone—you're lucky to spot any of them close to town. Usually it's the occasional monster you'd have to worry about.

[thornydisposition]

Mm? What sorts of monsters?

[It was a term humans attributed to magical beings they did not understand and were fearful of. Elias had been called one quite often in his hundreds of years.]

[twinpeak]

Like... like the gremloblin. And actual goblins. Oh, the Summerween Tricker, too, and zombies, and a shapeshifter, and—uh, some giant... head thing in a lake? I have no idea what that's called, but it did try to eat our boat.

[thornydisposition]

[He recognizes... some of those names. Sort of. Just as magic differed between worlds (sometimes not seeming to exist at all, at least not perceptibly...), so did the creatures that ranged them.]

My, such experience. I would have to say you're far more learned of them than my apprentice was, when I first met her.

[She had seen magical beings her whole life, particularly due to what she was, but she hadn't had any explanation for them.]

I believe that will serve you well here. [So far, Elis is pretty impressed with this kid. At least his questions were educated and somewhat interesting.]

[twinpeak]

[ Dipper raises his free hand, gesturing in a so-so manner. ]

A little here, a bit there. Things here have just been way different than what I'm used to.

[ But the praise definitely doesn't go unnoticed. The cool skull guy just called him experienced (heck yea). ]

[thornydisposition]

Things here are a different from what most of us are used to, as far as I'm aware.

[Elias certainly finds himself a half-step behind most of the time, which is a feeling he hasn't felt for a few hundred years.]

[twinpeak]

... Okay, okay, you got me there. So maybe the magical whatevers here aren't the same as where we're from, but I can't deny we do have an advantage over the regular guy who's never seen anything supernatural in their life. Less surprises! Kinda.