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were the closets playing pranks on anyone else yesterday?

[ faith's morning had started with a rather ... rural wake up call. she'd really hoped the little bastard would just disappear overnight. instead, he woke her up at the crack of dawn to a room full of feathers and pecked drywall.

eventually she'll have to just ... accept her new fowl-ler. into the diner for breakfast, where he's actually quite patient (and fond of toast). on to the gym for her morning workout, where apparently he needs a nap after all that strenuous crowing.

his cocky attitude returns in the library, where faith had planned hanging out for about an hour, learning about the supernatural elements of other worlds. she would've been better served looking up ways to keep him quiet, once it's clear he's going to continue hollering. amid glares and shushing, she scoops him up and tries apologizing over the noise before giving one particular patron the bird.

she practically books it out, rooster tucked under her arm. and as she makes her way, she doesn't notice the mess he leaves behind along the hallways. a trail of feathers and excrement leading to angel investigations, where the closet still refuses to cooperate and give her a cage. at least the cock is having fun with the pile of bic ballpoints beside her. ]

do leashes work on chickens?

[ by the end of the night, she's given up. the stupid thing even follows her to the bar where at least the corn nuts seem to satisfy him. she can nap at one of the tables, right...? ]

( ooc | feel free to catch her anywhere / make up somewhere else to find faith wrangling a mother clucking rooster as she goes about her day :3 )

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[He'll definitely have to remember these for later. For now, that bag isn't going to survive long at all.]

Oh there's plenty of magic back home. I'm not a mage myself but- [He shrugs. Magic is normal if not commonly seen by most people.] Not sure about the apocalypse - does it count as weekly when you've been trying to stop the same one for nearly a year?

[The Blight has definitely been around every week, just not always immediately threatening them so maybe not?]

You kidding? The ones that won't just end are the worst.

[ give her the big fight over a long drawn-out struggle any day, even if it means a lot more hurt. faith ticks off on one hand and she recalls the details of their conversation: ]

So, magic, possession, and demons. If you're looking for a vacation, the bar's a good place to start.

[ then again, he's never even had fries. angel investigations helps the hopeless, right? carrot top here seems to need some guidance on that front, and faith can certainly oblige. ]

Probably movies in the library you can check out, I dunno. What kinda fun do you get up to wherever you come from?

You have no idea. [Seriously. No one needs to tell him the Blight is the worst.] After that being here is already kind of like a vacation. Nothing's tried to kill me for days!

[And he can bathe whenever he wants to. In hot water. It's pretty amazing even if he does now need to be careful of surprise demons.]

Back home? The usual stuff. Card games. Drinking. [So maybe the bar wouldn't be a bad place to visit.] Not dying... Annoying people in camp. [Both intentionally and not. He's good at that.] Arguing with people in camp. [Mostly intentionally.]

I think I saw one of those 'movies' here. They're the moving pictures right?

Yeah, that's right. When are you from? Cause I know some people from like, way back in the day. I mean-- not that annoying people and arguing changes much through the years, I guess.

[ his personal preferences will definitely make choosing movies easier. something tells her he'd dig the full bill murray treatment??? ]

When? [Right. Different times as well as places. That gets a bit frustrating but what can you do?] The year is 9:30 Dragon back home.

[That should clear everything right up.]

And I don't really annoy people that much. Unless they're touchy.

[He has to defend himself here lest she get the ~~right~~ wrong idea about him.]

Hold up, go back. What the hell is 9:30 Dragon supposed to mean?

[ right. different worlds. gotta remember that, considering she herself has been to one other. ]

That sounds like some Lord of the Rings crap right there.

It's the year. The 30th year of the Dragon Age?

[Like, isn't that obvious? ...Apparently not if she's talking about rings or something.]

How do they do it where you're from?

Oh. We just say it's two-thousand seven. Not as cool as dragons though.

[ seriously dragons > jesus in faith's humble opinion. ]

So, are they like a norm or something? Am I gonna wake up to the Dragon Age one of these mornings?

Huh. That's weird. Two-thousand and seven what?

[Dragons may sound cool but just wait till one has tried to eat you. They're much less likable then.]

What, you mean are dragons going to show up here? [He pulls a face.] Maker I hope not!

...But if there could be demons I guess so. [Ugh.]

Years. Two-thousand and seven years. [ record-skip-- hang on ]

Wait, you said you've been here a month? You know this place is all about snacking on memories, right? When things go sideways, it's someone's world coming out to play.

[ seriously frodo get it together ]

Anything possible in your world is now possible here.

Right, sure. Anything's possible.

[The place is weird yeah but... Well, he hasn't really seen anything go sideways yet.]

But dragons are kind of big and angry and don't just- [He waves a hand about vaguely.] Appear out of nowhere. Demons do.

[So he's still going with a 'no dragons' policy here sorry.]

You're really stuck on the demon thing, aren't you?

[ seriously dude what's with the one-track? ]

You know they're not all horns and eating children, right?

You're the one who started talking about them in the first place!

[He does not have a one-track mind! At least not a demon-focussed one. If anything he's got a... cheese-focussed one-track mind, thank you.]

I know that - there's the abominations and the tricking you and the trying to kill you too.

[Really, can she blame him for being a bit fixated on this?]

[ faith shrugs-- carrot top's got a point there. ]

Rather do the tango with a demon than a dragon, is all. Especially when I got no way outta this dump.

[ don't lie, faith. it's only a dump cause you ran out of french fries. ]

[And she has a point there.]

I'll give you that. Getting eaten always ruins my day.

[And who's fault is it she's out of food? Oh right, he's licking salt of his fingers. Anyway...]

...So are you some kind of Templar? With the demon hunting and all.

[ "she alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number."

...but that's buffy's line, not faith's. she'd already done that once here, and wound up feeling like an idiot after. now, she keeps it simple. ]

I know my way around monster killing, yeah. You? You're a-- Templar?

[So presumably just someone who knew how to kill things that most people wouldn't. Not that weird, unless she was serious about the weekly apocalypse bit.]

Me? Ha, no. I was lucky enough to avoid that. I'm a Grey Warden. Different kind of monster killing and a lot less self-flagellating required. Less skirts too.

Got a lot of names for demon-killer. Lemme guess, you each get a special kind. Like ... monster jurisdiction.

[ this is getting more fun by the moment. ]

Pretty much, yeah. I mean, you can still kill things outside of your type of monster, there's no law against it. But it's not always the best idea if you don't know what you're dealing with.

[Although it tended to matter less when those things were trying to kill you. Then you just did your best to deal with it.]

Let me guess, you just kill anything that crosses your path?

[ phrasing, dude. that sentence is a lot closer to home than faith would like to admit. ]

If it's dangerous, sure. Or ... if I'm kinda bored.

[ and the wicked grin that follows? yeah. she's bored. like, always. despite the 'events' there are too many dull moments in this place. ]

If you listen to the hype, I'm supposed to stick to vampires but they don't actually cause the bulk of trouble in my world, so. I branch out.

[Alistair snorts and grins at her.]

Warn me if you get that bored? I'll be much more entertaining if you let me arm myself first.... But I'm really quite harmless.

[Just look at him, doesn't he look harmless? Not that he really thinks she's some kind of thug or assassin but if she's going to look at him like that what does she expect?]

Riiight. What does cause the most trouble then?

[Is it demons? He's betting it's demons. That's been a bit of a theme so far and not because he's fixated on the subject, OK?]

[ faith's smirk turns lopsided. she's not quite sure what to make of that statement. usually people either give her advice on how to not murder things so much or make a joke.

this time she's the one left without an idea of how to respond. ]

Uh, humans, actually. They like to stir shit up they don't understand.

[He'd be a hypocrite if tried telling anyone else not to kill people. Faith doesn't seem like she has a secret torture chamber tucked away somewhere so she's probably OK.]

And then things get out of control and you have to clean up the mess? [Been there.] Or they call you a traitor and try and kill you.

Both, actually.

[ don't mind her. faith's still stuck on that comment about alistair arming himself from before. she's just going to ... conspicuously size him up right now.

yeah she's p sure she could take him. nbd. ]

I should know, I've made plenty of the messes.

[ and been the traitor. except they spelled it m-u-r-d-e-r-e-r where she came from, whoops. ]

What do you know, me too!

[Made messes, been called a traitor. Great times.

And he knows exactly what that look means and returns it with one of his own, amused and a little critical. Assuming she has some kind of magic... he'd give it a go at least. Preferably without either one of them dying at the end.]

We should compare notes someday.

[Or spar. He can always use the practice.]

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