unbested: (and the investigation comes to a close)
THE BEST PROSECUTOR ([personal profile] unbested) wrote2022-06-06 10:19 pm
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agleam: vyco (pic#15706126)

[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-07 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You've been in one of these before?

[he definitely hasn't, but somehow he gets the sense of what they need to do... and he sighs.]

I don't even think I have anything to confess.

[patently untrue]
agleam: vyco (pic#15706129)

[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-07 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe! But this still feels kind of awkward for a prize that I didn't even ask for...

[he will be even more salty when he doesn't get anything except being let out of the room, but it's fine.]

I guess let's just get it over with, but it's hard to think of something out of the blue.
agleam: vyco (pic#15706127)

[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
...Are those hypotheticals?

[casually stalls]
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Yeah. It's just that it sounded kind of specific as you went on.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
What's a gavel - okay, wait. I'll ask in a second once we're out of here.

[thinking... thinking...]

Uhhh, I stole a book once back home, but considering the circumstances I am not sure I would call that a bad thing.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, sure, I don't mind telling you.

[which is sincere, because he has no problems talking about a significant amount of his lore, but:]

It's kind of a long story, though, just so you know.
agleam: vyco (pic#15706128)

[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, I guess not.

[he frowns at the room on principle, but then continues on.]

So - basically, when I was growing up, the kingdom I lived in was cursed. It was slowly getting taken over by a magic forest that was growing nearby, and it was really bad news. The crops were failing because of it, and a lot of the animals we used for food were leaving, too... So it got to a point where pretty soon, nobody was going to have enough to eat. And I really wanted to fix it by breaking the curse somehow, but for some reason, nobody would tell me anything about the curse itself, no matter how hard I tried. So I knew there was a book in the castle that had a lot of information about it that I hadn't managed to learn yet, and I thought maybe it would help me figure out how to save the kingdom. It was pretty heavily guarded, though, so I had to break in and steal it.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...Do you think everyone from a world with magic looks really weird or out of place?

[not judgmental as much as honestly surprised]
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I wasn't dressed up for anything out of the ordinary before I left home...
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-09 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I mean, I can't do anything magical. It's just that it exists in my world. Those are two different things.

[tragically, he is not a wizard.]
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-09 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[he shakes his head]

Well, I didn't know enough about it to determine whether or not it needed magic to break it or not... How to break it was one of the things I was trying to figure out. But I did end up being able to do it! With some help.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-09 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Two kingdoms! But again, I had help.
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[personal profile] agleam 2022-06-10 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Like, do you mean how many other people helped out, or how much effort we had to put in, or...?

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