[Game 21] Summoning

[arsgoetia]

For some of you, this may be a familiar feeling. For others, it's a new sensation: a tug, a pull, suddenly finding yourself slipping between the cracks and opening your eyes in someplace that was not where you were a few moments ago. It feels like getting tugged into someone's embrace: warm, a little exhilarating.

As for where you find yourselves:

It's a tidy, well-kept garden in the backyard of a small house with yellow trim. The house is a little run down, but immaculately clean and well-kept. It's a sunny day, and there are literally pies cooling on the windowsill.

There is a red-haired boy standing on the rooftop, looking down at everyone with his hands outstretched. One moment, he seems very calm. The next moment, it's sheer panic.

"Oh???"

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

I am soooo minding him.

[besides all the regular purse stuff, there's two tupperware containers stuffed with cotton balls and bird-sized bones. One is the pigeon. The other has a parrotlike beak, but its skull is crested with spikes.]

Can you guess what this is?

[rollwillpowercheck]

[THIS IS INCREDIBLY FASCINATING.]

Hmm... some kind of dinosaur, maybe?

[bowtiedbones]

Dinosaurs only had four limbs. This girl has six~

[rollwillpowercheck]

In that case... a dragon?

[bowtiedbones]

That's right!

[rollwillpowercheck]

A bone dragon... whatever you do, don't animate it and then forget about it, okay?

[bowtiedbones]

No, um, she's a dragon skeleton, bone isn't the kind of dragon she is... Like, you wouldn't say bone human? Also it's literally, physically, psychically impossible to forget about her. She's one of my familiars.

[rollwillpowercheck]

[l-laughs]

Well, when you put it like that... sorry, the first time I was here, we found a really large animated dragon skeleton that tried to attack us. It turned out the person who'd cast the spell just, um, forgot about it.

[bowtiedbones]

—If they forgot it, can I have it?

[rollwillpowercheck]

He dismissed it completely, I think. And anyway, it was in Scotland.

[bowtiedbones]

What! What why! Do you know how much a giant dragon skeleton costs??

[rollwillpowercheck]

You'd have to ask him. I'm not entirely sure he paid for it? Well, he might have, since I guess he was pretty rich when he was alive and did collect that kind of thing...

[bowtiedbones]

Um, I'm not the kind of necromancer that can ask dead people stuff.

[rollwillpowercheck]

No, I mean, he's a ghost. His name's Bastien Mayfair, most people who get summoned here can see him.

[bowtiedbones]

Like, a conscious ghost?

[rollwillpowercheck]

Exactly like that. I think he and his boyfriend mostly haunt Lucia's family these days...?

[bowtiedbones]

That breaks every single rule I know...!

[rollwillpowercheck]

Magic seems to work differently everywhere. I've met conscious ghosts in my world, too. They might have been an exception, though.