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[generalflirt]

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[ It's so strange to be able to type again. After literally years of having to handwrite written messages, it's odd to use a phone again. It's perhaps that more than anything which sees him putting up this post onto the social media network. It's form a "newbie" and it might be out of place with the growing dark climate with the flickering lights and rotting foot, but it's something he throws out all the same.

And it's...! ]

Soooo!! Does anyone know any god date spots in the castle? Anyone already sailing the seas of romance before now, or is the stark soldiery we've been pushed towards put a quash on romance in the name of stoic friendship? Let's hear those stories, people! Crushes, illicit affairs, pining, maybe even marriage?! You can trust your tales to the Love Hunter Masa.

O o o r r r . . .

How about a game? ♥ We could do truth or dare if you like but while we're all a little hungry, how about word association! I'll even start us off:

Third Party.

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[helborn]

[Look, Catherine the Great was a thing.]

Don Bluth.

Not really? I'm a demigod, technically.

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[generalflirt]

[ Details. ]

Oh wow, really? That's pretty intense!

Danny Boy.

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[helborn]

Kind of? I'm kind of weak as far as demigods go... but as long as I survive, I'll get stronger. Probably.

Ireland.

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[generalflirt]

So going back to it, demigods don't eat?

Dullahan.

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[helborn]

We do, I just have an ability that lets me survive on anything organic.

Sleepy Hollow.

[Text] I KNOW idk how I missed it

[generalflirt]

So you can eat mold and lichen and ants and still be nutrition-filled?

Oh, so that's the association with the Dullahan, huh?

Headless.

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[helborn]

Yeah. I mean it still tastes horrible, but I can live on it.

Well it's a headless horseman, so...

Chhinnamasta. Which is a Hindu goddess. She removes her own head.

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[generalflirt]

Hoooh, that's a useful talent.

Well then you've never heard the legend of the Headless Rider. Or the Black Bike - the urban legend sensation of Ikebukuro.

[ He'll call a pause on the word association for a bit... ]

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[helborn]

No, I haven't. I've never been to Japan.

... At least I'm guessing that's in Japan.

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[generalflirt]

Ayup. In the heart of Tokyo, even. It's *kind of* my home turf. Pretty legit all around!

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[helborn]

That's cool. I grew up in Montreal, which is in Canada.

What's the Headless Rider, though? Or the Black Bike?

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[generalflirt]

One in the same! It's an urban legend, one which seemed to have been made truth a year before I popped out of Tokyo! There's a dullahan, or at least a rider in all black that no one knows the sex or age of who rides around the city on a black motorcycle with no license plates on a bike which never makes an engine sound. No, instead, that bike makes the revving sound of a stallion, echoing across the night sky.

And it's said that same rider...

Doesn't have a head.

And that they are an invincible monster, controlling shadows to their whim and wielding a giant scythe.

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[helborn]

... Wow. Well... I guess the fair folk might modernize in some places... though I'd have thought the iron in most vehicles and in the cities would keep them out.

Though if it sounds like a horse, maybe the bike actually is a transformed horse. That would make sense. And the fair folk are said to be incredibly powerful... I've never met any, though. At least that I know of.

That's really cool.

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[generalflirt]

[ Having met Celty now, he can confidently say that... it's a little like that. Still, better to preserve a legend than to keep facts flowing.

And so he claps his hands together, flexes his hands, and types ]

Ooooh I'd even forgotten about the whole thing with fairies and iron! That's true, it must mean she's a huge oddball among the whole pixie society!

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[helborn]

Maybe! It'd be cool to talk to her... most of the nonhumans I've talked to have been ghosts.

... Which are kind of humans but not quite anymore.

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[generalflirt]

What about these shadows here? You met that many of them?

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[helborn]

They don't really seem to be willing to talk.

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[generalflirt]

Probably not, but I've heard willing to fight.

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[helborn]

From what I've seen, yes. Very much so.

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[generalflirt]

[ . . . Let's be more direct ]

So have you or haven't you fought them yet?

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[helborn]

I have. They haven't talked, only fought. Except... the ones with horns were less aggressive than the others.

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[generalflirt]

Oh yeah? So there's distinct classes? What sort of techniques or weapons have you used on them?

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[helborn]

Mostly trying to punch them to check if they're ghosts, but they don't seem to be quite the same. Other than that, baseball bat to the face works pretty well.

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[generalflirt]

Physical attacks work?

Are there distinct types other than the horned ones?

How strong are they?

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[helborn]

They do if you have an ability to do physical damage to ghosts.

There's the ones that are like spiders, the humanoid ones that have wings that don't fly, the humanoid ones with wings that do fly, and the really beefy humanoid ones. In increasing order of strength... I think.

At least that I've seen, at least.