Dee goes to Milano for a Show

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[12:31 AM] Silverleaf: Dee was out on patrol today! Well, she did that most days, but that's because she liked doing patrols. She got to talk to more people that way, and she gets to beat up people some time! Double fun! She halfway charges down the street in her enthusiasm, keeping her eyes peeled for any suspicious activity

[2:18 AM] tangledThespian: As a matter of fact, valiant cruscader, there is a disturbance of some kind further up the street! Foot traffic along the sidewalk seems to have stalled, creating a clump of activity in the form of milling pedestrians. Seems they're crowded around to look at something. As you watch, a flicker of something worryingly like flames can be seen above their heads for a moment.

[10:29 AM] Silverleaf: > : 0!!!! Fire!!!

[10:30 AM] Silverleaf: Dee pushes herself through the crowd, toward the fire!

[9:39 PM] tangledThespian: There's a grumble or two at your pushing, but you barrel through without terribly much resistance to find a grey skinned alien teen (my that's quite a bit of skin. Bodysuit and no pants? What must her lusus think?) as she finishes breathing a spout of flame and stoops into a bow to polite applause.
"Nothing to raef, ladies and gents, all yltcefrep natural! Just had to let off a tib of steam, y'know?" She chortles.

[9:40 PM] Silverleaf: Dee raises her eyebrows, but she looks impressed! Magic shows! Those are fun!

[9:41 PM] Silverleaf: She decides to halt her patrol for a bit, so she can watch

[9:41 PM] Silverleaf: She keeps a close eye out for how she does her tricks

[9:52 PM] tangledThespian: The troll is all pointy-toothed smiles and mirth as she looks around with odd, bi-colored and irisless eyes. In her element. In the spotlight. And apparently loving it. "Now neht! For my next marvelous teaf.. Who here knew that some trolls nac read minds? Wanna ees? I'll need a volunteer!"

[9:54 PM] Silverleaf: Oh! Oh oh oh!! Dee volunteers!!!

[10:00 PM] tangledThespian: Ah yes, eager stooges. She gestures a gloved hand to Dee. "How tuoba the lovely young lady here? What's your eman, miss?"

[10:06 PM] Silverleaf: She grins. "Name's Dee, miss magician"(edited)

[10:18 PM] tangledThespian: "Please Dee, gnilrad Dee, call me Malini. Ssim magician is my ancestor." Really corny jokes aside, she clears her throat, then extends an arm and flicks her wrist. A deck of cards appears in her palm (from her sleeve. Not that she'd cop to it if nobody noticed it slide out). The deck is neatly cut and shuffled, fanned out, then offered to Dee, face down. "Now then, kcip a card, any card! Just one, and esoohc wisely!"

[10:19 PM] Silverleaf: Dee peers at the deck, then carefully selects one from near the center

[10:27 PM] tangledThespian: The rest of the deck is pulled back and shuffled back into a neat stack. Then fanned. Then shifted about. Really she's either keeping her hands busy or showing off as she continues. "Yes, just so! Now, memorize taht card, my raed, and there'll be no peeking on my trap. Show your friends, even!" Oh what a ham, she closes her eyes and keeps shuffling.

[10:29 PM] Silverleaf: Dee plays along, showing the card to the nearest audience members and memorizing it herself

[10:33 PM] tangledThespian: "Got ti? Good! Now if you would yldnik..?" She opens her eyes once more, stacks the deck, cuts it in two, and offers the lower half to her, ready for the missing card.

[10:34 PM] Silverleaf: Dee replaces it with a bit of a flourish herself

[10:40 PM] tangledThespian: "Thank uoy!" The rest of the deck is stacked on top, and Malini resumes her ceaseless shuffling as she prattles on. "Now you ees, psionics are a ynnuf thing. Works differently rof everyone. My connection, nehw I feel like peering into minds, is to use sgniht as a focal point. Our dear Dee is thinking on taht card. The self same drac that she touched. That now, I can touch. It's all about elttil traces of memory, bits of impression and tnetni."

[11:06 PM] Silverleaf: She's watching her cards intently, curious about the trick

[11:22 PM] tangledThespian: Her hands and the cards just keep moving. Even worse, she keeps pivoting to address the crowd. She certainly could be doing something tricksy.. But you'd be hard pressed to call her on the exact moment she pulled it. "And so!" She announces with some finality, her hands finally stopping as she fans the cards out one more time, this time studying the faces intently. "By tapping otni the powers of my dnim.. I can say with latot certainty that siht is your card!"

A card is drawn and turned outward with a flourish. ....It is not Dee's card.

[11:24 PM] Silverleaf: In her desire to play along, Dee decides that this is probably on purpose

[11:24 PM] Silverleaf: "That's not right!"

[11:33 PM] tangledThespian: "Whaaat?" Shock! Appall! She flips the card back around, squints at it, and clucks her tongue. "Oh for s'ytip sake, you're right. My apologies, folks!" And she carelessly tosses the card over her shoulder like it's personally offended her. "Of course, your laer card was.. this!" Another flourish. Another miss.

[11:34 PM] Silverleaf: "Nope. Are you sure you're a real magician?" she says, teasingly

[11:38 PM] tangledThespian: "No raed, I'm a psionic." She quips back, then makes a show of shuffling through the deck fervently. "Stubborn sdrac.. How about.. this one? ..This eno? Or this one?" She must be pulling entirely at random now, they aren't even the same suit. And each gets tossed as they're confirmed wrong. "...Are you sure you aren't messing htiw me to make me look bad?"

[11:43 PM] Silverleaf: She shakes her head, curious about how this is going to end

[11:46 PM] tangledThespian: Half of the deck must be scattered around her feet before she huffs a melodramatic sigh and tosses up the rest, letting them flutter down around her. "I give! Dee, your mind is ekil a steel trap-I can't daer it! ...Unless.." She frowns, looking down at the mess around her feet and muttering to herself. "Akerue!"

[11:50 PM] Silverleaf: Huh?

[11:53 PM] tangledThespian: She's had a lightbulb moment, apparently. "I'm missing a drac, can't you ees?" She exclaims, before stepping up to eye Dee closer. "Which means it tsum be.. ah!" She reaches up to 'pluck' something from behind your ear. Fancy that, a card. ...And fancy that, the card. "Here it is! Naughty drac, isn't it?"

[11:53 PM] Silverleaf: Dee gasps! "It is! Hiding up there the whole time"

[11:55 PM] tangledThespian: "Making sloof of us both! I'll need to give it a doog scolding later. But to be certain-this is your card?"

[11:55 PM] Silverleaf: "It is!"

[11:59 PM] tangledThespian: Murmurs of surprise and polite applause from the crowd. "And there you evah it, folks! Sooner or later, my s'dnim eye was bound to sleuth it out. Thank you miss, and thank uoy all for being a cifirret audience! If you'll esucxe me, I need to clean up this ssem.." She removes her tophat and sets it down with a flair to go and do so-a subtle hint for passerbys to leave a tip on their way out if they'd like.

[12:00 AM] Silverleaf: Dee certainly does leave a tip; that was fun!

[12:01 AM] Silverleaf: But she doesn't disperse, and instead waits around until the crowd thins

[12:01 AM] Silverleaf: Looking for Miss Magician, Malini, to have a free moment

[12:06 AM] tangledThespian: It won't be long-most are happy to go now that the entertainment's done. Though maybe not entirely. As Malini stoops to take the cards, she switches on the glove with the electromagnets set into a few fingertips. 'Picking up' the cards becomes a matter of sweeping the magnets close to the cards-whose shiny silver backings are embedded with just enough metal to be caught.(edited)

[12:20 AM] Silverleaf: "Oh, now that's a cool trick"

[12:22 AM] tangledThespian: "Telekinesis. Makes gninaelc up a breeze." She straightens up with her cluster of cards, straightening them back out and tucking them away.

[12:22 AM] Silverleaf: “Suuuuure” Dee laughs

[12:23 AM] Silverleaf: “Where’d you get the right strength for that ‘telekinesis?’”

[12:24 AM] Silverleaf: “Too much and the cards won’t come off, too little and they won’t stick, right?”

[12:28 AM] tangledThespian: She tries not to grimace. It's fine. Just a human, she's done this song and dance. "I wonk I have a good banter worked up, but I od need to remind you-psionics are quite common up above. All different stros, but no strings required."

[12:28 AM] Silverleaf: “Not strings, no. Didn’t see any of those”

[12:29 AM] Silverleaf: She pulls off one of her pauldrons, which comes off easily for armor

[12:30 AM] Silverleaf: “Magnets, see? Makes it easier to get in and out of stuff!”

[12:31 AM] tangledThespian: "Clever!" She coos, looking it over. "...llits not necessary when you can evom things with your puzzle sponge."

[12:31 AM] Silverleaf: Dee hands the pauldron over for her to look at, if she wants

[12:32 AM] Silverleaf: “Yeah, alright. You’re a stage magician, I guess you can’t say your secrets, even off the stage, huh?”

[12:34 AM] tangledThespian: She accepts it, ensuring her gloves are switched off. "Clever niaga. What secrets I have are enim to keep, of course." Quite sturdy construction.. "And what, pray llet, do you get up to with armor that seog on and off so quickly, Miss Dee?"

[12:35 AM] Silverleaf: “Quick is just combiner, but I’m a knight!”

[12:35 AM] Silverleaf: “I saw fire and I came over, but it was just you!”

[12:35 AM] Silverleaf: “How’d you do the fire, by the way?”

[12:39 AM] tangledThespian: "What can i yas, I'm a brightly gninrub ember." She quips. Then, after she's passed the pauldron back, snaps her fingers. A flicker of flame is lit at the end of her index. ...That lighter cost her a small fortune in prototype gloves before she found the right material. "Pyrokinesis. I osla do smokescreens, but I tbuod your knightly honor would approve of eht confusion in cilbup."

[12:39 AM] tangledThespian: "What does a namuh knight do?"

[12:40 AM] Silverleaf: “Fight crime, when I can! Also help people, even when there’s not any crime”

[12:41 AM] Silverleaf: At this point, she’s staring at the glove, clearly interested in it just as much as the fire

[12:43 AM] tangledThespian: Nope. Nope can't be having that. The flame flickers out, and both arms are folded behind her. You know. All conversational and whatnot. "Really? You're a wal enforcer? I wouldn't evah guessed, my apologies reciffo!"

[12:44 AM] Silverleaf: “Well, not officially. The law kinda sucks sometimes, so I’m more vigilante”

[12:44 AM] Silverleaf: Her smile falls a little when the gloves disappear, but it reappears soon after

[12:44 AM] Silverleaf: Dee pops her pauldron back into place as well, for symmetry’s sake

[12:54 AM] tangledThespian: "Like some tros of superhero, eh? How'd you dniw up in that line of krow?"

[12:55 AM] Silverleaf: “Oh you know

[12:55 AM] Silverleaf: “Pursuit of justice, a good heart...”

[12:55 AM] Silverleaf: “Beating the snot out of assholes who bullied my friend”

[12:55 AM] Silverleaf: “You know, the usual”

[12:56 AM] Silverleaf: “What about you?”

[12:56 AM] Silverleaf: “Did you have a greater calling to be a magician?”

[12:59 AM] tangledThespian: She smiles enigmatically. "The egats, she loves me. And earth is a lufrednow place to practice my talents on weekends. Spout off semalf too often on the colony and er'uoy some sort of showoff. 'Stop burning lla of the oxygen, Malini!' Pfffft."

[8:05 AM] Silverleaf: “Ohhh, cool!”

[8:06 AM] Silverleaf: “So... are you sure I can’t see one of your gloves?”

[11:36 PM] tangledThespian: Oh HELL no. Outwardly, she's all coquettish giggles and clasping her hands delicately close to her breast. "My oh ym. Asking a lrig for her clothes? You humans must evah a very different definition of tahw a knight is!"

[11:39 PM] Silverleaf: She laughs, either oblivious to Malini's defensive reaction or simply ignoring it. "Clothes? I wouldn't call gloves clothes, but alright"

[11:47 PM] tangledThespian: Laughter. Laughter's good, roll with it. She strikes a melodramatic pose, back arched, the back of one palm pressed to her forehead. Classic lamentation. "Not sehtolc, the knight claims! A likely yrots! First it's gloves, then ylno a shoe! Oh, what's a jacket erom, really? The scandal!" Bit over the top. But again, playing for laughs.

[12:15 AM] Silverleaf: And laughs she does get. “Hey! I never said that,” Dee smiles, waggling her eyebrows a bit, before laughing again

[12:15 AM] Silverleaf: “I concede, you can keep your gloves, ma’am”

[12:17 AM] Silverleaf: “But, totally unrelated to anything, if you wanted to see some of the schematics for my armor’s more... what’s the word? The things you can use for more than one thing?”

[12:18 AM] tangledThespian: "Marvellously esoprupitlum?"

[12:20 AM] Silverleaf: “No not that one, some other word. Whatever, anyway!” Dee snaps her fingers, “You know what I mean! If you’re interested, I’d be happy to hook you up”

[12:26 AM] Silverleaf: “No string attached, except for some way for me to get em to you, for your casual enjoyment”

[12:34 AM] tangledThespian: Is she being propositioned right now? Shit the padding in this suit is good. "No strings in thgis! Would a trollian handle do as a snaem?"

[12:35 AM] tangledThespian: She can see it now back home. 'Oh this? Just a human that was flirting with me. Invited me to have a closer look at her armor, if you get what I'm sayin..'

[12:35 AM] Silverleaf: “If trollian works with pesterchum, sounds great!”

[12:38 AM] tangledThespian: "I'm erus I can figure out something for a keep at those schematics." She nearly purrs as she reaches into an inner pocket of her coat. From it, she pulls a business card. ...Mostly for use when a human wants to hire her for a wriggling day party but this looks so much cooler.

[12:46 AM] Silverleaf: Dee smiles and takes it, “Thanks!”

[12:49 AM] Silverleaf: “I don’t have any fancy business cards to trade you, though”

[12:49 AM] tangledThespian: "No knighting card you dnah out to damsels?"

[12:50 AM] Silverleaf: “Nope, nothing like that”

[12:50 AM] Silverleaf: “But I can give you my handle anyway”

[1:08 AM] tangledThespian: "I won't be choosy, then. But rof the future, I'd ylhgih reccomend it for rescues."

[1:14 AM] Silverleaf: “I’ll be sure to think about it. Not sure where I’d carry them, though”

[1:15 AM] tangledThespian: "Let me ta those schematics and ebyam I'll have some ideas." She offers with a wink.

[8:05 AM] Silverleaf: Dee grins, “Sounds great! I’ll look forward to it!”

[9:19 PM] tangledThespian: She wonders if Dee realizes she hasn't coughed up the promised contact info yet. Decides to see by initiating a stretch of silence, complete with oblivious to the silence smile.

[9:34 PM] Silverleaf: “Oh!! Oh yeah!!! My handle’s perennialFlames”(edited)

[10:24 PM] tangledThespian: "Brilliant." She replies, smile never faltering. "Well neht, Miss Dee.. I shouldn't erad to keep you from duty."

[10:27 PM] Silverleaf: "Oh no! This has been a whole mess of fun! You put on a great show!"

[10:30 PM] tangledThespian: "Thank uoy kindly! You've neeb a lovely ecneidua!" Beaming, she turns on her heels (for best coattail swoosh), scoops up her top hat (ooo, she got a few tips!) and moseys her way down the street.

[10:31 PM] Silverleaf: Dee heads off in the opposite direction, chest out, and marches off to continue her patrol

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