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[whenyouneedme]

[Kai kinda figured he'd never actually use the 'post' function of the network, but desperate times and all that. He knew there were, like, wizards and shit in Havenwell so maybe someone could drop some advice his way.

So here he was on screen, frowning a little like usual. There's a little hand lift.]


Hey. I dunno if this kinda thing is widespread like some other stuff, but-- well. I've been kinda buzzing lately? Like electrically. See--


[There was a little zip zap around his fingers as he gave them a snap, turning his lights off. This seemed to be a poor idea though, because it was quickly followed by a POP and some sparks from off-camera. There was a perfectly cut shout of a Naughty, Naughty word as Kai lunged off screen and the feed cut. END OF ENTRY.


...


Nah, a second post went up about 10 minutes after that. This time Kai looked more visibly frustrated, and he was in a different room entirely.]

Yeah. So. Wondering if anybody here is good at being their own personal electrician. I could use some pointers.

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[heron]

Where did you learn magic?

[whenyouneedme]

[IS IT MAGIC]

I have no idea.

[heron]

It just . . . came to you?

[whenyouneedme]

Seems that way. I thought it was like the gravity and stuff, y'know?

[heron]

As did I.

And I did not hear of any other cases such as this.

How often do your powers fluctuate? I might be able to seal it for a while.

[whenyouneedme]

Good to know I've just been blessed or somethin'.

[He's scratching his head, but, y'know? Maybe that had some truth to it.]

It kinda depends, but often enough to be annoying. How would sealing it work?

[heron]

I have a galdr for sealing strange magics. Chaos. However, I cannot guarantee it will wowrk.

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[begguiling]

[First, a round of applause:]

Bravo! That was quite a display of something or other. Hehehe! But you're the first person I've heard of having this issue. Are you getting plenty of hugs lately? You know how it is on this planet. You need your Vitamin H or you might start setting things on fire at random, or whatever.

[whenyouneedme]

Ha. Thanks. I don't think the light agrees with you. I dunno what 'plenty' entails, but I was getting more than zero before this started happening.

[He scratched his cheek a bit.] Been kinda... trying to stay out of the way while I figured it out.

[begguiling]

Hrrrmm. Maybe it isn't related to any kind of godly punishment. Mind if I come take a look? I'm curious about this! You could be the first person showing symptoms that all of us will be dealing with in two days, or you could have some unique gift.

[whenyouneedme]

[There was a moment of visible hesitation right there. Even if it made sense for an in-person check up, he sort of hadn't expected any? He didn't want to accidentally zap anybody.]

I dunno if I'd call it a gift but... Sure, yeah, you can pop over.

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[begguiling]

Nothing's a gift if you can't control it, but I wouldn't write off the possibility yet. I'll see you soon~.

[He shuts off the feed with that. And sure enough, fairly soon there's a rap tap tapping on Kaito's door, and a voice calling through it:]

Hellooooo, Sir Zaps-a-lot!

[whenyouneedme]

[Knowing a guest was on their way, Kai had worked his way back to the entranceway rather than whichever room he had been camping in. Which meant there was basically no wait for the door to open up for the orb, with Kai grinning wryly down at him.]

What, you're not my knight here to help?

[Come on in, my guy, Kai stepped out of the way to let him in.]

video; sorry this is unhelpful

[zapdope]

What? That's super scary... You didn't get hit by lightning, did you...? Actually, I'm pretty sure people usually die when they get hit by one...

[ Not that Zenitsu ever gotten lightning magic from getting hit by one before, it just turned his hair from black to blond. ]

[whenyouneedme]

Hm. Usually, or they get some pretty sweet scars. Don't think that's what happened though, the lightning storms were a while back.

[zapdope]

Lightning storms...? [ holy shit ] I'm actually glad I didn't show up here around then, I'd die if I did...

[ yeah no thanks. ]

W-well... Aside from all the zappy stuff, did anything else change?

[ Do you have super speed? ]

...Actually, I might wanna keep away from you, I don't wanna die from getting hit by lightning again...

[whenyouneedme]

[No super speed.]

Ha, don't blame you. Don't think I'm that sparky though.

[Maybe. He frowned a bit, cuz maybe that wasn't the case and he just didn't know it yet.]

I don't think anything else has been real different though.

[...]

Did you say again?

[zapdope]

Oh... [ nothing else sounds like a good thing! Zenitsu gives a small sigh of relief. ] That's good then...! But you're kinda like, static-y right? I'll probably still stay away from you for a while, I still don't want to risk dying from getting scared.

[ And then he realizes he slipped with that last bit... It's nothing to lose, so he'll still answer, albeit a little sheepishly. ] W-well...Yeah. I got hit by one before. My hair's like this because of that, I used to have black hair.

[whenyouneedme]

[Dying... from getting scared. Okay. Not the most unheard of thing, maybe. Good luck out there, Zenitsu.]

Hohhh, really? I figured it was just bleached like mine.

[Nevermind the whole, uh, looking from a different era bit. That's some questionable historical accuracy, Kai.]

That's pretty amazing though. You're a lucky guy. [Though, hey, what if he HAD died...]

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[morality_pet]

[ GAAAAAAAASP ]

Mr Kaito knows magic?

[whenyouneedme]

I guess so?

[On the screen he's glancing down at his hands and making a very big shrugging gesture. Enough people had used the M-word that maybe... maybe it was magic!?]

I kinda suck at figuring it out right now though.

[morality_pet]

Did you always have magic?

[ She is staring ]

[whenyouneedme]

No, this is new.

[He cracked a little smile at her across the screen.]

Don't worry, I haven't been holdin' out on ya.

[morality_pet]

[ She giggles ]

Oh! Is it a present from the robots, maybe?

[whenyouneedme]

I've been starting to wonder about that. Not the robots, but the gods, maybe? They send out presents sometimes, or something like that.