TMI

[alittleblackmagic]

[video]
[of the inside of Palom's mouth]

Look!  All that gross mucus-y stuff is gone!  I'm finally better now!  [Not that anyone could really tell he was sick; his volume only decreased like a half notch even with a sore throat]  Wanna see up my nose?  I've always wanted to know what it looked like but it's kinda hard to tell with just a mirror and a light.  Oh maybe you guys can play me back the video of my nose later so I can see inside myself that'd be really cool OK wait hold on I hafta take a deep breath so I don't accidentally sneeze in the middle or something I'm still a little bit

AHCHOO!

[sniff]

..........Well now there's snot everywhere.  Gross.

Anyway!  I remembered a lot of cool stuff!  I'm from Mysidia!  It's a city of mages!  And I'm the youngest one, but I know like, almost all of the black magic spells already cause I'm a prodigy!  Toldja I was!  Everyone was jealous of me and Porom 'cause the Elder took care of us and taught us himself and we knew the most, but also 'cause I was way better at casting magic than they were.

Oh!  And I remembered something else!  We were all mages because we were protecting this thing called the Crystal of Water.  I don't know what it does but I bet it was really important.

Comments

[all_onis_are_true]

You're cleaning that up for the record.

And you must've been a prodigy. You sure as hell don't seem too interested in studying things.

[alittleblackmagic]

[smears it around with his sleeve]

Hey! I study plenty of things. Just not weird stuff like... raising octopus or whatever it is you read.

[all_onis_are_true]

What's wrong with octopuses? They're very smart, you know.

[alittleblackmagic]

What's the point? They don't do anything except float around.

If you study magic, you can do all kinds of amazing things!

[For the umpteenth time, Palom prepares to turn Paul into a pig.]

[promised_victory]

[Arturia answers mostly because it's comforting to know it's true. People really do remember things over time. There's no set of information you know with no context and a big black gap before a couple days ago in which you knew you existed but have no way of breaching into.]

What sort of black magic did you learn?

[There's an uneasiness to the phrase she doesn't understand, but she knows people come from other worlds. Perhaps explaining this would ease her mind on this subject, even as Porom unknowingly eases her mind on the memory issue.]

[alittleblackmagic]

[Terrible question to everyone who isn't Palom. The best question ever to the little boy. He beams as he finally brings the video away from his mucousal membranes.]

Tons! The best spells! The hardest spells! Like turning people into pigs and frogs and stopping time and tornados and meteors and earthquakes... I haven't remembered it all yet but I've got maybe ten or fifteen right now, depending on if you count all the elemental spell levels as being different ones or the same; like I just got back Bio but I already knew Poison so it's sort of just an upgrade.

[promised_victory]

[Yeah, this is very not reassuring!]

I.... see. So any skills we've learned before return to us as well?

[alittleblackmagic]

Well. I don't know if it's returned, you still sorta have them, right? You've just forgotten all of it. I know if I had my magic books with me, I'd be able to remember how to cast my spells a lot more easily.

[dentistwannabe]

Um, congrats on both counts? Once you get that all cleaned up, I guess we could go grab some ice cream...

[alittleblackmagic]

Ice cream?! Alright!

........Wait, what's ice cream gotta do with anything? Oh! It's a reward for being a prodigy, isn't it?

[dentistwannabe]

No, it's a reward for cleaning up all that snot. [he's laughing, but it's more good-natured than malicious.] I imagine your roommate won't be too pleased to come back to that.

[alittleblackmagic]

But I haven't cleaned it up yet!

[...oh. Palom furiously rubs with his sleeve a little. Now it's... more smeary, hooray!]

Hiroshi'll be fine. He cleans my stuff whenever he gets so annoyed at how messy it all is so it works out well for both of us.

video;

[promoteshell]

A real prodigy amongst us? We should be blessed.

[alittleblackmagic]

I know! I can't believe how lucky you guys are.

[promoteshell]

Neither can I. Forgive me for being unable to contain my excitement.

[ Spoken in the most blandest of tones. ]

[alittleblackmagic]

Don't worry about it. Not everyone knows how to deal with someone like me.

[stinglikeabat]

The Crystal of Water? It definitely sounds important.

[alittleblackmagic]

It does!

Maybe it's how the world was created. Or it's the key to something really important. Or you can control a dragon with it!

[stinglikeabat]

A water dragon?

[rainbowbrush]

Ewwwww ew ew ew EW! You are so disgusting!

[alittleblackmagic]

Oh, hey Relm! Wow, the view's a lot improved with my spit covering your face.

[rainbowbrush]

[Hear that? That was a Fire spell, flung at the nearest tree... only because Relm realized at the last second that of it hit her phone it wouldn't go well.]

Go back to living with the disgusting caterpillars where you belong!

[press_b_to_run]

EEEEWWWWWW! That's disgusting! Don't you have any manners?

[alittleblackmagic]

What's that? Is it a kinda plant?

[That's a joke. Probably.]

[press_b_to_run]

...Please tell me you're joking about that. Please.