Day 218 [Open]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who: Anya and anyone
Open: Open!
When: 218, throughout the day
Where: All over the Bastion
What: Unsolicited sex-ed
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Anya has no filters.

Anya does not normally spend much time on the Skyway, but anyone might have noticed she's been going out more than usual over the past week. Sometimes alone, sometimes dragging certain Nobodies along because it is in their best interest.

The goal of all this? Safety and education. She is being awfully generous and using the resulting shards to buy a large quantity of condoms. Not just for herself, but for the Bastion's population of should-be-hormonal teenagers and the like.

If you look like you've been through puberty, Anya is liable to approach you. She's not going door-to-door or anything (she doesn't care that much), but if she sees you around the Bastion, better be prepared for a probably awkward conversation.

Comments

[four_quarts]

[To have an awkward conversation about the proper usage of condoms, the participants would have to have a sense of shame about the subject.

Shame just so happens to be one of the traits Ghaleon is lacking in.]

Ah, Anya. Having a pleasant day, I hope?

[dontyoujustwish]

It's had its ups and downs.

[Anya offers him a handful of condoms.]

Here. I'm sure you won't be so deathly embarrassed about safe sex that you need to threaten bodily harm.

[four_quarts]

[He accepts them with a grin.]

Some used to believe me incapable of feeling embarrassment. They may not be far off the mark.

That said, what do they make these out of now?

[Ah, to be from a world with somewhat schizophrenic tech levels.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Latex. They're definitely an improvement over what we used to have to work with.

[four_quarts]

True. Even the best herbal remedies can only do so much.

[He pauses a moment to examine one of the condoms more closely.]

So what precisely is this "latex" substance?

[dontyoujustwish]

Oh, I was thinking of black magic.

[It's too long ago for her to remember, but it was probably an added incentive for learning magic. After doing horrible things to men, of course.]

I think it's some kind of rubber.

[four_quarts]

[He nods appreciatively. Ah, the wonders of invention.]

I meant more in the case of those who don't have the ability to use magic, but I suppose this is less of a bother. Most humans from my world have to chant to use spells, and I'm sure you can imagine how quickly that would become irritating.

[Being around a bunch of teenagers who've become confident enough to test this method and having very good hearing can be problematic at times when one of the better reading spots is near a popular spot for student romance. Seriously, one could do so much better than a rarely used storage closet for that sort of thing.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Not many humans have the power to do much spell-casting without incantations, but the irritating part is when they can't pronounce the Latin.

[four_quarts]

Presuming you mean your world's ancient tongue, that is precisely why pronunciation is so fundamental when teaching students. One incorrect syllable could spell the difference between setting a dummy on fire and filling the immediate area with clown puppets.

[Okay, no, that's an exaggeration, although it wasn't exactly an unheard of way to bungle things either.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Clown puppets. Is that an experience you've had?

The problem with a lot of aspiring witches and warlocks is that they just go and try to learn everything on their own, so there isn't anyone to teach them how stupid they sound.

[four_quarts]

Not directly, although it created enough of a stir that a detailed report crossed my desk. My home city of Vane was once the center of magical study on Lunar, which naturally translated to cleaning up the messes of the more overzealous students. Still, I hear that the system dramatically reduced the cost of damages before things went... shall we say a bit awry?

[dontyoujustwish]

Oh, so it was mainstream where you come from. Most humans on Earth eventually stopped believing in magic at all.

I'm not sure a system would have prevented any of the near-apocolypses though.

[four_quarts]

The use of magic was an uncommon talent amongst the majority of the population, but well respected as a gift from Althena. My people were an exception in that our natural affinity for magic is such that literal translation of our name is the Magic Race.

...Unfortunately, our involvement in the two major near-apocolypses before the one the Calamity interrupted earned us a considerably less flattering moniker and a not entirely undeserved bad reputation.

[And yes, he is implying personal involvement. ...And also that there may have been a few minor instances that didn't make it into the public consciousness.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Were you actually trying to destroy the world or did you have other motives?

[Yes, Anya picked up on that personal involvement, and no, she isn't judging.]

[four_quarts]

It was an attempt to take Althena's place as goddess, although the world would have temporarily been stripped of magic and thus required immediate maintenance afterward. At the time I believed it the best course of action considering humanity's tendency to get itself into trouble even with a benevolent deity, and no others had the knowledge or will to even attempt it.

Admittedly I was also motivated out of a desire for vengeance against her, as had the rest of my people, they for having been cast out to the most desolate lands of the world and left to rot even after the original perpetrators were all dead generations ago, and I for numerous reasons mostly having to do with the ramifications of her abruptly leaving her duties to become human.

I see now that I was wrong to do so.

[His tone says he still hasn't entirely forgiven her, even if he understands her reasons for believing in the power of humanity and all that mushy crap.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Well, becoming a god probably would have made you just as much of a jerk as you thought she was, so maybe you're better off. In my experience, the more power you have, the less you care about anyone else's opinion.

gagtag

[four_quarts]

Most people would likely tell you that I'm already more of a jerk then she was. In all honesty, they're probably right.