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[imakefootnotes]

[a muscular blue-skinned man with glowing yellow eyes and pointy ears is currently sitting outside in the fog, pressing buttons it seems at random as the feed flicks on. He looks like he is concentrating on trying to figure out something on his device, but the expression (and occasional angry gleam in said eyes) shows that he is likely a total novice to this technology stuff. Another button press and [x,y] flashes up, showing that he is actually much closer to where the Animus are thought to be than most people like to get.]

I give up. Stupid human device. [the PCD is dropped disdainfully to the floor and it lands, at a slight angle on the ground, propped up by a rock it landed next to. The figure fades a little and looks much more like the fog but somehow...more real and certainly more beautiful in it's purity. The coalescing vapour that is the great and noble djinni etc etc spirit Bartimaeus of Uruk suddenly stops it's sinuous movement and hangs motionless in the air. A tombstone is becoming visible in the swirling fog and a sound issues from the vapour.]

No, no don't make me see it again. Stupid mane. Never take the form of a lion, you should have known it.

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[video]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

[Taking note of that location with interest.]

Stayin' away from them keeps you from seein' too much.

[video]

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[by now he is too used to this thing turning on by itself to care he was seen]

I like it here, usually. Feels more like the Other Place than the rest of this city.

[video]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

That's the Inner City, isn't it?

...Haven't made a trip yet. [And someone who turns into smoke talking about an Other Place - well he's certainly just marked himself as interesting.] What's it like exactly?

[video]

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It is. Well, no offence, [said like he doesn't much care if it is taken as offensive] but it doesn't smell of humans as much here.

[video]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

[Hanekoma nods thoughtfully.] Not a fan of inhabited spots, huh.

... Mind if I ask what you are?

[video]

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Nope. [oh goodness, you set him off]

~I~ am Rekhyt of Alexandria, Necho of Jerusalem, Sakhr Al-Jinni, N'Gorso the Mighty, Wakonda of the Algonquin and the Serpent of Silver Plumes - you have the honour of addressing a noble djinni of the fourth level. [the smoke has somehow puffed itself a little with it's egomaniacal tirade]

[video]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Not bad, not bad. Plenty of names you've got there... [Alexandria, huh.] Couple thousand years old?

Well, I've gotta say you have an edge on me. Never heard that bit about levels before, though.

[knew-anyway.livejournal.com]

So now you know what it does, I guess.

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it would affect me.

[knew-anyway.livejournal.com]

Why not? Plenty of people here aren't human.

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

There are no others like me.

[knew-anyway.livejournal.com]

What part of 'the Animus are omnipotent' didn't make it through that dishwater stuff you call a brain?

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

I believe I understand that fact more than you do, boy...and I am not dishwater. [huff and he changes into a stereotypical "demon-esque" form]

[hyuugahime]

... Y-You really shoudln't stay there.

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Why?

[hyuugahime]

You're too close to the Animus. B-bad things happen when people get too close.

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Like tombstones? Seems they happen anyway.

[hyuugahime]

N-No, that's just the event. They ... They don't like people intruding. They've killed people before because of it.

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

I stay far enough away, I can feel their power.

video

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

[If he seems interested, it's only vaguely.]

And what, exactly, are you?

video

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

A pink pony.

video

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

Try again.

video

[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Why do you want to know?

video

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

Color me curious. Demon?

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

[the ball of vapour expands, solidifies and takes shape and the look on the minotaur's face is of extreme anger]

No. I'm no demon.