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[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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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Bit of a tongue-twister there. What is it, Egyptian?

[He chuckles.] Naaah, I meant their fashion's always somethin' new. The people themselves.... Every one's unique, that's what's interestin' about 'em.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It is. I went by that in Alexandria.

Ah, the only thing I really noticed about fashions was that the more powerful the magician, the plainer they liked to look.

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Rekyht it is, then. [Smiling.]

...That so? It's all about dressin' fancier the higher up ya get, where I'm from.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Yep. You can always tell a second-rater by their beard and cloak. The more a magician looks like an accountant, the more you have to watch it.

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Well... [scratching absently at his own stubble] ...can't blame 'em, full beards get awful itchy.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

Haven't been one for facial hair in many years now. [not since that incident with the lion's mane]

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[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

[Hanekoma chuckles.] Not everybody can pull it off.

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[imakefootnotes.livejournal.com]

It comes in handy sometimes, when you want to blend in. I always keep it short.