Day Two: Campfire

[camphalf_blood]

[so you've had some time to get to know the camp. You've taken classes and hung out in your cabin. Now you get to come back around the campfire and discuss it all! Or you can fall back on tradition and tell scary stories.

Interested in a song? The Apollo cabin will lead you! Or not. Just remember that curfew is in place tonight. If you're actually planning to adhere to it]


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[ninjainviolet]

Well, you really can't have a ghost story without some kind of dark element, can you? [Oh a pun she hadn't meant, but too late now.]

I'm Sheena.

[schrodingersghost]

...I'm Danny.

How should I know? This is the first time I've tried telling one.

[ninjainviolet]

I see. [She looks up at Shadow, who promptly fades away.]

I thought ghost stories were supposed to scare people, though. Or is it the idea of ghosts that's supposed to scare them?

[No offense, Danny, but, well, she's got a whole bunch of Spirits.]

[schrodingersghost]

I told a story. It had ghosts in it. Isn't that the definition of a ghost story?

[He watches with interest as the shadow fade away.]

So... what was that? A bad luck shadow?

[ninjainviolet]

Good point. [She still thinks they should be scary, but...there had been only one thing that truly scared Sheena.]

Hmmm? No, but his name is Shadow. He's the Summon Spirit of Darkness. Although, enemies might consider him to be bad luck.

[schrodingersghost]

[Danny gives her a confused look.]

Is he a ghost?

[ninjainviolet]

[Shakes her head.]

No, he's a Summon Spirit that represents the element of Darkness on my world. I know that makes him sound like a ghost, but he's not dead. He's actually alive and part of the world.

[schrodingersghost]

Don't think there was anyone like that back home. [Sure, some ghosts had never been alive. But they were all ghosts. All made out of ectoplasm, in some way. Didn't sound like this was quite the same thing.]

[ninjainviolet]

[Nope. Not made out of ectoplasm.]

Do you have mana back home? That's what Shadow and the others use. [Yes, there's more than one.]

[schrodingersghost]

Never heard of it before.

[ninjainviolet]

Oh. On my world, it's the source of all life on the planet. Do you have something like that on yours?

[schrodingersghost]

Don't think so. We have ectoplasm, but that's definitely not a source of life.

[ninjainviolet]

Ectoplasm? [She shakes her head.] I've never heard of it before. [That doesn't mean it may not exist; she's just not too science-minded.]

[TOPIC CHANGE...]

So, you're a fighter, huh?

[schrodingersghost]

[And once again Danny had reason to resent losing his ability to lie. He couldn't deny that. All he had was misdirection. Too bad he sucked at it.]

What? Where did you get that idea?

[ninjainviolet]

The way you reacted when you saw Shadow. You didn't run; you threw something at him instead.

[Sheena's just a horrible liar, and usually misdirection works on her (sad for a ninja), but she had seen it with her own eyes.]

[schrodingersghost]

What's weird about that?

[ninjainviolet]

I never said it was weird. The fact you stayed in place tells me you were ready to fight him, that's all.

I do the same thing.

[Usually]

[schrodingersghost]

Maybe it was a distraction?

[ninjainviolet]

I have no doubt that's what it was. But, you still didn't run away.

[Crosses her arms.]

Distraction is a classic ninja technique. [Hell, it's classic for any fighting.]

[schrodingersghost]

...I'm going to fail this, aren't I?

[ninjainviolet]

[Nods.]

Yeah, you are. But it's okay. You're surrounded by fighters, so I'm probably not the only one who noticed.

[schrodingersghost]

Really not making me feel any better there.

[He drops down to the ground with a put out expressions on his face.]

Can I just say that purely by coincidence I ran into a few situation where I had to pick a few things up?

[ninjainviolet]

I suppose so...

[Tilts her head.]

Are you ashamed about being able to fight?

[schrodingersghost]

Ni? I mean, it isn't the fighting that I worry about. It's the kind of pointed questions that would come about where I learned to fight.

And the castle took away my ability to lie.

[ninjainviolet]

I see. So not everyone you know fights like you do?

[She sits down nearby.]

Is it a special technique?