41st Resurrection

[sanctus_dei]

[Look out below, Mayfield! There's something being dropped on you. It's small and light, made of wood... why look, it's a chess piece. It might have been dropped right on you or nearby you from above, by a large black crow. It sits on a phone wire, cawing. Does it sound just a little bit like laughter?

Elsewhere around town, Theo can be found searching for the pieces, grumbling to himself. A different crow is sitting on his shoulder, occasionally hopping or flying nearby to help look. Theo's talking to it.]

No, go over there. Higher! You're a bird, don't you have better eyes than people? He's taken almost all the pieces. Just know when I see him next time, I'm gonna wring his neck.

[They stumble across a piece every once in while, but didn't you just get hit with a chess a few minutes ago?]

[[Please just specify if you're approaching the first crow - he can talk to people - or approaching Theo and the other bird!]]

Comments

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

[He feels you crow. Even if he can't understand you. Summoners don't know anything about their familiars.]

Giving up then? Too bad. It might just happen again if you don't put an end to it.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Not if I hide it well enough. He'll lose interest.

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

Guess these birds don't have much of an attention span. Maybe you'll find your pieces after all, if that's the case.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Too smart for their own good. For birds, anyway.

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

That's what you get with magical familiars. Heightened intelligence is part of the deal when they are created.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[He thinks of his Servant... Heightened intelligence, riiiight.]

Hnn. It's not that they're not smart, they're just... crows. They still act like them. Though if I wanted a mindless automaton, I'd make one. [He's a necromancer after all.]

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

[Gilgamesh is a different case. The corruption made him a lunatic or something on that level.]

Then why the crows to begin with, if they only cause such headaches?

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

There's not a lot of animals to work with in Mayfield. Gotta work with what you've got.

[Don't let him fool you, Archer, he loves them.]

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

[It's because only the birds would put up with Theo on a regular basis. He shrugs]

Your call. It's just a suggestion. Maybe get your pieces as wood, so they won't be inclined to take them.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It'll be hidden too. Well whatever, they're his now. And I'm still not teaching him how to play.

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

Why would you even teach a crow to play in the first place?

[Theo are you that lonely...]

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

I'm not. That's why he's mad.

[fatesjanitor.livejournal.com]

Why not just put it down then. What good is a familiar that won't respond to your orders.