To Mister Leather: "That works too. Thanks."

I nod to the yellow hulk and bring the items over.  Once the delivery is complete I'll make note of the area and return to Carter for the next delivery.

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Carter said it earlier, "You ever heard the theory of the Nine Missed Meals? It states in brief that a societal structure is only nine missed meals away from complete anarchic collapse."

Missed Meals 1 - 4, aka Avahur is planning something spectacular for this person.

OOC) Good Luck with that!!!!

Anyway, after you finish making your deliveries, Carter gives you a bill printer. It's about a foot long. Looks like two metal bars that open and close.

"What you gotta do is you scan a bill." and he holds up some paper currency from somewhere and feeds it into the scanner.

Then he holds up a piece of ordinary typing paper and feeds it into the machine.

"Then you gotta feed it!!!!"

And when the paper is printed out, a two-sided sheet of bills is printed on the typing paper. As many as the size would allow. They've got consecutive serial numbers, starting one after the bill he scanned.

"Then you just gotta cut em out." and holds up an ordinary pair of scissors.

As he hands it over to you he says "You can use any kind of paper. It's all lasers and holoprojection and a bunch of other technical jazz, so it doesn't need ink. Just power. Oh yeah, and this is really important. Due to a need to keep the memory storage down, I had to program it so that it would only copy money. And yes, it can tell. It cannot forge documents, make photocopies, no. It can ONLY COPY MONEY!!!!!! Besides, do you need any of those others if you've got MONEY????? Not on most worlds!!!! Sure, you might cripple their economy with counterfeit bills, but who cares? You had a good time right?"

Are you mentioning Yellow Hulk to him?

(Doing Therapy)

"Nice. Yea, as someone famous from my home world once mentioned, 'Any problem that can be solved with money isn't a problem at all.' In a modern society/civilization, there are very few real problems."

I consider a moment about crippling the economy.

"Yea, crippling the economy is probably terrible for the people that live there, but it is only through adversity and truly terrible times that innovators and geniuses are born. It's a thing about blessings and curses. At least, on the macro scale."

Once I have it in hand I'll pack it away. "This is surely going to come in handy.  Anyway, I've got to head back towards the tower. I've got to stop by Magehammer's to pick up some funds - had him sell some stuff for me, and head back to the tower.  I was sparked by some inspiration and need to do some research."

I say goodbye to Carter and head back to Magehammer's to get the currency. I choose option 1, and then head to the tower to do some research about meteorites and the impact they do when the hit the surface.

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No, I generally don't mention to others when I plan to assassinate someone.  It tends to ruin plans. Besides, I'm dubbing the operation: Poetic Justice.  He should've used a term other than puny.

Looking up videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJwZ3uBzQV0 regarding a meteorite that hit Airizona, USA some time back, and other sciency information about them.

Avahur may be trying to create one, and is trying to understand the science first.

Carter says "I can teleport you there."

(Doing Therapy)
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"Nah, I'm good. It's only a 2 hour trip this time. I've got some new magic - though it is terribly exhausting - and if I don't practice it, I can't refine it to be better and eventually less exhausting.  Still, I can run really quickly, with wind magic. One step at a time."

Thus do I run, gather currency, watch videos.

So you do. And it is evening, and it is morning, a new day dawns.
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Wake up, stretch, exercise, shower, get ready, eat.

I  want to create a boulder, a meteorite of sorts, and drop it on that guy. All men are puny in the face of destruction from space rocks.  Though this isn't so much a space rock as a magic rock.  Gravity will probably do most of the work, but I'm not sure if I can create a rock that  high.  Also not sure if I can send it flying with increased speed towards a particular location.  Even if I can do all that, without further mastering the ability to teleport, I don't have a guarantee of walking away from it alive.  Let's work on that, then I can hop into a world and try it out.  It would also be useful in the future.  Nothing like dropping an enemy army by a 'random' meteorite to the face.

I set out in search of versers that mainly move around by teleporting.  I'll flag some down and see if they'd be willing to teach me. Or at least, what their price is for it.  I'll try to get a few opinions.

Magehammer tells you "That Chaos katana can teleport you."

Karin asks you "Don't you know how to fly by wind magic?"

What kinds of opinions do you want?

(Doing Therapy)

To Magehammer: "Wait, it can?  Every time I do an effect with the katana is seems to be incredibly draining, causing me to pass out not long later.  Good for emergencies, but generally less than ideal."

To Karin: "Yes, sort of. Flying and teleporting are two different methods of travel, and I have yet to figure out if wind can give me the near instantaneous speed teleportation can.  Sometimes I need to fly, but other times I need to get out of danger faster than I can speak."

I try to find other versers that can teleport.

---

Trying to get the opinions of a few different teleporting versers, to see what they'd charge / what their price is, if any, for teaching (or providing) tips, tricks, methods, training, and so on for increasing proficiency and mastery of teleportation.

"Eh, you just need to get used to it kid. But yeah, that weapon can add or remove Chaos from a situation."



She ponders, then says "There's a guy across the way there that sells Babylon candles. Supposedly lets you teleport. (Carter tried to sell you one.) If I hear anything, I'll let you know."



They teleport all over the place. You see some holding teleportation devices, one or two using Babylon candles, but you want to learn to do it by magic or psionics, am I right?

(Doing Therapy)

Avahur specifically looks for people that may be doing it via magic or psionics.

---

Yes, magic or psionics.  Ideally both to see if they can support each other, but one or the other.  This is just player conjecture: I'd imagine that high level wind magic, though not instantaneous, is ephemeral, and could achieve a similar effect. I actually just read something like it in a book, a character did that through the dao of wind. Otherwise, spatial magic; altering space, one step crosses hundreds of feet, thousands of miles. Spatial magic is probably how magic can teleport.

Of course, our methodology is generally opposite. Do you suppose earth magic could do it? Traveling like tremors or earthquakes? Magnetic waves, and so on, using that to 'teleport' across the land?  Fire magic could probably do it, create an absence of heat particles in one spot, and then as particles shift to fill up that void, and the adjacent ones shift to fill up the spot where those moved... and so on, refill the void at a designated spot. Achieving teleportation in effect, but really just the displacement and replacement of molecules of energy.

Whilst you are standing there trying to figure out who to ask, an eight year old girl teleports in right in front of you. She looks you up and down and then says "Mister Magehammer said you wanna learn to teleport. Is that right Mister? You wanna learn to teleport? I'll teach you. All you gotta do is fight me."

She's got two swords of different types and a staff strapped to her back, as well as knives, nunchucks and two sai on her belt. Yeah, shes a regular ninja turtle.

(Doing Therapy)

"Fight you? Sure. Purely weapons? Unarmed? Weapons and magic or psionics? What are the terms for our duel? Also, where? Do you want to do it right here, or did you have a place in mind?"

I nod to the girl, and put my hands near the hilts of my swords, ready to draw them should she initiate an attack. I also stop standing casually and slowly get into a fighting stance, ready to react, retreat, or attack, as necessary.

I do the above as I talk.

---

Is it Samantha?

"No magic or psionics for the fight. Other than that, you pick the method. You wanna go armed? Unarmed? Armed with what? As for where, I was thinking Fight Club. There's a new guy just showed up. Nobody wants to fight him."



Why are you asking me? You need to ask her.

"Fight Club? No idea where that is. According to a movie I saw back home, the first rule about fight club was to not talk about fight club.  Is that not the case here?  Hmm, I initially trained single sword, but grew more proficient dual sword later on. So let's do that. I don't fight many people that also dual wield, that should be fun.

2 weapons each, I'll use swords, you can use whatever you feel is most comfortable to counter that. Let's keep it purely weapon skill, no additional attacks unarmed or from feet. If disarmed or in a position where you are at the mercy of your opponent, you lose. Knockdown isn't immediately a loss."

I head with her towards Fight Club.

"So, why does no one want to fight the new guy?"

---

I've seen Samantha before, at least twice.  How many 8 year old looking versers are there? Even if there's 1 out of every 100,000 versers that's around that age, figure half would be girls, and then, despite how many there are, and how many versers are here, how many have this many weapons and are in this area of verser world that also know Magehammer.

Do they look alike? Same hair color? What about their nose? Is it the same? Noses are very distinctive, if you ever pay attention.  This is what I, and therefore Avahur, would pay attention to on first contact - hair color first, then nose. If they are the same, then probably Samantha, and Av could reasonably guess it as so. If not the same, then that's curious, because again, how many weapon filled 8 year old female versers are there on this world that also know Magehammer and like fighting?

I ask specifically because you are the game ref: I've seen Samantha before, I see this girl now, are they the same? If not, that's curious and I'll ask her about it.



If I could recognize Samantha then, I should be able to do so now.

She says "I never heard of that movie. They just call it Fight Club. A lot of the versers come here to settle grudges with each other. Or just to train. I wonder if Mister Magehammer will be fighting Slider....."



"Okay, first lesson teleporting. Think about where you want to go. Are you thinking about it? Then you do it."

And she puts her hand on your arm, the world tastes purple, you cease to exist. And now you're in a huge circus tent. There are three fighting rings in the middle, and a bunch of people crowded around each one. In the first ring, Magehammer is fighting a guy in a white trenchcoat. She says "That's Mister Magehammer and Slider."

Third ring, two women are fighting.



She says "You'll know when you see him."

Center ring, the Golden Hulk is standing alone. He's taunting everyone there saying "Puny men. None of you wish to fight me????" Nobody is standing around that ring.



Yes, it's Samantha.

...
"And then you do it? That's not really helpful. Should I be mindful of anything? Think of a place, as in a vague description, a place in particular? Think of me standing in that place?"

Looking at the yellow hulk.

"Oh, that guy. Calling everyone puny is a sure way to get a boulder dropped on the head. Meteorites are dangerous, I hear.

By the way, do you prefer Samantha or Sam? Sama? Mantha? Tha? I prefer to call people one syllable names, if possible. Two syllables, at most."

While waiting for a response and for a ring to free up, I pay attention to Slider and Magehammer's bout.

Samantha rolls her eyes at you and says cheekily "I said that was lesson one!!! I'll get to the rest of it later."



"Just stay clear of him. Somebody will come along eventually."



"I prefer Samantha. My father used to call me Sam!!!" And she's obviously furious about that.



According to the spectators, they've been at this for hours. Just as you find a good spot to watch it from, Magehammer hits Slider in the face with an uppercut that sends him flying out of the ring. They're done. Magehammer bows before grabbing Slider and both disappearing to who knows where.

So you're using your sword and the Chaos katana? Samantha is using two Chaos katanas.

She tells you "Don't take it easy on me because I'm a girl. I'm gonna cut you. Don't be afraid to cut me."

So you begin. You're swinging at her, but she's so short she just ducks under most everything you throw at her and uses the opportunity to cut your legs. At first it's not bad, just little nicks. But as it progresses, she's cut your legs up enough that you cannot stand on them anymore. You fall onto your back.

Samantha jumps up into the air and down in a somersault, landing with one foot on each of your biceps. Then she raises both of her swords over her head in victory.

Then she climbs down off on you and waves her Chaos katana over your body. A white aura flows from you and into her swords, healing your injuries within seconds. If you check, you won't even have any scars.

Then she helps you up. She's much, much stronger than an average eight year old and says "Now I'm ready to teach you teleporting. I said you had to fight me. I didn't say you had to beat me."

I accept the help up.

"I know. No one should enter a fight expecting to lose though - it's pretty much a guarantee you'll lose at that point. Besides, do people actually take it easy on you because you're a girl?

"As I told Magehammer, if you attack me, you're an enemy, doesn't matter boy or girl, young or old. Enemies die.  Sparring is obviously an exception.  Next time though, we fight unarmed. I haven't had a good sparring partner in many, many years."

As we walk out of the circle, "So, where do we continue, teacher?"

"I just don't want people to. You look at me and see an eight year old girl. I'm more like 800 years old. It's tough to find sparring partners who actually go full-force."



"I got a dojo set up in my apartment. And I think I can even the odds a bit."

Whatever she means by that last is beyond you.



"I've got a two bedroom apartment in The Tower. Do you want to join me there?"

If we were not versers, and she didn't literally just say 800 years old, which passes me by about 750 years, that would be super creepy.  Hell, it still might be super creepy.

"There are other options in the tower besides one bed room? Now that I said that out loud, that's exceedingly obvious that there should be. But the tower does grow oddly.  Bah, whatever. Let's go.

"Oh, by even the odds.. are you going to shrink me? Or increase your height?"

I head with her to her tower apartment/dojo.

"Yeah, the little studio apartments are free. I work at The Tower."



"You'll see."



So you walk with her. When you get to The Tower, she leads you to an elevator. The world tastes purple, you cease to exist, and you are in a hallway.

She leads you down the hall to her apartment. Inside, the walls are lined with weapons. Swords, knives, bows, crossbows, clubs, axes etc.

"Mister Magehammer made some of these for me. But as far as evening the odds......."

And she goes into the bedroom and closes the door. A few minutes later, a girl of perhaps 18 steps out. She's changed into a baggy, grey sweatsuit. She's got long brown hair, full-figured, beautiful. The kind of girl you wish you could have taken to the senior prom.

But still with the voice of an eight year old girl she says:

"When I met Mister Magehammer, he gave me the ability to morph my body and my appearance. I can appear to be any age I want and I've got the maximum physical abilities that a human being can posses. I just like staying in the eight year old form when I'm fighting. It presents a smaller target to my enemy."

She welcomes you to follow her into the bedroom. The walls are again lined with melee weapons. Name the weapon, she's got it.

"But first, I promised to teach you to teleport. Are you ready?"
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Looking at the transformation, "Huh. Nifty. Still making yourself taller, and then some.  Not bad. You can still fight at full power, and full skill, in this form?"

Looking at the weapons, "Oh, nice collection. Can you fight effectively with any combination of weapons?"

Do Tower workers get comfier beds?

I nod to the adult version of Samantha, "Yes, I am ready to learn."

I learn to teleport better.

---

Normally, one should attempt to do a thing, but I heard a wise, if a bit short, individual once say, "Try not. Do or do not, there is no try."

"It's not just the height. I am a little bit more clumsy like this. I mean, you spend 700 years as an eight year old, then suddenly turn 18. I'll get used to it eventually, I'm sure."



"I really like swords. My father used to beat me before I became a verser. I swore that I would learn how to fight. I can use any weapon in here. And I've got a few weaponless martial arts styles under my belt too."

OOC) Minimum 1@5 skill in any martial art and any weapon you can think of.



She closes her eyes and projects to you an image in your mind. It's like a piece of programming code. It messes with your circuity. Suddenly you know how to teleport.

"I would advise only using that to go places that you can see. For now, anyway. Or to a place you've already been. I've heard of versers getting stuck inside solid objects from teleportation accidents."

"Ahh, teleportation accidents.  I once lost a hand in one.  Pollux, another verser, and I were fleeing from some aliens in this one world, and he teleported us out, except when we arrived my hand was grafted to him, and no longer a part of my arm.

That was unpleasant, an all around unexpected way to lose a hand.  I did manage to restore on that world, with a magic device - my only source of healing, really, aside from this new chaos katana, I guess. But yea, teleportation accidents are not fun.

That all aside, how did you do that? It's not like I didn't know how to teleport before - Pollux taught me a little, but it took a long time to succeed with and still very limited. Lots of trial and error, nothing so quick as... I guess  the magical equivalent of programming. Or is it psionic? I have no idea what branch teleporting falls under."

I think it over a bit.

"Is it just practice over and over to get better? Any tips or tricks?  Also, perhaps most importantly, how do you rotate yourself? The biggest problem I've previously run into is if you teleport in one direction, you arrive facing that direction.  Not helpful when wanting to teleport behind someone to... well, do a number of things, depending on the situation: grab, throw, stab.

"I've trained some in jujitsu, and it'd probably be really nice in conjunction with teleportation for non-lethal takedowns. Or lethal takedowns. It's versatile."