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🧙 WHO: Rose and who ever wants to join her!
⚔️️ WHAT: New arrival and Open log for April
🕒 WHEN: Whenever the newbies are dumped in the lake and throughout the month
🗺️ WHERE: Red Springs, New Camelot, and Brocéliande
⚠️ WARNINGS: None for now

Red Springs - Training Grounds

The idea of using magic without the help of her Dragoon Spirit was certainly intriguing and something she was willing to try. Especially now that her Dragoon Spirit was nothing more than a jeweled orb, all the magic from it gone. But she couldn't bring herself to abandon it, so she kept it with her in a pouch on her belt.

After some instruction on magic safety and the basics, she set about to doing some self training. It didn't surprise her that Dark magic was what called to her first. Having been the Dragoon of the Darkness Dragon back in her home world, the power felt almost familiar. At the moment she was trying to manipulate shadows nearby. Changing their shape from what cast the shadow. Something simple for now. The curses, hexes, jinxes and causing pain without injury will come later.

New Camelot - General Exploring

The city was certainly different from any other city she had ever seen throughout her years. Yes, she had seen buildings that were blended into nature before. But the bases of these buildings just seemed so different to her. If it weren't for the blend of the natural elements with the building, they would have seemed almost cold to her.

When she wasn't training Rose could be found exploring throughout the city. At some points she may pause to look at a particularly very modern looking building, finding it strange. At other times she will find a park and stand to the side to do some people watching. Mainly to get a feel of the day to day lives of the locals.

Brocéliande - some more training.

Though the training grounds by the Red Spring were good, Rose was a creature of solitude. Training with her sword she preferred to do alone. So when she wasn't exploring the city, she will be in a small clearing she found in the forest to practice her form and strikes with the sword. Though those who may want to approach her may want to use caution and not startle her while she is training this way. They may find themselves facing the pointed end of her sword.

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"You command dragons?" He wondered again about her reaction to her phoenix familiar, but perhaps it explained a bit.

Even more of a head tilt. "Dragoon spirits. Does it apply here?"

"I did command dragons." She stopped and sheathed her sword before reaching into the pouch that hanged from her belt. She pulled out what looked like crystal orb, though it was dull in color.

"The Dragoon Spirit does not hold any power in the realm. It does not even glow at my touch anymore, so I doubt I will be able to command dragons while I am here."

He gives her... the flattest of stares. It's not that he disbelieves her, he just... totally disbelieves her. Or rather, it doesn't sync up properly in his brain. Spirit. Glowing. Sure. Whatever.

"Okay." Really, what else can he say?

She can easily guess what he is thinking based on that look. With a sigh, she put the Dragoon Spirit back in her pouch.

"Even after being transported here, given a familiar and have even witnessed magic first hand, you are still resistant that magic is really. You really do seem like a stubborn old fool who resists change and anything new."

Oda just shrugs. "It's more that... I can't connect it. Kitsuno is the name of someone important to me. She was. She died. I hadn't said her name in years. All but forbid it around me. A kitsune princess here not only has her name too, but the Demon King of her..." World? Realm? "Experience... tried to marry her, despite her reluctance." There's too much to explain, and he can't figure out the important parts at all! "Her father was the name of one of my vassals. Not the kitsune one. Apparently Mitsuhide, who is the kitsune one, is also one of her Demon King's close associates, and the only kitsune from her Realm of Mists and Shadows and whatever else, to ally with the Demon King, and not against him." It's complicated. He rubs the back of his neck. "All of this seems so impossible, but I can understand it. I can connect it." He could relate to it, in bizarre enough ways.

He spreads his hands and shrugs again. "But spirits and orbs..." Another headshake. "Mind, I'm not sure how much I can accept about her being an Oracle either, but it is..." he rubbed his face with a hand.

"I suppose as far-fetched as her story is, and it is, I promise. Yours isn't. It just reminds me too much of the monks. And that's not to say I think you're lying." A head tilt. "Kenshin truly believed he was the reincarnation of the god of war. It's just so far from what I know, that the parts that I do know, make it such that I can't connect, understand?"

Rose listened to the tale he told. She didn't know any of the people he spoke of, nor did she know what a 'kitsune' was, but it was clear those names meant something to him. And it sounded like that it was a very complicated situation that he was put in. One that she couldn't relate to. How would she react if she met another version of Zieg or any of the other Dragoon?

"I think I get what you are saying." Sort of. "How does my tale remind you of monks?" So that she can at least get a better understanding of him.

Oh right! That's definitely way more important!

"They promise salvation so long as people give up everything for them. They pretend magic is real to further the con. They don't let in any non-believers, and they hold people back from doing anything citing obligations or transcendence. Their stories of gods are the same way. Uesagi Kenshin has a whole following that believes he is the incarnation of the god of war."

A head tilt.

"They made up stories about oni and monsters and how you had to appease the spirits with sacrifices. So try as I might to shake it, to act like there hasn't been decades of trying to prove them wrong, or actually proving them wrong, of waging war on them... I can't. All I can think is... It's a sacrifice. One magic for another kind. If it is magic."

"This is a different world, thus the laws of existence are different here. Acknowledging that oni and other monsters exist here in this realm, does not mean that those monks in your world are right. That it is not a sacrifice to say that those things exist here, even though they are nothing but tales back in your own world."

She turned to start back up with her exercises again. "Back in my world, fairies are nothing but a folktale that people use to explain things they did not understand. But here, I had seen several fairies fluttering around town. We are all seeing things that go against what we originally believe in."

"No, I mean..." Huff. "Losing your magic from your world is the 'sacrifice' the world requires to facilitate the conversion to existing here."

Nobunaga hummed quietly. "I don't mind that!" He laughed finally. "Seeing new things is what I live for! I always wanted to see outside of Japan, and a whole other world? I wouldn't even mind oni being real, if I hadn't already disproven them." A quiet hum, "I wonder what it will take to defeat the other Demon Kings. There can only be one ultimate you know? Whichever of us is the most ruthless." He is way too excited to be murdering himself.

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