Audience: Endorsi Jahad

[probe]

Comments

[probe]

Yep. I have a decision for you to make.

You get a prize. You can have a power from me, a power from you, or something from home.

[fisherwoman]

[A beat, and then:]

For the powers, is it something I'll only get to use once, like it has been before? And by a power from me... Do you mean I get to choose the power, or I get a random kind of power from home?

[probe]

Yes, on the first one, but I'd supercharge it for you. It'll be uh, higher quality, so to speak.

Second one is if you have anything you can do at home that you can't do here, you'd be able to do it.

[fisherwoman]

[Thinking, thinking...]

And I guess I wouldn't get to know what you would give me before I make the decision.

[probe]

Nope. Fun part of the decision making process. It's like gambling!

[fisherwoman]

[After a couple more moments:]

Yours.

[probe]

Gotcha.

[they reach out, and tap endorsi on the nose. she'll feel a warmth flood through her - and then she will instinctively know that she now has an ability called Myrrhdur - when she activates it, a bell will appear. it gives her the ability to animate a dead body for up to ten minutes.]

Congrats.

[fisherwoman]

[Blinking, and then:]

Haha, how morbid! [But.] I'm guess I can only move it, not make it talk? And it won't be conscious at all? So, no reviving someone at a trial to try and get them to signal who killed them.

[probe]

Yep, you can only move it, and there's no consciousness. That's an entirely different spell.

[fisherwoman]

Ahh, too bad! Well, this one should be useful in another fight if I get into one. Hey, thanks.

[probe]

[they give a lazy little salute.]

No prob. Need anything else?

[fisherwoman]

Mm... Maybe not need, but I do have a question for you if it's one you can answer!

[probe]

Go for it.

[fisherwoman]

What are you getting out of all this, hm? Why would you give me something to help me kill those two, and give me a reward for it?

[probe]

Why do you think I'm doing it? [they sound curious.]

[fisherwoman]

If I had to guess... If your team indulges the most or has the most members left at the end, you get something out of it.

[probe]

How many times do we have to tell you guys we're not a team?

[fisherwoman]

Fine. Group, is that a better word for it? The people grouped under your sin.

[probe]

You're all individuals making decisions to do whatever the fuck you want, Endorsi. If you want to indulge by killing someone, I'm here to help. If you want to indulge by drinking, doing drugs and rock and roll, I'm also here to help that.

That's your answer.

[fisherwoman]

Well, it's an answer, but not really to the question I asked... You really don't get anything out of it? I mean, you're just helping us out of the kindness of your own heart, hm?

[probe]

Yep. That's exactly it.

[fisherwoman]

...I can't force you to tell me the truth, but you should really come up with a better lie, you know.

[probe]

Don't ask me questions I clearly don't intend to answer if you don't want me to lie, babe.