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[wizzardly]

VOICEMAIL:

"Er... yes, okay, I suppose I should tell you that if you're trying to reach me I'm not here, and if you're trying to reach me because you want to do something involving pointy bits of metal or otherwise painful objects, I'm never going to be here. So sorry."

Comments

[kickingand]

Seems reasonable. Place is kind of a bummer.

[ ... snort. ] They might. Why, would it make you feel better if I was born with 'em?

[wizzardly]

Not worth a holiday, certainly. But that's what happens when a thirteen-year-old demonologist mistakes you for a demon.

[mostly he's just curious what the hell it is. Getting info out of Dean over the phone instead of in person seems to be working out for him. ]

Oh, no. I was more wondering what it does.

[kickingand]

I can see how that'd happen. [ Considering Dean probably mistook a good number of non-demons as demons when he was a young'n....

But look here buddy, he only just learned about the Mark's specifics, he is not going to go revealing them all to you. ]

Back home it meant I could use the First Blade.

[wizzardly]

Really? Because I couldn't.

[Hell's in pretty poor shape if scrawny wizards can be mistaken for their people.]

Is that quite the step up from the Second?

[kickingand]

Thirteen year olds are idiots, point blank. Demonologists or not.

[ Ahahhaha wow your wit. Listen to Dean... not laugh. ]

Version 2.0 never made it into production. [ sigh. ] But it's the blade that Cain used to kill Abel. And it can kill anything.

[wizzardly]

[well, he won't argue that. All those hormones.]

Oh, I read about them. [he's been trying to get through the Bible; it hasn't been easy.

But that's interesting information.]

Anything? ...Angels, even? Or supposedly unkillable knights of hell?

[maybe a little too sarcasm in that last one - he still thinks the Luggage could have taken care of him.]

[kickingand]

In the Bible? Well then, there you go- It is called the Mark of Cain for a reason.

And I did say i'd killed a Knight, didn't I? It was the reason I got the Mark in the first place, Abaddon was being a pain in the ass.

[wizzardly]

[so now he knows what the mark is called and that it transfers, and that there's some magical blade which can kill even the unkillable. ...The blade probably isn't here, but still, that's useful to know. Maybe.]

Rather fortunate for you that the blade wouldn't be in this world, I imagine.

[kickingand]

[ Maybe. Ish. Sort of. ]

Didn't stop me from bringing it.

[wizzardly]

...You have it here? With you?

[that Dean is telling him this leads Rincewind to wonder if he isn't the brightest demon in Hell.]

[kickingand]

[ One should take heed and question whether or not any of the shit Dean is spewing is fact or fiction, Rincewind. ]

Showed up when I did. Pretty convenient in an alternate dimension.

[wizzardly]

[he prefers to just think Dean's a dull tool; in his defense, most demons he's met are.]

I've no doubt. There's always a call for magic blades, they never go out of style.

[kickingand]

[ Well, it doesn't help matters that Dean is kind of an idiot too, but let's not dwell on that. ]

Especially when you consider that this is a dimension ain't too bad.

[wizzardly]

I've certainly been in worse.

...Certain archangels aside.

[kickingand]

And here you two seem like such good buddies.

[wizzardly]

It may not have occurred to you that being publicly respectful to a murderous, all-powerful being is safer for one's health than the alternative.

[kickingand]

I shot him point blank range about four years ago and lived to tell the tale. I don't do publicly respectful.

[wizzardly]

Well goody for you. You'll forgive me if I don't follow a dead man's example.

[kickingand]

Because i'm sure faking it for him makes him feel so much better.

[wizzardly]

I don't care at this point. The best I can do is not piss him off further and fade quietly into obscurity. So that's what I bloody well plan to do.

[kickingand]

And you're doing such a good job of it.

[ how do you think he found you, buddy ]

[wizzardly]

Please, as what I can only assume is his lap dog, do give me any advice you have on the matter.

[kickingand]

Would if I could. But you are kinda fun to watch.

[wizzardly]

...I have to wonder when I became so bloody entertaining to everyone.

[kickingand]

Maybe it's a talent you should market.