2020-06-18 Dedicated Learner

Dedicated Learner

Participants: David Arsenic Riko

Location: Sun's Bright Cafe

Date and Time: June 18, 2020

Summary: Arsenic starts to teach the Rite of Talisman Dedication to Riko

Teaching, something he has never done in his whole life has Arsenic is excited as he brims with energy bouncing around the back porch. His hands are clean for once as he is getting ready to do work, as he calls. His dreads are tied up behind his head, he is dressed today in a tight cleans, no holes, and a simple black tank top. He is wearing dress shoes, that actually fit him with a bone necklace is hanging around his neck, he even bathed for the great lesson. He is not acting, crazy his eyes are shine with pure joy, as he chows down on to his lip. His right hand is holding a long charcoal stick, the end is not yet light for the writing but his lighter is resting on the porch for easy finding. As he starts to mutter to himself, walking himself through each step slowly, to make sure he is going to teach it correctly. His hand is brushing along his chest, as he holds out the test object, it is wraped up in a cloth as he looks down at it, with a little sigh of pleasure. Now to wait for the pupil, he had asked David to use this spot the cortex kind enough to offer it.

+ROLL/+DICE> Riko:  Willpower vs. 7 -> 0 successes. => Riko suffers from Nightmares

Riko uses a back door to slip into the place's kitchen, as the front is rather buzzing with people, even if it is somewhat late. Hauling a backpack over her shoulder, containing some backup clothes, she looks for the elusive raven that had called. "You found a teacher for that clothes problem?" she asks, pinning the hair back to behind her ear with a hand. "It's a little bothersome to try and haul a backpack when you only have less than a foot of shoulder width."

David is flying by, and sees someoen there, so he drops in, landing on a chair, flapping and clicking.

Arsenic turns slowly towards Riko as he starts to work the stick around as he points at Riko. "Indeed, I'm here to teach you the clothing carry, magic stick ritual, I mean that is not the name but much more fun. Make you able to carry items with you in all your glory." He than spins it around himself as he grins at Riko. "Now than, it is simple I do it in a very direct and easy way." HIs eyes gleam with playfulness, as he walks over to hand her the item wrapped in cloth. "Easier to learn with small item, that is a deck of cards."

Riko glances to the clickering bird, sending him a short questioning look before Arsenic speaks up. Spinning to him, she sighs a little, her face speaking of bad sleep and a tiring day. "Well, nice to meet you too. Eh, ok, can I have some tea as we settle in? And then we check out how our little magic trick works." She manages a slighly tired smile, but nods. "I like what you did to your shirt there."

David flies to the back door of the place, where he is thrown a scrap piece of pastry that was cut off of something put on display. Taking that in beak, he flies to a table, lands on it, and starts tearing at it.

Arsenic nods slowly towards Riko as he watches David flying with a chuckle. "Yeah get ready, and than we will do this it's a fun one. Imporant as well, one needs to always be ready for whatever, it's need to know." His voice is not manic, there is no cursing as he walks over to set the cards and sticv on a small table. "Tell me when ready to learn."

Riko nods as she busies herself on the hot water machine in the kitchen, mixing together a quick tea using a teabag. It takes only a minute or such, before she moves over to the little side table Arsenic occupies on the backyard patio. Putting the cup down first, she settles down right after, reaching over to David to offer him a little brush with the finger. "I guess I am as ready as I can be today."

+ROLL/+DICE> Arsenic:  Wits + Rituals vs. 7 -> 1 success.

Arsenic spins his hand as she is speaking to pick up the stick, as he lights the end of it heavy smoke is coming off thick with the smell of herbs mixed into it. "I will write down how to make stick, it is fun process, takes two days." He spins it around slowly putting out the fire on the end With the ember is sending up a poof of smoke, that trails behind it now with a thick trail smelling of tobacco, weed, and ginger as he starts to cover the cards in it. Then he is lifting the cords placing it against his right hand as he starts to trace it quickly using the end of the stick drawing a box into his flesh, as he starts to chant now quickly. As he starts to pick up speed, the words tumbling from his lips sound like made up words, but they flow so well into a sentence, as the cards vanish now into his hand as he looks at Riko. "Now than, that is the ritual. Care to try it or need to see it again?"

David does accept gentle handpats, as the online comic says. He pauses when patted, head moving to the side, into the fingers a bit. He then speaks. "Dedication?" he asks simply.

"Your own recipe of inscense?" Riko asks, her nose twitching at the strong tobacco flavor. Some backyard corner of her mind processes that she might try sandalwood or something similar, but would that work? She swallows a little as suddenly the cards start to vanish, her head not really wrapped around the words yet. "I... I guess I might need to figure out the words first. I mean, what was it you just said there? I caught only half of the words."

+ROLL/+DICE> Arsenic:  Intelligence + Instruction vs. 6 -> 0 successes.

Arsenic nods towards David, as he spins the stick again slowly as he closes his eyes to bring the cards forth once more. "Yeppers, but that is boredom inducing of a name. Magic stuff go bye bye Ritual." His voice is filled with mirth, as he nods towards Riko. "Okay, words ready." He slowly starts to speak the words, but he is not mouthing them right as he nods towards her with a wide smile. "There ya go, catch em." There is no way in hell, he did it slow enough for her to catch them all again.

David trills a little laugh as they have some trouble, tearing at his bread and enjoying the show.

Riko furrows her brows a tad as she listens, trying to gather what he mutters there. Some of the sentences don't seem to make sense, but she finally resorts to pulling out a pen and pad to make a few notes. "Sorry, I feel a little dense today. Would you mind repeating it again? I only got like..." her pen scratches on the pad, then she turns the pad around for him to read. "This much. And I am not sure if those words are the correct ones either, as they make little sense like that..."

+ROLL/+DICE> Arsenic:  Intelligence + Instruction vs. 6 -> 3 successes. 

Arsenic nods slowly as he stars to take her pen now, as this is much smarter as he starts to spell out the words in a phonic matter. It truly is nonsense rap mixture of real words, and fun sounds to say. His pen is scratching into it, as he bites his lip again with a wicked chuckle. "Dat is the rhyme, you say it in your head first time when you touch cards, and than you say it when you draw it on skin loudly, than it works. Super simple simple as a....don't have a metaphor right now. I'll think of one later."

Riko follows the pen, nodding slowly before she picks it back up to use it as a tiny help to read the words, adding a little comment here and there at the edge. "I guess I will have to train that before it works, but I think... I can try it..." She looks at Arsenic questioning.

Arsenic nods slowly as he passes the stick over to her now with a wide smile, as his fingers spinning it around him painting the smoke as a big poof. "Okay try it now, it is easy as pie. Good stuff, helpful stuff, all should know the might of clothing hidey hidey stuff come backy whacky!"

+ROLL/+DICE> Riko:  Wits + Rituals + -1 vs. 7 -> -1 success (Botch!). ( 5 1 )

Riko tries as she might, and... well, as it is to expect from first tries with rites, exactly zilch happens as it shall. It's even worse, she accidentally sets one of the cars on fire as she waves the stick of incense and frantically drops them, trying to beat out the burning paper. "Damned!"

Arsenic nods slowly as he picks up a glass of water is pouring it down on the card. "No harm no foul. Now than we will try it again over the week, it is hard to learn such things. Have ya done much with the spirtural, spirits, and the rituals?" His eyes studying her, as he takes out a cigrette lighting it slowly wit ha nodding of his head, as he bites his bottom lip. "My job is this in my people, so to me it is like breathing."

David finishes his bread, and drifts back to the door to get another piece, before flying it back to the table. "If it helps, remember that you're communicating with the spirits. It's the weird things that seem unimportant to you, that mean everything to them."

"Eh, I guess.. I know the most basic stuff... I mean, how to handle things, but not really trained much. And I guess I might need more sleep." Riko smiles weakly, wiping a lock of hair back to behind her ear as it had slipped during the frantic fight agaisnt the accidental torching.

Arsenic nods slowly his hand is reaching up to remove his hair tied back, as his fingers stab that stick down into the ground as he starts to remove the end that is burning. "We will do it soon again, get some sleep. It will take a bit to master, I will teach you. It is a favor, that needs not be repaid all should learn to walk that side, that wish." With that he is picking up his stuff, as he is heading out of the cafe.