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Begin Act 2: Hoplite Is Intentionally Put In Trouble Again.
Today you scrummaged up some cardboard from the dumpster, stole a marker from the local kindergarten, and rented a table and a chair from the hostel you are residing in. You need quick money, which means that you need quick jobs. You decide that the park would suit as an ideal area to harvest clients with missing items. You set up the table and lean the cardboard with Very Good Private Investigators written in green. Some little boy is probably going to cry on the missing grass in his picture, but you don't care because you are currently possessed by your Id. And as the scumbag Id, you are about to deliberately increase the number of your client. But before you can abuse your supernal gift, one of the park security approaches you with a radio holstered on his hips. He's fondling that radio with hands in the most threatening manner possible.
"You got a license for that? Hold on, do you even have a work visa on our country?" *
You don't hesitate to mindfuck him away from your precious booth, and you are left alone in your maniacal devices. Coincidentally, Miss Watson was taking a walk near the park after submitting her report and making the appointment for her next meeting with the Provosts to defend Hoplite's right to stay when she saw a guard curiously tainted by an aura she was intimately familiar with not 24 hours ago. It didn't take long before Miss Watson assessed the situation and suffered 1x facepalm damage.
Miss Watson weaves a hidden, impenetrable protection from magic on guard and send him in your direction. She fancied the idea that she was teaching you an unforgettable lesson on the moral she preached to you the night before, but really, she just did it to fuck with you, thus invoking her vice Envy and taking a willpower. She makes a note to herself that she is going to bail you out tomorrow and giggles her way out the stage.
When you try your magic with the guard again, he quickly catches onto your bullshit and calls the police on you. Even more coincidentally, Hei was looking for you to make you owe her lunches before you can get a job and comes just in time to see you get inside the popo car. She then devices Operation Break Hoplite's Ass Outta Prison, OBHAOP for short, and proceeds to "infiltrate" whatever police station you land on. She invokes her vice of Gluttony, or indulgences for incredibly-stupid-and-dangerous-in-retrospect thrills, and gains a willpower.
By the time you gain back control of your own body, you find yourself in front of a desk housing a very suspicious police officer. You work your literal magic in order to get out of this mess and do a pretty good job with an insanity plea. However coincidentally, there happened to be a gumshoe mage hanging around in this station who detects your supernal activity and finds you utterly suspicious and concludes that you are most likely a Seer. He takes over your case and "volunteers" to drive you back home.
During the entire time, Hei was walking around invisible searching for you and suddenly sees you put into a car by a mage that she knows has no knowledge of you and knocks him out with one blow. Before anyone can see, Hei throws the mage in the shotgun seat and proceeds to unveil herself and drives with a temporarily borrowed police cap on her head. She drops you at your hostel to go yell "fuck the police" in a police car in a more private area and return it before the owner becomes conscious again.
You are at least thankful that the chain of Dramatic Failures you incurred while fighting your Id promises you months in your "Days Since Last Accident" counter hanging in your mental storage room. Of course, that is a logical fallacy.
End Act 2
Reap instant EXP!
*= the sentence that started this all.
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