Tenth: Golden Fleece (Accidental Video : un; Caster)

[colchismagecraft]

[The video starts with a rather blurry picture. What looked to be...fangs, bone and purple fire? Was Caster doing another ominous ritual??

But no- soon enough, her skeletal dragon familiar pulled back from the camera, tilting it's head at it before looking very satisfied with itself! It made the phone do the thing! Don't mind it rushing offscreen and making adorable baby crocodile noises.

At which point, Caster's own voice could be heard: ]

Little One...we've been over this. I am not comfortable addressing the entire Network so soon after-

[More insistent crocodile noises! Before another shot of the inside of the bone dragon's mouth as it tried to drag the phone over to her, dropping it on the sofa at her side. And well, look, there was Caster! Without her hooded cloak on, the shot was able to reveal her pointed ears and curled, golden ram-like horns either side of her head. She seemed to be focusing on studying a bottle of Counter-curse potion.]

No. I am not apologising for what happened in June, and I can figure out this ridiculous curse on my own without asking their advice-...hm?

Wait, that light on the screen means- Little One. Did you manage to turn it on by yourself??

[Ergh. She quickly grabbed the phone and- yes, that was definitely recording.

Well, with a sigh of resignation, she decided to just go along with it. She had to save her own pride somehow- even if it was lacking the usual confidence her broadcasts had in the past.]

Good evening, Avalon. I- for those new here, I am known as 'Caster'.

I gather I'm not the only one affected by the current situation. Whoever's responsible for this has a terrible sense of humour.

...Aside from trying to work out how to make my wardrobe accommodate this mess- [A gesture to her horns and currently ill-fitting skirt] -there's been another matter on my mind recently.

What motivations do you all have for trying to save the worlds? You don't have to be specific if you're concerned I'll use the information against you, but...it's something I've been trying to figure out for myself recently.

...

[An awkward silence as she tried to work out if there was anything else to say, before she ended the broadcast.]

Comments

[corruptedsave]

Basically, to a point. I haven't been able to do exactly what I want to do, since I'm not able to do things as I did back home.

[Probably too many children, someone should do like a poll or something to find out.]

[colchismagecraft]

Hm...Did you come from a world where you possessed magic also, then?

[Was that what they meant, when they said they couldn't do what they did back home?]

[corruptedsave]

I guess you could call it magic, in a way. It was more like, how an attribute I have affected the world? That attribute doesn't really work the same way here.

[colchismagecraft]

Ah. Something part of your nature, I assume.

...It was the same for me when I arrived here. It's certainly a disconcerting feeling, isn't it?

[corruptedsave]

You'd assume right, Miss.

... And yeah, it's off-putting, to say the least.

[colchismagecraft]

It is...being human again was certainly an odd experience.

[Was this child always human? She couldn't be sure from what they said of the 'attributes' they had lost.]

[corruptedsave]

Hm, well for me it was being alive again!

[That's their little secret that they will never share.]

[colchismagecraft]

You were a spirit, back home?

[Such a young child...it worried her, what came to pass for a child that young to-]

[corruptedsave]

I guess that's one way of putting it? I wasn't aware of anything happening until a certain something woke me up though.

[colchismagecraft]

Interesting...were you summoned, as I was, then?

[corruptedsave]

Kind of, although the person doing the calling wasn't doing it on purpose.

[colchismagecraft]

You'd be surprised how often that happens.

[She's sure at least one Servant in the last war was an accidental summoning.]

[corruptedsave]

Heh, well I would hope in your world it's not done the same way I was called. Since mine involved a lot of people dying.

[Genocide route is one hell of a drug.]

[colchismagecraft]

[Interesting...]

Not usually, no. Blood can be used for summoning circles, but people getting killed isn't usually a requirement- unless that's the catalyst in itself, of course.

...But lifeforce is a powerful source of Mana.

[corruptedsave]

I dunno what "Mana" is, but like... I'd say it was a catalyst for me, but not through any choice of mine.

It was just how things turned out, unfortunately.

[colchismagecraft]

[Whilst Caster had no way of knowing whether catalysts in this child's world had a similar function to the catalysts in her's, it painted a worrying picture if the 'catalyst' for their summoning was the death of many people... If it were a Heroic Spirit being summoned under those conditions, she'd fully expect them to be a serial killer or something similar.]

...As is often the way with these sorts of things. One rarely has a choice as to where or when they are summoned.

[corruptedsave]

[Chara would be a horrible Heroic Spirit, all things considered.]

I guess you're right, and well none of that matters now. We were brought here via different means anyway.

[colchismagecraft]

[Yes. Yes they would.]

Mm. This world is truly a strange one, isn't it?

[corruptedsave]

Very, yet not too different from home in some ways too.