Kitchen carving

Air Date: 25/7/2001

5 Sep 2000, Tuesday

Casey makes something to eat, mostly to see if Neo can be lured away from the console by smell alone. It sort of works and Neo gets distracted from the game and guilted and bribed into giving Casey a go. Casey leaps on before he gets a chance and see what can be played. He plays for quite a while before looking over at Mary who is doing some homework. Deciding to play just /1/ one more game and then quit :) Casey plays for a while longer before stopping for food.

Neo has recharged his food intake so he leaps onto the console when Casey goes hunting.

Dragging stuff from the freezer, Casey asks Mary, how the stuff goes with the scoobies and vamps and stuff.

"Oh. Good. We have our own magical wall now. Because we experimented on Glitch. And I know how to do it now. Magic's just like mathematics and latin, with some theology and stuff mixed in too. Its all about channeling forces and belief into some object and then... " Mary hasnt looked up and is just finishing reading some chapter of, no its just a text book.

"Move over Willow here comes Mary, huh?" interupts Faith, who, startles Casey somewhat, being right behind him.

Mary looks up startled.

"Argh! Man, don't do that... sheesh. Who's Willow? And do you want dinner?" says Casey, waving a packet of something or other about the place.

Faith walks over to the fridge and starts pulling out stuff and throwing it on the bench. "Just one of B's friends. Got into the dark mojo in a big way...."

Casey leans over to Mary while Faith is talking and looking in the fridge and quietly says "Chat to you later about it? The magic stuff, I mean..."

"..made herself a little pain in the arse for the boss." She takes a bite of something and mutters a bit, before spitting the bit into the bin. ".. but that was before I went sleepies. She's more kick arse now apparently. Got a little scooby of her own and all." She starts dumping stuff in the bin. "Pizza, I vote." Walking over to the sink, she picks up a knife and idly plays with it. "Hey, brainiacs, whats a sword made of? Like you got anythin' stronger?"

"Steel. And probably. I mean, there's steel alloys and stuff that are stronger than just plain steel. Unless its an old sword, in which case it might be just iron, and steel will be stronger. I knew this guy in the SCA, he used to make them from bronze I think and they'd cut wood, but if you hit a metal bar, they'd deform and bend. Harder like that? Um. Well, you could try getting a sword at an army disposals place. They're not sharp or anything, but they are steel. I think. Something a sword can't cut through. Stone?"

"Stone? Yeah. Err, no, I mean this Orme guy, probably he's got a sword right? So I need to work out how to beat that. If he's a crusader, then I cant really get more experiance than him before we throw down, but I guess Im gunna need a sword or a few of them, 'cause I need to practice and I got an idea on how I can beat a sword, but I need to test it. Yeah. Real swords. Thats what I need. Case, can you get some? Not play stuff, I might have to fight some demon with them, so I dont want no bent bronze thing."

Casey sighs. "One day someone's going to come back here and give me the low down from the start, so I don't have to ask all these stupid questions." Casey looks a bit sad. "Um, I can make some enquiries, I guess. I can ask Mark, that guy in the SCA. Or check out some of the serious kung fu guys, some of them have real swords."

Faith suddenly goes serious and snaps, "Hey, look all I know is that theres a daddy vamp who used to hack people up. Figure either me of dainty little Jayde are gunna have to kill him. And I also figure that, worst case, he's gunna be swingin' a sword. What else is there to know? Oh, Kung Fu guys. Great idea." Faith walks over and grabs the phone books, tossing them onto the kitchen table that Mary's studying on. She walks up to Casey and flips out her knife from under her shirt. "You wanna know everything? Huh? Well I figure this Ill cut a sword. It cuts everything else Ive tried it on. Slices through like butter. Wanna test it before I bet my life on it tho. There. Magic knife. Now you know. Happy now?" Faith looks down at Mary. "And you too, Nancy Drew?"

Casey gives Faith a long, neutral look. "Well, you seem to have it in hand. The disposal places will be in there too. I'll flip Mark some mail and see what he says. No charge." He turns and heads back to watch Neo shoot bugs.

Faith grabs his arm and spins him round. "Hey!"

Casey tries to keep his body language away from neutral, but not be annoyed either. "So I'm trying to help." He leans in close "But I can't help if no one will tell me what is going on. Its like I'm getting every third word in a long sentance." Casey glances towards Mary, hoping she's heard. "So, you want my $.02c, you got it. With compliments. I'll go and find you a sword."

Faith stares at Casey for a second before grabbing his shirt by the collar and yanking his out into the hall. A faint "Erp!" from Mary sounds from the kitchen.

Continued for: mary and casey.

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