ASH: Shadow Girls Bonus Track #6.5 - Too Cool for School?

[Drew Nilium]

On 3/28/23 6:39 PM, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
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> [Editor's Note: this is a scene that I realized later probably needed to have
> happened earlier.  Rather than try to shoehorn it into the escalating action
> of the currently-being-written issue (#11), it is presented as a standalone
> "bonus track" set between the first and second arcs.]

:D Nice, extra for the TPB.

>       Saturday night at the Clock Tower was always busy, although between the
> cloak and dagger ambience and the extensive (and expensive) privacy
> shielding, it could be hard to tell sometimes.  The only real way to tell was
> by the wait to get a table...and sometimes they made people wait just to
> obfucscate that point.  All part of the theme.

X3

>       Maddie frowned.  "Do you think there's some sort of gods-damned Prophecy
> here?"
>       Jessa shrugged.  "Could be.  We know the gems are divine in nature, and
> gods are known to wear ruts in the structure of reality to make sure that
> their favorite stories keep coming to pass.  Superpowers and magic all break
> the laws of nature, but prophecy and legends are kind of like the gods paving
> a path that nature has trouble growing over."

Hmmmmmm. *nodnods*

>       "And assuming he's a false front," Jessa added, "for whom?  Umbrae
> certainly has the ability to make this work, and I can think of a couple of
> reasons he might want a replacement bogeyman...or women...now that Warden's
> gone.

Indeed. X>

>       "I'll keep digging, and I'm sure you will, but the whole Origin Story
> here just stinks to high heaven of someone wanting the Morning Stars active
> *here* and *now*.  Whether we agree with their reasons, much less LIKE them,
> doesn't mean they won't act against our attempts to weasel out of things.
> Looks like you've got students whether you like it or not."
>       Maddie took a long pull from her drink.  "WE'VE got students."

:D <3

>       I'd initially thought of this as a talk with Beth, but decided that the
> whole "we have to talk in code" would make that too annoying and implausible,
> even though she'd be more likely to know about things like the Godmarket and
> any divine monkeybusiness.  (But not divine-monkey business, I'm not doing
> Sun Wukong this time around.)

X3

Drew "more like journey to the *worst*" Nilium