MoM IC Contact

[khajidont]

Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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[rathercommon]

How about Reyes of Sunshine? Check that one

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[khajidont]

Not taken either! Man you're quick with these. Forget revolution I think we found your true calling.

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[rathercommon]

Oh, God. Being a public enemy is one thing - I don't think I could deal with the hatred I'd get if I composed puns for a living.

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[khajidont]

You're going to have to deal with it between dimensions. One day I'm going to have my own office named reyes of sunshine and I'm going to blame you right on the sign

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[rathercommon]

NO

OK that does it, I'm getting new papers and a new identity. Say goodbye to Kitty Jones.

(What sort of office?)

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[khajidont]

Don't underestimate me. I'll find your new fake name just like that.

Dentist's office

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[rathercommon]

Seriously? Dentist?

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[khajidont]

Yeah.

I don't think it's such a bad job

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[rathercommon]

Why that job specifically?

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[khajidont]

Well I mean it's a job where I know I'd be helping people which is a plus

[Business, or law? That can help people, but it's so ambiguous. He'll just stick to cleaning teeth.]

But mostly the pay's really really good.

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[rathercommon]

That's really practical. I'm impressed.

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[khajidont]

Most people just think that's a boring reason. But practical works for me

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[rathercommon]

The point of a job is earning money, not having fun. Obviously it oughtn't be miserable, but really. Earning money ought to be amongst the primary reasons you take a job.

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[khajidont]

I dunno there's a lot of people out there who have big dreams about what they want to do for a living.

What do you want to do? Or did you want to do, if you weren't busy with the changing the world gig?

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[rathercommon]

[ A bit of a pause. ]

Honestly, I haven't the faintest idea. If I weren't involved with it all, I suppose I'd have become a secretary like I was supposed to.

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[khajidont]

I find that kinda hard to imagine

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[rathercommon]

I seem a bit too energetic for a desk job, I suppose? Honestly, though, I wouldn't have minded it, really. It's one of the best jobs a commoner can have - it's safe, the pay is good. Butlers get paid better, but they also don't get to go home at the end of the day. If the world had been different, it would have been OK.

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[khajidont]

Yeah something like that. It's definitely not a bad job or anything just not one I'd think of

But what if you weren't a commoner?

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[rathercommon]

Then I'd be a magician and the best thing I could do would be to find some hut out on some windswept island where I couldn't do any harm to anyone.

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[khajidont]

So if you're a magician you're just gonna be flat out evil?

There's no like businessmen or doctors or whatever else counts as a high paying job?

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[rathercommon]

Their authority (and their right to jobs as businessmen and doctors) comes from their ability to use magic, and magic comes from enslaving spirits. It's POSSIBLE to use magic on the basis of an equal partnership with the spirits, but all of them are brainwashed to think that's not possible. If I'd been raised as a magician, I'd probably think the same way.

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[khajidont]

Oh. Yeah okay I get what you mean now

The imbalance would be bad in the first place even without that extra factor in there but that takes it over the top. And that's what you're fighting to change

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[rathercommon]

Yeah. That's what I'm fighting to change. Not just for us commoners, either...They take kids when they're just five or six years old and train them to be slavers. Train them to be friendless, suspicious, hateful. It's for them, too - all those poor magicians who think this is the way to live. And then become doctors and businessmen and prime ministers and teach the next generation to be just like them.

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[khajidont]

No wonder it takes so much to change it

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[rathercommon]

Yeah. But -- eurgh, sorry. I really didn't mean to get started on something depressing again. I promise I'm capable of having a conversation that doesn't turn into talking about how awful things are back home.