Kind of Magic {Agent B52/HiddenBeauty13}

[Agent B52]

"Just for the record, this looks unsafe." Gregory commented. Jospeh scoffed at the triple image of his friend as he adjusted the circle of glowing green runes a final time.

"Look, I've been through this a couple of times, I know what I'm doing." he told the trio. "The only reason why it usually isn't done this way is because it burns through willpower like adventurers through cheap brew."

"More like, their red-clad wizard friend burns through cheap brew." the Gregories muttered.

"I heard that!" Joseph said, feigning insult. The fighters smirked at him.

"Besides, I am perfectly capable of holding my liquor." the wizard added, adjusting his pointy hat so it would stop wobbling in tune with the floorboards.

"Hence the reason you're currently hanging onto the table for dear life." snarked the Gregories.

"Am not!" To demonstrate, Joseph let go and took a few steps towards the only clear space in his father's workshop: That of the teleport circle itself. Now if only the room would just stop spinning so much, he could demonstrate his clarity more clearly. As he turned to face his friend again, the entire room lurched to the right nearly costing him his footing. Catching himself Joseph gave a jovial bow, as if he meant to tumble on purpose.

"See?" he said.

“Er…”

"Now to test-fire this thing. Just gimme a minute, the motions were something like this I think." Joseph said, as he wracked his brain for the proper activation rite. Slowly going through the motions and invocations, he finished just in time to see the entire room vanish in a dazzling arrange of colours normally associated with space-time going 'Wait, you want to WHAAA!?'.

As he hurtled through time and space, Joseph reflected that in hindsight test-running an activation spell while on top of a possibly unstable teleport array was a spectacularly bad idea. A light, brighter than the others, approached him, slowly at first but rapidly gaining speed. Hurtling through the ether, his red robe fluttering around him on non-existent winds, his last spoken words struck him as just plain… terrible.

Wizards routinely took to the skies while gesturing and shouting, but Joseph found this occasion unique nonetheless. Flailing his arms while screaming "SHIII-" at the top of his lungs, the collapsing teleport spell violently vomited him out into the regular plane with the force of a cannonball.

He awoke an estimated three seconds later with a close up view of a grassy knoll. Slowly extrapolating which way was up from the way the ground seemed to be oriented, he groggily got to his feet, taking a moment to observe his surroundings.

"-it." he finished his sentence. This, most definitely, was not the room he was aiming for. On the flip side, he was breathing, in one piece, and most importantly, still had his robe and hat.

[HiddenBeauty13]

In the grassy fields a little ways from the castle laid the trainning grounds for priests and priestess. It was like any old typical training grounds with weapons, test subjects and arrogant youngsters, though, the only thing it lacked was an outdoor restroom.

"Raine willl you hurry up? Master Goven is going to get us if we arn't back in a little bit."

"Hey, you can't rush such a delicate process, Lola." The princess replied as she squatted behind one of the many trees that inhabited the area. Unfortunately, she'd forgotten to go the restroom before she let the castle and now, this was her consequence: peeing in public. Lola paced back and forth for a few moments before letting out a sigh of frustration.

"Ah, forget it. I'm leaving you."

The princess simply shrugged. "Fine, I'll catch up with you later then." Raine listened as Lola ran back to wherever Master Goven wanted them that day. She's so impatient, I was almost done... she thought and proceeded to pull up her underwear when there was a loud yell and thud a few feet in front of her. Raine watched in amazement as someone in a bright red robe seemed to appear out of thin air.

"What the helll....?" She wondered out loud then remembered that she was still exposed from the waist down. Flushing, Raine quickly pulled up her cotton pants before deciding to approach the stranger. "Who are you?"

[Agent B52]

There was a moment of glorious legs, quickly covered up by a rather plain set of pants. Joseph made a disappointed sound, but chose to focus on the more important eyes of the young woman he had apparently intruded on.

"Who are you?"

Joseph staggered to his feet, the ground still swaying treacherously beneath him, and gave himself a quick run down. A few dirt stains on his robes, the smell from the old cafe wafting off him in waves and what appeared to be a massive training ground around him. This called for a witty, intelligent reply full of carefully measured expressions that would coach the lady into taking him in as well as shedding some light as to his current location. In other words the exact opposite of what his alcohol addled mind was capable of. To buy time he began his words spaced out, the kind of dramatic pauses intended to have audiences wonder after each word what was coming next.

"I... am..."

Oh bugger this.

"-currently, about as drunk as I am lost. That is to say, very. Joseph Langley, at your service ma'am." he said, making a shaky sort of bow. Oh crap there went his balance again. Looking up from the ground, the wizard decided that nope, this was not the first impression he'd hoped to make.

"If I could find some place to sober up ma'am, you'll find me a great deal more capable than I may at first appear, as well as rather grateful." he said.

[HiddenBeauty13]

If Raine wasn't the serious person that she was, she probably would have bust out laughing at the obviously drunk male. Ah, poor guy. If Master Goven finds him, he'll punish him way worst that he'll punish me. The princess thought as he introduced himself. She actually had to bite her lip once he'd face planted the ground once more.

"If I could find some place to sober up ma'am, you'll find me a great deal more capable than I may at first appear, as well as rather grateful." he said.

After thinking about helping him for another moment, she sighed a bit and went to help him to his feet. "All right. Just don't say anything or you'll get us caught." Raine instructed as she placed one of his arms around her shoulder, then began to lead him through the dense trees. They wouldn't be easily spotted but any loud noise could alert one of the many trainers and trainees on the field.

[Agent B52]

"Hmmh." Joseph hummed in reply, pinching his lips together with the hand he did not wrap around her shoulder. Up close, the smell of the young woman began to permeate his nostrils. It was not a bad sensation at all he decided, leaning in a bit.

"Sooo... Where am I exactly and what's a beauty like you doing here?" he whispered to her as she led him through the artificial forest. Obviously, it was a training centre of sorts, with the noises of painful lessons being handed out and received clearly audible in the background. Unless he was severely mistaken, he could hear the muted thuds of arrows striking their targets in the background.

[HiddenBeauty13]

(if we already came up with a name for the kingdom and i put it wrong, I'll change it later lol)

The smell of alcohol suddenly filled her nose, making the girl grimace a little. Using a finger, Raine gently pushed his face a few inches back. "Well, you're in the kingdom of Alomina." She said, answering his first question but hesitated a bit before answering the second one. The princess was well known throughout the kingdom, so why didn't he know who she is? Instead of answering right away, she decided to counteract with her own before revealing her own identity. "Where did you come from? I swear you appeared out of thin air..." While I was pissing.... Raine thought with a slight roll of her eyes. Alteast she'd managed to pull up her pants in time before he could see anything.

[Agent B52]

((IIRC, we did not.))

"Alomina?" Joseph said, brow furrowed in thought.

"Never heard of the place. That teleport must've thrown me further off than I thought." he mused out loud. He was about to explain more in depth when his inner showman tag-teamed with his sense of pride to overwhelm his current stupor. He couldn't just tell random strangers he'd made a colossal mistake now had he?

"I was kind of in a panic. Had to get away really fast, you see." Joseph said matter of factly, brain conjuring up some contrived story. It'd probably involve demons at some point, and he had to figure out how to engineer in a situation where he wound up as inebriated as he was now.

[HiddenBeauty13]

(Okie okie~)

Teleporter? How in the world did he get his hands on something so...powerful. We don't even have those just yet... Raine thought and glanced down at the man. She was barely paying attention to his little explanation when she asked yet another question. "Where did you get that teleporter from?" She asked and then helped him over a fallen tree. In the distance, they could see the outline of the castle where the royal family resided come into view. Almost there....

[Agent B52]

"Cult I barged in on had it in their basement. Don't ask me how they got that there, probably had something to do with whatever plans they have, or rather, had with summoning a bunch of demons to sic 'em on the city guard. I was running out of options at the time, so I hopped in there and activated it as a gamble. Should probably take my time to explain this a little, but it all started when this fighter friend of mine came up to me one day with questions about a certain glyph that was popping up all over the place." Joseph rambled, slowly putting one foot over the log and then the other. Something about keeping quiet popped up in his mind, but he ignored it in favour of trying to stay upright. His eye caught the outline of something artificial in the distance.

"I don't want to sound impressed, but whoa, that's a castle." he remarked as the sheer size of the building began to dawn on him. It was easily as tall as the tower he grew up in, and obviously covered an area several times larger as well. Oh yeah, story time.

"Er, where was I again?" he asked.

[HiddenBeauty13]

Raine simply shook her head. "Uhm, you were done. Yeah....you were done telling your adventure on how you got to the teleporter." She told him, hoping it would shut him up for a while. Once she heard his statement about the castle, the princess really became confused as to where this guy was from. So he's never heard of this kingdom, nor has he ever seen a castle as big as this one...interesting... She pondered for a moment before continuing to lead the man towards the castle. Soon, they were just a few feet away when she heard a tsk behind her.

"So, that's where you've been, huh? Carrying around men in bright red robes." Raine recognized the voice immediately: it was Lola.

The princess simply nodded. "Yes, that's exactly what I've been doing. Why does it concern you?"

"Because! One, I am your friend and I wouldn't let you go around with random stranders and, two, Master Goven is furious since you never came back from using the restroom--"

"Ya know, actually, this is my cousin." Raine thought of a quick lie. "He was looking for me, said something about my mother needing me. Isn't that right Cousin Joseph?"