nonscriptum: if you put a vegetable on there, so help me God (I'll have one meat lovers pizza please)
𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚔𝚎 ([personal profile] nonscriptum) wrote2019-12-08 12:08 am
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[ The competition, my partner, the target. Stephen's smile, losing its sheen, takes on the looser quirk of genuinely rapt interest. He leans over his lap to rest his elbow on his thigh, closing slight distance, getting into the story. ]

Easy as pie.

[ Or not, as the case quite obviously is. ]
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[ Eyebrows: up. Smile: bemused. The reality of the story isn't funny at all but context changes the flavor, gives it shine. Or maybe it's just the temperament of the audience. Either way, Nate's playing to a crowd of one, but it's still storytime over drinks. ]

So when you say "fell out of a plane", this is after attempts were made to bodily launch you out.

[ And into the desert. Incredible. ]

I'd have included that in the pitch.

[ Do go on. ]
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[ His brows are rising steadily higher as the story progresses. This is, dare he even think it, some Avengers style shit. The trials and tribulations of an action adventure hero, he will never know them. But it's very nearly a relief to finally be told them by the man who parkoured himself to avoiding death by vampire. ]

There are at least three looming death sentences in this story so far. Impeccable, carry on.

[ If he'd known he was to be so thoroughly treated he'd have bought Nate a gift. ]
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[ Ridiculous as his life might be, this is on a whole other level. When you're a sorcerer, the entirely unfathomable is standard practice - he lives a fantasy life, he knows that. Normal, human peril, this kind of peril, is something he'll never encounter.

He'd get out of it the same way he got out of dying of exposure on Mt. Everest. A sling ring, easy. But Nate is no magic-user. He's a man who, and this is becoming a notable pattern now, has just survived the highly improbable, only to find himself facing a slow demise at the hands of Mother Nature.

That this man lived long enough to make it to his second cross-universal abduction is honestly astounding.

In spite of the dire situation, Nate's telling of the story is animated and engaging. He shoves a wedge between the tale and the gravity required of considering reality in the way that all good storytellers can. Stephen doesn't feel the need to keep the obvious rapt enjoyment out of his expression. ]


Okay, Bear Grylls. How did you make it through that one?