riverviewlogs | Chandra Catch-All

who: Chandra and YOU
what: Catch-All for April
when: Throughout April
where: All Sorts of Places
warnings: Um? Fire warning?

Note: If you want a specific prompt, or to spitball ideas, you can either cash me on plurk (Rakath) or PM this journal. Or just throw something at me. I'm easy!

01. Communal Housing Building

So there are these things, called stairs? Chandra doesn't see the point of them. Cause she figured out the balconies are just the right height to climb. Okay, sure, she's cheating and using magic to help her get the height she needs. But the point is she hasn't climbed anything since she was on Kaladesh. And that was a while ago.

So for anyone staying on any floor, yes even up to floor ten, there's a weird redhead climbing up the balcony side and onto your landing. Maybe stoping to catch her breath. View the city from up here. Wow, what a view. Talk to this lunatic?

02. The Abandoned City

Chandra is not an artisan, or an artist, her only creative skill is... well, she's very good at burning things down. Which might make her an odd choice for someone charged with exploring the woods and mapping new areas. But, she is, and she's got a system.

Chandra is perched on the side of a building looking out of the outer wall. She's got a larg wooden board, with hinges built in so it can collapsed to something a bit smaller. She's using her magic to burn paths and details into the board, adding details to the map she can see from within the wall, and remember from when she was out there.

Burning details and routes and... places she set fires, into the wood to make a map. Of course, this map wasn't very portable, but she took it to the people that added her survey to the other surveys to make better maps. Although they got a bit mad how often her maps included fires.

03. Outside the Wall - Waterfall

"SWEET!" Chandra found a clearing with a huge waterfall, a pool, and some stones. It didn't have a long stream to float down, but it was a bit of water she could laze in. And, well, Chandra's work ethic is dubious at best.

She did make sure the pool was sea monster free, danced the perimeter looking for monsters, then she came back to the pool. She shedded her gauntlet, plate, and then her chainmail. Down to the tunic and wraps she wore under her armor and splashed into the water happily, like a child on vacation. Laying on her back floating in the water. "This plane isn't too bad."

04. Outside the Wall - Tall Grass

The weather had taken a turn for the rainy, but that hardly bothered Chandra. Rain was fine, she hadn't set fire to it... but oh man she wanted to try. No, no, later, for now she was exploring and making some marks on her map.

Yes, yes she wrote her maps in burnt wood. But if you think rain is enough to douse her you're totally wrong. She was wandering around, pushing grass and brances out of her way when she heard something.

"Char"

Hmm. Chandra stops and listens, she found a little lizard... thing, orange and its tail had a tiny little flame on it. Trying to keep itself out of the rain in a little hollowed out stump. "Hey..."

"Charmander"

The thing was trying to keep its tail lit. Well, isn't that something. It was trying to press back into the back away from her. Chandra lit her hair on fire to try and make nice. Wild Charmander is confused. "Okay, let's try again, do you need to get out of here?"

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"I can't really fly, but I can make small explosions and that's usually enough to throw me far enough up a building, or over a canyon." Chandra's real casual talking about this, like being able to make small explosions is normal. Then again she's talking to someone with alien bits and she's not too bothered by that. "I'm a pyromancer, fire magic. Climbing a building is nothing."

She smiles, "Not sure who Tom is, but I don't really care what other people do. I just do my own thing."

"You just... Toss yourself around. With explosions!?" That had to be legitimately the least safe method of travel he has ever heard of in his life.

"Christ, how are you still alive- No, don't answer that." She mentioned magic. Wikus is pretty sure any sort of logic goes out the window when someone mentions magic. He pinches the bridge of his nose. "Fokken magic, man"

Magic isn't supposed to exist, what is his life.

"Well, only when the other option is worse?" You only do that when you have a very good reason to do it. She isn't insane. She just knows that sometimes you need to jump really high to escape an enemy.

Although the air around Chandra was decidedly warmer than it was when she climbed up, this guy is very angry and it's kinda rubbing Chandra the wrong way, "Hey! I haven't said a thing about your weird inhuman bits, don't get all angry about my magic."

Chandra wasn't on fire... yet.

Wikus's widen when Chandra mentions his 'weird inhuman bits' then looks offended at her for bringing it up. Backing away from the railing, he crossed his arms and hunches up.

"Hey, I wasn't talking about your magic, I was talking about all magic. It's not supposed to fokken exist, man." Yes. That definitely sounds less insulting towards Chandra's magic.

He adds a petulant, "And if you didn't want to see people when they're not publicly presentable then you shouldn't be creeping around their balconies."

There's a definite light in Chandra's eyes, a glow of magic. Oh, the railing is starting to glow from the heat she's pressing into it with her hand. "That's the sorta thinking that had me nearly executed. 'Magic's not suppose to exist.'"

"I don't care, you be whatever you are, don't tell me I'm not suppose to exist."

"Whoa, whoa, hey!" Backing further away, he shoots furtive glances at the patio doors, wondering if he should just cut and run.

Lifting his hands in a hopefully placating gesture he tries to clarify. "Look, I'm not- I'm not passing moral judgments here, man! I don't mean that it shouldn't exist, as in people should get rid of it, I'm just saying-" Deep breath, Wikus.

"Look, where I'm from, magic isn't real. It's just- just made-up stories, man! So it's really fokken weird to me that it does exist here.

"I don't- I definitely don't think you should be executed, okay?"

Please don't set him on fire.

"This isn't your plane, you should get used to things being new," this was obviously why only Planeswalkers should planeswalk. The very notion of getting used to new rules seemed so foreign to some folks. Honestly, this shouldn't be so hard.

"You should be more mindful of what you say. I can't be the only one who had the law decide to frame me to make it easier to snuff my fire out. Well, not fire for everyone, just me." She was getting distracted, which helped cool her down as she tried to remember where the point was and what color it was. "I should keep going, the view is probably better from of the higher floors."

"Right, yeah, you got it, man," Wikus says, hands still up in the air, his heart pounding. "Think before I speak. Enjoy, uh, enjoy the rest of your trip."

Please leave the balcony so he can wheeze quietly to himself and deal with the fact that he's still kind of a coward under normal circumstances.

Chandra Catch-All

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