after dinner

[dragonhoard]

[...] Has anyone seen my watch?

[Blaise & Charlotte]

Hey. My name's Adrian. I'm going to be the head archivist here so I guess I'm your boss, sort of. [...] What did you guys do before this?

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[dragonhoard]

I noticed it was missing before I even opened my suitcase. It's not in here.

[desseller]

Unless there's truly more ghosts than me in here, and they've taken it.

[dragonhoard]

I wouldn't put it past this place.

[Cyprien]
I did bring a few [...] moderately haunted artifacts with me.

[desseller]

It's a little offensive we got the most haunted house room, but I suppose that doesn't help explain your watch.

[Adrian]
Hm. Would any of them be particularly upset to be displaced from their former home?

[dragonhoard]

I kind of like it.

[Cyprien]
They're not like you. They don't really do much besides rattle the cabinets. [...] Sometimes if you take a picture of them there's an orb.

[desseller]

Homier than expected. I'll admit.

[Adrian]
Rattling implies they want out of the cabinets. Don't you worry about that?

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

Well if I just leave them out they get dusty.

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

I think there's free cleaning service, here.

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

I don't need people touching my things.

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

Any more than they apparently are already.
It wasn't me, by the way, I'm incapable, don't go through my trunks.

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

I didn't think it was you. [...] You can't touch anything?

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

Not easily.

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

What's that mean?

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

That I’ve got to use another body or implement itself to do the touching. Inconvenient.

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

Possession. Interesting. Do you get to control the person, or are you more of a passenger?

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

I am driving, as it were. The person retains their consciousness, somewhere in the back of their own skull.
[...] For courtesy's sake, I don't do it too often, only in emergencies unannounced.

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

Emergencies like what?

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

I don't know. Say if I have to get somewhere quickly. Though honestly, I've found it's quite rare to need feet and opposable thumbs at the same time, we're spoiled as a species.

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

Interesting. How do you move around usually? Why's it slow?

[...] Not that this particularly matters, anyway. You wouldn't be able to get into my head without permission.

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

Well. Now I can teleport, and these are all problems of the past, anyhow.

I was not going to possess you, anyway, I'm polite.
But why couldn't I?

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

Very useful, but you didn't answer the question.

Draconic magic. My mother's a very powerful enchantress. She doesn't like people getting in my head.

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

It's a dull answer. I float very slowly, until I possess a bird, or a creature, and then it's more quickly.

You can give all my regards your mother. I won't undo her work.
A dragon, though. Interesting. The enchanting, is that hereditary as well?

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

But why? You aren't a physical thing. Does it exert you to move around like that?

She doesn't need to know what I'm up to. I'd be curious to see if I could hold the door open for you, if you ever need to borrow a body. And if you don't mind the possibility of getting your hand stuck in the jam if it shuts unexpectedly.

Yes.

Adrian/Cyprien

[desseller]

No. I don't get tired. I'm just beholden to most of the rules of distance, and space, if not gravity and time. [...] I have not figured out why, yet, for any of this.

Yes? I'd be interested to experiment, if it wouldn't get you in trouble with your mother. I'd be able to shift back together again, anyway. What kind of enchantments can you do?

Adrian/Cyprien

[dragonhoard]

How close do you have to be to something to possess it?

Anything, theoretically. [...] It's not really my area of expertise.