Network; @XXDARK_STARXX

[omniavincit]

WHO: William and WHATEVER STUPID HANDLE YOUR CHARACTER IS USING
WHAT: Breaking in the network.
WHERE: The information...two-lane country road.
WHEN: Whenever you like (pre- or post-event...or lmao during...is fine)!

[ If one of the handles William selected at random from his phone's perplexing contacts list belongs to you, congratulations! That device you slipped in your pocket? Or squinted at in confusion? Or immediately fumbled, if you're William and can't seem to shake your current spell of bad luck?

It makes a noise. ]

FROM: @xxDARK_STARxx

What do the shadows look like to you?

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[ragnarsson]

I'd be glad to. You're the second person in this place to ask for a story.

[Not that he's complaining. Ivar will gladly tell tales of what happened in his life and that of his family. No one ever dies so long as there is someone around to tell a story about them.]

A spell? What do I look like, a sorcerer? What I wrote down was runes.

[omniavincit]

[ He has a pretty good guess who the other person was. ] They're in short supply. It'd be nice to change that.

I don't know what you look like. [ Might be a little early to start joking with the Viking, William. ] But that's how they started, right? Words were magic.

What do you think of all this?

[ragnarsson]

I am no storyteller, but I can still spin a tale upon occasion.

[Almost any Northman could, considering there wasn't much else to do in the winter besides tell stories and have sex to keep warm.] Words do have power in them, this is true. But they must be harnessed the right way.

I've never heard of a world that looked like this one, not in all my stories. But there appears to be many more then I ever thought possible.

[omniavincit]

[ Maybe he'll think back on this later and the phrasing will give him pause. Right now, though, it's a comfort and a relief—especially in a world where language seems to have been so carefully effaced. ] Would you teach me them? The runes.

Do you think we're still connected to Yggdrasil?

[ragnarsson]

I will if you wish. You are lucky. Most Norsemen don't know them.

[They were not a culture with a great written tradition. Runes were more used as symbols of power then anything else.]

All worlds connect to the great tree. If they didn't, everything would collapse inwards until there was nothing left.