have the light of day obscured

[msglam]

You guys captured Purity?

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[first_and_final]

He laughs and kisses her.

"Well, which would you prefer? Another hour here, or immediate weapons testing?"

[msglam]

"Well, if we go weapons testing, we'll return home earlier and you can sleep over again and so we'll have longer uninterrupted time. Plus, I really like the effect explosions have on you."

[first_and_final]

"Weapons testing it is, then!"

[msglam]

So Sadde has to find clothes for herself because even if she's going out in costume, she shouldn't go naked under it.

[first_and_final]

Ah, yes. Clothes. What a terrible thing.

[msglam]

Verily. But being arrested for public indecency wouldn't look good in either of their resumes so, clothes it is. "Ready to go? What's the testing schedule?"

[first_and_final]

"Lots of personal weapons, stuff I could theoretically take on patrol, not necessarily to an Endbringer fight."

[msglam]

"Cool. Any particular reason?"

[first_and_final]

"I'm annoyed by my current scarcity of options."

[msglam]

"Scarcity of options?"

She is now clothed. Is he also clothed?

[first_and_final]

Yes, yes he is.

"I mean - if I'd had a different force staff when I was fighting Purity, I could have knocked her around without knocking her out of the air. If I'd had more stun wand combinations than just the basic silver when I was fighting Hookwolf, I could have tried something that might've actually taken him down instead of just throwing him into walls until he got fed up and left. It's theoretically possible to build all this stuff, I just don't know how yet. So I want to learn."

[msglam]

"Fair enough, I suppose." She grabs her keys and opens the door and asks, "Shall we?"

[first_and_final]

Off they go!

[mxglam]

And eventually Sadde suits up and flies them out into the ocean again.

[first_and_final]

Ashras tests out a succession of varyingly gentle magic weapons.

"If only your conjured items didn't respond to expectations I could have you conjure a fake Hookwolf for me to stun repeatedly..."

[msglam]

"I can't make people."

[first_and_final]

"Are you sure?"

[msglam]

"I haven't been able to."

[first_and_final]

"How hard have you tried? I mean, I don't necessarily want you making real people, but fake or decoy people seem like a useful resource. And you can already make objects that do things. Propellers that propel, that sort of thing. I bet you could make a copy of your suit that behaved in a plausibly you-like way without a you actually in it."

[msglam]

"...maybe. I hadn't thought of the suit idea."

[first_and_final]

"Let's see if it works! It's going to work."

[msglam]

She grins and kisses him. "There's no reason why I could conjure my suit on me and not not on me. So I'm gonna conjure it not on me," she reasons, and-

[mxglam]

-there it is!

[first_and_final]

"Adorable," pronounces Ashras, gazing at the suit, which is obviously going to behave just as Sadde does when Ashras calls them adorable.

[msglam]

"You're adorable," Sadde and suit say at the same time, then look at each other and blink. "Whoa," they say at the same time.