AN ANNOUCEMENT!!!!!!!

[spenstar.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very important announcement to make. I'm sure you're all waiting with bated (or is that baited? wormed? hooked?) breath now, so I'll spare you the preamble. After all, who needs a preamble when ambling is so much more fun?

ANYWAY. Gus and I are opening a brand-new branch of PSYCH, right here in Babylon! That's right -- Santa Barbara's best psychic detective agency is now a Babylon fixture. You can find us at [address], just a few minutes away from Taurus.

Have an unsolvable case? A missing item? Want to talk to Grandma? Come to PSYCH for all your psychic needs!

And this week only, we're running a Grand Opening Special on Baby Location, because I'm sure a couple of you out there are going to need it. No offense, Babylonians -- babies are slippery creatures.

Comments

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Psychic detectives. Feh...

[spenstar.livejournal.com]

Do you have a problem with the psychic part or the detective part?

[Filter: Shawn Spencer]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

As a practitioner in the arts myself, I can always sense a practitioner...which neither of you are. But don't worry, I won't tell anyone.

[Filter: Harry Dresden]

[spenstar.livejournal.com]

That's because I'm not a practitioner, I'm a psychic.

[Filter: Shawn Spencer]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

No, sorry, you aren't. To be psychic, one has to manipulate certain energies in order to gain access to someone else's skull, and as far as I can tell, you have no special energies floating around you.

[Filter: Harry Dresden]

[spenstar.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna let this go, Harry, because I can tell you don't know how things work in my world. I don't manipulate energies, and I don't "gain access" to anyone's skull (which, ew, that sounds kind of gross, actually).

I'm a receptacle, Harry. The spirits, the vibrations, they come to me. They don't just float around.

[Filter: Shawn Spencer]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Alright, kid, whatever you say.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

You don't believe in it?

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Miss, I've seen enough in my career that I don't need belief

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Career? You said you were a practicing wizard, right?

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Yes, as well as a private investigator, police consultant and Warden for the White Council. It keeps me very busy.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

That's what you did in your world, right?

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm good at it. I'd like to think I can do it here too.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Even if things have changed?

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Things may have changed. I haven't.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

I think I understand.

[Filter: Natsume]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I can sense you're something of a practitioner of the arts, but I can't tell what exactly. This place is funky.

[ Filter: Dresden-san ]

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Ah? Practitioner? You might find a lot of those here. This place has a lot of people with "Powers."

[Filter: Natsume]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

I've been noticing, but I haven't had time to talk to many of them. Magic here feels different than what I'm used to, and it makes me uneasy.

[ Filter: Dresden-san ]

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Everyone comes from different worlds. So there's lots of different kinds of "ki" and "Magic." Some people call it different things... I haven't thought about whether or not it's the same...

[Filter: Natsume]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

I'm sure. My magic is based on the ebb and flow of the creation of life, which feels different here. Like the difference between silk and fine sandpaper.

[ Filter: Dresden-san ]

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Ah, I don't know much about that...

[Filter: Natsume]

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Heh, not a problem kid, wasn't expecting you to. I just have a lot to learn, about this new place, my place in it, and everyone's different type of magic, which fascinates me.