Calvin did a thing

[in_over_his_head]

[Not too long ago the Command Car belonging to the 13th Genoace Team returned from parts unknown. Interestingly it seems to be festooned with rather ornate looking spears across its body. About a day or two ago Calvin figured he would try to follow up on one of the clues that the guidestone offered up.]

[While the team itself was no worse for wear, Calvin on the other hand looked like a half drowned rat when he stepped out of the car and was holding onto what looked to be an absurdly ornate egg carved out of solid gold, bearing a number of carvings depicting both death and rebirth.]

[Now sequestered back in his quarters, Calvin is huddled on his chair with a towel and a hot cup of coffee and trying to relax.]

-We hold power beyond imagination.-
-I hold the power to sift through dreams-
-I hold the power of life itself.-

Yes. I'm very sure the both of you do. Pipe down.

[And as it turns out the first artifact, a rather sinister looking mask as well as the egg could speak. And they are clearly not exactly the most benign of objects.]

-You cannot deny us forever.-

Please tell me we have soundproof boxes.

Comments

[itbelongsinamuseum]

...You're talking to somebody who runs around with a god and who lives on a base with the incarnation of a video game system. Or something like that.

Do they have anything interesting to say?

[in_over_his_head]

Just the usual spiel you'd get from the kind of things that try lead people into temptation and ruin.

-That is false... that is not what we would cause.-
-We would bring... prosperity and fortune.-

You both hesitated.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

...How did you even get those things? You seem to gather far more weird stuff than everybody else. Even here.

[in_over_his_head]

First one got handed off to us. Had to follow a map to get the second one.

And if it were up to me I'd have these things dumped into an active volcano, but apparently we need them in one piece AND to keep them away from a Cult that really wants to get the whole set of eight.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

Would be easier if it was just one or the other. Why do makers of ancient magic always have to make it difficult?

[in_over_his_head]

Because their concept of right and wrong tends to be near incomprehensible to people today?

[Calvin simply shrugs.]

That or life is just that complicated in general.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

You'd think some of the people who made it would actually be reasonable, wouldn't you?

Still a problem either way.

[in_over_his_head]

That hope's always there. I mean if they found a way to do what is by our standards completely impossible, they had to have developed some kind of morality along the way not to mess up whoever came after.

Still always a mess we got to deal with.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

You'd think they were also smart enough to understand the trouble that making the magic completely uncooperative would cause.