Isabella Marie Swan ✝ &quot;Juliet&quot;

He bites his lip and produces a smokily translucent grey square.

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Biting. Hm.

"Are you going to be a vampire?" she asks.

(Considering why she's asking and what happened not an hour ago, she doesn't think she has a right to any more than a practical interest in this question, but she's the one holding the evils and the knowledge of how to use them, so the practical interest is there.)

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"I'm in favour of keeping all the salient benefits," he says cheerfully. "But - immune to sunlight, I think."

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"My form of being dead apparently comes with a highly convenient mechanism for immortality," volunteers Sherlock. "If we layer that with the vampirism we shouldn't need to patch more than sunlight and crosses, and that only for convenience."

Edited Date: 2013-03-14 10:04 pm (UTC)

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"Holy water?" asks Juliet. "And what, pray tell, is this new form of immortality we have?"

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"We can't die; in otherwise fatal circumstances, we briefly lose consciousness and regenerate on the spot with the help of some illusory fire."

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"Holy water," says Sherlock, "sounds like an excellent way to get coins."

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"...I think the traditional way for Bells to get coins out of our helpers involves something called an 'agony beam'," says Juliet. "Although Angela supposedly sings for hers. But if you wish to be vulnerable to holy water I'm not gonna stop you."

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He laughs.

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"I'm going to perfect-recall myself so I don't fumble any of these details when I pull off the merge," Juliet says. And she spends a hex on it - and it won't go. "Weird," she mutters. "Uh, Sherlock-over-there, are there any notes on being dead interacting with installing superpowers?"

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"If you want them to persist through the aforementioned regeneration, you need an evil, but you can load quite a plateful onto same. So you might want to think up a nice stack. Perhaps give yourself temporary perfect recall while you think about it."

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"All right. I do remember seeing a Chart Of Suggested Uses For Hexes in there." Hex. "Ah, there we go, that's lovely. Hmmm."

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"Do you want to staple your Slayerishness back on?"

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"I still have the autopilot. I don't think I want to spawn a new Slayer every time I do something that resembles dying. I'm already going to want to give the one I've undoubtedly called up a heads up before the Watchers find her," says Juliet disgustedly. "So the only parts I'm missing that I want are the speed and the strength, which, yes, I do believe I will help myself to, along with the other popular Bell standards."

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"Which are...?"

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"Well, I'll want to check the book again - if I need an evil to get anything to stick, I can't just edit the powers later if someone's come up with convenient revisions to the designs - but in brief, I'm gonna be able to fly and teleport and turn invisible and regenerate and go without sleeping and detect lies - at will, off by default so that ordinary smalltalk isn't awkward - and endure pretty arbitrary weather conditions comfortably and I'll have the agony beam and I'm going to speed up my brain and I'll take a few layers of armor against assorted magical attack."

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"Sounds lovely."

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"Let's steal a few," says Sherlock. "Teleportation is convenient. Flight is fun. Invisibility is mildly redundant but fun nevertheless. Regeneration likewise. Going without sleep is an excellent idea. Lie detection would take all the fun out of things, but we can leave it off when it's not important."

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