THE BOOKS OF MAGIC [modplot]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Everyone who signed up
What| The Books of Magic Plot
Where| All over the DC Universe
When| The same time as "Out With the Old"
Warnings/Notes| N/A

Their mission had brought them to Sorceror's World, which led to their first lead -- a strange artifact that, if completed, would allow them to find how the Spectre had been imprisoned the first time. After the golden device had been activated and revealed this, they all suddenly found themselves teleported in teams of two to new locations.

Strange, weird, and magical new locations.

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Part 1

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Ray and Dipper - Themyscira

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They are now standing on the beach of a remote island, beautiful and Mediterranean in climate. Far off in the distance, they can see a city, built up with architecture that looks styled after ancient Greece, but blended with something more modern.

The city doesn't look that heavily populated, but there are some figures visible moving through its streets.

All of them are women.

Re: Ray and Dipper - Themyscira

[gonebyebye]

Ray doesn't even look remotely surprised at this turn of events. After years of being a Ghostbuster, mysterious artifacts teleporting him to unknown locations is all in a day's work. Not missing a beat, Ray pulls out his PKE meter, scanning the area.

"PKE reading is normal,", he says to Dipper as he replaces it. "Maybe a couple of ticks higher than the usual background reading, but that's not out of the ordinary."

"As far as places to be unceremoniously dropped into go, we certainly could do worse." He adds optimistically, and not without cause. A Mediterranean beach is definitely an improvement over the Netherworld. Or Hell.

[captainbuzzkill]

"Yeah, cool. It's a beach, I guess," Dipper says distractedly, poking at the PKE meter in Ray's belt. "So, can I, like, see that for a second?"

There's a mission, sure, whatever. But that's not really the priority here, because he wants to play with the ghost-finding machine that goes boop.

Hal and Vance - Delirium's Realm

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Nothing makes sense here. The ground isn't technically ground. They're on a walkway and yet somehow upside down. Several oversized rubber ducks float by their heads, right-side up, making motorboat noises.

Far off in the distance, they can see what looks like a mountain. It's clearly made of cheese. Many different arrows in all colors and sizes point in the direction of the mountain.

They must go the opposite way.

[ringslinging]

"So," Hal says, surveying the arrows thoughtfully. "How compliant are we feeling today, because I kind of hate taking orders."

[sir_vancelot]

Vance takes a moment, looking around with a frown. "Wait. Are we right side up or are the ducks?" He's shaking his head almost immediately, though. "No, nevermind. Sorry. If you're saying you don't feel like going the same way as the arrows, I'm with you."

Miku and Pidge - The End of Time

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The magic craps out partway to the End of the Time, unable to take them all the way there. They find themselves on a beach that smells of salt. Only of salt, nothing else. There are no organic things decaying. The sand has been leached of most possible nutrients, the seas can barely support life, most of the metals have long since oxidized.

A light hangs low and dim in the sky, dim and red, like a blood moon, but it's not the moon. It's the sun, hanging near-dead in the sky. If not for their transuits, the air would be cold.

They are alone here, on a distant beach, under a dying sun, close to the end of time but not quite close enough.

[isthisapidge]

It may actually be a good thing that the magic ran out so abruptly, because Pidge doesn't get a chance to look at her surroundings before she loses her balance and ends up with a face-full of salty sand.

It didn't hurt, but she just ate total shit in front of someone and it's embarrassing. So it takes her a few moments to spit it all out before she can actually take a moment to look around.

[ghost_bait]

Miku manages to catch herself before she can do the same, landing a short distance behind Pidge, "Paladin, are you alright?" She hurries over to make sure the other Legionnaire but hangs back to avoid hovering.

The smell of salt was too much, and while Pidge cleared her mouth of it, Miku looked around, "...What a sad place."

Kyle Rayner and Joey Wilson - Nanda Parbat

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It still looks exactly the way it did in their own time. Winds catch at the many golden banners, the pale temple walls look gold in the light of the sun, and the roofs glitter with gold leaf.

Flurries of snow filter around them, buffeted about by the strong winds through the mountains.

[wallsofjericho]

The view is spectacular. Alarming, there's no question about that, but with a Tibetan fortress in front of them and - Joey quickly checks what's behind them - an incredibly steep, rocky mountainside dropping off a few feet behind them, it was impressive.

The look isn't about sight-seeing. He'd been trying to spy the rest of their teammates, but they aren't anywhere to be found. After checking that he still has flight ring, he takes a couple cautious steps to towards the side. It's a long way down, but there's only snow.

"It could be worse," he signed to Kyle. "I think we can rule out Dracula and the Titans of New Chronus."

[spacesharks]

"I was hoping it would be Dracula," Kyle said, feigning an expression of disappointment. "It's never vampires, you know? Zombies, sure, but never vampires."

Despite his 'disappointment,' he was pretty inclined to agree. So far, so good. Not being thrown into an immediately hostile environment was always a plus, though he wasn't sure that he recognized this place...

"This place looks pretty ancient, though. Whatever we get, it's going to be weird."

Grif and Gohan - Atlantis

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It's a good thing they'd been warned about keeping their transuits on for this mission because Gohan and Grif find themselves suddenly underwater.

In the distance they can see a majestic underwater city, lit up with glowing phosphorescent lights like an underwater Vegas.

[superscholar]

Yep, keeping the transuit on was definitely a good idea. He may have been able to survive in a lot of extreme atmospheres, but he still needed air to breath. And there wasn't much of that underwater.

Not that he was thinking too much about that, given the gorgeous underwater city in the distance. Something Gohan had... never really encountered before, which said something, given he'd been to multiple planets and dimensions.

"So uh..." Gohan sheepishly scratched his cheek. "I guess we're going to the big underwater city over there?"

[whyarewehere]

This is a lot of water. It's a good thing Gohan speaks up, because Grif's been busy contemplating the sheer amount of water and how much of it is over him and the possible shark population of all of it.

The ocean is okay, at the top. It's pretty. You can mess around in it. But being under the ocean is bullshit.

"Bwuh?"

Oh right. Mission. Dorky teammate. Important shit.

"...Right," he says. "C'mon. The sooner we get this over with the sooner I can stop thinking about every Jaws movie ever made."

Sariatu, Beetle, Kubo - The Parliament of Trees

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The three are dumped somewhat ceremoniously into the middle of a thick, wooded swamp. It seems innocuous at first, like any other swamp, but there's something strange about this place.

There's constant sense that one is being watched.

[bachido]

Kubo had the foresight to carry his shamisen instead of just keeping it on his back, so he was able to keep it out of the mud (and uncrushed) when he landed on his back in a puddle that immediately swallowed up his lower half.

"Um," he said, sitting up, holding the shamisen over his head. At least the air was warm enough that being damp would only be a bit uncomfortable. "I think I'm stuck."

He looked around to see where his parents had landed, and which one was in a better position to pluck him on to dry land.

[meanmonkey]

Monkey managed to land on her feet, but in a less-than-dry spot. She wrinkles her nose and shakes mud off her hands before moving towards Kubo.

"Ugh, they couldn't have dropped us somewhere not covered in mud?" She huffs irritatedly and offers Kubo a hand to try to pull him upright. "It's filthy."

Namorita and Parker - Faerie

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They find themselves on the edge of a field, standing at a gate.

Just an ordinary, perfectly mundane wooden gate. Nothing special. It's just there, only in one place. It's certainly not in two planes of existence simultaneously.

Re: Namorita and Parker - Faerie

[leverageintceo]

Seeing no way to get back to where they started without outside assistance, Parker concludes that she doesn't care much for magical teleportation. Then she eyeballs the wooden gate in front of them.

"I don't think that's part of the thing," she says.

[littlecousin]

"It's the beginning of a quest." Uncharacteristically, Nita sounds unenthused, even a little apprehensive, eyeing the gate and gnawing on her lower lip. She knows more about magic than the average human, which means she knows to be wary of it. She also knows a thing or two about Parker, which makes her even more wary.

"Look, before we start...there are rules. Break them, and it's game over, maybe permanently." She sighs and folds her arms. "Problem is, I don't know what they are. Just...be polite to everyone and don't agree to anything without getting the details first. And don't take anything unless it's offered, and maybe not even then..." she trails off with a disgusted sigh. "I hate quests."

Soldier 76 and Spider-Gwen

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It's a good thing they're in their transuits. They find themselves in the black void of space outside an unimaginably massive wall, bigger than a mountain, bearing the images of countless giant alien beings, their expression fixed into grimaces of pain and distress.

There is an opening in the wall nearby, in the form of the mouth of one of the massive hulking forms.

[mylawn]

76's talents mostly involve pointing a gun at things and pulling the trigger--he's not really about magic or the supernatural or other such fantasies (even if his current worst enemy is some kind of nanomachine nightmare ghost). Suffice to say that upon arriving in the Sorceror's world, he lets out an audible groan that sums up just how exasperated he really is.

Maybe the exasperation also has something to do with his current partner, but if there's something he's good at beyond pointing a gun at things and pulling the trigger, it's compartmentalizing. He'll have to bite down all his sardonic remarks for the sake of the mission.

Their next course of action seems fairly obvious--that sure is an opening in the wall, and even though it's ominous, he's pretty sure that's where they're headed.

"You see any other way in?"

More of a cursory question than anything.

[deafleppard]

Yes, thank god for the future with all of its future technology. In fact, it was that very future technology that was standing between her, the cold and unforgiving vacuum of space, and a horrifyingly painful death. So if there was ever a time where she wanted the suit to work the way it was supposed to...

This would definitely be it.

"Nope. All I see is this giant wall of people, space, and more space."

Lots of space.

"May as well go in. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?"