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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
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imeanforever
All of the fairies he has vassaled answer simultaneously. One of the sorcerers has quite a storied history of various masters and goes on talking longer than any of the others.
whole_new_can
This is getting ridiculous. "Everyone stop talking. You, Peak, and only you, please answer the question."
"Not all of them are my vassals. Yes," Peak says, glowering at him.
whole_new_can
"Peak, are any of your other masters on hand now? And who else do I need to order to have all the fairies present?
I want to collect all the sorcerers. After answering those two questions, take whatever actions will get your vassals lined up and not interfering."
I want to collect all the sorcerers. After answering those two questions, take whatever actions will get your vassals lined up and not interfering."
"No. Nobody." Peak raises her voice. "EVERYBODY GET UP AND FORM A LINE HERE FOR THE STUPID MORTAL SORCERER AND DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. FETCH YOUR NEIGHBORS IF THEY'RE NOT ATTENDING. GREEN NINE."
About forty fairies of many sorts appear out of the various habitable crevices of the court's campus. They line up with little jostling and much murmuring, from the spindly brown one with spots to the tiny white one with stamens for hair.
About forty fairies of many sorts appear out of the various habitable crevices of the court's campus. They line up with little jostling and much murmuring, from the spindly brown one with spots to the tiny white one with stamens for hair.
Peak blinks at him in confusion, but hollers, "GREEN-NINE-ROOT," and they separate into clumps.
whole_new_can
One clump contains the sorcerers. That's the one. He creates more juice. Switching out the invisibility-detecting density power for a form of mass flight, "You all come with me. Take no action against me or my allies, and maintain secrecy when we get back to my world." He waits a bit; the flight isn't ready yet.
As soon as he lifts off, "as long as you don't issue any orders to any of these fairies, the rest of you are free to act as you like."
As soon as he lifts off, "as long as you don't issue any orders to any of these fairies, the rest of you are free to act as you like."
"Halt!" squeaks the tiniest possible little voice.
"Come back!" laughs the same voice. It belongs to a six-inch fairy with stamens for hair. "Hahahahaha! Land. Make Peak make them all wait and make her wait too and then you also wait."
whole_new_can
He's surprised to find that he does. He curses his precognition for not recognizing this as an attack. While waiting.
The tiny fairy sits on his head and thinks. Then she hovers in front of Eidolon's mouth and says, "Whisper your name to me real quiet!"
whole_new_can
Eidolon whispers "David," and apparently that was one syllable more than it took to fulfill the order.
There's probably no power that can break him out of this. But if he ever needed one, it's now. He can drop the matter creation power and look for an immunity to master powers. And a way to get back to Bet; he was planning on having someone make a gate but that isn't an option at the moment. The third one...if nothing else an emergency message. But none of his powers can be changed under this set of orders. He'll just have to wait for it.
There's probably no power that can break him out of this. But if he ever needed one, it's now. He can drop the matter creation power and look for an immunity to master powers. And a way to get back to Bet; he was planning on having someone make a gate but that isn't an option at the moment. The third one...if nothing else an emergency message. But none of his powers can be changed under this set of orders. He'll just have to wait for it.
"Aaand make Peak whisper her name to me real quiet too!"
Peak whispers her name to the tiny fairy. If looks could kill, Eidolon's distant ancestors would have a suspiciously high mortality rate.
The teeny fairy does not require further help from Eidolon in doing her best to secure this court under her own rule. She issues principally placeholder orders and lets most of the fairies go back about their business, but keeps Peak and Favorite on hand and does a lot of excited zooming around through the air, complete with backflips and squealing, "I got a court I got a whole court it's mine".
Eventually she calms down and goes to have a chat with Eidolon. "Answer everything I ask you honestly and quietly and helpfully and right away and don't leave stuff out. Where'd you learn all that sorcery?"
The teeny fairy does not require further help from Eidolon in doing her best to secure this court under her own rule. She issues principally placeholder orders and lets most of the fairies go back about their business, but keeps Peak and Favorite on hand and does a lot of excited zooming around through the air, complete with backflips and squealing, "I got a court I got a whole court it's mine".
Eventually she calms down and goes to have a chat with Eidolon. "Answer everything I ask you honestly and quietly and helpfully and right away and don't leave stuff out. Where'd you learn all that sorcery?"
whole_new_can
"I don't know any sorcery. On my world some people have what we call parahuman powers. Mine lets me have any three ordinary powers, whatever I need at the time."
"Ordinary powers?" blinks the little fairy.
whole_new_can
"An ability most people don't have. One person can fire lasers, another is invulnerable and can fly, someone else could build completely impossible machines. Most powers help people fight, one way or another, but a lot do have other uses."
"Huh. And you can swap them around? Show me."
whole_new_can
Eidolon swaps them around. The first slot doesn't seem to settle on anything; whether because there is no such power or because it'd just take more time he has no idea. The second has the same result. The third finds a power quickly. While still searching for the other two, he tries to leave a message in Promise's tree. Where he is, who's in charge of the mass of fairies, and the fact that HELP. He can always erase it later if Cauldron rescues him before Promise sees it.
And then he finds that he can't use the power. Orders.
The tiny fairy has now seen him swap his powers around. It probably didn't look like much of anything.
And then he finds that he can't use the power. Orders.
The tiny fairy has now seen him swap his powers around. It probably didn't look like much of anything.
"Did you do it?"
whole_new_can
"Partly, yes. I dropped three abilities and replaced one. Most powers are undetectable when not being used."
"Oh. Well, that's boring," says the little fairy. She wanders off to do something else. Apparently she has had an idea for an evening's entertainment she wants Imagine and Applause to put together that nobody has ever let her propose before and by golly now she can have it.