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Giggle.

"How does summoning demons work?"
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"Magic. Which is about as much as I know, practically--I could recognize a summoning setup if I saw one but I couldn't put one together from scratch."

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"Are there any other nicer demons who should not be in Hell that you know about?"

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"Not that I know of specifically or I would have got them out too when I had a handy threatenable magician, but I'm sure there are some."

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"The thing that the magician messed up to let you run around wherever you wanted, what would it have done if he didn't mess it up?"

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"I'd be trapped in a little circle until he was confident I'd do what he wanted."

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"How would he get you to do that?"

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"Either make a bargain with me that he was confident I would be motivated to keep or hurt me until I knew better than to cross him."

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"Oh. ...Can the circles be nice and big so you could just leave the demon there and it wouldn't be cramped but it also wouldn't be able to hurt anybody back in Hell?"

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"Deeeepends on the demon, not all circles are the same strength, there are demons strong enough there do not exist circles to hold them, do not summon a Duke of Hell, I repeat, do not summon a Duke of Hell."

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"Oh. Okay. It would only work if I could get them all."
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"The circles are also very breakable from the outside. Any demon you were planning on keeping long-term you would have to be very very sure no one was going to let them out."

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"That would be hard," nods Mehitabel solemnly.

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"Yes. That's why most magicians who summon demons pick the 'trade' method over the 'torture' method.

"Well, that and the most common kind of demon to summon are succubi, and in that case the summoner and the summonee generally want exactly the same thing."
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"How do you know you can't hold a Duke of Hell in a circle, is it because there's math of it or did somebody once try it?"
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"I don't know, but I've talked to magicians--none of them wanted to teach me anything but sometimes they'd tell me things about what they could do divorced from any kind of methodology--and they all agreed that it couldn't be done."

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"I guess I'll ask my magic teacher when they're done with their research project and can teach me."

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"Yeah, okay, but--if there is any nonzero chance of a course of action leading to a Duke of Hell rampaging across the Earth, do not take this course of action."

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"Okay," says Mehitabel, writing next to take the demons out of Hell the clarification do it on the moon or something even if you're pretty sure.
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"What's that?"

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"I made a note that even if I'm pretty sure I can too keep a Duke of Hell in a circle I should put the circle on the moon or somewhere to be really sure."

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"...If you try and fail to keep a Duke of Hell contained you will die."

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"That would be bad, so I will have to be pretty sure first and get most of the other stuff I want to do done ahead of time."

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"If the moon turns red and no one ever hears from you again I shall remember this conversation."

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