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Here is a demon. The demon is in his swimming pool.
He doesn't swim naked, so he takes the summon anyway.
demon cam vs the clam planet
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from_scratch
near-the-sun
His passenger examines the interior of the shuttle and the various displays curiously.
Telescopes show... a perplexing lack of fleeing alien ships.
Telescopes show... a perplexing lack of fleeing alien ships.
from_scratch
"Do they fucking have FTL? How the fuck am I supposed to deal if they have fucking FTL," mutters Cam.
from_scratch
"They're not in the system. They haven't had time to get to Jupiter, let alone out of the system, if they were limited by the usual speed limit in Normal Physics World, so either they have a method of crossing vast distances instantly that is like but not identical to Spheres because they can't stand having wings, or they have a sort of spaceship that can travel faster than light. Which I want. And can make! But it will be an alien design I won't know how to pilot and I don't know which way they went!"
from_scratch
"Rather." Cam aims the ship down at the ground again. "I'm going to play Hilarious Infosec Hazard, you want to stay or go home?"
near-the-sun
"Conjuring everything the aliens said about leaving Earth?" he guesses. "Sounds like fun, but maybe I should go home, there are still members of my family who haven't yelled at me yet."
from_scratch
"Okay. Relays look to be going undisturbed, but just portal back and have a look if I'm incommunicado, please, don't have your brother commit suicide. You're as indestructible as I am now, you'll be fine if you have to be a one-person search party."
near-the-sun
"Yeah, sure. Do you want to link your Sphere to mine? Makes it easier to find each other, I'd just have to go through the Cam portal and see if you were there."
from_scratch
"I haven't even looked at my Sphere yet, that's a good idea. How do I... Sphere."
near-the-sun
"It should be pretty easy once you've figured it out," he says dryly, and then laughs. "Sorry. Just - make a portal, it's obvious once you try it."
from_scratch
"I'm not an angel, all I had on angel powers was hearsay!" defends Cam. But he attempts to portal. Does it happen to be anything like making a thing? Cam knows how to make things...
near-the-sun
It's not all that much like making a thing. But when he thinks about it he can get an unobtrusive mental preview of the size, shape, and location of a prospective portal, and he can alter this preview to his liking and make it a reality. Easy.
Except that there appears to be a pressure differential. Elarron yelps with surprise as air and loose objects, Elarron included, are drawn toward the portal.
Except that there appears to be a pressure differential. Elarron yelps with surprise as air and loose objects, Elarron included, are drawn toward the portal.
from_scratch
Cam gets slurped off his feet too.
He is familiar with this sensation! He knows what to do about it. Now there's air.
"Oh, that's hilarious," he snorts, once there is enough air to snort in.
He is familiar with this sensation! He knows what to do about it. Now there's air.
"Oh, that's hilarious," he snorts, once there is enough air to snort in.
from_scratch
"My Sphere was a vacuum! ...Context: Heaven is where angels live and without angelic intervention it's lots of solid glowy fluff like you saw. Fairyland is flat and infinite and has plants and stuff. But Hell, until demons make stuff in it, is nothing."
near-the-sun
"Wow. Okay," says Elarron. "Have fun with your demon Sphere, I guess."
from_scratch
"It does have gravity, which is... weird but convenient, because I don't have nearly enough room to make something that would generate gravity. Anyway. Do you make the portal to yours or do I?"
near-the-sun
"I do, you just have to let me."
It becomes apparent that Elarron is trying to make a portal, right over there near the edge of Cam's Sphere.
It becomes apparent that Elarron is trying to make a portal, right over there near the edge of Cam's Sphere.
near-the-sun
And on the other side there is: a dimly lit field of grass, with a cute stone house visible close by.
from_scratch
"It's cute. Anyway. I will figure out where the aliens went and how to follow them but it might take me a while."
near-the-sun
"Sure. Keep in touch, I'll come check on you if we lose contact. Off I go to get yelled at by Mom and Ashras."