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Cam is out flying. There's a decent cloud of atmosphere around the gold plane, now, millenia of demons making air around themselves for comfort and not sealing it up because why would you bother. There's a small forest, here - the effect is kind of ruined by the lamps it has to grow under, but it's still pretty.
He feels an open summons and lets it grab him -
from_scratch
from_scratch
"All right. I will fill your yard with confused inoculated bees if you would be so kind as to open the door. I won't make 'em with stings."
from_scratch
"It's pretty confusing to start existing all of a sudden, I'm told. But they'll fly around and land on things and leave the cure on those things and then less fake bees will also land on the things. It should get everywhere, but just to be safe I might want to do another batch from another point on the continent in, oh, six months."
ask_nicely
"Good to hear. Hey, want to coordinate on fixing large-scale environmental and ecological problems? I will make the bad things go away, you add things that are helpful? That sort of thing?"
ask_nicely
"Off of the top of my head in the - what, half hour since I've gotten here - turn all landfills ever into cloud fluff and then into more useful materials from there. Optimize farm land with our technology levels, and I go on visits to farms and tell their soil to behave itself and be insanely fertile. Better transportation methods with spaceships, and actually, on that note - brutally monopolize the automobiles industry with fancy tech and cloud fluff, to get vehicles that are not burning fossil fuels so we can just sidestep that problem. Also making oodles of money, I can do things with oodles of money. Then, moving lots of things underground, transportation especially, I am thinking subways to everywhere, power lines - that kind of thing. Helping rainforests in vague 'fixy' ways that I would need to research because I know near nothing about rainforests."
Pause. "And if I run out of those I might just colonize the moon. I miss it."
Pause. "And if I run out of those I might just colonize the moon. I miss it."
toblameforit
"I want in on this plan," says Tony. "Can I get in on this plan? I would love to revolutionize the automobile industry, that would be awesome."
from_scratch
"Well, you might need me to outfit you with spaceships, but it sounds like you may be able to handle the rest without tremendous amounts of demonic help - Tony, what are you bringing to the table, I guess a legal identity is something, but actually -"
Now Cam is looking up the public employees of Phoenix, Arizona.
Now Cam is looking up the public employees of Phoenix, Arizona.
ask_nicely
"I can handle the rest," says Adana. "But I was hoping to coordinate so we don't mess each other up, and there are some things each of us can do faster than the other." She looks at Tony. "I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure he's a genius, so I'm fine with him getting in on this plan, I like geniuses. Besides, I don't know anything about cars, I drove a shuttle. It would help to have someone who knew what was going on besides 'spinny wheels make the box of metal go.'"
toblameforit
"I am a genius," says Tony. "And I have a legal identity and lots and lots of money. And a company waiting for me as soon as I get my undergraduate degree. And I'm an engineer. If you want somebody to, say, design you a factory to build your amazing future cars on infrastructure this world actually has and then buy the land to put the factory on - well, there you go. I mean, unless you were planning on personally building all of these amazing future cars, but I didn't think that was where you were going with it."
from_scratch
"Oh, excellent. At some point I am going to want to take a couple weeks off to to terraform Mars, though. And I don't want to stay for all that long, I don't want to miss the next Limbo concordance in six years, how long is your degree going to take?"
toblameforit
"Four. The company's not exactly crucial, though, we can totally get going on some great shit without it."
ask_nicely
"Yes. Yes we can. Know a way to forge identities or do I need to work on my computer system skills to do that? It would be useful to have an identity."
from_scratch
"And I apparently do not have any easily findable twenty-year-old duplicate to loan me one," says Cam, who has just looked up the public employees of Forks, Washington too and come up empty.
toblameforit
"Iiii technically have forged an identity before, but that was kind of a special case," says Tony. "I'm sure we can find a way, though."
ask_nicely
Adana nods, then peers at Cam. "... You too? Death and then daeva? And this was the time period where you were human?"
from_scratch
"Mm-hm. I was born in 1987. I think all ex-summoners get to be daeva, actually, although beats me how that will affect Jarvis if it ever comes up. But no sign of either of my parents where I expect them to be -" He looks up himself. "And nobody familiar under my name either."
ask_nicely
"Damn. That would have been useful. I suppose I can try doing the same, but I doubt it'll be any different, I won't be born for another hundred and fifty years or so." She checks. "Yeah, no. No father, no brother, and no me."
She glances in a... Jarvisy direction. "Jarvis, I vote we work very hard to never ever figure out what happens to you if you die. You are potentially immortal, I am definitely immortal, I will work very hard to make sure you don't die, okay?" Pause. "Actually if the summoner to daeva thing is true - Tony if you want functional immortality, summon a fairy and give them cookies. Then if you die we have Jarvis bring you back and we all work excessively hard to keep him safe and sound."
She glances in a... Jarvisy direction. "Jarvis, I vote we work very hard to never ever figure out what happens to you if you die. You are potentially immortal, I am definitely immortal, I will work very hard to make sure you don't die, okay?" Pause. "Actually if the summoner to daeva thing is true - Tony if you want functional immortality, summon a fairy and give them cookies. Then if you die we have Jarvis bring you back and we all work excessively hard to keep him safe and sound."