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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 -
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from_scratch
ask_nicely
"No, I was specifically targeted because I identified myself by name. ... Do you want the story? I can tell the story."
from_scratch
"It's up to you, it doesn't sound like a fun story and yours was way more recent than mine."
ask_nicely
Wince. "I'll live. Um. Okay - I lived on the lunar colony Bartalamos. It - had several sets of filtration problems. People were going to die from it." Fidget. "I summoned a demon, in a rush because time was ticking and I couldn't waste time because every single second counted. He made me a space station. I moved people from Bartalamos so no one would die."
She closes her eyes. "... He took his payment, then I dismissed him." She doesn't expand on what the payment was. She tries very hard not to think about it. Very, very hard.
"Then later, I was on my shuttle to get a - stupid summoning license thing and I - told my name to a ship that seemed like it was in distress to see if there was any way I could help. But it was - not... That. The pirate came after my shuttle, and it's not like I had any weapons, or time to summon something. So she got me, tried to make me summon another demon." Pause. "And I didn't. So I died."
She closes her eyes. "... He took his payment, then I dismissed him." She doesn't expand on what the payment was. She tries very hard not to think about it. Very, very hard.
"Then later, I was on my shuttle to get a - stupid summoning license thing and I - told my name to a ship that seemed like it was in distress to see if there was any way I could help. But it was - not... That. The pirate came after my shuttle, and it's not like I had any weapons, or time to summon something. So she got me, tried to make me summon another demon." Pause. "And I didn't. So I died."
ask_nicely
Little smile.
"Anyway. A pseudonym might have prevented that last part. Maybe."
"Anyway. A pseudonym might have prevented that last part. Maybe."
from_scratch
"Natively an infinite plane like Fairyland, but without any of Fairyland's stuff. The only stuff it has are the people in it, and one thing per person - 'thing' can be anything from their favorite dead dog to their house to a popcorn machine, the going theory is it's whatever tops the list of non-person things that they think an afterlife would be incomplete without. The things go on working even if they shouldn't - you don't need dog food or to pay your water bill or to refill the popcorn machine - but that's all they get."
ask_nicely
Wince. "Oh, wow. Yeah, that's disappointing. At - concordances, can demons and angels make them things to help? Or is it all mail?"
from_scratch
"It's all mail, the concordances are mobbed with mail, I send my mom and dad big packages every time there's a concordance - Limbo or Fairyland, even though the fairies lose or steal the packages half the time."
from_scratch
"Little pocket of overlap between any two of Hell, Heaven, Limbo, and Fairyland. People from either side can go in, or leave into their own side, but you still can't properly visit. Heaven/Hell concordances are small wars by really obnoxiously patriotic demons and angels, but the others are impromptu post offices, which is probably the best thing - there's enough people who want to send mail that there would be way less space in there if the concordance was full of people trying to talk to each other in person instead."
from_scratch
"It kind of does. I mean, it's better than nothing, it lets objects be transferred. My parents lucked out with their 'one thing' when they died, they mostly ask me for things for their friends."
ask_nicely
Nod. "I hope you're right about summoners not going to Limbo. Because I don't want my dad and Zane to go through - that."
from_scratch
"My parents have never met anybody who so much as invited a fairy over for free cookies."
toblameforit
"Huh. I wonder... I mean, I don't personally know how to do it, but I know there's such a thing as magic that lets you move between dimensions. A bunch of different kinds. Most magic things around here come in a bunch of different kinds."
from_scratch
"I couldn't begin to tell you how to expect the systems to overlap, except that apparently at least as of recently you can summon and unsummon from here. Oh, and when I was gone my clock didn't think I'd been away for too much or too little time, so the worlds are also proceeding in sync, as far as that goes."