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This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.
Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.
from_scratch
bitterchill
He shows up in what looks like a park. It is dark; he would be likely to be eaten by a grue, if he weren't invulnerable. There is a blonde gentleman currently staring at him in a state of some confusion.
"You... are not what I was going for here. I'm confused?"
"You... are not what I was going for here. I'm confused?"
from_scratch
"You were hoping for an angel? I'll give you a hint, it's spelled A-N-G-E-L. No harm done." Cam takes a bite out of his sandwich. "Unless I'll do just as well for whatever you had in mind."
bitterchill
"Actually, I, uh, wasn't really summoning anything. Least of all an angel, those guys are creepy. I was trying to practice elemental thaumaturgy by sculpting a dick out of the gravel."
bitterchill
"Oh, sorry, it's kind of niche. Normally you'd do elements with evocation, right, but when you're using earth for long-term stuff you want thaumaturgy so you can get the structural integrity up and use more power. So, elemental thaumaturgy."
Ari nods, having clearly dispelled any lingering confusion over what he is doing. He's so good at explaining things!
Ari nods, having clearly dispelled any lingering confusion over what he is doing. He's so good at explaining things!
from_scratch
"Have I been summoned into some kind of elaborate LARP or is something weird going on?"
bitterchill
"Uh... probably the latter, though I can recommend you some LARPs if you want, they're fun. Are you a mortal or something? That'd be super weird."
from_scratch
"No, no, I'm as demonic as I look, summoning is ordinary, elemental thaumaturgy as a thing isn't."
bitterchill
"You look like about as much like a demon as the Sugarplum Fairy looks like Queen Mab. And if you don't know what thaumaturgy is then you're either weirdly bad at being a demon or you're from some bizarro alternate universe."
from_scratch
"I'm leaning bizarro alternate universe. I'm well within the range on demonic cosmetics in the Hell I'm from."
from_scratch
"Eh, no need to be sorry unless it turns out you can't put me back. And even then only a little. Worse things have happened than unbound summoning into uncharted extra mortal realms."
bitterchill
"Well, I did rudely yank you out of your home dimension, but if you're okay with it I'm okay with it. Actually, I'm way more than okay with it, this is cool as shit."
from_scratch
"I don't miss the place; in a few years, if you can't put me back, I will miss the mail system. You probably don't even know what demons - my kind - are for, do you? So what's so cool about it?"
bitterchill
"Dude. I just summoned a hot winged guy from another universe. While I was trying to make a dick statue. In what was could this not be cool?"
from_scratch
"Well, if you'd gotten the wrong demon, the planet we are standing on would now be getting slurped into a black hole, there's that."
bitterchill
"Okay, that'd suck. Thanks for not being the wrong demon, I guess. I feel like it'd still be cool, though. Plus I don't actually know how much the planet itself matters in the grand scheme of things, even though I do live here."
bitterchill
"Cool doesn't necessarily mean good! Getting sucked into a black hole is unhappy, but it's still kinda cool."
from_scratch
"Noted. Anyway, what's this bizarro alternate dimension like? I notice you're speaking English, so there's at least that."
bitterchill
"I am totally speaking English! I could also be speaking French or German, but I'm not doing that because you seem like a decent sort of person and it'd be very cruel. You are in Vancouver, in Canada, in North America, on Earth, etcetera etcetera Lanikea galactic supercluster, known universe, etcetera. We have wizards! And demons and faeries and vampires and other variously awful or non-awful monsterfolks."