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It's never previously occurred to Cayra to put a door across an alucine boundary, but now that she's encountered it in practice it makes sense. It makes it visually obvious and it lets you lock it if you want. This door wasn't locked, and it looked like it led to a public bathroom, not a bar, from the signage, so she's still confused. Still, it's a good idea. She twists open the glass vial pendant around her neck and bends her head to the little blue lily inside to make a note of it; as an afterthought she tries to send it off to her antheomancer-chatcircle, anything to have a decent conversation, but it doesn't go. Her flower doesn't look wilting, but she can put it back in the garden and get a fresher one for the vial later. At least her personal files look okay. She closes up the vial again, giving the flower a touch of antheomancy for its health, and finds a bathroom inside the bar that dominates this little alucine.
And then she emerges into the bar. It doesn't seem to be staffed. Or stocked. Why wasn't it locked?
Hello, anybody here?
with Flynn (ErinFlight)
with Harry (andaisq)
Due to some icon rearrangement errors, some of Flynn's tags appear with an incorrect icon. The correct face for this thread is Rosario Dawson's.
affodell
fortheliving
Somebody is here! He is sitting at the bar being offensively tall, he has an extremely dark beer in front of him, and to his right is a truly enormous dog drinking a fizzing pink liquid from a bowl.
He raises a hand. "Hey! New here?"
He raises a hand. "Hey! New here?"
fortheliving
"Welcome to Milliways, then. The Bar at the End of the Universe, accept no substitutes. Pull up a barstool, the first drink's free."
fortheliving
Harry gestures to the window of exploding stars. "Supposedly that's what it looks like when the universe dies. Lots of pretty fireworks. I approve on principle. I'm Harry, by the way."
fortheliving
"Hey, you didn't even hear the weird parts of my name! Besides, we're from different universes, naming conventions can't even stay consistent over the course of a couple of decades."
fortheliving
"Oh. Sorry. Yeah, Milliways takes in people from different universes and tosses them together because it thinks it's hilarious."
The dog noses Cayra's shoulder comfortingly.
The dog noses Cayra's shoulder comfortingly.
affodell
Blink. Blink. "You mean this in some way that isn't just 'this is an alucine with a door'?"
fortheliving
"...Probably? Your universe might have interdimensional travel magic, but you seem a lot more surprised than you would be if that was a thing that was going on."
affodell
"Nnnno, not really. There's - ostimancers, oneiromancers, but that doesn't seem like what you're talking about?"
fortheliving
"Yeah, probably not. Welcome to the multiverse, I guess. Also, nice flower. Very glowy."
fortheliving
"Nope. But if you use them to talk to people in different places, we do have that. Just not with flowers."
fortheliving
"...Very complicated things. It's kind of like... you know what, I'm not equipped to explain technology, I've never had a working phone that wasn't made of Bakelite. You may have to trust me on this one."
fortheliving
Harry shrugs helplessly. "I can tell you about magic, if you want, it's just that I am really, really not able to explain cellular signals. Maybe you could ask Bar?"
affodell
"...Bar?"
I am she. Hello.
"...Hi?"
Can I get you anything to drink? Or an explanation of telephony if you prefer.
"...I'll take the explanation?"
Telephones are nonmagical devices that are networked in a more limited way than speakflowers, allowing, by default, just one-to-one voice communication.
"Oh. That's weird."
I am she. Hello.
"...Hi?"
Can I get you anything to drink? Or an explanation of telephony if you prefer.
"...I'll take the explanation?"
Telephones are nonmagical devices that are networked in a more limited way than speakflowers, allowing, by default, just one-to-one voice communication.
"Oh. That's weird."
affodell
"Speakflowers are better than that. You can do the phone thing with them, but I mostly use them for my chatcircle and personal petals."