"Luck charms exist at home but they're mostly ripoffs."

"Ours actually work. Allegedly."

"Ours work too, they're just very difficult to make and therefore very pricey and they don't work that well."

"Aha. I think luck charms are one of the easiest persistent items for rune-casters to make. If I knew how, I'd offer to hook you up, but."

"But," agrees Bella. "For all I know, bringing something home from a science world would count as cheating."

"... Ugh. 'Cheating.' If I could make one, I would have worked hard to do so, how is that cheating?"

"Because it's from another - game."

"Oh my god, I just realized - this is like D&D."

"Like what now?"

"It's - there's - it's a game, a literal game, with dice and little figurines and obsessive maps. There are lots of different species and different types of magic and gods are running around changing the fabric of reality. It wasn't - it didn't say, 'No science allowed' but. It's - kind of similar."

"You have magic and different species, though, too, don't you?"

"Well, yeah, but mine doesn't work like the game's magic. Also, their different species aren't the correct ones, a lot of the actual ones show up as monsters to fight."

"Some people consider goblins and dark elves and so on to be monsters to fight at home and those are people," remarks Bella.

"Yeah, but - I'm mostly just annoyed because perytons are listed as 'always evil' and that really bugs me."

"You do not seem evil."

"I'm really not."

"And I'm glad, because if you were evil you might attempt to hurt me and then I'd have to knock you out and leave and you'd have a horrible headache after and I wouldn't get to hang out in the cool interplanar bar."

"Yeah, that would be terrible. I don't even get why doing evil things seems like an intelligent course of action. I mean, something like - embezzling, that I can get. I don't support it, but I understand the why. But just randomly being evil? Don't understand it at all."

"I suspect most evil people have something else going on, even if it's just that they're a demon and need to eat human livers to survive or something."

"I guess. But - not being evil is more viable in the long run."

"Not if you need human livers to survive it's not."

"If I needed to eat human livers to survive I would go politely inform a government of my liver-eating status, and eat the livers of inmates on death row or hit up spare livers from organ donors or something. And then I would encourage organ donors to be more common so that I could one, get more potential livers, and two, convince people do donate organs because it saves lives."

"Organ donors?"

"Oh - um. We can take organs out of one person shortly after they die and put them into someone else whose appropriate organ is failing them. And then they get to keep living, because they don't have a faulty organ anymore."

"Science world," mutters Bella. "Anyway, if a demon tried to go to the government to ask nicely for livers they would be stabbed to death by paladins immediately."