He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
"And even if the worst happens probably I'll be fine and the only real problem will be making a summoning circle big enough for me."
"We don't have confirmation on that for local humans, let alone you, but I wish you luck on that." Sigh. "I'm gonna go see how Benjamin Franklin is doing."
Benjamin Franklin is going through a stack of newspapers for details of politics. He looks up when Cam comes in. "Hello! Is there anything I can help with?"
Benjamin Franklin provides an insightful and witty analysis of 1928 politics that someone more familiar with 1928 politics and also the writings of Benjamin Franklin might have some hope of actually generating.
"Cool - let me get you something abridged from the future so you'll have a little more data on what trends can push how far how fast -" Cam comes up with a history book for this purpose. "It's obviously written from an even farther future perspective so you'll have some moralizing that will sound weird, but should be serviceable."
Ben Franklin accepts it. "I suppose getting used to the morals of the future sooner rather than later will save some time."
"The debate wasn't in full swing till I was already eating demonic meat all the time for sheer convenience, so I've never gotten worked up about it, but it's certainly something we might as well avoid when it's this easy."
"I'd much rather know the contents of my sandwich had never been marinating in its own manure."
"Isn't fertilizer still largely manure-based? Anyway. Demonic meat, it's better than the real thing."
"I didn't name it. You get used to things being referred to casually as 'demonic' after a while though."
"I suppose one would! It's interesting how the kinds of daeva match so neatly to Earth mythologies--one could assume influence from the daeva side on your Earth, but not ours."
"Perhaps it would make adoption of summoning smoother if names other than demon and angel and fairy were used."
"You're not wrong, but probably the terms will leak from daeva talking to people since the languages match."
"That's true. I suppose it will depend on what the rollout looks like, in this universe, whether it gives us any great advantage to not start out crying demon."
"And I'm worried that it looks like a kind of - clumsy defensive coverup - if we say 'apsel' and then people find out that means 'demon'."
"Yes, precisely. That kind of thing can be affected after the fact, but first impressions do a lot."