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"Pocket dimensions would also be great!"

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"Well, I can only make them in places that are mine, and I can't distribute the ability--well, not wholly; people who swear themselves to me get powers of their own sometimes but it's hard to predict in advance what they'll get and nobody's ever gotten anything as useful as mine. And I can keep myself from dying of old age but I don't think I've managed to make myself comprehensively murder-proof." 

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"Is the swearing to you permanent? In non-death-penalty cases."

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"I can and do release anyone not Forsworn who wants to go but if I do they lose anything I changed about them." 

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"So you could in theory try lots of people and see who gets powers."

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"It's slightly more complicated than that--the subset of people who get powers is a particular subset, it's not random, and it has--entry requirements that are not universally trivial--but it would in theory be possible to try lots of people and see who got powers they wanted to keep enough to stay." 

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"- entry requirements?"

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"I don't know why this is the case, but there are two levels of--sworn to me--and the higher level is the one that gets powers and for some unfathomable reason it requires me to have sex with the person." 

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"...well, that's very weird, but you don't look like one of the weirder science fiction aliens..."

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"And it comes with a weird tattoo. And feelings of devotion, but I can fix that." 

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"I still think if you advertise all the side effects people will be willing to try it if they might get magical powers."

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"I suspect you're right. But there's only one of me and I do intend to do anything with my time other than have sex with near-strangers," she says dryly. "I suspect that will be the real limiting factor." 

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"That does make sense."

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"...If you had any way of filtering for people who could be trusted to be discreet and wanted to beat the rush..." 

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"I'm... I'm pretty young and don't have much of my own network yet, I'd probably want to get you my great-aunt."

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She considers this. "What are your great-aunt's political interests?" 

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"What do you mean?"

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"...I assume that anyone with an established network has established interests they'll want to use me in the aid of pursuing; I'm not fundamentally opposed to this; I do have any understanding of politics; but I don't want to get entangled with someone and then discover they want to maneuver me in directions I'm unwilling to go." 

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"Uh, she's been working with the Revisionist coalition lately. ...you're a magical alien, you have a lot of pull."

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"A lot of pull and almost no context, so I'm trying to be careful." She looks up the Revisionists on her everything. 

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The Revisionists are a political coalition within Calado that mostly operates on a local level, though it's courting senators, and wants to make some changes to subway systems and dual-caste some occupations and there are rumors they want to start robotics programs.

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...These people seem if anything more advanced than Earth, do they not have robotics? She tries searching robotics. 

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The deal with robotics appears to be that everyone wants it really badly and if you try to develop it reds will show up and murder you.

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Because reds are evil, suggests the internet.

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