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Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
sequel to maitimor
"I mean, I mostly think of all people as...thinking of themselves as a normal size for people ...and I'm confused what else you could possibly be."
imeanforever
"There are paths that alter people's sizes when one goes along them and we're at the small end of one."
imeanforever
"I've met one human and she was a little taller than me, when I was not interacting with such a path."
"Okay. I expect we'll be normal human size when we come through, is there somewhere you can get to where you're that size also?"
from_scratch
"You in the crown - don't know if titles count - will the other cleric have the right spell prepared? If so then I don't know why fairy dude expects to be dead a long time..."
"If this works, you'll slow down. Then you'll go get the other person. Then you'll get them to cast the spell and bring me back. That's probably a slow hour at minimum."
not_born_evil
"We need the gate first, which you can do yourself, and if we're lucky we won't need to open doors to get to them. Then he doesn't have to be dead more than a few minutes normal time. Where would they be?"
"Temple of Nethys, downtown. I bet there will be doors but we could teleport through them if we can get out of the Dome."
"No. It has various doors that are sometimes open, and we can hope one of them is, or I could try holding really still for a long time with a piece of paper telling someone to open it."
from_scratch
"You could also put the piece of paper down if you have some way to verify written orders are from you."
"Kind of think we should stop looking for new universes with our current resource base," she says to Annie.
keep_busy
"It kinda looks that way. Which is unfortunate but I guess now we have a principled way to resolve explore versus exploit."
imeanforever
"I'm assuming here that something awful would have happened if they had lied to me about having been able to raise your grandmother from the dead but supposing that's not the case, or that they choose not to or fail at raising you for some reason, what happens to the stuff? Supposing the answer isn't 'they just take it all right back because why not', I guess. And the court, what are you going to do -"