This isn't where Raafi went to sleep. He'd set his bedroll up on a comfy patch of moss under a tree, and now - he still has the bedroll, at least, and his pack, but the tree and moss are nowhere to be seen, replaced by a strange metal room with still, stuffy air and an implausibly clear night sky out the window.
"Hello?" he calls, getting to his feet.
And Raafi looks it over, asking as he goes about the intent of each general section and a random selection of specifics.
It looks good, and he says so. "I appreciate the attention to detail, especially. I can't see the Dweller having any complaints about this if it's all so well done."
"That... seems like a weird name for a guy whose deal is not so much dwelling as wandering."
"-Dweller on the Horizon, but yes, I know." He touches his amulet, amused. "He's not one to take an interest in appearances, even that much."
"Do you have an idea of how much longer it will take? There's a few things Katri and I wanted to do before we go back to Oerth - we won't hold you up if this is a bad time, it's nothing important."
"They're probably going to wrap it up in the next hour or two, at this point they're just doing extreme error checking not because there's anything wrong but because you want a lot of nines of confidence in that for something like this."
"All right. We should check in with Leonor and the ambassador from Limbo but that won't take long, we'll be ready when you are."
He relays this to Kat; she looks disappointed, but he says something reassuring and she nods.
"We could use a day, if you don't mind waiting; Kat's worried that she'll be too busy to make it back once we get started in Oerth."
"I can use that long to do more background reading on dwarf wheat and so on without slowing down medium-term work that much. Probably still counts as one of those things I can do at the same time as trying for the cleric-of-a-concept thing."
"I did not take out an advertisement. I didn't want to be one when I thought you had to sign on with a god, but a concept is more DIY, yeah? So I'm sort of working on that though I won't be too put out if it doesn't work. - Abundance," he adds. "Is the concept I picked."
"Solid choice. I have some notes on conceptual clerichood-" he fishes them out for Cam to duplicate. "It's fairly straightforward if you're copying what gods' clerics do but some things aren't as optional as they seem; you'll need to design a holy symbol, that's the main one people get stuck on, and sometimes picking a time of day for devotions, that's not always as flexible as it looks."
"Oh, I didn't know I needed a symbol. Huh. I'll think on that. Time of day relative to...?"
"Your personal sense of the day, but trying to interfere with that to get spells more often doesn't work - if I teleport somewhere where dawn comes earlier, I can do my devotions late according to local time until I've adjusted to it, and I'll get my spells in slightly less than a full day once or twice as I do adjust, but if I try to do that too often I'll confuse my sense of time and not be able to get spells at all until it settles back down."
"I've been on a loose 24-hour timer but I don't sleep and do not usually have much sense of a day."
"Hm - I know dwarves sometimes have trouble with that, but I'm not sure what they do about it. I have an idea of who I'd ask, though, I can prepare a Sending tomorrow."
"Cool, and thanks for the notes, I'll read 'em when I get a chance."
"Luiz may have dismissed me by then, if that complicates things. I'm not sure if I'll pop out in Limbo or Hell."
"Not especially, just let me know where to pick you up. Unless there's some reason to want to bring you over bound, but if there is I don't know it."
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