"That sucks. I'm sorry." Hug?

Hug. "It's okay, I got in touch with them after they died. I export a bunch of stuff to Limbo through them when there are concordances."

Hug! Sadde likes hugging Cam, has he noticed this? "Is there a reason other daeva didn't tell you or anyone else about the afterlives?"

"They told me about Limbo. I tried to summon Limboites. Doesn't seem to be doable, at least not with anything based on the same principle. It is entirely possible that they just didn't know about the ex-summoners, there's billions of daeva and had never been many summoners before I came along and blew the secret wide open."

"Oh. So is Limbo common knowledge down in the mortal realm?"

"No. I didn't have anything productive to suggest be done about it - couldn't summon anyone to give them stuff, the daeva realms already give them stuff - and I didn't want to distract from the revolution in every form of material scarcity that I was trying to kick off. And it hasn't come up in the time since because I don't even know why - the demons can't talk, the fairies and angels usually can - but I've seen no sign of humans knowing about it. If I'd lived longer I might have orchestrated a reveal about that too, because it's possible to correspond with Limbo via daeva, but it's so laborious and time consuming that it didn't seem urgent - there wasn't a Limbo concordance of any kind during the time between Revelation and my death."

"That's really inconvenient."

"Yeah."

"Alright, so, experimental results. I couldn't find anything in common between locations that feel the same, nor anything consistently different between locations that feel different. Every door seemed to open to a different place."

"Did you try putting the radios through?"

"Mmhm. No banana. Interestingly enough, the one time a door opened into the vacuum of space I wasn't suddenly sucked into it."

"Huh. Was the radio?"

"Apparently the door just didn't let air through, so no sucking occurred. I didn't try sticking the radio there though, since no other doors I opened went to space. Which is actually also pretty interesting, there's much more space than not-space, finding not-space should be basically impossible."

"Yeah, there must be some kind of bias. Was it interesting space?"

"Not from my vantage point but I hadn't reached the level of frustration necessary to actually go through a door yet."

"I'm curious how the pressure differential works. Tempted to try threading things through on a tether."

"You'll be hard-pressed to come up with a non-contrived situation that would cause me to say 'no' to experimentation. Wanna go test it?"

"This looks like incredibly boring space! So the bias may be, say, planet-biased but only statistically, as opposed to strongly filtering for there being stuff. If it were about matter we'd be seeing more stars and gas giants..."

"Yeah. I also didn't find any other places with people, and there are enough different places in a single room where I could fit the key that even with superspeed I would probably take weeks or months to try them all."

"Huh, you landed right among people when you came to Hell..."

"Yeah, it made me wonder if the universe of origin, or the place in the universe of origin, could have something to do with it. I wasn't exactly in a public place back in my world, I was in fact in the middle of some woods, but I was closer to, uh, civilisation, so to speak, than we currently are."

"It's not a bad commute to the plane of gold, but we could go try this in a city if I could think of a suitably private place in a city."

"Yeah! But we should probably get other tests that don't need that out of the way, first."