A comfortably dressed catmorph takes a hit from their hookah, and lets out a puff of shimmering smoke.

“Now.”

A hulking brown bullmorph in a white labcoat flips a heavy metal switch.

The bank of supercomputers built into the walls hums with electricity, glows with raining green code, hisses with steam. The intricate mandala of gold-and-singularium circuitry lights up on the floor. The emergency foam-sprinklers in the ceiling whirr anxiously.

With a crack of thunder and a brief warping of spacetime, a figure manifests in the center of the summoning circle.