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Ma'ar is watching the wards and the hypnotic swirl of the Void on the other side of a shimmering barrier, and practicing illusions. He's never been very good at them, but practice helps with everything.
- something, a flicker, a ghost, maybe nothing at all, but it doesn't fit and it jars him out of his half-trance of watching.
He keys into the navigation wards. Tells them to look here.
"- Urtho? Can you come look at this?"
"Apparently some of my job is now diplomacizing with people who don't live on this planet!"
"- All right, I will get us set up." Mhalir takes the screen from Leareth and brings it to the bedroom, gets it arranged nicely. "Is Ma'ar watching it with us - where did he go...?"
"- Is the movie appropriate for him, do you think - should we invite him...?" Leareth is simultaneously looking both at his Carissa (and thus Mhalir) and the other Carissa.
...Wow, Mhalir has no idea what movies are appropriate for children of what ages, although the concept of a movie not being appropriate for a him, however young, also feels kind of absurd.
"Sixteen, we think, maybe seventeen. We are not sure of when exactly he was born."
"I don't know about your Cheliax but in my Cheliax that's just an adult."
"We suspected that of being - something Asmodeus did deliberately with the intent of encouraging more evil decisions and also more childbearing, we bumped it to the eighteen it was in Aroden's age. I still have a hard time thinking of sixteen year olds as children, though I also have no idea what's in the movie - you said that James Bond has sex with lots of women?"
"Yes, but that seems like a good thing for teenagers to know about!"
"Obviously I've explained sex to him! I think he already knew about it, even! I just don't know if we should invite him to watch Earth sex propaganda with us or whether it's enough sex propaganda to make that weird."
"It's not really sex propaganda, the sex is mostly just to establish that James Bond is very cool and it's mostly offscreen."
Mhalir finishes setting everything up. It's - very weird, actually, doing this while not in Carissa– while not in his Carissa's head.
<...The Earth tradition is to snuggle with your romantic partner while you watch movies> he informs Leareth's Carissa. <I think this - also includes married couples who are watching it with their adult children...?>
And they can begin! ...Mhalir still feels strange and off-balance, not being with his Carissa.
This movie is a sequel to one they watched before. A shady criminal organization is seeking revenge against James Bond for killing their agent, Dr. No. (Which is - why would you call yourself that...) The international criminal organization called SPECTRE is training agents to kill James Bond!
Eventually they assign the task to an Irish assassin, Donald "Red" Grant. Their chief strategist, who for some reason is also a chess grandmaster, devises a plan for him to steal some sort of Earth cryptography device from the Soviet embassy!
An operative named Rosa is assigned to oversee the mission, and to ensure "Red" can carry out Bond's assassination at the right moment!
To set the trap, they recruit a cryptography clerk at the consulate, tricking her into believing she is still working for the Soviet counterintelligence!
Wow this is impressively complex.
:...I find I suddenly want to know literally everything about the mathematics Earth uses in their cryptography: Leareth sends to Carissa. :Are you following the plot...?:
:...yes? Mhalir could probably tell you about their cryptography, I don't know anything about that.: The plot on the other hand makes perfect sense; it's probably too complex to be a good real-life assassination plot but she can imagine constraints that'd make it make sense.
Carissa watches them cuddle and is incredibly jealous, even though this is stupid.
And now it switches back to the protagonist, James Bond! He's called to an important meeting with his boss, M, and told that the cryptography clerk, whose name is Romanova, has requested his help to defect to this side, in exchange for giving them information on the secret cryptography device!
His boss suspects a trap! However she decides to honour the request! Before he leaves on the mission, James Bond is given a very special bag from 'Q', a sort of non-magical wizard on their staff, which contains technology-magic for his mission!
James Bond arrives in some other Earth polity and waits to hear from Romanova. There is an attack on some other character by a Soviet agent, who doesn't know that the assassin called "Red" is watching James Bond until he steals the device!
After an attack on the men while they hide out at a gypsy settlement, Kerim assassinates Krilencu with Bond's help before he can flee the city. The men hide out in a nomadic-local-clan's settlement and James Bond helps one of them assassinate another for unclear reasons!
Eventually, Romanova meets Bond at his hotel suite, where she agrees to share her people's notes and help him steal the cryptography device. Bond and Romanova then spend the night together! They have no idea that the criminal organization SPECTRE is filming this as part of a previous evil character's plan!
Leareth is enjoying this more than he expected. Especially the part where he gets to snuggle Carissa the whole time.
:I think I am better at contingency plans than this James Bond: he sends to her. :What do you think?:
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