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There is a lot of time spent making portals to various places. Pantheon starts as the unofficial hub, and then essentially becomes the official one. Prime makes a portal to Iobel's and Edarial's world, and then he gets to checking out the various new planes he has access to. One, in particular. It's really rather minor, in comparison to the others, but he considers it important.
Few people have the chance to - go back, do something again. But the other version of Kystle is a very specific exception. He knows what's in store for it if he doesn't do anything. Genocide for the invaders (Lynn would call it justified, he just thinks murder is murder), a second invasion of New Kystle, immortal psychopaths with sharp weaponry running around - not the kinds of things he wants. So Prime is thinking of ways to circumvent the problem.
It's unfortunately humbling when he finds no moral solution knocking at his door. There are plenty of immoral ones, but he doesn't touch those. Certainly, he could throw the out of work demon hunters at the plane, tell them to kill things, but that hardly solves the underlying problem. Even he, with all his power, can't save an entire planet. His sister couldn't, either. Not even both of them together.
Obviously, he needs more resources. He didn't deal much in other planes, not when the risks were so great. But now - now he knows that there are other versions of him, other versions of Bells. With various types of magic. Prime isn't a greedy man, but he knows new possible resources when he sees hints of them, and he wants them. He can fix - not his mistake in particular, but his mother's, the second bloodline's.
He spends some time scrying, and then he sighs and snaps his eyes shut. Yeah, that's definitely something. He did not need to see a younger version of himself having sex. Ever. Annoying how his alts seem to come in pairs with 'Bells,' it leads to awkward situations like this. Mirrors are retrieved, and then Prime informs everyone of what he's found - another Adarin, another Bell, together and obviously with some kind of magic.
Since Pantheon seems to be their impromptu central base, he retrieves a recent creation of his, and off he goes to meet with Spring. They're going to write a letter.
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darkest_evening
come_midnight
"You've met Spring and Prime... I don't have a nickname yet but I'm Iobel, and that's Ice, and these are Edarial and Cypress, and their respective twins Zevros and Zeviana, and this is Cricket, and that's Berathyme, and I'm not sure whether it's customary to introduce daemons by name."
prodigal_miser
"Usually we introduce ourselves to their daemons, but it's completely fine for us to be introduced," says Vernaia. "Hi, I'm Vernaia! This is Pathalan!"
castmyown
"Oh my goodness you are an adorable talking bird," says Darren, delighted. "Hi! I'm an adorable talking deer. With wings."
dark_light
"Don't touch the talking birds," warns Ice. "Ever, ever, ever. The cat and snake don't have such dire consequences, but ask first. Though you won't be able to understand Cricket till you get a translation spell."
come_midnight
"Cricket is not a polite cat. I didn't think it would be a good idea for everyone to be able to understand him."
prodigal_miser
"We know," says Vernaia, brightly. "It's just important that you don't do it by accident, either, you can't avoid what you don't know about."
Cypress pets his daemon, smiling a little.
Cypress pets his daemon, smiling a little.
shesepankh
"No petting the birds, nonbirds fair game, huh? Can Cricket understand us?"
When Cricket has received a translation, he goes up to Phix and purrs at her and lets her pick him up and rub his tummy.
come_midnight
"Uh, probably best to ask him yourself when you have the translation spell on, he's not as enthusiastic about Adarins as he is about Bells."
shesepankh
"There are," giggles Phix. "Oh, uh, I decided to call myself Phix, Darren doesn't have a nickname yet, we're calling the world Medallion and the kind of magic we both do runecasting, and we are not actually humans, we're just using the aforementioned runecasting-made medallions to shapeshift with. I'm a sphinx, he's a peryton."
prodigal_miser
"... Hoooow does that work?" wonders Cypress. "Can you get more medallions to make humans look like - perytons, or...?"
shesepankh
Phix does her favorite midform, but doesn't fullform; she is mid-tummy-rub with Cricket. "Medallion-making is a lost art. And since there aren't any medallions that do anything other than let critters look like humans, or in between, it may be that there's a limitation somewhere that means we really can't, but it might be that we could let you turn into critters. If we figure it out. I'm planning to start a magic school because the current state of magic-as-it's-practiced in Medallion is terrible."
castmyown
"It really is! I had to badger people endlessly to learn magic, it was annoying."
royal_obligation
"... 'Badger people,'" says Edarial, musingly. "Can anyone learn it?"