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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
"Ice and Cypress named themselves after what their crowns are made of."
dark_light
"I can make permanent ice," chirps Ice. "And am unharmed by cold."
castmyown
"Wait, that's ice? I thought it was glass or something. That's really cool!"
shesepankh
Phix giggles.
"Oh, I just realized, I haven't explained our species-specific magic. Besides being runecasters and besides the medallions, I mean. Perytons get a gross shapeshifting power - that's what Savannah's going to use to guide the scry for the racist villain - and sphinxes get - well, we're calling it fairy princess magic for inside joke reasons, but basically I can do extremely comprehensive healing and then pass out for a while, and I can do a large number of very minor effects - repairing cut paper or thread or skin a little at a time very slowly, making lines appear on paper, I can telekinetically move around droplets of water, most of the really tiny things I've been able to come up with to try I can manage if I focus. And the tiny things don't make me pass out."
"Oh, I just realized, I haven't explained our species-specific magic. Besides being runecasters and besides the medallions, I mean. Perytons get a gross shapeshifting power - that's what Savannah's going to use to guide the scry for the racist villain - and sphinxes get - well, we're calling it fairy princess magic for inside joke reasons, but basically I can do extremely comprehensive healing and then pass out for a while, and I can do a large number of very minor effects - repairing cut paper or thread or skin a little at a time very slowly, making lines appear on paper, I can telekinetically move around droplets of water, most of the really tiny things I've been able to come up with to try I can manage if I focus. And the tiny things don't make me pass out."
shesepankh
"For the healing, well, I can't do it while I'm already passed out, so sort of - thankfully I haven't had cause to do it twice in immediate succession, although I did something to make me pass out twice nearly in a row right after I got my medallion; we only have guesses about what - but for the little stuff, not that I've run into."
prodigal_miser
"Can you do delicate technological repair work? Out of curiosity."
shesepankh
"I think I could probably make delicate alterations to electronics, but whatever I'm doing - the kind I'm doing when I don't pass out, anyway - doesn't understand what 'repaired' means on its own, so I'd have to know what I was doing. Basically I could bypass the need for tools but not skip the electrical engineering classes."
prodigal_miser
"Interesting. That - sounds sort of similar to mine, in some ways."
shesepankh
"Enough that I can steal your notes, or just in a sort of conceptual way?"
prodigal_miser
"You can probably steal... some of my notes? But half of them are figuring out ways to trick things within my magic system, so those probably wouldn't work for you."
shesepankh
"Probably. I wish I knew more about what I'm actually doing, maybe then I could figure out how to cheat."
prodigal_miser
He nods. "It might be possible to scry for things written by sphinxes? To see if there are magic notes."
prodigal_miser
Cypress bursts out laughing. "For - offering to scry for something I might not even be able to find?"
shesepankh
"Yay magic! There can be an elective on otherworldly magic when I start Hogwarts."
shesepankh
"Nah, I just don't have a better idea yet. It'll be a magic school, though, and I can have a survey course on forms of magic from other places. For the upperclassmen who have demonstrated that they can be responsible with this information."