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They are just about to Wyoming when Cypress asks: "Making literally anything includes making things that - don't technically exist but physically could? Such as, I don't know, an instruction manual for a spaceship you invented?"
(The Zevs have left the main cabin again. It's a really good thing their room is soundproofed.)
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prodigal_miser
ask_nicely
"Cool."
And she goes and messes with the other side of the tree - it seems her changes are a bit bizarre, at first, but then it becomes obvious what she's doing. She's giving the bulge in the tree a compensation on the other side, so that the tree looks like it decided to twist a bit while growing and then changed its mind later. It's pretty subtle, but it helps make the tree look less bulgy.
"Ha. Progress."
And she goes and messes with the other side of the tree - it seems her changes are a bit bizarre, at first, but then it becomes obvious what she's doing. She's giving the bulge in the tree a compensation on the other side, so that the tree looks like it decided to twist a bit while growing and then changed its mind later. It's pretty subtle, but it helps make the tree look less bulgy.
"Ha. Progress."
ask_nicely
"We might not. I bet we definitely wouldn't if I tweaked it a bit more, but - I don't want to break a fragile portal."
prodigal_miser
"Yeah. Portals. Useful, but annoying sometimes. Here, let me do the illusionary honors..."
Cypress stares at the tree for a while mutters something about 'environmental light conditions' to himself, and then - the tree is subtly illusioned. The shape of the tree isn't changed much at all, but the texture of it looks more whole. The roots seem to meet up perfectly with where the bulge is, and the tree looks perfectly coherent. For sanity's sake, the nook in the bark is still present.
"There," he says, brightly. "That should work."
Cypress stares at the tree for a while mutters something about 'environmental light conditions' to himself, and then - the tree is subtly illusioned. The shape of the tree isn't changed much at all, but the texture of it looks more whole. The roots seem to meet up perfectly with where the bulge is, and the tree looks perfectly coherent. For sanity's sake, the nook in the bark is still present.
"There," he says, brightly. "That should work."
from_scratch
"Cool. We just walk through? No weird caveats about having to move at a continuous rate lest we be bisected or something?"
from_scratch
"I do not want to find that I am not indestructible with respect to otherworldly magic by not checking. No offense." Cam takes Prime at his word, and steps through the door and the portal behind.
darkest_evening
"None taken," shrugs Prime.
Predictably, walking through the portal brings Cam to the other side without any sort of incident.
Predictably, walking through the portal brings Cam to the other side without any sort of incident.
namesthesky
"Welcome to Pantheon," says Spring when they reach Pantheon. "This is my hastily assembled little house, which has been serving as portal hub, soon to be replaced - both in its capacity as portal hub and as my house, separately, please."
dark_light
"Instead of a - liaisons room, how about just a floor or three of bedrooms? In case we find somebody while they're in the middle of being harrowed and they need a place to crash. Phix, like, actively has a dragon after her, for instance."
castmyown
"Actually, it might be better if we made little apartments, it's entirely possible Phix and I might decide here's safer than home. Also, her mom's probably going to get resurrected, and might need a place to stay. So like, tiny kitchens, bathrooms, a washer and dryer, plumbing..."
from_scratch
"Okay, so a few apartments, like - four? I can always add more if Adana poofs the top off the tower whenever I have to make adjustments."
ask_nicely
"I will happily poof away the top off the tower for adjustments for you."
from_scratch
"Four apartments, a nice big first floor for - meetings, congregating for planning of shenanigans? With its own bathroom so we don't have to invade people's apartments, and one for the portals to be installed in... I'll start it without any furniture, and a couple floors with nothing in them except for the stairs between the portals floor and the apartments, and as we use it - I will make a labelmaker. You can label parts of the Belfry with what you think ought to go there and when the labels have accumulated I will cruise through and make the requested additions."
darkest_evening
The Adarins look at each other.
"Library," agree Max, Cypress, and Prime.
"Library," agree Max, Cypress, and Prime.
ask_nicely
"Computer system complete with all known technological knowledge and various schematics, and information on all known magic we have available."
prodigal_miser
"Same," snickers Cypress. "Though maybe a library with that computer system in it?"
from_scratch
"Okay, ground floor, portals, library, empty space, apartments - unless the apartments should be lower down? I am imagining a tower, stop me if I should not be imagining a tower."
darkest_evening
"We do have space to spread out inside the mountain, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a tower."
castmyown
"If we build partially inside the mountain, I vote for secret passages on the grounds of they are useful if we get attacked. Actually we should probably have secret passages anyway, for that same reason." Pause. "Also, they're cool."
dark_light
"But we do need a steeple-y thing to put a bell in, which should be outside."