View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
When Iobel hears about the new world's details, and in particular her new alt's powers, she invites him over. It would have knock-on economic effects that they can't handle if he made everything that pops into her head, but crops that usually have higher yields and have been affected by this year's weather conditions can be added to the palace granary, especially pricey ones they can export or would otherwise have to import. He can make a little well-disguised generator so that they don't have to snake power cables as well as Internet ones into Chamomile through their portals. He can be conducted invisibly to various locations around the country (in a little flying vehicle he makes; she's going through a lot of invisibility scrolls to conserve her binder spells) and induced to add water here and trees there and stone to that quarry and nutrients to that low-quality soil. They are out almost all day doing that, flying high so they can be mistaken for a a bird when the short-lived invisibility wears off. And then they come back and Iobel looks through her notes and starts listing lost hexes and mythical spells.
She wants their charts.
And Cam can make them.
come_midnight
royal_obligation
Edarial waits until they're alone in a room together to scoop Iobel up into a hug and giggle like he's twelve.
royal_obligation
"We got - every lost chart that we know of, and - and a generator and he can make literally anything and it's really cool! I'm happy - sorry, should I have warned you before the hug? I wasn't thinking...
come_midnight
"You're allowed to hug me, you're just - very, very excited. You're usually not this excited."
royal_obligation
"It's exciting! Also clever, and useful, and I'm - actually happy."
royal_obligation
"Yeah," he agrees, still snuggling her. Snuggle snuggle. He has the urge to twirl her around, but he's sort of worried that would not go over well.
come_midnight
Snuggle! "I want to see how much of what we got up to today is noticed before inviting him out for more of the infrastructural fiddling. And he says he's going to look up - advanced - seeds? Which have been more domesticated for longer periods of time and will be easier to grow or tastier or more nutritious or something. And he'll come back and give us some of those."
royal_obligation
"Ooh."
"Am I allowed to pick you up and twirl you? Because I want to."
"Am I allowed to pick you up and twirl you? Because I want to."
royal_obligation
Predictably, Iobel is picked up and twirled, and then put back down and giggled on some more.
royal_obligation
"Absolutely wonderful! We still need to manage an immortality hex, though, to explain why we're properly immortal in, oh, fifty years. Also, to outdo Ice and Cypress."
royal_obligation
"... I'm willing to count it. Just once. If Cam makes our robot army superior in some way."
come_midnight
"Well then, I'll see about designing something good for him to set us up with." Pause. "Also, I want to work on a hex to restore the mages' mana, because they're a huge limiting factor in finding cool things."
royal_obligation
"No, I got all excited and questioning because I was planning to hand it to my brother, I don't want to help with this incredibly helpful thing that is a good idea at all, even if it fits my skill set and I have more free time to do it now."
He is not serious.
He is not serious.