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Max heads home, writes up everything he remembers from the trip to the moon with Cam and Adana, and then when his girlfriend gets home, he presents it to her happily.
"Also," he adds, once she's been updated. "The portal hub in Pantheon got a ton of renovations, I think we're calling it the Belfry now. It's very cute."
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castmyown
darkest_evening
"I'll have to check. Might be smart if I borrowed Phix or Max to test it on them. Max would be better, I think, his eyes change more than Phix's."
from_scratch
"They're at home at the moment. How long will accumulating enough mana to do the test and both of them on the dragon himself take?"
darkest_evening
"A day or two, if I ask Ice very nicely for a sleeping spell and Cypress does one of them. We have a few options, to compensate. Giving him the medallion one first while we're testing the other one, and doing the secret one a few days later without his knowledge. Or, we hold him up here, complain of magic taking a while, and let him out with both when we're sure they're working. Downsides to both, upsides to both. I'll just be playing adviser, I'm not the one who's been harrowed by this person."
from_scratch
"Okay. And this does have the problem of who will supervise the other ends of the little mirrors. Especially since it would be too much to hope for that he's celibate and never needs the bathroom."
ask_nicely
"Most of us do," muses Adana. "We're typically busy people. Do we know people that are - less busy? Are fine with watching someone for a while?"
from_scratch
"Zevs? My parents? I still don't have a portal to Limbo - that would mean more waiting for mana, I suppose... Phix's mom, if we're going to resurrect her now. If Ice can find somebody to pay who is allowed to know that dragons exist..."
darkest_evening
"Charming animal companions, we have several. Our fathers. I could pay someone, there is no 'masquerade' on my world. Rae might do it, too, if we asked nicely and mentioned that this is the person that hurt Idania. We should ask around."
from_scratch
"Still, it seems - inefficient to have somebody staring at him constantly. Especially given the probability that he has some legitimate use for privacy."
darkest_evening
"Yeeees? I would say something sarcastic here but you sound like you're on to something."
ask_nicely
"We could just record the mirror, fast forward through the unimportant or private bits, and not waste as much time?"
from_scratch
"This does mean there's a delay on catching him if he does something nefarious, although he won't know when. Could work."
ask_nicely
"Maybe. Or - some sort of computer program that recognizes when certain words are said in the recording? Like - 'sphinx' and lets us know so we can watch that part of the recording."
from_scratch
"He might expect us to be cursory even if he doesn't expect the software solution and come up with a code. Or write."
from_scratch
"Suppose Ice's robots are smart enough to figure out whether he's doing approved or non-approved things? They're not - aware enough for it to be a huge deal if he does need privacy sometimes for legit reasons."
ask_nicely
"Aren't we already mirroring her?" asks Adana, amused. "She is married to the other mage, and all."
from_scratch
"I mean when the mirror is answered we want to talk to both of them and not just him. Is it night there or something? We need a snazzy calendar-y thing..."
from_scratch
"Yeah, just because we can power on with coffee forever doesn't mean they can. Oh well."