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It's a week or two before everything's nice and set up for searching for alts. All of the portals have been remade, spare mirrors have been created, and everyone that is allowed portal access gets a microchip. Even the gods. Rae accepts his without fuss, Perinixu - tolerates it. After a lot of questions. And a hefty donation from Cam in the form of another temple. Whatever, they managed it.
Cypress offers to do the scrying, but Prime shrugs him off. Which one of them is married and therefore has a wife to bang in his free time? Oh, right, yes, that's Cypress. Go, be free, twenty-something year old alt. Prime doesn't hate your happiness. (Much.) Now, if Prime gets married, they can divvy up the annoying work between themselves. But, not happening anytime soon, so he'll do it.
Exciting scrying happens. It involves lots of staring off into the distance and looking at places.
And then, he informs the various people arrayed around him in Pantheon:
"Found a set. A female Adarin, and a female Bell. Also a Zeviana and a - girl whom I don't recognize. And parents." Pause. "They're all living in the same house."
He dearly hopes they local Bell and Adarin are not siblings, that would make everyone uncomfortable. Oh, nope, look, the Bell and the Adarin just kissed. How quaint.
"Pretty sure they're not siblings," he clarifies. "Unless this is the plane of incest."
darkest_evening
blink_and
"We could also just - move out. If they can make literally anything.... Houses are included. But - augh, then we have to deal with buying property -"
point_b
"Even if we moved out it'd be squishy in here. I don't think Alli and Savannah would share a room very well. And Charlie'll find out one way or another if we have as much traffic and intervention as we're talking about. I'll go - get him." She pecks Conduit on the cheek and goes looking for her dad.
blink_and
Conduit smiles at Flicker, then looks at the mirror. "Uh. There are - I should probably call the Junebugs, how am I going to explain this?"
blink_and
"Oh! Right, um. Superpowered disaster relief, and people who help coordinate them. They're supposed to be called the 'Gemini Guard' but since the astrological sign shows up mostly in June, they got nicknamed the Junebugs to be cute. B- Flicker and I are junior members. They have a pretty good idea of what's going on, where, so coordinating with them would be great."
from_scratch
"Nifty. How're you going to spin the alts thing? We are like extradimensional twins therefore powers?"
blink_and
"... That's clever, let's do that, unless we think of something better. I don't think they're likely to be snippy, anyway, if you're helping out."
point_b
Bella appears back in the room. "Charlie doesn't seem to actually believe me but says we can hypothetically remodel the house with extra bedrooms and maybe a nice big storage cellar."
prodigal_miser
"We," snorts Mage Number One, "have been ready for a while now. Prime and Cam are going, right?"
point_b
"Hi. Uh, I will just - put you in the backyard."
Flicker flicker flicker flicker flicker. Now they are all four in the backyard.
Flicker flicker flicker flicker flicker. Now they are all four in the backyard.
darkest_evening
"Sure. I'm going to make it switch between being visible and looking like an ordinary wall, do you want a specific word or should I just go with the boring standard of 'Pantheon'?"
He's addressing Flicker and Conduit.
He's addressing Flicker and Conduit.
from_scratch
"It has gods in it. Maybe we should install one of them here, they also do terraforming, but we'd have to ask how good they are at ash in the sky."
darkest_evening
"Mhm."
Quite anticlimactically, he pokes the wall, and says in a deadpan, "Boop."
There is now a portal. It's not like Conduit's - it sort of shimmers and the surface of it looks like water instead of air.
"You'll need the microchips to pass through it. Otherwise, it will be like walking into a wall."
Quite anticlimactically, he pokes the wall, and says in a deadpan, "Boop."
There is now a portal. It's not like Conduit's - it sort of shimmers and the surface of it looks like water instead of air.
"You'll need the microchips to pass through it. Otherwise, it will be like walking into a wall."
from_scratch
"Any reason I shouldn't chip you in the thighs as is standard? Also, I can anesthetize, the chips are little but not quite little enough that you can't feel them starting to exist, but if being a twin here has weird effects..."