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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
onthewind
Rae's not around in his manifested form, but Idania's outside of her house, drawing out various runes and muttering to herself.
namesthesky
"Hey, Idania, we need to know for reasons if gods can bless daeva, can you talk Rae into trying with Revelation or Revival?"
onthewind
"I can ask him to check if he can, he'll answer if he can or can't but isn't likely to actually bless either of them unless he sees a valid reason that they give him. Close enough?"
namesthesky
"Yeah, if we can count on his can-I-bless-them detector working definitely for sure. The reason we want to know is that we want to summon lots of angels to get rid of ash clouds in the new world we just contacted, and people who summon daeva are known to turn into daeva after death, and so we want only people whose powers are recoverable if they turn into daeva doing that. That's basically me, and you, and Max who's already done it whether it'll interact weird with him being a peryton or not."
onthewind
"Ooo. Yeah, that's a valid reason." She addresses a sand vial. "Hey, Rae, people who summon daeva become daeva after they die. We're not sure how it messes with blessings or if they can be blessed. Want to test it on Adana and Cam?" Pause. "Yeah, that convinced him. Give him a bit, he'll come check."
onthewind
"Sure! If I get to keep my blessings, no downsides to becoming any sort of daeva. Actually a lot of upsides. Plus, helping."
namesthesky
"Don't, like, commit suicide after summoning the angels, we don't know if this works for people who aren't from Inferno. But yeah, that's my thinking."
onthewind
"I wasn't planning to suicide, not to worry. It would be painful and upsetting for everyone involved."
Rae shows up presently. He looks at Revelation and Revival and tilts his head.
"The blessings work fine on you both," he says without any sort of greeting. "I tested, to make sure my senses weren't off. The winds will now be helpful to you both."
"The blessings work fine on you both," he says without any sort of greeting. "I tested, to make sure my senses weren't off. The winds will now be helpful to you both."
from_scratch
"So, Spring and Idania and Max can summon angels - how long are you guys willing to spend finishing circles and making sure that the angels don't want anything I had better not give them and then dismissing them when we're done with them, should we call it good with three or call in other people?"
namesthesky
"I'm good for - hours, but possibly not days unless it's strictly necessary. I may be able to enlist some of the priesthood and the junior faithful - it's not disease related, but it's a cleanup project."
onthewind
"Yeah, that will not fly with mine. Alas, my minions suck at minioning. And my boyfriend's a mage, that means he's out, right?"
castmyown
"Also fine with hours. We can enlist our dads if necessary. They'd be confused, but helpful."
dark_light
"I can afford nonmagical hirelings but I'd have to explain what they were doing, right? And my money's no good in your worlds, it's got daemons in the portraits of the dead presidents."
blink_and
"Bet we can grab the non-twin volunteers with the Junebugs once they realize what's going on."
point_b
"Do the Junebugs have much access to non-twin staff? Also, extra layer of 'what the hell are you doing' if we have to disclose the 'you might turn into a magic wingy person' risk."