Yaaaaaaaaay~

Karen finishes the Felix. (She has run out of hair potion and has her hair in Miranda-y braids, which she doesn't like at all.) The Felix is golden and lovely. Drops of it breach and splash down like little dolphins.

She eyedroppers out the tiniest possible amount for Miranda.

Miranda takes it. The phrasebook is all laid out but Felix is drawn instead to the alphabet in the way back that Cricket still doesn't have the hang of. Taptaptaptap -

Draw him out.

"Is it - sentient? Also - how -"

"...if I had to make a bet," says Miranda as it wears off, "I'd say more like a portrait or a ghost."

Nod. "Well. Draw Melkor and his presumed crown of magic jewelry out from Angband."

"I can take another drop if we need more detailed tactical instructions."

"Let's see what we can come up with unaided."

Nod. "That is a really interesting sort of a high."

"Isn't it? Wouldn't it be fun to take over the world on Felix?"

"Don't tempt me."

"Maybe if we're really careful we can save enough to eventually ask it how to get home." And he asks everybody for ideas on drawing Melkor out.

"I assume this is not the sort of case where you want to literally challenge him to a duel."

"That would be fun! Until you died. But I don't see why he'd even take us up on it instead of killing us remotely."

"Attack Angband somehow - you could Imperius some orcs -"

"I doubt that overrides orders and I bet they have orders not to attack him."

"It'd be kind of a glaring omission if they didn't. ...How hard would it be to introduce a physical object to the place - plant it on an orc -"

"That's probably doable even without Imperiusing one and trivial with - what kind of physical object gets him to leave -"

"I'm not sure exactly. One of the music transmitters could issue some kind of challenge without actually physically going somewhere and being all 'hey duel me'?"

"Or play the anaesthetic song, once I get them nice enough, that might be disruptive enough that a challenge could get his attention -"

"Or that thing Gringotts uses for security, that makes things double when they're touched -"

"Those things'll crush people in a room all right but I don't think they'd get past a heavy-duty fortress door. Maybe you could - flood the place -"

"I don't think you can make water self-duplicating."

"You can't, but you can plumb it - we don't use Muggle style plumbing, we just have a reservoir the house elves refill - drop a pipe-end in the ocean -"

"Ooooh. - might need the Angband end to expand somehow, otherwise it'd just be a leak they could plug quickly or use their magic on -"