Downstairs the door opens and in walks a six year old girl with a weird animal.
He giggles. The bishop, inspired, shouts insults from the side of the board.
"Take care. You have enough movie recommendations to last?"
"Loads. Bar does 'em too. This place really screams 'I don't give a fuck how computationally expensive you are', it's very lavish."
"I imagine Bar takes pride in letting her patrons be very computationally expensive."
The fairy security is helping. One person misunderstood the announcement and committed suicide before having completed a summon. Someone asked one of the fairies for a demo of the indestructibility and the fairy refused and this was taken as deeply suspicious. The demon adoptive parents are having some cultural integration trouble and one of them is suddenly deeply unsure he will be able to make his dot supplying appointments with a two-month-old in tow.
Great! Here are the ongoing problems, does she have any advice?
She can offer Cefax-dwelling demons someone to staff a helpline if he'll supply the tech for one. Is there anyone handy who will demo the indestructibility? She hears good things about baby slings.
He can supply the tech for a helpline; he puts someone on that. How would she want to do a demo, another public event?
Not everyone can attend those. Ideally they'd do a small display at each dot.
"Daeva do not actually like being stabbed, for the most part, but I can ask."
"If they let it. Demons at least could also do their own painkillers. We are working really hard to ensure that taking summons is worthwhile in expectation for the daeva, because there are other worlds where we'll want to do this and we don't want people to stop showing up."
"Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with that, or if I should make do without demonstrations."
"I'll see how hard it is to find people who think demonstrations would be entertaining. There might be some, and then it'd be no big deal. The rest - well, magic is an obvious thing to offer to make visits more worth their while, but we really really don't want to increase mage demand."