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Milliways may have recently been busy, judging from the confetti all over the place, the usual array of mug stains and dirty napkins and crumbs, and nacho cheese that ended up on the wall for some reason, but it's pretty slow right now.
characters who don't have multiple gallery icons meet in milliways
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"Well... when I get cut, new skin eventually grows over the cut. I slowly shed retired skin so I bathe every day even if I don’t touch anything dirty. Sometimes people on my planet have parts start growing too much and get cancer."
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“I’m not properly here in the flesh, though, so I don’t think you could check.”
"That’s really cool, honestly. It would be really useful to be able to send a fake body to do things and then get rid of it."
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"That’s very expensive. I don’t think I can hold a sponge here because I’m special, I think it’s because Milliways is."
"Maybe I should hold my door open and invite people to move in. It's just... I'd get government attention and I don't really want it."
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"I don't think this happens if you move to Milliways, it's more that being here as a dreamer is weird. And I suspect your government probably imprisons people already."
"No, it's just - having people around using fake bodies to clean things is great, you could use it for worse messes than you're dealing with, and on my planet the biggest problems are that we don't have any space and that we don't have a good way to deal with unclean things - I'm clean, I promise I'm clean - "
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"I'm not going to scrub you! Bar doesn't ask me to wash patrons! – I guess I don't know how the dreaming thing works but I think using Milliways for space might be a better bet than using it for that. There's also cleaning magic, I never got the hang of it and wouldn't know where to start teaching you but it does exist."
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"Wizardry is learnable, if you're good enough. Any real wizard can magically clean objects in about this area in six seconds." Clarinda gestures at a volume somewhat larger than her head.
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"I know that you need to be both intelligent and good at raw memorization – diagrams, gestures, phrases, that sort of thing. You need some manual dexterity, if you can't make the gestures you can't cast the spell. You really want to have good hearing and both your hands, if you don't it's easy to make mistakes. Being an elf helps. Focus and diligence helps but sometimes people are prodigies. There's a spell wizards cast to tell if someone's good enough, but it doesn't always work, it said I probably would be."
Oh, it's yellow work. Fortunately, lots of newly clean people are yellow. "I don't think I'd be good at it, but I think I know people who would."