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.
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Bar
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Clarinda Kittson
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There is, at least, a slightly translucent woman cleaning up the mess.
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
Someone who looks like a human, but very young to have hair that grey, comes down from the rooms above, yawning, to return a book and see who's around right now.
Clarinda Kittson
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The person cleaning nods at him. She doesn't look particularly startled by his appearance. (Aside from the translucency, she has mildly pointed ears, black hair that's barely beginning to grey, and her irises are rather large compared to a human's.)
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
He smiles and waves.
Clarinda Kittson
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She will make sure she is doing a cleaning task compatible with ongoingly looking at him a solid chunk of the time. "Greetings, how are you?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Worried about my sanity but assuming this place is real I’m really excited about it."
Clarinda Kittson
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"Oh, huh. Finding this place made me a lot less worried about my sanity, but I was already out of touch with reality before I got here, so my baseline was lower."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"When I got up yesterday I didn’t think this kind of thing happened in real life."
Clarinda Kittson
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"Huh. I wouldn't have predicted this exact thing but it's not a shock to me that extraplanar bars exist or that you can occasionally reach them by dreaming if you're imprisoned."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"I don’t think anyone on my planet does any kind of magic, at least openly. Where are you from?"
Clarinda Kittson
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"The planet's called Suaal but there aren't any other planets in the universe that we know of, so I wouldn't really expect you to run into it even if you do space travel."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Wow, good thing you can leave that universe."
Clarinda Kittson
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"Does space travel work well for you? I hear that things break down really easily out there."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
Sigh. "Not well enough but it’s something."
Clarinda Kittson
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"What do you do with it, anyway? I hear the moon is a weird kind of rock, are the planets you can get to made of more useful materials?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Not really but we can take stuff to the moons to live on them."
Clarinda Kittson
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"That's pretty cool. Wait, moons, plural? What's that like?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
Shrug. "It's hard to think what I'd compare it to. I guess it probably makes it more complicated to travel on the ocean."
Clarinda Kittson
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"I guess that's not an easy question to answer, it's not like you've lived on planets with varying numbers of moons such that you can do a comparative review for me."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Yeah. Maybe someday!"
Clarinda Kittson
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"Good luck! Bar lends out lots of nonmagical books, if that helps!"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Yeah! I've been translating stuff. Copying stuff. Whatever."
Clarinda Kittson
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Clarinda nods and puts a cloth in a bucket and gets another one.
"Are there any poems or prayers or meditation topics or other mental exercises you particularly like?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Um. I have some favorite poems but what are you talking about? I know what meditation and poetry are..."
Clarinda Kittson
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"Praying is a mental thing you do in order to try to get a god to do things. They can sort of engage with it sometimes, there are definitely limits but the details aren't clear to me. Sometimes people formalize it. If you haven't heard of it it probably doesn't work very well where you are or something."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"Get a what to do things?"
Clarinda Kittson
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"A god. Powerful being, grants their favorite followers the ability to create water and heal people along with some other magic, reasonably often involved in afterlives?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"...Um. No? What's an afterlife?"
Clarinda Kittson
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"At least in my world, usually when people's bodies die their souls go to places. …usually places with lots of dead people. Not here."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"I... don’t think I’ve heard of anything like that? How do you know about it and, uh, are the afterlives... clean...?"
Clarinda Kittson
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"Sometimes they send visitors, or people get visions. And the nice ones are clean, I think?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"They send visitors? As in, dead people? What's that... like?"
Clarinda Kittson
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"Strange and infrequent! I haven't personally spoken to any that I know of, it's more … sometimes you go to a temple and there's a lantern archon in the area who might give a speech at services or who might just be there on an errand, the Asmodeus Corporation office has at least one imp, that sort of thing."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"...And those are... definitely types of dead people?"
Clarinda Kittson
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"I haven't personally gone on a quest to verify it but they're things I hear dead people can become?"
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
Nod. "I see."
Clarinda Kittson
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"You can borrow books from Milliways about other peoples' worlds if you want to do a research project. Or buy them, if you can take things home, but the translation effect won't go with you."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
Nod. "It's really useful. I haven't read stuff from every world yet, though."
Clarinda Kittson
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"I'm not sure anyone has! There's a lot."
Valsin be-Ana de-Tirev
"I wonder if I should look for ways to live forever first..."
Clarinda Kittson
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"The ones where I'm from tend to make people evil, but maybe Milliways offers better ones?"