six ways tranquil doctor feya in thomassia
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"Yes, I'd be happy to". She opened the door into the bathroom, revealing a room essentiallly split in half. There is a squarish toilet, placed against the right wall, and a smaller wall dividing the room in two parts to the left. Above the left side of the room, there are what looks like fine perforations in the ceiling, together with a handheld showerhead against the wall that's next to the door leading in. There is a sink in the left part of the room, with a round mirror and various thin slices of soap, as well as hand soap easily available.

"So, the way that this works is that you step into the tub here", she somewhat awkwardly steps over the low wall splitting the room in two, "and then you adjust the heat and the strength of the water, using the two knobs here". There are a pair of knobs placed under the handheld showerhead. "The one on the left controls the temperature, and the one on the right controls the flow of the shower. There's actually a ring that lets you control the flow into the smaller showerhead separately, next to the right knob. If you want a bath, you press the button with an image on a bathtub, and that starts filling up the tub. It goes quite fast! You take the black stopper out of the drain, when your bath is over and you want to drain all the water out. Do you think everything makes sense to you?"

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"Yes. Please give me a moment, I'm going to cast Set Memory about it." His eyes glaze over for several seconds, then come back. He'll be able to remember her exact words later. He is very thankful that he can use his Way to shore up his normally terrible memory.

"It's a lot of features." He's never actually used a shower before, so it will be very exciting.

"It does make sense. Is the water potable? The sink water is potable, yes?"

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"Yes, the sink water is drinking-rated! The water from the shower is also potable, although... it's noticeably less good."

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He wants to ask why, but he is Very Tired.

"Thank you for explaining. When will the food arrive? Is it necessary for you to be the one to receive it, since you ordered it?"

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"No, you can receive the food. You'll hear a chime outside the door when it's arrived, don't worry. This chime, to be unambiguous." It's the sound of some very beautiful bells ringing a few times. After a while of repeating normally, it moves on to ringing constantly, creating a sharp, almost whirring noise.

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It's certainly very attention grabbing!

"I see! Thank you for explaining," he says again. He kind of wants to ask her to leave now, but he is unsure as to how to do that in a non-rude manner. 

Oh, and, "May I know your name?"

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"My name is Hannah. I don't see why you'd ask. In any case, are you happy with me heading off now?"

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???????? why would he not ??????????

Thank stars. It feels kind of bad wishing her to Go Away Now but that is what he is desiring right now.

"Yes, I don't need anything else. Once again, thank you for your help."

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She bows at him. "Then I'm off." She slowly makes her way out of the hotel room, giving Feya plenty of time in case she was still needed for something.

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Feya will let her leave without interruption!

He will return to sitting meditation until the food arrives – how long does it take?

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It's actually just a few minutes after she had left.

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That's fast! He will answer the door and receive the food.

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Outside, there's a small robot carrying a box that screams, "pick me up". Lifting and removing the lid reveals the steamed buns that Feya had asked for, looking amazingly fresh and inviting.

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It's a...he has no idea what it is. He appraises it for several seconds before picking up the box. He does not actually lift the lid just yet – rather, he puts the whole thing on an available surface, before going back and thanking the ?entity? and then closing the door behind him. And locking it. If there is any obvious sticking-out turning thing.

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The robot is riding on several small wheels; the box on top was placed within a cargo bay with grooves at the sde, making it easy to grab the sides of the box. The door is locked easily enough.

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Everything here is So Weird and So New and he is So Tired.

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Okay. The door is locked now. Doing this feels...unnecessary...but it will placate his paranoia, so he thinks he ought to do it anyway. It's something he hasn't cast in some time, and now that he has this space, it's possible to cast it as a ritual rather than a spell. Which makes it way way cheaper! Rituals can use longer casting times, words, props, ingredients, environmental resonances, and assistants. This ritual has no props, ingredients, or words, and he has no assistants.

An environmental resonance is darkness, which he doesn't have, because no curtain. Actually, he's going to look closer, to see if there's some sort of hidden contraption that functions as a curtain? Many things here seem to move of their own accord. 

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Thoroughly examining the room reveals a slider, not too far away from the glass wall. It has a pictogram of the sun and of the moon, with a bead that's black and white. It very clearly makes something dark, and judging by how close it is to the wall, it must be making it dark... in some sense.

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He will slide it! Actually, he will cast Seamless Skin of Stone on his hand first, and then slide it! What happens?

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All the windows that he can see in other buildings turn into black squares, before the window itself goes from looking out over the city to a pitch-black wall. There's still a bit of light coming from the lights in the ceiling, but everything is much, much darker now.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA did he just cause all the windows to change put it back put it back

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It returns to a view of the beautiful city, and the endless parade of skyscrapers!

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Sigh. So no darkness. Fortunately, the other environmental resonance is quiet, and he does have that! So he will start casting.

He takes off all his clothes – the ritual formulation suggests it – and then lies down on the floor. The ritual formulation suggests adopting the posture of a corpse, so he adopts a corpse like posture. Then the unpleasant part: the mental prompts. Every effect requires a clear and sustained mental state, and this ritual has unpleasant ones. It's part of the reason he doesn't cast it as often. Still, he has set his mind on this matter. So.

Everything ends – from dust you were and to dust you shall return – I am the void – I am nothing – vacuum – emptiness – gaping maw

He will cast the ritual Negentropy's Last Gasp, Lesser.

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It takes a third of an hour. He is, as his title suggests, very efficient at ritual casting, and he barely spends any energy on it, compared to the spells he cast earlier.

Any effect – whether permanent artifice or ward or temporary enchantment – that might have been in the room ought to have been nullified, regardless of whether or not they have antiglamors on them that would have hidden them from his attention. Not that there would have been any – his blessing should have protected him from them.

He will finally eat the buns! Which will tragically be cold now, but. At least he can be assured that they are not buns that have hidden effects in them. Do the buns have any fillings? He expects not, given what Hannah said.

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The spell has no effect whatsoever. The buns have cardamum filling! They taste very nice and sweet.

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