shiny new world

[mrsparkle]

Sadde's running.

Not for any particular reason, just because it's faster. He's been meaning to go to one of the capitals for a bit and now, he supposes, is as good a time as any.

And eventually he's not running anymore, because he's close enough to civilisation that someone might spot him. Not that he wouldn't be able to notice them by scent before they saw him, but still. And as he makes his way to the Norway capital at this more leisurely pace, he notices the tiny, shiny key. He walks towards it and picks it up and immediately notices just how magic it is. He can tell by the way the key feels like things, and different things depending on where it is.

He verifies that what the key feels like is consistent in absolute location by waving it around a bit and seeing that the same place always feels the same. "Huh," he murmurs to himself.

He straightens up and thinks. The first obvious thing to try is seeing whether it opens any doors - a universal skeleton key sounds like the kind of thing a magical key could be - but the second obvious thing can be tested right there and then. He pushes the key into thin air with some purpose, as if he wanted to unlock an invisible door, and then turns it, et voilà, the faintest of door-shaped outlines appears before him.

He locks the door, and it disappears. Unlocks it again, and there it is. So he pulls it open and sees-

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[from_scratch]

...Cam attempts to make the clock in the desolation without passing it through.

[peterxy]

There it is.

[from_scratch]

"And I can make things through portals, that's good."

[mrsparkle]

"Yup." He closes the door and locks it, waits five seconds, then unlocks it again.

[from_scratch]

"Looks synced. Can't necessarily count on it, but at least it's not habitually at some ridiculous multiplier."

[mrsparkle]

"It just occurred to me that we don't actually really need to wait until your being-summoned test is done, I could go to another universe and try to summon a different daeva from there."

[from_scratch]

"You could, but that can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing and I can't think of anybody I expect on a personal level to be uncurious and without any interest in messing with you."

[mrsparkle]

"I did read all your notes on the subject, and you could conjure me a book on summoning if you're worried, but what could they do?"

[from_scratch]

"If you say something agreement-like without hashing out a proper task-and-payment they can accept that."

[mrsparkle]

"...define agreement-like."

[from_scratch]

"If your daeva cares to run amok you are best advised not to casually go 'yeah' or 'mm-hm'."

[mrsparkle]

"Okay, I can remember that. I mean if you'd still rather wait, we could start setting up summoning the other types of daeva here, and I could then start doing tests on the circles."

[from_scratch]

"Sure. Lemme look up a suitable angel. And I can do the talking as long as I'm here." Compute compute.

[mrsparkle]

"Look up? There's angel announcements on the internet?"

[from_scratch]

"No, I have notes on individual summons I talked to - separate from the project notes - and also daeva I've met through my own summons."

[mrsparkle]

"Ah, makes sense."

[from_scratch]

"Actually, maybe we should start with a fairy..."

[mrsparkle]

"Any particular reason why?"

[from_scratch]

"Fairies are easier to pay and it would be more likely that you'd summon one just for kicks. You won't have any trouble paying an angel with a demon around but it'd still be notably weird."

[mrsparkle]

"Alright, then. But you'll still need to set up a place that doesn't look like Hell to do that, right?"

[from_scratch]

Shrug. "Sure, but parts of my house don't look especially Hellish, just don't summon them in the bathroom or the kitchenette."

[mrsparkle]

"Alright, then. Gimme a circle?"

[from_scratch]

Here is a circle on a piece of paper to finish, again. Cam draws all the curtains closed.

[mrsparkle]

Sadde finishes it!

[from_scratch]

There's a delay - "that's normal for a specific summons" - and then a few minutes later a fairy appears! He has the same mixed-up ethnic mishmash that the non-Cam demons in the park had.

"Hello, summoner," he says, looking at Sadde and barely glancing at Cam, "what can I do for you?"

Cam answers anyway: "He's just doing a summoning for kicks. Want some cookies for your time?"

"Uh," says the fairy, "sure."

Cam makes him some cookies.