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Campbell Mark Swan ([personal profile] from_scratch) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia2014-11-27 08:45 am

trade my soul for a wish

This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.

Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.


with Mark (kappa)

with Adanya (Aestrix)

with Sable (kappa)

with Ari (andaisq)

with Metella (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Steel (Rockeye)

with Daphne (Maggie)

with Edie (Maggie)
unmarred: (1. surprise)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Commercial jumpship, probably, unless we can find a fast courier to charter. I'm just going to go ahead and assume that if I spend a lot of money on this you will pay me back with the obscene profits generated by your insta-cloning business. You'd need connections, but I can arrange connections. And we'd need to avoid pissing anyone off too badly. Some of those people hold serious grudges. It's doable, though."
unmarred: (5. pleasantry)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"I nominate Miles. If you don't mind the rest of his family, the Emperor of Barrayar, and the Chief of ImpSec also finding out how to resummon you. I assume that's something that can be done safely?"
unmarred: (3. analogue)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Get 'em drawn out and I'll send a message to Miles, then. An advantage of making it Miles is that I can send him coded messages that I know only he will be able to unlock."
unmarred: (e. impact)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Depends how complicated they are. If it's something that can be transmitted with purely verbal instructions, I'd rather you just tell me; it makes the message shorter. If that would get intractable, any standard image format on a data disk will do, or you can draw them on flimsies and I can take holos."
unmarred: (2. anew)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right. Now to hope this room has as good a comconsole as I expected it to..." He goes over to a medium-sized desk against one wall, sits at it, and makes a satisfied sound.
unmarred: (7. derive)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Portable computing devices exist, but they're unpopular for privacy reasons," he explains.
unmarred: (5. pleasantry)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"In a sense. Data security holds its own, but sacrificed portability to the cause. Anyway."

He starts composing his message.

"'In the event of my apparent death, please personally draw four circles on the floor'—what qualifies as floor, Cam? Paper on floor obviously did the trick."
unmarred: (3. analogue)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"—'where floor is defined as,' thank you, 'any flat surface within twelve degrees of perpendicular to more than 0.1G gravity, facing up. Around each circle write, respectively: I summon the demon Campbell Mark Swan, I summon the demon Mark Pierre Vorkosigan, I summon the fairy Mark Pierre Vorkosigan, I summon the angel Mark Pierre Vorkosigan. Critical safety measure: write the words before completing the circle. No, I am not going to explain further. If I'm not dead at the time, there will be no effect'—right?"
unmarred: (7. derive)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
He shrugs. "Close enough. All right. Now I just have to pick a keyphrase."
unmarred: (2. anew)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you could, it wouldn't be a very secure method."
unmarred: (6. reflection)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Mark thinks for another half-minute or so, and then seals up the message, attaches a note with the clue, and sends it.

(Dear Miles: What did you compare me to, in our memorable first conversation? —Mark)

"There, that's taken care of. Next item: transportation to Jackson's Whole?"
unmarred: (8. display)

[personal profile] unmarred 2014-11-29 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
He starts looking that up.

"Jackson's Whole isn't exactly a popular tourist destination... the next ship leaves in eight days, late afternoon in this time zone."

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