trade my soul for a wish

[from_scratch]

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)

Comments

[sturdycoldsteel]

"I think maybe close proximity to stuff matters more here. You seem to have vehicles like that spaceship, I bet you have smaller ones for the ground too. We don't, except insofar as flying or levitated carriages that bus people between cities count."

[from_scratch]

"Oh, yeah, there will totally be a subway. I will have the best subway on my island."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Good for you. I'm going to write up as much as I can about the dam in Tlane for Kell, in case they want to keep it. You can do whatever you like until this evening, I suppose?"

[from_scratch]

"I don't think I will build an island today. I don't have a complete design yet. I will wander Opri and design an island."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"I hope it will be a practical and well-thought-out island. By now your precedent practically demands it."

[from_scratch]

"The most practical and well-thought-out. And made during lowest tide so the displaced water doesn't inconvenience anyone before it has time to spread out."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Right. You should swing by the civil service place again sometime after sunset. I bet they'll have decided by then."

[from_scratch]

"Sure."

In the meantime, he has notes to note, a beautiful city to explore, and an island to design.

[sturdycoldsteel]

The city continues to be beautiful.



Sunset comes and goes in due time.

[from_scratch]

And Cam goes to the office.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Kell and Grind are waiting out front, looking tired. Kell bites out, "We've decided we'd like to keep the dam, as long as you still don't mind."

Grind interjects, "Good luck, Cam. You've got attitude, so it'd be boring to see ya fail."

[from_scratch]

"I made the dam for you guys to use," says Cam, tail swishing through the air. "I don't mind."

[sturdycoldsteel]

They nod and shake hands, official business concluded.

Steel comes out of the office with a backpack. "I'd like to come with you and see your new island, and recruit immigrants after that. All my personal effects are right here."

[from_scratch]

"Sure. The island won't be that interesting to look at to start with, though. I'd want to talk to people who wanted to live on it before I made anything on it besides a house for myself and basic infrastructure stuff.

[sturdycoldsteel]

"You'll have more luck finding immigrants among non-shapers. They are underprivileged and will not lament the lack of established bluestream."

[from_scratch]

"Well, nothing I make will require shaping to use, which I imagine would also help. I'd find this city kind of uninviting if I couldn't fly."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"That's why there are elevators, you see."

[from_scratch]

"I didn't say unusable, I said uninviting."

[sturdycoldsteel]

Shrug. "Shall we fly to your hidden shuttle?"

[from_scratch]

"Sounds like a plan."

[sturdycoldsteel]

So they fly. It takes a few hours, and it drizzles along the way.

The shuttle is undisturbed. Steel asks, "Can I get a quick drying?"

[from_scratch]

She is fluffed with hot dry air.

When the shuttle is unburied, Cam rinses it off, and then hops in.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Steel follows. "I might want one of these. It would be awfully convenient in some ways, I think."

[from_scratch]

"The shuttle? They're a little harder to pilot than I'm making it look, if you want to do anything more than point-to-point, but maybe that'd do it for you. I could make something less complicated that would handle that though."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Point to point would do it. For visiting cities and advertising your shiny new island. We might want regular trips to the various existing places and back, if we find any cooperative municipalities."