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

[from_scratch]

"Oh - at home only humans can summon. I don't know if that will hold here, because your non-humans aren't daeva."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Ah. Well, its not quite as important in her case--she's already seven hundred years old. She's not invulnerable, but she doesn't have an expiration date the way us humans do."

[from_scratch]

"That's nice, then."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yeah. I've considered turning, if I can't find anything better and I'm worried about dying of old age...but it doesn't really appeal, just for itself."

[from_scratch]

"What's the process like?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"If you die of blood loss while a vampire's got their fangs in you you wake up a few days later with pointy teeth of your own."

[from_scratch]

"What's being a vampire like?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"You can't eat solid food and have to drink blood, but your taste buds aren't actually reconfigured. Garlic smells terrible. Maintaining a diurnal schedule is a pain and requires heavy clothing and parasols. You're a little stronger than a human but not much, depending on who you've been feeding on."

[from_scratch]

"Sounds inconvenient. I'd do it too to not keel over of old age, though, if that were something that could happen to me anymore."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yeah. One thing that is good about it is that there's basically a maximum age a vampire can look, so the only reason to do it sooner rather than later is if you're worried about being hit by a bus in the meanwhile."

[from_scratch]

"Oh, that's nice. Daeva have that too. I actually looked like this when I died - minus the wings and the tail, I made those - but if I'd been old I wouldn't have looked it when I appeared in Hell."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"It actually wouldn't surprise me if there were vampires willing to risk their lives in exchange for a chance at nifty powers and freedom from vampiric inconveniences, if we want to test whether dead summoners in this universe daevafy."

[from_scratch]

"Well, for all I know they'd keep the inconveniences, at least to a point, but a volunteer experimental subject is a useful thing to have. After we get rid of this guy and I handle the emergency priorities that I shouldn't risk leaving forever without handling."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Of course. But nifty powers are nifty powers."

[from_scratch]

"They are!"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"We might want to start with someone who seemed likely to be a demon, given that the ability to make blood would be a major boon all by itself if they turn out not to lose the inconveniences."

[from_scratch]

"Angel could do that too with knowhow and raw material."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"True. Well, if there's someone who particularly stands out as 'not a fairy' I guess that's our man."

[from_scratch]

"Yeah. It'll take me a while to get all my medicine stuff distributed, though, unless you know someone with a complete non-daeva-based production system for equipment and drugs."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"No, but it would take a while to get word out through the vampire grapevine about this anyway."

[from_scratch]

"Yeah. Man, 1999, your internet is probably terrible."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I'm sure your internet will seem terrible to people several centuries in your future too."

[from_scratch]

"Yes, yes, they'll probably have a workaround for the lightspeed delay or something."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Besides, most vampires are old. They don't reliably use the internet we have. What I'm going to do is tell Jaromira, and she'll tell Kanimir, and he'll start writing letters to people."

[from_scratch]

"I actually get a lot of paper letters, but that's because that's the best way for a demon to receive correspondence from distant locales."