odd little alucine

[affodell]

It's never previously occurred to Cayra to put a door across an alucine boundary, but now that she's encountered it in practice it makes sense. It makes it visually obvious and it lets you lock it if you want. This door wasn't locked, and it looked like it led to a public bathroom, not a bar, from the signage, so she's still confused. Still, it's a good idea. She twists open the glass vial pendant around her neck and bends her head to the little blue lily inside to make a note of it; as an afterthought she tries to send it off to her antheomancer-chatcircle, anything to have a decent conversation, but it doesn't go. Her flower doesn't look wilting, but she can put it back in the garden and get a fresher one for the vial later. At least her personal files look okay. She closes up the vial again, giving the flower a touch of antheomancy for its health, and finds a bathroom inside the bar that dominates this little alucine.

And then she emerges into the bar. It doesn't seem to be staffed. Or stocked. Why wasn't it locked?

Hello, anybody here?

with Flynn (ErinFlight)

with Harry (andaisq)

Due to some icon rearrangement errors, some of Flynn's tags appear with an incorrect icon. The correct face for this thread is Rosario Dawson's.

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[erinflight]

A woman waves at her from an otherwise empty table, "Hey, you know where we are?"

[affodell]

"No, not really. We're just off a suburb-alucine of Araming, though, if you're lost?"

[erinflight]

"We're off the what?" She lets out a huff of air, "I must be really lost."

[affodell]

"I don't remember the name of the alucine I came in from, I've been traveling, but I know it's attached to Araming's west portal cluster. Where'd you come from?"

[erinflight]

"Town called Crake's hollow, near the ruins of Lustet. Never heard of Araming."

[affodell]

"I've never heard of your town or Lustet. Araming's big and you speak really good Radial for not having ever heard of the alucine. What's the nearest big alucine or empire to you?"

[erinflight]

"Never heard of an alucine either. We're in what used to be the Empire of the Reseers, but that was a long time ago."

[affodell]

"...What do you mean you've never heard of an alucine?"

[erinflight]

"It's a new word. I don't know what it means. Have you ever heard of a weaver?"

[affodell]

"People who... make... fabric? But no if you don't have alucines where do you put your towns?"

[erinflight]

"Valleys, forest clearings, anywhere that's a little protected and close to farmland. Weavers are crazy and have magic. What are alucines?"

[affodell]

"Alucines are where you normally would put all your valleys and forest clearings and towns! They're where all the stuff is! Where do you put your - oh, maybe you just have a really big alucine? A portal-impoverished one? And then you could probably have a decent sized country that didn't even know there were other ones and you might not bother to have a word."

[erinflight]

"I don't know. I still don't get what an alucine is. Are you saying that it's the same thing as a planet? The only place I know without stuff is space."

[fortheliving]

Somebody is here! He is sitting at the bar being offensively tall, he has an extremely dark beer in front of him, and to his right is a truly enormous dog drinking a fizzing pink liquid from a bowl.

He raises a hand. "Hey! New here?"

[affodell]

"...Hi! Yes. Yes I am."

[fortheliving]

"Welcome to Milliways, then. The Bar at the End of the Universe, accept no substitutes. Pull up a barstool, the first drink's free."

[affodell]

So Cayra sits. "End of the universe?"

[fortheliving]

Harry gestures to the window of exploding stars. "Supposedly that's what it looks like when the universe dies. Lots of pretty fireworks. I approve on principle. I'm Harry, by the way."

[affodell]

"That's a weird name. I'm Kimbelcayra. Cayra for short."

[fortheliving]

"Hey, you didn't even hear the weird parts of my name! Besides, we're from different universes, naming conventions can't even stay consistent over the course of a couple of decades."

[affodell]

"We're what?"

[fortheliving]

"Oh. Sorry. Yeah, Milliways takes in people from different universes and tosses them together because it thinks it's hilarious."

The dog noses Cayra's shoulder comfortingly.

[affodell]

Blink. Blink. "You mean this in some way that isn't just 'this is an alucine with a door'?"

[fortheliving]

"...Probably? Your universe might have interdimensional travel magic, but you seem a lot more surprised than you would be if that was a thing that was going on."

[affodell]

"Nnnno, not really. There's - ostimancers, oneiromancers, but that doesn't seem like what you're talking about?"