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.

Comments

[affodell]

"Yeah, agreed. In case the threads turn out to be fickle or something."

[midst_of_threads]

Flynn starts walking towards Crake's Hollow.
"I wonder how many more types of magic exist out there somewhere."

[affodell]

"No idea. I plan to hang out in that bar more and see who walks in."

[midst_of_threads]

"There are so many possibilities now. Maybe I'll wander for a bit after I get things under control here. I still don't understand exactly what the threads are, or why I have a world and you have alucines."

[affodell]

"Or how the bar works in the first place, if it's not just another alucine!"

[midst_of_threads]

"I wonder if I could weave something like the bar. My own friendly universe-crossing ship."

[affodell]

"The room already has its portals in three places. But maybe something independently ambulatory would work too."

[midst_of_threads]

"True, I could just make a bunch of portals. Even the threads said they had trouble reaching new universes. If someone made the bar, they must have been crazily powerful."

[affodell]

"Yeah. And it seems like a weird way of accomplishing any specific goal - like, maybe it's doing something very big very quietly, but it's not the most efficient way of doing anything we saw it do, which means those are side effects, or they didn't care about efficiency. It seems more like the kind of thing you'd just sort of toss off for fun, not like a huge resource outlay. Which implies even more power than that."

[midst_of_threads]

"Maybe the person who creates a universe connecting bar is also the kind of person who creates universes? Or maybe not. If you don't have to worry about vices, how far can your 'mancies go?"

[affodell]

"Oh, if I don't have to worry about vices, I can learn tons of things. Oneiromancy in particular might have amazing untapped vistas, because oneiromancers lose receptive language so after a while they can't receive suggestions anymore, not in the way people usually phrase suggestions anyway - there's probably less of it to learn than anything else because it's almost solo research beyond that point. But there's only as much as has made it into the knowflowers; I'll have to combine 'mancies in substantial quantities or do independent research to accomplish anything truly unprecedented. Will the wall last? Because if I learn a dozen 'mancies all the way and then it collapses I'll be a disaster."

[midst_of_threads]

"I made it as strong as I could while still making it reversible, so it's not going to randomly break. If there aren't any side effects, I can make it indestructible."

[affodell]

"Okay. So I won't go nuts and teach myself pyromancy right away. Indestructible would be to anyone including you or another weaver, right?"

[midst_of_threads]

Flynn nods, "You'd be safe from everyone. I think I'm the only weaver now. The threads left the others."

[affodell]

"Oh, left them completely? Did they put their personalities back first?"

[midst_of_threads]

"I think the threads left so they could fix the weavers. None of the other weavers reached out. If the threads tried to keep pulling the weavers in, their minds would decay. They should all be back to normal now."

[affodell]

"Oh, so it's - self-repairing if the threads leave them alone?"

[midst_of_threads]

"I don't know actually, I'll ask."
Flynn stops walking and closes her eyes, focusing on the self existing within the threads.

"Okay, the threads said they fixed the weavers this time, but the weavers might have eventually healed on their own."

[affodell]

"Okay, cool."

[midst_of_threads]

The forest opens onto the edge of a small town. The homes are wooden and sturdy. Patches of grass grow on the roofs to hide the village from dangerous eyes in the sky.

Flynn takes a deep breathe and keeps walking.

[affodell]

"We could have just gone through the portal directly into your house," Cayra remarks. "Did you need the walk to psych yourself up?"

[midst_of_threads]

"I want to tell everyone, not just my family. Word that I'm a weaver will have spread by now. Besides, walking in normally is less threatening."

[affodell]

"Okay."

[midst_of_threads]

As they're walking into the town, the door of a nearby house opens. A woman holding a little boy's hand steps outside.

The women notices Flynn and flinches.

"Hey Gale," Flynn says gently, "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you."
"Cody, go back inside," the women says and the little boy releases her hand to run back into the house.

[affodell]

"It's okay," repeats Cayra. "I've got her on a leash, and shouldn't need to use it."