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[alicornucopia]

In Paraasilan, Esmaar, a pair of roommates are about to break a rule that, compared to the one about running in the corridors or even the one about unlicensed teleportation, is there for a good reason.

In unison, they complete their shared spell.

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with Adarin (Aestrix)

with Ekador (kappa)

with Brilliance (kappa)

with the admin (kappa)

with Teah (kappa)

with Katran (lambda)

with Hall (kappa)

with Joy (kappa)

with Kalinda (Christy Hotwater)

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[alicornucopia]

"It's not really a cliff; if you walk over the edge you'll swing around over to the side."

[lookingforwardtoit]

Naturally, she tries it.

"Cool!"

[alicornucopia]

"If you'd warned me you were going to do that I would have warned you it tends to be nausea-inducing," says Keo dryly.

[lookingforwardtoit]

She laughs, and walks back over to the top.

[alicornucopia]

"So this is the edge of the world, it sounds more interesting than it actually is. Anything else you want to see?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

She shrugs. "Forests? Mountains? How chilly are the mountains?"

[alicornucopia]

"Pretty chilly. Though it's spring, so not as bad as they could be. I'm only ever up there to visit my sister."

[lookingforwardtoit]

"I could go for pretty chilly mountains. I like heights."

[alicornucopia]

"Do you want to borrow a coat?"

[lookingforwardtoit]

"Sure, if you've got a spare one. No big deal, though."

[alicornucopia]

Keo holds out her hand again. When Eights takes it, she teleports them to her and Kanaat's room. There is an egg in a basket in an incubation box with red light pouring from the top of it the same way white light filters down from the ceilings of the rooms.

Keo grabs a coat out of a closet and hands it over, then pulls on a different one for herself.

[lookingforwardtoit]

Eights dons the coat. The style is unfamiliar, but coats are still coats.

[alicornucopia]

And Keo teleports her to some extremely scenic and chilly mountains in Pleia. There is ice and clouds and plants and rocks and a canyon with a river full of icemelt.

Meanwhile, there is a knock on the door of the room currently harboring the admin.

[ending_of]

Curious.

"Yes?"

[alicornucopia]

A human-looking boy with red irises opens the door, and is deeply surprised by the contents. "Oh. I thought this was Korulen's room. Who are you?"

[ending_of]

"Korulen has moved," she says. "She and her roommate accidentally summoned me to this world. I am an administrator."

[alicornucopia]

"...She did not seem like the casual summoning type. Oookay. Administrator of what?"

[ending_of]

"An afterlife, to which your world is now linked."

[alicornucopia]

"Do go on."

[ending_of]

"You did not previously have anything of the kind, and I found it unpleasant to be surrounded by impermanence, so when they proved unable or unwilling to return me immediately, I connected this world to my domain. Now I am contemplating what changes to make in response to the fact that it is possible for inhabitants of my domain to be summoned to this world, however temporarily. I have been told that truly permanent transportation is not available, which is less than ideal."

[alicornucopia]

"Well, it's not theoretically impossible, it'd just require pretty high-percentile channeling capacity no matter how you slimmed it down plus a preposterous pain tolerance and virtuoso intentionality... you'd have to do it as an installation not a static is the thing. So we can just summon dead people now? When did this happen, why isn't it in the papers?"

[ending_of]

"It has not been very long. Only one dead person from this world and one from a different one have been summoned so far, to my knowledge. How could a summoning installation be arranged? I would prefer there to be one. Possibly more, but certainly at least one."

[alicornucopia]

"You'd get me to invent it and then pay a really, really good wizard to cast it. I guess this really really good wizard could invent it too, but I'm already thinking about it. I thiiiink that Keo's brother has the CC to pull it off, he's at least ninety-ninth percentile, I remember from his profile when he invented the spell globe..."

[ending_of]

"Could the installation be made to serve as a permanent crossing point, allowing those in my domain to come here and those here to enter my domain, and visitors in either direction to return to their point of origin? What form might it take?"

[alicornucopia]

"I'd want to base the user experience more or less on the teleportation circle, yeah, only I guess without schedule switching. It'd be a spot on the ground where if you stood there long enough you'd go be in a circle in the other world and have to shoo smart quick before you got summoned back the other way."