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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)

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Yyyyyes. I know. You probably have more than enough information to figure out the weird little secret of why."

[ending_of]

"...Interesting," she says. "Yes. I had not paid such close attention until now. - In which case, you may be interested to know that there is a new such species in the world, only somewhat less than two years old. They appear to inhabit a group of variously sized islands close to this continent and near the edge of the world."

[alicornucopia]

"...That was not known either. Somebody is going to be in big trouble. Council decided a few tens of thousands of years ago that leonines were it, that we had enough species running around, and hasn't reversed that. What're they crossed with?"

[ending_of]

"They are small and furred, with four short limbs. A type of rodent, I believe."

[alicornucopia]

"Great. Somebody really really liked some rodent and their kids got established and now the Taavlas Isles are full of... something. Somebody is in trouble."

[ending_of]

"Is it really so troublesome?"

[alicornucopia]

"Maybe it is and maybe it isn't - although rodents, I'm sort of worried they'll overrun the planet - but it's very embarrassing."

[ending_of]

"Your planet is much more in danger of being overrun by its own dead. You will need to branch out to new ones eventually, if they return in sufficient numbers rather than taking up residence in my domain."

[alicornucopia]

"Well, we have the bottom of the planet and the moon for starters and after that I guess we can get the unique white-group a teleportation license and send him hunting for new planets."

[ending_of]

"It's possible that space in my domain could be made available if you run out of suitable areas here. There is no reason why I need limit myself to one infinite plane of inhabited land. But you might find the lack of access to wizardry inconvenient."

[alicornucopia]

"Extremely," agrees Kaylo. "Over any prolonged period of time, anyway. Maybe you'd get hypocrite Erubian colonists willing to interact with magic on a one-time basis to get away from it forever?"

[ending_of]

"Perhaps."

[alicornucopia]

"Ryganaavlanik may or may not come in that much hypocrite, they'd probably just try to slaughter anyone who asked them anyway." Kaylo snorts. "Maybe if you wake up they'll think they went to a lovely magicless Heaven. This only applies to the ones who died there since the cultural revolution, s'pose..."

[ending_of]

"I usually don't concern myself with the inevitable culture shock of new arrivals. Would you like me to give you the restoration property? It might be convenient not to have to be woken and retrieved after death. Although I suppose I might have to wait until you visit my domain to make the change, because the circle could interfere if I tried it here."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't know what will or won't interfere with you doing things, but in general if you can do anything much through that diagram it's unexpected. Restoration property sounds great as long as it won't, like, make me a midget in the one form and eternally looking like a teenager in the other, or screw up my CC, or anything. I'd like to see somebody else with the property get a spell to work is the big thing I'd want."

[ending_of]

"Your CC will remain unchanged, and you will be subject to the same four-thousand-year upper bound as the rest of your species. But you can wait until you have seen a retrieved person cast a spell if you like."

[alicornucopia]

"The four thousand year upper bound leaves how aging works in assumed forms the same as it currently is, right?"

[ending_of]

"Yes."

[alicornucopia]

"Good, that's not broken and doesn't require fixing. Hmmmmm, anything else preliminary to cover or should I go talk to a Sand Dusk Chanter about prayer spells?"

[ending_of]

"You may as well go and talk to a Sand Dusk Chanter about prayer spells."

[alicornucopia]

"Okay. If you start having to screen out howling religious visitors in the next while, I'm Kaylo, you can key me to the ward in particular instead of letting anybody open the door so you can see if they're me."

[ending_of]

"Noted."

[alicornucopia]

Kaylo waves and lets himself out.

[ending_of]

While she waits, she doubles the minimum residence space - bumping quantities in existing accounts as appropriate - and designs and implements a water-filled storage and transit system for the merfolk, including a link to the new Central Tower Station and water channels going right up to the future locations of the paired circles. She also distributes an announcement to the guides describing their new resposibilities. (The torturers and judges have already been decommissioned.)

[alicornucopia]

Eventually, Keo and Eights take a break from sightseeing and go to visit.

Keo, being keyed into the wards at the roots, can open the door if the admin wants to let her or not.