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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

[cardistry]

"I do really like ice cream, that's definitely true. I really like most food, I've only started having it today, it's an experience."

[alicornucopia]

"You don't need food, or air, or a specific temperature - I don't think I'm mostly going to be finding anything that's news to you unless you tell me what to ask."

[cardistry]

"I don't think you're going to be finding anything that's news to me any which way. I can access my specs too. Anything I know to ask, I know the answer, pretty much."

[alicornucopia]

She nods. "You used to have an attached part that tried to make you do things, and now that's gone because Keo deleted it so there's only the control codes left -"

[cardistry]

Brilliance looks alarmed. "That part's news to me, what control codes?"

[alicornucopia]

"...do you just want me to recite them? They won't work for me even if I do because I don't have the right kind of magic."

[cardistry]

"I more want to know, like, about them - are they the kind of thing Keo can delete, can you tell?"

[alicornucopia]

"...I don't know. They're not as complicated as the attached part, they might not count as a mind thing. It would be worth a try. I can ask if the hhikiiia knows how you could remove them by yourself though."

[cardistry]

"That too. I'd rather remove them by myself if I can."

[alicornucopia]

"Mm?" Leekath says, apparently to his hhikiiia. She's silent for a moment, then starts repeating what it says about the procedure to extract them. It's complicated and involves loophole exploits, but the hhikiiia reports on it in a very step by step fashion.

[cardistry]

He listens intently as far as how to get into the right kind of maintenance mode - a kind he didn't know he had until now, this is supremely weird - and then says, "I got it from here, thanks," and runs through the rest much faster than instructions can be delivered; the individual steps from that point are as intuitive to him as the rest of his systems now that he knows where to find this one. No more control codes.

[alicornucopia]

"They're gone," confirms Leekath.

[cardistry]

"Thanks. That would not have been a nice surprise coming from somebody who could use 'em."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't think there's anybody in Elcenia who can."

[cardistry]

"I don't think so either. It's very comforting."

[alicornucopia]

"It sounds lonely to me."

[cardistry]

He shrugs. "I can, like, talk to people for the first time in four hundred years, and they're people I actually want to talk to, it sure isn't lonely by comparison."

[alicornucopia]

"Why couldn't you talk to anyone before?"

[cardistry]

"Would've taken attention away from trying not to blow up any planets."

[alicornucopia]

"Because of the thing Keo deleted?"

[cardistry]

"Yeah, that."

[alicornucopia]

"It's a good thing you met her, then. There's only one of her."

[cardistry]

"There's only one of most people. It's pretty great that she's the one of her that she is, though."

[alicornucopia]

"I mean there's only one person with her kind of magic."

[cardistry]

"...What, ever? Ever everywhere?"