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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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[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."

[ending_of]

"The - 'shooing' - sounds inconvenient," she says.

[alicornucopia]

"Well, I guess if you wanted to pay your wizard truly exorbitant amounts of money instead of merely somewhat extravagant amounts of money you could make two, one in each direction. That miiiiight even cut the cost of each spell, but not by very much, it still has to be reactive."

[ending_of]

"I do not believe I have money or any especially convenient way to acquire some," she says. "But surely it can be obtained for this purpose. Or perhaps I could instantiate valuable objects. Are there any items which have been destroyed in this world and would be valuable if restored? Size is not a concern, except in that it may prove inconvenient to instantiate large things from within this circle."

[alicornucopia]

"And inconvenient to get them out of there, too. Uuuuh, naturally occurring gemstones? I suppose asking you to 'instantiate' a 'naturally occurring' gem might be an oxymoron."

[ending_of]

"If duplication is an issue I can refrain from making multiple copies of a single item. I do not normally duplicate in that way in any case."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, I just don't know how it'd show up on a counterfeit checking spell. I guess there are probably wrecked paintings and books and archaeological stuff people would like to have that would be about as valuable even if it did ding a counterfeit checker."

[ending_of]

"For the purpose of creating a convenient and conveniently located transfer installation, I will instantiate any such object that is described in sufficient detail for me to identify it."

[alicornucopia]

"Swell. I'll work out a price sheet for the R&D. You probably want Keo putting you in touch with buyers or in touch with somebody who could find them better than I could, though. If," Kaylo says, "you can just plain summon people out of the afterlife, are my parents going to be in natural form such that I'll need a circle the size of the entire campus lawn to summon them?"

[ending_of]

"Your species is... interesting," says the administrator. "They are currently not physically present in my domain, because they had too many irregularities as a group to integrate smoothly into the existing system. Size at time of death is one of those irregularities. There is also the matter of the two subsets who had an insufficiency of a species-unique resource in life, causing early death in one case and peculiar adaptations in the other. I believe in both cases I will see to it that the insufficiency is corrected after death. It seems the most elegant option. But I am less sure what to do with the array of alternate physical shapes. There are intricacies involved. I suppose it would be more convenient from your perspective if shapes with blocked access due to injury were recovered along with their associated items?"