picknicking

[dark_light]

There's something unutterably pleasant about landing in a bit of woods in the middle of Nowhere, Manitoba, removing a sandwich and an apple from her backpack and having a picnic before she's ready to move on. She could eat in midair, but it makes it too likely that she'll drop something and find it unrecoverable.

Path's on her knee, and her cloudpine is propped up against the tree next to her.

Comments

[dark_light]

"If I got to design the place instead of scavenging I'd want nice weather, no close geographical proximity to any witch clan's lands, and - how big do portals get? Could you drive a truck through one? That'll affect if I want to be near a city."

[prodigal_miser]

"Yes, you can - I can make a portal however big the surface I'm making it on is, so if a wall is big enough to fit a truck, the portal can be big enough if I make it with a truck's size in mind."

[dark_light]

"Oh, I didn't realize it had to be on a surface - you can't just make it standing up in the air?"

[prodigal_miser]

"Technically, I could, but - destroy whatever the portal's on or move it extremely significantly and it breaks. Air is extremely mobile and a portal would be unstable and not last very long. I was going to be sneaky and put your portal up in the air against, say, a sheer cliff, or something similar. It doesn't have to look like a portal, we just usually make it do that because it's more convenient."

[dark_light]

"Oh, I see. Huh. That makes it more complicated, especially if I want people to be able to drive in and out... I'll think on it."

[prodigal_miser]

Adarin nods. "It's still a smart idea, though. Bwuahaha, capitalism."

[dark_light]

"I have no special architectural magic, so if they don't just freestand it's more complicated."

[prodigal_miser]

"I can reshape stone, but I don't have a particular talent for it. I could maybe make something, but... Eeeeh," he says. "Probably not structurally sound."

[dark_light]

"So I guess I find contractors and do something they want done. Adds steps, doesn't make anything impossible."

[prodigal_miser]

"Sorry. I can help with detailing work, if that saves you time. Changing colors of things is easy and there's nothing stopping me from making patterns with it."

[dark_light]

"That's just cosmetic, though, right?"

[prodigal_miser]

"Yeah. If there's easy stuff you need me to do, I can give it a shot, but I have absolutely no practice with large-scale architecture."

[dark_light]

"Probably safer to get someone who builds walls for a living do it, then."

[prodigal_miser]

"I'd say so, yeah. Sorry I can't be of more help."

[dark_light]

"You are of ludicrous amounts of help. It would be preposterous to expect you to also be a stonemason."

[prodigal_miser]

He snickers, a little. "I try to be helpful, it's true. Alas, I am not all-powerful."

[dark_light]

"Wouldn't that be nice? Omnipotence. I'd like it for my birthday."

[prodigal_miser]

"That's a difficult gift to get! You have good taste, but I'm not sure I can acquire it for you."

[dark_light]

"Bah. I'll have to do with getting herbs and books and another year of my phone contract like always."

[prodigal_miser]

He snickers. "I'll have to try and get you something different from those for your birthday, then. Whenever it is. I don't even know how your years work, I now realize."

[dark_light]

"My birthday is September thirteenth. There are twelve months in a year, September being the ninth, and most months have thirty or thirty-one days in them but February gets shortchanged - twenty-eight, except every four years it gets an extra to correct for inexactitude in the approximation of the solar cycle."

[prodigal_miser]

"... That is really confusing. Why do different months have a different number of days? That seems strange. I wasn't expecting them to have the same number of days we do, but - no consistency?"

[dark_light]

"I do not know the history of the calendar. The months aren't precisely mapped onto moon phases in the solar calendar, anyway, they're just called that."

[prodigal_miser]

"Huh. Well, now I'm proud of Kystle's system because it's consistent."

[dark_light]

"Good for Kystle. How does it cooperate with New Kystle?"