i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[iamnotpolaris]

"He doesn't really have a name. I expect the other demons would have given him one, at some point, but I think he forgot it after about ten thousand years alone on an island. Pretty much alone, anyway, there was a dragon, it's complicated. Besides, would you want to keep a name given you by people who tortured you for not wanting to torture people?"

[from_scratch]

"I might judge the name separately, but the impulse not to is understandable."

[iamnotpolaris]

"And, again, ten thousand years with no one to use it with, I honestly think he forgot."

[from_scratch]

"Makes sense. I'm not that old yet and I take a lot of notes and like my name, but in the absence of these factors it might be very unmemorable. So how do you travel all these universes?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"We have a technology thing, which I think I shall decline to demonstrate at the moment on the off chance that you are in fact evil and would attempt to wreck it to prevent my sister from wreaking vengeance upon you."

[from_scratch]

"You know what, that's fair. What are your usual methods of determining whether people are evil?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Hang out with them long enough to be pretty confident that they're not. If we're lucky they consent to telepathy and we can just skip that, but it doesn't usually happen. Also in most cases my sister is right next to me and if someone does start eviling she can just make 'em stop without having to dimensionally travel in. We trusted Sivath faster'n most because he gave us magic and Tialle's Demon because his brain is apparently gorgeous and also he goes on the shortlist of people who didn't object to Edie reading their minds."

[from_scratch]

"I do object to mind-reading. I don't... think I can make inherently magical objects, although it's possible I would be able to circumvent that if I had some to copy."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Go ahead and copy the wings. Or the armor, or the circlet, they're all magical."

[from_scratch]

"What do they do?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"The wings...fly. The armor is very good armor despite looking like it was constructed by someone who has no idea how armor works. The circlet makes you better at hitting things, for some reason."

[from_scratch]

"Already got wings, armor wouldn't fit me..." He attempts to make the circlet. "Cannot copy circlet."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I could reshape the armor. It wasn't originally this photogenic. But moot, alas, if the circlet didn't work."

[from_scratch]

"Alas. Do you need any nonmagical objects?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"I mean, we were planning to go back to the world where we got the dimensional travel thing for some tech support, but I imagine if you tried to make the things you might create a different network instead of adding on to the one we've got. How do you specify these things, anyway?"

[from_scratch]

"Depends on the thing. I could make an exact physical duplicate of a specific instance of a thing, but that doesn't guarantee access to network sorts of things, depending on how they have their security set up."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Security is not exactly the point, they're all quantumly connected."

[from_scratch]

"Might or might not work, then, I don't know enough about how quantum thingamajigs work."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Actually when I asked the question I was more curious about what you could make when you didn't have a thing right in front of you to copy."

[from_scratch]

"Oh. I can do books with title and author? Sometimes other information can fill in."

[iamnotpolaris]

"That seems like a very conceptual way of doing things. Hmm...If I said 'one of the blue fruits that was made for my sister' would that be enough specification?"

[from_scratch]

"Probably not. I also can't do 'most recently updated fanfiction of the Lord of the Rings', say, even though that should be a unique specification."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Huh. Well, she hasn't named it yet, so I can't tell you what it's called to check if you can do things from other universes..."

[from_scratch]

"Haven't run into any extrauniversal books?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, the problem is that this is the only place in this universe I've been so far, so any book I named I couldn't be completely sure they didn't have it here or something."