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)

Comments

[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."

[from_scratch]

"Oh. That would present a problem, yes. Although we could still demonstrate whether or not things need to be from my universe or not."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Umkay...Sivath didn't mention any books, the unicorn didn't mention any books, you're from an Earth...d'you have mutants?"

[from_scratch]

"...We have people with various genetic abnormalities? You are saying it like that's not what you mean."

[iamnotpolaris]

"My sister's a telepath and I control one of the four fundamental forces of the universe. This is because we are mutants, people with a specific gene that gives us nifty powers and/or physical anomalies. Some Earths have us, most don't, I was checking."

[from_scratch]

"Mine does not have that."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, let's go with A Study On Recent Human Genetics, by Professor Charles F. Xavier."

[from_scratch]

Cam makes it.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Welp, you can make books from not your universe, it looks like. Probably from 'not this universe' too, considering that mutants seem to be a statistical rarity."

[from_scratch]

"Sounds like a reasonable guess."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I am not actually sure what practical value that information has!"

[from_scratch]

"I'd still rather know than not. Are your wings, circlet, and armor all from the same universe's system of magic?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yep."