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]

"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."

[from_scratch]

"I could try magic things from other systems, if you can think of any."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Lessee...nothing from the one that wasn't a person...no..." she considers and rejects several objects before saying, "I have not really been paying huge amounts of attention to the names of individual magical objects, apparently!"

[from_scratch]

"Oh well. ...One that wasn't a person?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"In the one universe, I encountered nothing inherently magical that wasn't a person."

[from_scratch]

"Oh. Even if I wanted to, I can't make minds."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Good! Randomly duplicating people without their consent would be massively unethical!"

[from_scratch]

"Yeah. I can't even do animals - I mean, I can make them, but they're dumber than they should be."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Dumber like how?"

[from_scratch]

"Bugs and snails and stuff are about normal - you can notice differences if you give them elaborate tests, but they still basically function. If I make a cat, it'll have a hard time figuring out how to walk or meow."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Poor cat."

[from_scratch]

"I don't think it's smart enough to contemplate the awkwardness of its situation. But I tend not to deal in cats etecetera."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. Not sure why you'd even want a cat that couldn't walk or meow or whatever."

[from_scratch]

"They can have normal kittens. There is now a decent population of all the more appealing animals, in Hell."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Huh. That makes sense, I guess. How worried should I be about the fact that you are apparently a demon from a Hell? Not in terms of your personal evilness, but about the fact that your world has a hell that has demons."

[from_scratch]

"It's a perfectly nice place to live, if a little tacky. Okay, a lot tacky. And there are only demons there - the 'normal kittens' property does not apply to mindless made humans, for some reason, I think there are similar problems with cetaceans and great apes and elephants, those had to be imported with what must have been considerable awkwardness."

[iamnotpolaris]

"But there aren't dead humans there either?"

[from_scratch]

"Everybody in Hell is a demon. There are some mindless human-bodies around but I assume that isn't what you mean. ...Some demons are ex-humans, but most are not."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I meant are there humans who go to hell when they die. And apparently the answer is 'yes, but then they become the category of person for whom it is not metaphorical hell.'"

[from_scratch]

"Yeah. The lakes of fire are not and have never been intended to contain people."

[iamnotpolaris]

"What are they for, then?"