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]

"Good at cleaning out tainted water sources."

[from_scratch]

"Handy in some situations, I guess."

[iamnotpolaris]

"The world they were in needed it."

[from_scratch]

"Is this an interesting story or just 'the unicorns had some trouble keeping up with the water contaminants'?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"It was slightly post-apocalyptic. Stable, but they had a lot of tainted water sources."

[from_scratch]

"Post-apocalypse with unicorns: not a genre I have previously encountered."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Have you encountered video game, because that's where the armor comes from."

[from_scratch]

"I am familiar with video games. I have a lot of spare time."

[iamnotpolaris]

"There are these islands, and everything is made of blocks, and once Sivath finishes drawing up architecture plans and we've gone and retrieved everything from his island we're going to eat things called mana candies which will allow us to operate magic weapons like a gun that shoots bees."

[from_scratch]

"Just regular bees, or magic bees?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Magic bees, presumably. I don't think any kind of regular bee would survive being meaningfully shot out of anything."

[from_scratch]

"That's a fair point."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Also, they explode when they hit things, so there's that."

[from_scratch]

"Normal bees don't have that property."

[iamnotpolaris]

"That explains why people who die of bee stings are described as 'allergic' and not 'blown up'."

[from_scratch]

"Quite."

[iamnotpolaris]

"There's also a harp that fires music notes that hurt when they hit you."

[from_scratch]

"...These are your standard Western representations of notes, like, eighth notes with the little flags and so on?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"I did not actually ask, I haven't seen most of these things, this is just from Sivath's description."

[from_scratch]

"Because if it's eighth notes with flags, that alone is weirder than it being a harp that fires harmful musical notes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, why?"

[from_scratch]

"Like... someone with magic and a sense of humor could invent a music-weapon. But someone from that universe doesn't have reasonable access to 'how European classical composers decided to represent notes'."

[iamnotpolaris]

"What makes you think the universe itself wasn't constructed?"

[from_scratch]

"That's possible. Do you have any other evidence that someone is running around making universes for fun and profit?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Not particularly."