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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[from_scratch]

"Because that would be very interesting if somebody was."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sure," she says, shrugging, "but I haven't the foggiest notion how one would go looking for them if there was."

[from_scratch]

"Do something really loud in their video game environment."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, when I left, the fantastically biokinetic demon was examining one of the little monsters to see how it worked."

[from_scratch]

"Might go somewhere, depending on what he turns up."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Maybe. Not sure what else we could do. The place doesn't have magnetic fields for me to use to rend it and Edie can't even telepathize with the meat statues."

[from_scratch]

"Meat statues?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"NPCs."

[from_scratch]

"That must be so disturbing to encounter in reality. Especially if they don't have a quality AI."

[iamnotpolaris]

"No kidding. Especially since they get our names somehow."

[from_scratch]

"Oh dear."

[iamnotpolaris]

"They addressed the demon and the dragon as 'confused silence.'"

[from_scratch]

"...Did they say the words 'confused silence', or just pause?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Paused. In a confused-looking fashion."

[from_scratch]

"You lead an exciting life."

[iamnotpolaris]

"My sister spontaneously falling for an extradimensional non-evil demon is definitely the weirdest thing to have happened for a long time."

[from_scratch]

"Controlling for 'extradimensional' being an applicable adjective to anything, love at first sight is not as weird as video game land, I think."

[iamnotpolaris]

"In your life, maybe. Improbable universes happen to us. And she hadn't laid eyes on him yet."

[from_scratch]

"Love at first - adjacency. Whatever."

[iamnotpolaris]

"The fact remains that strange universes are a lot more common than my sister falling in love."

[from_scratch]

"Sure. I want to go universe-hopping! It sounds fun and educational."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Mmmaybe. The kind of interdimensional travel we have relies pretty heavily on my mutation, so we'd pretty much have to take you with us, and...no offense, but I'm not sure I want to play taxi to someone who's just being a tourist and might not get along with my sister very well."

[from_scratch]

"Not getting along with your sister is... a point. But I can make myself useful, I wasn't planning to just take photos."

[iamnotpolaris]

"If you can refrain from acting like she might be a metaphorical rapist just because she has a metaphorical penis it might work out fine. But we're not in such dire need of stuff that I would expect that I'd be hugely eager to take you along if it didn't. My point about tourism wasn't that you would be useless, it was that you didn't need to come along. If my sister and I weren't world hopping we'd never get home, and if before we picked up Sivath and Tialle's Demon they had spent six and ten thousand years respectively in near solitary confinement."

[from_scratch]

"I admit that while I have my discontentment with the accommodations in Hell, solitary confinement is not the issue."