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

[from_scratch]

"Or any other trustworthy person. In my world only humans can summon, but there aren't any Tialle's Demons around to try it, so I don't know what to expect there.""

[iamnotpolaris]

"If we go with someone who will themself die, we'll need a succession of trustworthy persons to replace each other as they age and go from summoners to besummoned."

[from_scratch]

"Yes. I think that's probably a tractable problem, though."

[iamnotpolaris]

"More convenient and less of a risk of discontinuity to just have a trustworthy immortal. The more people we have to trust our well-being to the more likely it is that one of them will be a mistake."

[from_scratch]

"Yes, but if none of the immortals you find can complete valid circles..."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Then we go with the less preferable higher risk option."

[from_scratch]

"Yeah."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Anyway, we probably wouldn't have to go on like that forever, we can...keep...I'm an idiot, we'd only need to be summoned the once."

[from_scratch]

"I mean, if your summoner dies you're unsummoned instantly."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah, no, but we have interworld travel. At least as long as I keep my magnetism, anyway, we can just get our travel devices back and then be unsummoned and then come back the usual way."

[from_scratch]

"Sure. If they work in the daeva worlds."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Why wouldn't they?"

[from_scratch]

"I don't know, I have no information on how your interworld transit behaves, maybe summoning or concordances or something would throw it off."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Enh, it's handled some pretty weird stuff just fine, I wouldn't worry about it too much."

[from_scratch]

"Okay. ...In that case, if you manage to get interworld transit working between the daeva worlds, I would like to be dropped off in Limbo."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, why? Actually what is limbo, I don't think you've explained that one to me."

[from_scratch]

"It's where dead non-summoners from my mortal world go. It is sort of okay. It is not great. One helpful demon would go a long way."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Can you summon people from there? I can get to anywhere I've put down markers, but the markers need to get there, otherwise I can only go to near-random universes. I could probably get to Limbo if I put in enough effort narrowing down its dimensional coordinates..."

[from_scratch]

"No, you can't summon Limboites. But I could mail a marker to Limbo, during the next concordance - it's a few years off."

[iamnotpolaris]

"That'll do, then. You'll have to give me a good time to expect it to arrive, though, I'd hate to interrupt the mail."

[from_scratch]

"The next Hell-Limbo concordance is in... I think six years, I'll look it up." He materializes a computer. He looks it up. "Six years, two months, four days, Earth time. Concordance lasts less than a day, and after that the package will be in Limbo."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I meant that I or someone else would summon you closer to that time and you'd let me know how long it was likely to be in transit."

[from_scratch]

"The concordances are quite predictable. I don't mind being summoned in the meantime but I can get it on its way in a few hours of time-in-Hell."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, cool.

"...Universes don't always sync up timewise if there's nothing connecting them, maybe I should send you back with a marker this time."

[from_scratch]

"...Okay. Uh, if universes don't always sync up time-wise the concordance may be in more or fewer than six years two months. What with my not being in my universe right now."