blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

---

with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[imeanforever]

"Oh. And they have those fast flying vehicles."

[eversomuchfun]

"The problem of successfully conveying humans to other planets and setting up self-sustaining colonies there is not trivial to solve and has not been solved yet, but it can be solved and there's no reason to think they'll completely fail to get around to it."

[imeanforever]

"That's reassuring."

[eversomuchfun]

Shrug.

[imeanforever]

"I was worried I'd have to eventually think of a safe way for mortals to colonize Fairyland."

[eversomuchfun]

"If you do, I'm sure it will help. But it's not strictly necessary to the survival of the species."

[imeanforever]

"I don't care about the species, just about the individual members of it. If they crowd each other to death that is bad even if some of them live."

[eversomuchfun]

"Oh. In that case you might want to make solving mortality your second priority after conquering Fairyland. Priority order suggested on the assumption that the total difficulty of both tasks will increase if you do it the other way around, which I think is plausible. An unconquered Fairyland would make a poor place to put newly ex-mortals, I imagine, and if everyone stopped being able to die the overcrowding issue would get very pressing very quickly in a way I'm not sure space colonization could solve; on the other side of the equation, while it's possible that solving mortality would put you in a better position to conquer Fairyland, it seems likelier to me that it would provide lots of opportunities for obstacles to arise while you're busy. Such as someone from this world figuring out that Fairyland exists and trying to conquer it first, or someone from Fairyland noticing that you're over here amassing power and deciding to do something about you before you become a substantial threat."

[imeanforever]

"That makes sense. And conquering Fairyland is, if not easy, at least straightforward."

[eversomuchfun]

"It does sound that way, yes."

[imeanforever]

Reading reading.

[eversomuchfun]

Books books.

[imeanforever]

It's relaxing.

[eversomuchfun]

In his ongoing search for information on the Gem of Amara, Sherlock finds a few books he thinks Promise might like and adds them to the stack with the scrying books. On top of learning a lot of things about various kinds of scrying, she can also read about various kinds of portals or other methods of moving between worlds.

[imeanforever]

She is interested in this topic! What has unsorcery got?

[pythbox]

Unsorcery has got:

A book about the Hellmouth itself and other location-specific, plausibly-naturally-occurring dimensional portals, discussing their respective characteristics, which realms they are known to connect to, and how flexibly they may be used to travel to places they do not naturally go.

A book about known demon dimensions, discussing how easy they are to reach, what it is like there, and the nature and hostility level of their inhabitants. This demon dimension is normally mutually accessible from Earth only at specific sites; this demon dimension is inhabited by a non-hostile species who can travel fairly casually between realms but who refuse to allow any visitors and don't often leave their own dimension in the first place.

A book on advanced magic that has a section on (difficult, dangerous) portal creation alongside sections on (difficult, dangerous) forging of magical weapons and (difficult, dangerous) ritual warding.

[imeanforever]

"It seems like gates are preferable for most purposes, especially if I can get them to go to arbitrary demon dimensions should I wish to travel there."

[eversomuchfun]

"For most purposes," Sherlock agrees. "But if we get our hands on some means of travelling between dimensions that doesn't have the settling-time problem but can get us to Fairyland, that could turn out to be very useful."

[imeanforever]

"Possibly, yes. Better-timed assault on Queenscourt."

[eversomuchfun]

"That's what I was thinking, yes. That and raiding assorted hell dimensions for useful recruits. A lot depends on which spells and artifacts turn out to be practically accessible to us, but interdimensional transportation could be a promising avenue on multiple levels."

[imeanforever]

"I'd rather not make my stand against slave labor with the use of slave labor."

[eversomuchfun]

"Well, that's fair, but it seems at least possible that you might be able to find more people who are interested in helping of their own volition."

[imeanforever]

"Possible. I have... no personnel management skills that do not derive from watching Thorn."

[eversomuchfun]

"And I'm not much better, but there's got to be some better solution here than 'oh, well, slave labour or nothing'," he says. "Further thought may be required."

[imeanforever]

"Oh no. Thought."