call me maybe

[from_scratch]

Cam is out flying. There's a decent cloud of atmosphere around the gold plane, now, millenia of demons making air around themselves for comfort and not sealing it up because why would you bother. There's a small forest, here - the effect is kind of ruined by the lamps it has to grow under, but it's still pretty.

He feels an open summons and lets it grab him -

with the Joker (kappa)

with Ripper (kappa)

with Darren (Aestrix)

with Minus (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Facility 3141592 (armokGoB)

with the admin (kappa)

with Jarvis (kappa, Aestrix)

with Miles (kappa)

with Hank (Nemo)

Comments

[from_scratch]

"Oh, I don't know if I should say."

[allthebrightest]

"C'mon, share the joke."

[from_scratch]

Cam is silent, then says:

"What makes you think souls are real and demons can do anything with 'em?"

[allthebrightest]

[manofmyword]

The Joker takes one look at Tony's face and starts cackling.

[from_scratch]

Cam smiles a little. "I don't think this should be common knowledge among summoners. Because the situation where it comes up, practically speaking, is one where you have a summoner who's that desperate and a demon who's that much of an asshole. I would rather those two find something meaningless to trade than have common knowledge of its meaninglessness and have to move onto something with effects."

[allthebrightest]

"I see what you mean," Tony concedes. "But wow. Wow."

[from_scratch]

"I don't actually know how the rumor got started, and I will concede that it's often personally inconvenient for us non-asshole demons, but yeah."

[allthebrightest]

"Okay, and while we're talking about things nobody talks about in the world where it doesn't matter that we're talking about them - you're an ex-summoner too, right?"

[from_scratch]

"What gave me away?"

[allthebrightest]

"Well, one clue was the fact that you had to be the person who explained to these guys how to summon an angel. But apart from that, I dunno, I was just picking up a vibe."

[from_scratch]

"I didn't know about you. I have the impression we're very uncommon compared to the naturally occurring daeva."

[allthebrightest]

"Yeah, same. I only know one other for sure."

[manofmyword]

"Ex-summoners?" inquires the Joker.

[from_scratch]

"Yup. I got murdered and woke up in Hell, it was very exciting."

[manofmyword]

"That would be exciting."

[mylegalname]

"...Is this a thing all summoners should be worried about?" asks John.

[from_scratch]

"Getting murdered, no, turning into daeva, I wouldn't know about you because this is the wrong world, and I wouldn't say worried, the alternative's worse."

[mylegalname]

"But 'all summoners', check? Assuming it works the same way here that it does there, which it sure seems to? See," says John, "this is the kind of thing that should've come up when I asked if it made any difference which one of us summoned the angel."

[from_scratch]

"If you are subject to the same rules of afterliving, which would surprise me because no one has landed thinking it was 2012 since 2012, you are now much better off. Limbo is terribly disappointing. But yeah, I probably should have warned you. I didn't know about it last time I was teaching somebody to summon."

[mylegalname]

"And, just to make sure we're on the same page here, you're saying Hell is better than Limbo?"

[from_scratch]

"Hell's really nice! Kind of tacky, but very comfortable. Limboites don't get any magic powers and really limited not-notably-magic stuff. My parents got pretty lucky with their 'one thing to a customer' things, and I'd still much rather they'd been summoners."

[mylegalname]

"Okay. Sure," says John. "Dare I ask what's tacky about Hell?"

[from_scratch]

"Large population of demons who can make, but not destroy or recycle, any material object they like." Pause. "Most of 'em live on a plane of solid gold sixteen times the surface area of the Earth and thick enough to exert a little more than a gee."

[mylegalname]