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]

"Are you habitually a non-person-biting vampire, then?"

[eversomuchfun]

He shrugs. "What's it to you?"

[from_scratch]

"Well, if you bite people my next question is whether this is typically fatal and, if the answer is no, whether they're on board with the donation."

[eversomuchfun]

"Typically fatal, yes, on board with the donation, not frequently," he says. "Although there's always the odd ones out."

[from_scratch]

"Okay. Well, I can make you arbitrary humane blood."

[eversomuchfun]

"That sounds convenient!"

[from_scratch]

"Doesn't it just. Are there many vampires? Should I open a dispensary?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Yes, and you can if you like but you might not get many takers. There's a lot more thrill-of-the-hunt types than there are of whatever category you might put me in."

[from_scratch]

"That's disappointing. Why are vampires and such not common knowledge?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Irrational skepticism is apparently very comforting, and no one has yet been sufficiently motivated to burst the bubble."

[from_scratch]

"Back on my world I was responsible for making our sort of magic common knowledge," muses Cam.

[eversomuchfun]

"Well, if you want to do the same thing here, feel free. That ought to stir things up."

[from_scratch]

"In a good way?"

[eversomuchfun]

"In an interesting way."

[from_scratch]

"I suspect we have different priorities."

[eversomuchfun]

"I suspect they're more compatible than you might think."

[from_scratch]

"Do tell?"

[eversomuchfun]

"I want things to be interesting. I'm not especially concerned with exactly how. If you have constraints on what sort of interesting things you'd like to do, I'd still rather help than not."

[from_scratch]

"I want to improve the welfare of people in general."

[eversomuchfun]

"Well, that sounds potentially dull, potentially not."

[from_scratch]

"I don't suppose you can make general gestures at what bores you? Like, in the pornography case, if it's porn, there will often be naked actors."

[eversomuchfun]

"It's a problem of - proportion, you could call it. Most interesting things are novel, but most novel things aren't interesting. And that's only the one most easily identifiable characteristic. If I came up with a longer list, it would be worse for the rest and at the end of it you probably still wouldn't have much idea of how to distinguish interesting from boring in practice. I predict it would be faster to ask me to classify individual things as you suggest them. How do you mean to improve the welfare of people in general?"

[from_scratch]

"You said 2008? After seeing to what extent my memory of 2008 on my world matches this one beyond English and VCRs, if the match is reasonably good, off the top of my head I can patch your ozone layer, bring up the more generally harmless scientific fields by about a hundred and fifty years, save the honeybees, get you good and started on colonizing the solar system, feed some hungry people after I sit down and think about how do to that without weird political destabilization, maybe do the vampire blood dispensary."

[eversomuchfun]

"You think big," says the vampire. "That's promising."

[from_scratch]

"It's just a pity my world doesn't have faster-than-light yet. I can make nifty spacecraft, but nothing that'll get you to Alpha Centauri in less than a hell of a long time.