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]

"Slayer thing, magic thing, personal skill?"

[neverbeatme]

"Personal skill. Absolutely no magic to it as far as I know."

[from_scratch]

"Nice quirk if you can get it."

[neverbeatme]

"It comes in handy!"

[from_scratch]

"Okay. Well, thanks for the spell and the phone." Cam hauls himself up off the floor, re-folds his wings, picks up his coat.

[neverbeatme]

"You're welcome. Happy queening," says James.

[from_scratch]

Cam snorts. "Thank you. Anything else that should happen before I maybe skip town?"

[neverbeatme]

She shrugs. "I don't think so. Have fun, do things, call me if you encounter any obstacles you can't handle with available resources. Or if you want to quiz Chris about magic. I can also put you in touch with a decent demonology expert if you find yourself needing one."

[from_scratch]

"That could be useful, have they got a phone number of their own? For that matter, has Chris?" he asks, pulling out his new cell.

[queensidecastle]

Chris divulges a phone number.

[neverbeatme]

"My demonology expert is shy and skittish and prefers to be personally introduced or have questions forwarded through me. And he doesn't have a cellphone. You've seen him before; he's my source for reports of demon activity. He saw you at the library and then called me."

[from_scratch]

Cam inputs Chris's number. "Does he have a not-cell phone? Should I be introduced? Was he that grumbly fellow who was having so much trouble with his computer?"

[neverbeatme]

"Yes he does, and yes he was. He has a home phone, and he has asked us not to give out the number. We'll ask him what he thinks of being introduced to you, if you want."

[from_scratch]

"Sure. Now work? I'm not planning to fly away in a tiny spaceship in broad daylight, no matter how ludicrously paper-thin the cover-up on the supernatural here already is, not till I know more about it."

[neverbeatme]

"Sure. Chris can go ask him," says James, making a slight shooing motion at her aunt. "Good call on the spaceship. Someone would cover it up, but not necessarily before it attracted attention."

[queensidecastle]

Chris finishes putting her rocks away and goes.

[from_scratch]

"I mean, I am planning to fly away in a tiny spaceship. I will just do it at night."

[neverbeatme]

"When it will presumably be more difficult to see, and therefore less likely to get any nosy government agencies interested in you."

[from_scratch]

"Exactly. I was also thinking I'd go with a kind invented during a war that started over a century after this date and is therefore quite tricked out in stealth. But it's not going to be invisible."

[neverbeatme]

"Also a good idea."

[from_scratch]

"Is Chris calling your demonologist?"

[neverbeatme]

"My demonologist also happens to be her boyfriend, so she's taking the opportunity to go visit. She'll call me when she has an answer."

[from_scratch]

"Ah, okay. Interesting family."

[neverbeatme]

"Just a little," she agrees.

[from_scratch]

"Is the chess set I made going to be useful for anyone else considering how I customized it?"