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

[allthebrightest]

"Actually non-sarcastically nice to meet you, Cam! I feel weird about your aesthetic choices, Joker!"

[mylegalname]

"Don't we all," says John.

[manofmyword]

The Joker giggles.

[from_scratch]

"Anyway, I am literally the first daeva to be summoned here as far as anyone in this room knows, so going around with wings on would attract attention. I have solved this problem with a snazzy leather coat. You have a much easier time of stealth, I imagine."

[allthebrightest]

"That is a pretty snazzy leather coat," Tony agrees, stepping out of the circle. "I can poof your wings for you if you want, but I guess you might still have a gruesome time of it putting them back on later if I wasn't around, how does that even work? Also, poof." She sweeps one wing in front of her and transforms it into a fluffy cloudlike material, which detaches from her back without trouble. Then she rolls that up into a big ball, rather like poofy glowing clay, and puts it down on the couch next to Cam, and commences doing the same with the other wing.

[from_scratch]

"Actually, adding stuff is painless. If you want to unwingify me - and maybe get the tail too - I would be much obliged. Sawing them off would be painless too because I thought ahead, but it's still less - tidy than your version."

[allthebrightest]

"Sure, no problem!" She puts the second ball of fluff down on top of the first one and reaches for the nearest of Cam's wings, which - "poof!" - becomes a glowy white wing-shaped cloud which she proceeds to roll up into a third ball. "You have a tail, that's adorable."

[from_scratch]

"They're very fashionable. And fun."

[allthebrightest]

"I bet! Now I want a tail. Gimme your other wing?"

[from_scratch]

He waves it at her. "What kind of tail would you get? I had my role models all lined up neat and all I had to do was decide on a length and color."

[allthebrightest]

She catches the wing, poofs it, and rolls it up.

"I dunno, maybe like - tiger tail? Fluffy and stripey! Want me to poof your tail while I'm at it, or have you decided to keep that one?"

[from_scratch]

"Go ahead and un-tail me, it'll take like two seconds to replace if I want it just alike and it's a reasonable opportunity to think about a new color scheme or something anyway."

[allthebrightest]

She grabs his tail and poofs it, then adds it to the pile of other poofed limbs.

[mylegalname]

"This is definitely in the running for weirdest day of my life," remarks John.

[from_scratch]

"In the running, huh? It must have interesting competition. Anyway, Tony, how do you want to handle nuke-hunting? I made a radiation dowser - John has it - but perhaps you have a better idea."

[mylegalname]

John holds up the radiation dowser.

[allthebrightest]

Tony glances at it, then hmms thoughtfully.

[from_scratch]

"I think the current default idea is 'follow dowser, angel your way in, I distract anybody who tries to stop you, you angel the nuke'."

[allthebrightest]

"Seems pretty solid to me, but I don't know the situation. Who has the nuke? Where'd they get it? Why is it in a city?"

[mylegalname]

"It was originally some kind of clean power initiative. A man calling himself Bane stole it and got someone to turn it into a bomb for him, and now he's declared anarchy in Gotham. The bomb is supposedly in a guarded truck somewhere, being moved around the city to make it harder to find. I can verify that there are guarded trucks going around, but I don't know which ones are decoys or if they're all decoys and the bomb is actually somewhere else."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, so maybe we have a little car chase ahead of us. Tony, I don't think your range is quite what mine is, but can you mess with something in a truck from a car tailing it, if that's where the dowser takes us?"

[allthebrightest]

"Yeah. I prefer to get hands-on, but it's not a requirement. I'd have to see what's in the truck first, but I can just mess with the walls, no problem. Are we equipped for a car chase?"

[mylegalname]

"We have a car," says John. "I'm not sure how much chasing it's up for."

[allthebrightest]

"Cam, feel like making us a better car?"

[from_scratch]

"I can make us a better car. The humans are probably useful for knowledge of the city, since the dowser'll only do direction and not street directions."