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)

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[from_scratch]

"If there's a Charlie there I think I'd want to talk to him."

[castmyown]

"Okay. I will leave you to check while I explain things to my dad?"

(He is not going to intrude on Cam's time with his father. Why would that be a thing that he would do?)

[from_scratch]

"Is your dad going to be annoyed about you letting a demon run loose? I'm not in a hurry."

[castmyown]

"He might be? But I am good at explaining things and he trusts my judgement, so."

[from_scratch]

"Okay." Cam looks both ways, then makes a motorcycle out of nothing and hops on it and zooms down the street without a helmet.

[castmyown]

Darren snorts, and then goes and explains things to his dad.

[from_scratch]

Cam is back on the motorcycle a few minutes later and parks it in the relevant driveway.

[morethanimaginary]

There is a brunette, sitting outside. "Hi, shirtless trenchcoat guy. Darren has spilled the beans." She waves. "What's up? Cool motorcycle."

[from_scratch]

"I'm glad you like it. Are you his sister or something?"

[morethanimaginary]

"Got it in one! Yup, sister. Darren is geeking out, by the way, he's like 'Eeeee maybe the medallions will actually work eeeee' and that's why I'm outside."

[from_scratch]

"Well, maybe they will. Should I go in, do you suppose? I can make arbitrary things, but ex- I mean internet access isn't one of them, at least not easily, so I should probably be slightly on the grid while I work out how what I remember matches this place."

[morethanimaginary]

Shrug. "Go for it. Pretty sure dad and Dare will be competing to make sure you are not left out in the metaphorical cold."

[from_scratch]

"How hospitable."

He tries the door.

[castmyown]

It's open!

"- well honestly I've got absolutely no clue why it picked him in particular," drifts Darren's voice towards the door. "Or, for that matter, why it was not actually a working teleportation spell! I will dissect it and try to figure out what I missed."

[steppingup]

"Okay," agrees another voice. "Be careful, please. Do I need to grab Lynn and get her to check him over? Actually, you know what, nevermind, she's probably already on her way because she is Lynn."

[from_scratch]

"Hullo," says Cam. "For whatever it's worth, it totally felt like a normal summon from my end. And also, the house is there but Charlie's not in it, I peeked in a window and the stuff and the paint job's wrong."

[steppingup]

"Hi," says Darrendad. "Glad you're here, uh - guy."

[castmyown]

"So hypothetically I could probably send him back through his method, but neither of us want to, he could possibly make medallions and - actually I don't even know why he'd want to stay, general altruism?"

[from_scratch]

"My name's Cam. Yeah, Hell's tacky but very comfortable, not a lot to do there that's of meaningful use to anybody - and off-leash a century and a half ago relative to when it is at home is much more opportunity to do general impact than bound to a specific limited task and not allowed to talk, which is the usual condition when I'm summoned."

[steppingup]

"Why the specific task and no talking? Bad reasons, or...?"

[from_scratch]

"People are afraid I will talk them out of their souls."

[steppingup]

Eyebrow raise. "Any stock to that?"

[from_scratch]

"Not as far as I know. But the only time it comes up except as an inconvenience for demons who'd be safe without the precautions is when a really desperate summoner gets a really nasty demon, so I haven't taken steps - not that I had much chance - to make this known. Since I'd rather they trade something meaningless and the summoner be scared instead of, like, raped or tortured or comatose-while-the-demon-runs-off-cackling."

[steppingup]

"Okay. Fair. Darren's already explained that you can make whatever, so - thank you very much for not doing any of the listed things."

[from_scratch]

"No problem."