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

[steppingup]

"Nope. Not like you seem to, anyway."

[from_scratch]

"Well, if I did any magic at home, even wearing no or the wrong wings, I could be distinguished from a fairy instantly and from an angel by a remotely discerning eye."

[steppingup]

"... Yeah, nope. Not how it works here at all. Literally anyone can do magic."

[from_scratch]

"But it's the complicated rune-y thing that can do, supposedly, teleportation?"

[castmyown]

"It's the complicated rune-y thing," agrees Darren. "Don't know if it can do teleportation, but apparently it can do summons."

[from_scratch]

"I really don't know how that worked, that looked nothing like a summoning circle from home."

[steppingup]

"Magic does strange things. That is my answer. I am sticking to it."

[castmyown]

Darren snorts. "I missed something, it's not random."

[from_scratch]

"I used to be a summoner, I could teach you if it seems useful and you continue to appear responsible. But I would not show you circle designs that looked anything like that."

[castmyown]

"... I mean, I guess we could try it? I'm not turning down snazzy new magic."

[from_scratch]

"You have to be careful, though, not everybody's as nice as me."

[castmyown]

Darren nods. "I will be. I am already super careful with the magic I have - I'll just be even more obsessively careful."

[from_scratch]

Cam nods. "And I have other stuff I plan to do, but first, if I make an era-appropriate computer, can I use your Internet? ...You do have it, right, is this back too far for literally everyone to have it?"

[steppingup]

"We have internet. You can use it."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, cool."

And then he has a sleek laptop. "Is it wireless?"

[steppingup]

"... Nnnno, but I can show you the cable."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, thanks."

[steppingup]

Cable is shown! Look, there it is, a cable!

[from_scratch]

Cam plugs in and starts catching up on what all the world is like.

"Do critters have secret critter websites?"

[steppingup]

"Not that I know of. Why, want an outline of 'em?"

[from_scratch]

"Yes, please, that's one thing I know definitely differs."

[steppingup]

"Okay. Well, there are critters. General rule, if it exists in mythology, just assume it exists in real life. They get medallions, to pretend to be human or actually be mostly human, some kind of weird mix of the two. Their kids get free hidden humanhood from the medallion, but they can't turn to natural form on their own. Another medallion of the same type snaps the spell and then they need to keep that medallion."

[from_scratch]

"About what fraction of the population is some thing?"

[steppingup]

"That we know of, or what's actually there? We're all pretty sure it's a way higher number than what we think, basically."

[from_scratch]

"Ballpark."