barring emergencies

[the_very_best]

Bella's not sure where she has wandered. She thought she was about to walk into a shop, but this appears to be an unattended bar. With none of the windows associated with the shop she thought she was entering. It could be an elaborate psychic assault of some kind, but it doesn't feel very... assault-y... and she was in the middle of a town and doesn't think any humans want to sic their 'mon on her. It's strange. She approaches the bar, looking around warily, hand hovering near her belt.

with Max (Benedict)

with Earth and Lightning (kappa)

with Ann and Sabrina (kuuskytkolme)

Comments

[imeanforever]

"Good and proper immortal, but if someone tried to take my wings off permission wouldn't have anything to do with it. I don't love it. I'd miss sorcery, though, and it doesn't work anywhere else, I've been trying lightmotes to make sure that the rule holds here. I might be able to do something at home eventually..."

[pythbox]

Kisonde eyes Promise warily.

Shine returns, accompanied by the relevant Earth.

"I'm told you want me to pull your tail again?" he says to Cam.

[from_scratch]

"Well, not recreationally, but if daeva are still nice and indestructible versus elementals without amulets weighing you down that would influence where I'm interested in letting you go in my world-set."

[pythbox]

"Makes sense," Earth says agreeably.

[from_scratch]

"Not because I have strong reason to think you'd go around tail-pulling, just because it'll make daeva even more nervous about a new sapient species moving in next door if they turn out to be vulnerable unexpectedly." He presents Earth with his tail.

[pythbox]

Earth pulls the tail. The tail declines to come off.

"So, there's that question answered," he says.

[from_scratch]

"It is. How do you all feel about reolocating to a part of Fairyland that is far away from any concentrated populations of fairies so it'll look like they merely hadn't discovered you yet? Will you be able to find such a place?"

[pythbox]

"Shine mentioned trying a shadewalk - if shadewalking works, so will dark scrying, and there won't be any trouble finding places to any specification you can think of that can be checked visually in the dark," says Earth.

[from_scratch]

"Snazzy. And if you find yourself too bewildered by the flora to find food you like right away, you can just use that to pop over to my house for burgers or something, I imagine?"

[pythbox]

"Yes. Assuming a cooperative Shadow, but I should be able to convince at least one."

"Was that you volunteering? I think that was you volunteering," says Shine.

Earth shrugs. "Should I go find a Shadow to test this?"

[from_scratch]

"Sounds like a plan."

[pythbox]

Off goes Earth.

Shine hugs Kisonde again, wrapping her in invisible glowing wings.

[imeanforever]

Revelation and Promise start talking about the pros and cons of her moving in with him.

[pythbox]

Kisonde is nervous about this!

[just_a_shadow]

Earth comes back with a Shadow, halo turned up to wrap him in dark.

"I'm supposed to try dark scrying something?" he says hesitantly.

[from_scratch]

"The idea is I hold the door for you, and you see if you can go from someplace in my house in Hell to someplace nice and uninhabited in Fairyland. I can make you a map and suggest that you go, oh, one billion miles north of its northmost point, if that would help specificity-wise."

[just_a_shadow]

"It would help more if you knew what the place you wanted me to go looked like in the dark," says Shadow. "A map's not nothing, though."

[from_scratch]

"Unfortunately I have never been to Fairyland, and I can only conjure up things that I'm designing myself or copying from elsewhere. I could get you a field guide to Fairyland trees, maybe, but the wildlife is probably not totally consistent a billion miles away from the inhabited area."

[just_a_shadow]

"It might still help some," he says. "We'll see."

[from_scratch]

"Sure."

And Cam goes to the door and holds it.

[imeanforever]

(Promise sneaks past to try a light mote. Nothing. She goes back into the bar.)

[just_a_shadow]

Shadow goes through the door, looking around with timid curiosity.

[from_scratch]

It's a cushy house with furniture designed for a winged person.

"Map of inhabited Fairyland," says Cam, producing a folded piece of paper.

[just_a_shadow]

Shadow takes the piece of paper and unfolds it and peers at it.

[from_scratch]

It's a big map on a very small scale. There are some countries and big cities marked legibly (though none of the words are in any language Shadow knows) and many more you'd need a magnifying glass to see. There are seas and big lakes and mountain ranges (the mountains look like they are just as inhabited as everything else) and forests. The map is about six feet square.