kaolinandbone | Coronation Ceremony & Gifts

The gentle but insistent tink-tink-tink of a silver spoon against a teacup carries through the crowd, followed by a clear, confident voice as Lioncourt addresses the gathered guests.

"Ladies, gentlemen, and other various but no less incomparable sentients, the main event of the party will begin shortly. If you have a coronation present for the Lady Lioncourt and have not yet placed on the central table, please do so now: everyone is likewise encouraged to take a seat on one of the benches if they wish to observe the ceremony."

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poll_the_stars

She snorts. "But on the bright side, if you lost your reputation for omniscience no one would see you coming. Clearly you should have let me die."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian claps a hand over his heart. "But then who would I save alternate worlds from darkness with?"

Answer: Miles. But Aisilian has heard of infosec.

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poll_the_stars

Heh. Yes. So has Inavet, that's why she's not going to answer 'Miles.'

"You could probably ask Raezenoth. Get a god sidekick. Could be fun."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

"Now there's a thought," Aisilian muses. "The Mage and the God and the World of Arabek. Though it seems to require rather less saving than some other worlds." He gives Inavet a wry smile at that.

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poll_the_stars

She snorts.

"Ha. At least my world doesn't make people explode."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

"Now, now, I'm sure it's very friendly if it-" He can't keep a straight face through that; he breaks down into a snorting chuckle.

Edited Date: 2015-06-10 04:40 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

She snickers.

"That should be on all of the worlds that don't cause people to explode. 'Our world doesn't make you explode! Come visit! Mind the murder!'"

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meletiti_entelecheiai

"No, no, clearly that's a selling point for the World of Darkness. 'Why settle for a mortal murderer when you could have an entire universe out to get you? Gate to the World of Darkness today!'"

Edited Date: 2015-06-10 04:45 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

Inavet would say something clever, but she's too busy laughing.

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian is quite content to sit there and wait. And chuckle.

After a while, though, he does have to ask: "Does your magic do... world-scale location-based magic like that? Could our Benevolent Oppressors try to, ahem, market themselves that way?"

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poll_the_stars

Inavet's giggles subside, and she clears her throat to answer. "Mm. I suspect the answer is yes, actually. It - feels like a thing that's possible with the right skill set and some set up before hand. You've seen what we've done for fighting entropy. I suspect it'd be almost simple in comparison to make a - planet wide effect that explodes anyone that shows up unexpectedly. ... Which is horrifying. Great."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian nods, frowning slightly. "Charming, yes. Though, perhaps made a tad less obnoxiously lethal, may be useful for other purposes... The obvious solution, then, is to overwhelm the general ward with specific safe-zones, and to pass out the knowledge of the safe-zones to ... invited guests, shall we say.

"Well, they don't know about other worlds yet - but it seems a tad too optimistic to assume they never will."

Edited Date: 2015-06-10 05:42 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

"Agreed. Plan for the worst, hope for the best, and all. Though it would be nice to have planet wards so people couldn't just gate in."

Edited Date: 2015-06-10 07:23 pm (UTC)

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian sighs. "That would have solved Eclipse's problem, for example."

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poll_the_stars

"... Eclipse's problem? I have a basic idea of what happened in Eclipse, but I wasn't aware there was a problem with multidimensional attackers."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian gives her a sad smile. (He uses smiles for most of his emoting, actually.)

"Once upon a time, an incredibly foolish, traumatized, and vengeful nation decided to create a concept-of-a-virus, to bypass all the wards of their foes - that is, their reasonably peaceful neighbors - and destroy them from the inside.

"My... friends, team, general party of mages, quarantined the virus before it could spread too far, and begin to systematically cleanse it from the area and population. Unfortunately, the virus possessed a hive-mind intelligence of its own, and used a spell none of us had ever seen before, and vanished from that Truth.

"None of us ever saw it again, though analyzing that spell brought me to the Many Worlds Forum. But backtracing the virus that appeared in Eclipse revealed that it appeared out of nowhere one day in the middle of an alien city, which is no more." He shrugs. "A ward against random interworld travel would've solved that problem. It is sad that such things exist to exploit undefended worlds, but they do."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 01:25 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

"... Agreed. Well. I have a new project, I suppose." She eyes him. "I don't want to know what mayhem it caused, do I."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian shakes his head. "Let's just say - Earth is a deathworld now."

"The virus is ... actually reasonably managed; they have a remarkably competent organization on hand that managed to mostly keep it contained for two decades. And now that I've given them magic..."

He pauses. "Now that I think of it, I should get them in contact with Raezenoth. He knows someone who could help with the existing strains. At any rate, the world is mostly under control, but it would be very nice to make sure it doesn't happen again."

"... You know, you live long enough that I could start teaching you magic. Eclipse has the advantage of fast-time simulations, but if you're interested on general principles I can start scrying your world for runes."

Edited Date: 2015-06-11 02:12 am (UTC)

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poll_the_stars

Inavet grins at him. "I am very interested in learning magic."

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian smiles. Magic geeks are always nice to meet. "I'll be in touch, then!"

He tilts his head, thoughtfully. "Actually - now I'm curious if I could learn arcany. My metaphysical makeup is extremely strange, even aside from the physical augmentations..."

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poll_the_stars

"Mm. I can check. May I?" She offers him her hand.

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian nods, and takes Inavet's hand.

He is - very strange.

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poll_the_stars

Inavet is very quiet, and looks at him with a completely blank expression. And then she starts laughing.

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meletiti_entelecheiai

Aisilian - develops a very strange expression. And looks owlishly at her.

"Um. Are you... all right?"

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poll_the_stars

She giggles more, and waves an assuring hand at him. She clasps her free hand over her mouth and represses the laughter. "Yes, yes, fine, just - goddesses above you are a terrifying eldritch magic god-man. Thank you for being benevolent."

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