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Morty knows he shouldn't be screwing around with multidimensional shit. It's dangerous, it's impractical, it's blah blah blah. But it's a potential key to unlimited energy, how does nobody see that? He's built a dimensional siphon (it kind of looks like a cardboard box with a funnel and a TI-84 taped to it, but it damn well works), keyed in the dimensional coordinates to a random plane, and by God he's going to use it.
He flips the switch and waits for the energy bar to fill up.
It does! It fills up very rapidly. Then it explodes, along with the box. There's rather more smoke than there should be, and once the smoke clears someone is standing there.
"Oh dear," Morty says faintly.
Flicker at Whateley
hemomancer
Kirby Hall has two doors!
Xan pokes Bella's shoulder. Kirby Hall continues to have two doors.
Xan pokes Bella's shoulder. Kirby Hall continues to have two doors.
hemomancer
"Congratulations, you're very slightly magic. The tricksy door doesn't show up if you don't have at least a little bit."
point_b
"I mean, I did meditate with Circe for several hours yesterday but I thought it was going to take longer for anything to stick."
hemomancer
"Mm, that's probably enough to at least jump-start your Essence conservation, at least if you're good at it anyway. Circe and I are not the best of pals, but the woman is damn good at what she does."
point_b
"I like her. Which is very good, considering. Okay, which door do I want, does it matter? Can I now also magically poke people in the shoulder?"
hemomancer
"You want the left door. Right goes into Psychic Arts, they tend to hiss and run away when exposed to magic folks. You could magipoke people, but I'd advise against it until you've got a bit more saved up. It's basically sprinkling some Essence on them to fool the door into thinking it's theirs. Trivial for anybody whose well has been ignited, but you're still pinching pennies, magically speaking."
point_b
"Good to know. Uh, does that mean I need to avoid touching people in general or is there an extra hidden step to magipoking?" asks Bella, reaching for the left door.
hemomancer
The door opens obligingly when its handle is pulled, as doors tend to do.
"Hidden extras. It's like the difference between whistling and spitting on something."
"Hidden extras. It's like the difference between whistling and spitting on something."
point_b
"Also good to know. I think I won't ask which is which."
Is there a library here? Bella is excited about the magic library.
Is there a library here? Bella is excited about the magic library.
hemomancer
"I was thinking in terms of the latter as magipoking, but it's more ambiguous than I'd intended, yeah."
Xan leads her downstairs towards the magic library! It is near the wall-portal to Circe's domain, but in a different region of the catacombs. It is also a wall-portal, and thus apparently a wall. Xan paints a sigil on it in conjured blood and intones something, and it shimmers into a door.
Xan leads her downstairs towards the magic library! It is near the wall-portal to Circe's domain, but in a different region of the catacombs. It is also a wall-portal, and thus apparently a wall. Xan paints a sigil on it in conjured blood and intones something, and it shimmers into a door.
point_b
"You in particular have the blood theme; when I come here alone how do I get in, assuming it does in fact nope my teleporting?"
that-bloody-blackened-name
"Circe's probably going to educate you in a hermetic tradition, which is kind of a one-size-fits-all Western magic thing. The key spell's pretty complex in any given tradition, but if it's high up on your priorities, she'll teach you as soon as you need it. You can get one of us or Ariel or Circe to let you in 'til then. Speaking of which, want our various phone numbers? In case of emergency library visit and all."
point_b
"I haven't gotten a phone yet; probably should. Do let's have phone numbers. Ariel's great, she shepherded me around all yesterday." Bella produces her ever-present notebook.
that-bloody-blackened-name
"Ariel's totally great! We beat the living hell out of each other in the combat sims all the time." He gives the numbers.
that-bloody-blackened-name
"Man, I understand that there are people who don't like the sims, but I do not understand how. What exactly doesn't sound appealing about a completely sanctioned no-holds-barred superpowered battle royale with no permanent consequences?"
point_b
"It sounded like they include pain. Do they not include pain? Could also be cultural, for me at least, twins are not encouraged to learn to fight at Gemini schools. Gym class is stuff like basketball and swimming, often synchronized, and even if you go extracurricular it's a little hard to find a dojo that will take twins because we're sometimes a little awkward with the strength boost and it's not fair to anyone we spar with who isn't themselves a twin."
that-bloody-blackened-name
"Yeah, they do include pain. There's probably people who don't like that, I guess. We're definitely encouraged to learn how to fight, though, there's a martial arts requirement that only gets lifted if you literally can't move or something. So you get accustomed to fighting and all."
point_b
"Huh, I guess I'll get roped into that, then, what with having enrolled. I'm not strictly opposed to picking up a martial art but in a real fight my reaction would look much more like 'evacuate bystanders and then hang out somewhere else'."
hemomancer
"They'd let you off if you made a fuss, I bet, the martial arts stuff is mostly so we can live in a world we never made et cetera. You seem to live in a world with fewer threats that can be solved by punching."
point_b
"There exist supervillains, but not very many, and my utility to the major American organization that deals with them is weighted heavily towards evac, not enforcement."