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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 -
Demon Cam and Ripper
from_scratch
tearingup
"I," says Ripper, "am much too drunk to explain Earth to a demon who thinks he's a space alien."
"I'm not," says Rayne. "What do you want to know about? Magic?"
"What do you know about magic," says Ripper.
"More than you do."
Ripper picks up the not-quite-useless demon summoning text and throws it at him, not very hard. It bounces off his arm.
"Ow."
"I'm not," says Rayne. "What do you want to know about? Magic?"
"What do you know about magic," says Ripper.
"More than you do."
Ripper picks up the not-quite-useless demon summoning text and throws it at him, not very hard. It bounces off his arm.
"Ow."
from_scratch
"The basics of magic, and just for completeness can you - I don't know, list the continents and name random extremely famous people and things in case I don't recognize them all? If you're thorough I might even neaten the apartment some, although I draw the line at interacting with anything you may have puked on."
tearingup
"Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, Antarctica," says Rayne.
"We haven't puked on anything," says Ripper. "We're not that kind of drunk."
"I don't think the nice demon needs to know what kind of drunk we are, Ripper. Famous people and things..."
"Hey, is Australia a continent?"
"Probably."
"Ha, you missed one."
"We haven't puked on anything," says Ripper. "We're not that kind of drunk."
"I don't think the nice demon needs to know what kind of drunk we are, Ripper. Famous people and things..."
"Hey, is Australia a continent?"
"Probably."
"Ha, you missed one."
from_scratch
"Okay, so standard continents. I'm just going to start - listing things. Revolutionary War. The Mandarin dialect of Chinese. High heeled shoes. Daffodils. QWERTY keyboard layouts. The film 'Jurassic Park'. Icebergs. Do all of those things sound like things that are?"
tearingup
"Yeah," says Rayne. "Name a famous person, Ripper."
"John Lennon."
"Name another famous person."
"Freddie Mercury?"
"Name one who's not a musician and not dead."
"Oh, fuck off."
"John Lennon."
"Name another famous person."
"Freddie Mercury?"
"Name one who's not a musician and not dead."
"Oh, fuck off."
from_scratch
"Okay. And on top of your Earth stuff you have kinds of demons who are not my kind of demon and magic that is not my kind of magic?"
tearingup
"Apparently," says Ripper.
"We have more kinds of demons than we can count," says Rayne. "More than a few kinds of magic, for that matter. And gods, do you have gods? Gods are a nuisance."
"We have more kinds of demons than we can count," says Rayne. "More than a few kinds of magic, for that matter. And gods, do you have gods? Gods are a nuisance."
from_scratch
"That's what I said, yes. And humans can do little tidbits of magic aside from summoning us - the catchall term is daeva - but most of the heavy lifting is summonses."
tearingup
"We have magic. It does things. It has complicated self-contradictory rules that often don't make any sense, but somehow it works anyway. Humans can mostly use just about any of it, but humans also mostly don't know it exists."
"See, you're not too drunk to explain it after all," says Rayne.
"See, you're not too drunk to explain it after all," says Rayne.
tearingup
"Yeah, most of 'em," says Ripper.
"Want to learn some magic?" says Rayne.
"Don't teach magic to the demon," says Ripper.
"Want to learn some magic?" says Rayne.
"Don't teach magic to the demon," says Ripper.
tearingup
"Because it seems like a bad idea?"
"But Ripper, you always help me with my bad ideas," says Rayne, batting his eyelashes.
"But Ripper, you always help me with my bad ideas," says Rayne, batting his eyelashes.
tearingup
"Well, I know you're not one of our kinds of demon, probably, but I don't know what kind of demon you are, and most of the kinds of demon I know about are bad enough with the magic they can already do."
from_scratch
"I can make arbitrary nonmagical matter. If wanted to suck the entire planet into a black hole, it would already be done. My knowhow is not the limiting factor on how bad I can get, but it might be the limiting factor on how much useful stuff I can accomplish while I'm here."
tearingup
"Right, but do you really want to learn magic from two drunk guys who are careless enough to let you convince them to teach you magic while they're still drunk? How do I even know you're telling the truth about the black holes? I don't know a damn thing about your magic."
from_scratch
"I didn't say how about you start giving me lessons right now, I was wondering why it was such an obvious bad idea. I'm not going to even entertain the idea of me demo-ing the black hole on a planet's surface but if you want something else made I'll consider it."
from_scratch
"Arbitrary nonmagical matter includes, like, the ability to patch your ozone layer, I can't remember if that's known to be a problem yet? It's a problem later. My Earth, anyway. There's things I can't do, though, even with my sci-fi gadgets from the time travel part, so maybe magic could make me more well-rounded as an ozone-layer-patcher-errant."
tearingup
"...I can't even think about this right now," says Ripper. "If you want to prove you can make things, you could make me another guitar."