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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 -
the Connecticut Yankee summons Demon Cam
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from_scratch
from_scratch
"All right, sell the separation of church and state first, that's fair."
connecticut_yankee
"Maybe we could advertise it as a concession on my part not to make Presbyterianism the state religion. I never wanted to do that anyway, but the Catholic Church might not know that."
connecticut_yankee
"It's not like they've ever heard of a Presbyterian before, but it's common knowledge that I'm not Catholic."
from_scratch
"All right, that sounds like a usable angle, then. Although someone savvy might point out that it would be very hard to make a religion practiced by exactly one member of I'm presuming its laity the state religion. Wouldn't be worth the paper it was prescribed on. Do you guys want more copies of that?" Cam adds to the teenage boy contingent.
connecticut_yankee
They accept the copies.
"I'm not quite the only one anymore, but it's a valid point.
Perhaps I could try my hand at spreading nasty rumors against myself. If people hear that I'm considering it, then the Church would be demanding such a clause. It's worth a bit of reputation to get this passed."
"I'm not quite the only one anymore, but it's a valid point.
Perhaps I could try my hand at spreading nasty rumors against myself. If people hear that I'm considering it, then the Church would be demanding such a clause. It's worth a bit of reputation to get this passed."
from_scratch
"You've been converting people to Presbyterianism in your spare time?" snorts Cam. "Yeah, I'd call the tradeoff worthwhile. Not that the Bill of Rights has ever been perfect at its job, but it's better than a total vacuum."
connecticut_yankee
"A few. Serfs especially find it much better than the version of Catholicism we get here.
We're seven or eight hundred years before the Magna Carta. If the entirety of our Bill of Rights were 'people are people too,' it would be the greatest advance in history. The limit is that I might not have the political capital to convince people of every provision in there."
We're seven or eight hundred years before the Magna Carta. If the entirety of our Bill of Rights were 'people are people too,' it would be the greatest advance in history. The limit is that I might not have the political capital to convince people of every provision in there."
from_scratch
Cam nods.
"Oh, by the way, overnight I made you some scary black armor, check it out, it's on a stand over there."
The armor is scary and black, although Cam refrained from making it spiky (it's sleek instead). While it will be possible to put on and take off, it doesn't look like it would have been possible to forge, and the joints have several layers of tiny-ringed chainmail that would be excruciating to put together by hand.
"Oh, by the way, overnight I made you some scary black armor, check it out, it's on a stand over there."
The armor is scary and black, although Cam refrained from making it spiky (it's sleek instead). While it will be possible to put on and take off, it doesn't look like it would have been possible to forge, and the joints have several layers of tiny-ringed chainmail that would be excruciating to put together by hand.
connecticut_yankee
"...That is definitely the best suit of armor in existence. I'm almost looking forward to— y'know what, it's morning, want to go kidnap some kings?"
connecticut_yankee
"Yes please. It takes long enough with help. Actually, if you're not used to handling armor it's probably easier to just create one around me. Let me grab an arming doublet first, though. Even if it's mainly for show, it's a bad idea to use just the outer layer."
connecticut_yankee
"I keep forgetting how handy it must be to be able to make things at will. That works too."
connecticut_yankee
Hank looks down. "It should work. Mind waiting until the last minute, though? Even improved armor is bound to be uncomfortable."
connecticut_yankee
"If it's plate armor, it's ventilated like a lump of concrete.
None of the people groups the Britons are fighting at the moment have a single unified king. The Britons don't either, normally; Arthur was unusual. But if we aim for the most powerful from each set of allies, the rest should follow suit."
None of the people groups the Britons are fighting at the moment have a single unified king. The Britons don't either, normally; Arthur was unusual. But if we aim for the most powerful from each set of allies, the rest should follow suit."
from_scratch
"I'll follow your lead on that. Also, my planned nondescript squire outfit is going to look like this," he holds up his computer, displaying a black nondescript hooded outfit, "but I'm delaying putting it on until we get there and I have to take my wings off again."
connecticut_yankee
"Good plan. I'd be surprised if that would stand out among the Angles, but if they've all taken to wearing bells on their shoes or something it'd be an obvious change.
'There' is...let's say Wessex. It's not the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, but it's the border where most of the fighting has been recently. Their capital is at Cerdicesford southeast of here, so we'll have a decent chance at finding the king there."
'There' is...let's say Wessex. It's not the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, but it's the border where most of the fighting has been recently. Their capital is at Cerdicesford southeast of here, so we'll have a decent chance at finding the king there."
from_scratch
"You'll be able to point this out to me from the air in our ship? I can cover the landing with fog."
connecticut_yankee
"I'll be able to find the city, and from there we should be able to find the palace."
connecticut_yankee
"That is not a sentence that would have made much sense last week. But yes, let's make sure nobody connects angel wings with the ominous black knight."