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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
"Yeah, that's fine. Where's a good takeoff point? It goes vertically but it's going to be about fifteen feet long."
from_scratch
Down those stairs goes Cam, trailing big white faux angel wings. "Should I change into something more angelic before we get there or will it be fine to appear in jeans to your friends?"
connecticut_yankee
"Once we tell them it's a trick and you're not really an angel, appearance won't matter a bit. I'd recommend not using the word 'demon,' but we shouldn't need to hide anything else."
from_scratch
"I could tell them I'm an apsel. That's my most fluent demon language's word for demon. Means 'maker'."
connecticut_yankee
"That's much better. And more accurate, if your 'angels' and 'demons' have nothing in common with religious ones but the names."
from_scratch
"It does basically boil down to the names. Oh, and Hell does have lakes of fire. Garbage disposal - we can make stuff but can't unmake it."
In the courtyard, Cam makes a sleek little silver spaceship.
In the courtyard, Cam makes a sleek little silver spaceship.
connecticut_yankee
"If you're going to be here long-term, have you considered trying to disguise yourself as human? Religious angels don't really stay on Earth when not on an immediate divine mission, so you'd mostly either have to give up the charade, disguise yourself, or stay away from anyone who doesn't already know."
Hank is walking around the spaceship trying not to make it obvious that he has no idea where the door handles are supposed to be.
Hank is walking around the spaceship trying not to make it obvious that he has no idea where the door handles are supposed to be.
from_scratch
"I can take these wings off just as easy as the last set. My balance is kind of terrible without wings at all, though, they help a lot - even being without the tail is throwing me off. I think once you have stuff under control here I'll go someplace without so much Christian iconography and just be a dude with wings and a tail." Cam opens the door and slides into the pilot's chair. "Build my Mars colony, make humanitarian visits to aboriginal Australians."
connecticut_yankee
"That should take care of that problem, at least for until worldwide travel gets started."
Hank climbs into the vehicle.
"We want to go about fifty miles northeast from here. If you stay above the widest roads, it should be easy for me to find."
Hank climbs into the vehicle.
"We want to go about fifty miles northeast from here. If you stay above the widest roads, it should be easy for me to find."
from_scratch
"Sure." Cam flicks some switches and grabs a joystick. Up they go. "That'll be really fast, I thought horses could go faster than that. I suppose I haven't seen a horse up close in forever."
He orients to north, and flies northeast at a sedate pace.
He orients to north, and flies northeast at a sedate pace.
connecticut_yankee
"The distance is greater when you're not flying, but yes, I had the same reaction. Would you believe an armed and armored knight can travel faster on a bicycle?"
connecticut_yankee
"And it saved my life once. It was without a doubt the silliest last-minute rescue I've ever received.
Oh, and, I don't know what sort of bicycles you have in the future, but these were the most technologically advanced penny farthings available."
Oh, and, I don't know what sort of bicycles you have in the future, but these were the most technologically advanced penny farthings available."
from_scratch
"The motorcycle I mentioned is like a bike with an engine. I don't know what a penny-farthing bicycle is. Is it one of those hilarious ones with the different sized wheels? Because that just improves the armored knight mental image about tenfold."
connecticut_yankee
"Do yours have the same size wheels? How do you avoid having to pedal inhumanly fast to go the same speed? That would just be undignified. Those poor twenty-third century knights."
from_scratch
"I have not extensively studied bicycles but suspect gears are involved. Remind me when we've got a spare minute and I'll make one for you to take apart. Also, knights, not such a thing in the twenty-third century."
connecticut_yankee
"Oh, good. They do exist where I'm from, but you mostly get the title by earning it, which is much more palatable."
connecticut_yankee
"I wouldn't say political. Just that everyone ought to be judged by what he can do and not by how he was born. This is rather a vexing century to be in, and I'm glad the future is better."
from_scratch
"Mm-hm. Bet with enough poking and prodding and demon magic we can get it better on relevant axes by the time the year eight hundred rolls around."
connecticut_yankee
"Yes, but once we have the first place upgraded, it should spread easily enough. Every nation wanting to keep up with its neighbor ought to make our job easier."