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She has suggestions.

It seems like a popular experiment is to make two plates of something that molds, seal them up, and boil or otherwise sterilize one. One of them molds - the other does not. To disprove the 'miasma' theory, one can put two plates near a source of disease and have one of them actually be touched by the source, and then also prepare two plates away from it, one touched by the source. There are usually other possible explanations than germs, but microscopes can let you actually see germs, that might do the trick too.

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Valanda reads some of that out loud.

"I don't know if you can make microscopes, but Bar might have a schematic drawing you could give to one of your smiths. I don't know if that'd be enough information to figure it out from, though."

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"Or I could buy one?"

Napkin. She makes a slightly strangled sound. "That's a lot of gold. I can just tell them that stuff. Could go tell them now, then come back. It'd just be annoying to do that over and over."

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"When you try to get to Milliways from a door you usually need someone from your world to hold it open or it'll stop leading here but I guess portals might work differently..."

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"Hmm... Be right back!"

She heads toward the backyard.

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"Have fun, I hope it works."

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She waves jauntily and is gone for at least half an hour.

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Oh, right, of course. After a while he goes to check the yard.

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Just as a shimmering portal opens up and she steps back through!

"Hi again! I kicked a hornet's nest by claiming I had inter-dimensional knowledge. They're setting up a bunch of germ experiments now and wanted me to go learn more stuff!"

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"Sounds like good news. I just realized I forgot to let you know sometimes time passes faster or slower in different parts of Milliways, so if you leave the portal open in the backyard and come back to the bar there's no telling how long it'll be from their point of view."

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The portal zips closed. "It stops if I do that, right? Seems nicer to 'em, not making them wait."

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"It usually stops, yeah."

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"Great! Back inside?"

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"Yeah, let's. Did they want to know about anything in particular?"

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"Well I mostly ignored everyone except the doctors, so, more things about bodies and health? Oh, I showed them the cup Bar gave me, they want to know how to make glass."

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He starts to ask Bar for a guide, but stops himself when he has a better idea. "Do you have a way to show us movies?"

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You may borrow devices to view movies on, and they will not be added to your tab unless they are damaged or removed from the bar area.

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"And have you got documentaries on glassmaking without magic?"

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Of course.

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It's interesting stuff! She might end up buying one of these full of videos for home, hideously expensive as it is, she has gold.

 

After a while (presuming he's still around), she asks Valanda, "Hey, what's your world like? You said you don't have devils or dragons, and do have other kinds of people?"

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"Yeah, we have some people who are cats and some who are snakes and some who are like humans but they're all born male and turn into women when they get older. We have things you could watch if Bar can get them but they're mostly magical so I don't know if she can."

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"Any everyone has magic! You must all be very rich."

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"I don't know what your standards are, but maybe. When I was poor by our standards I lived in a place small enough I couldn't lie down without bending my legs, but it was fireproof and never cold and I had food every day."

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"That's... Cramped, but it sounds fairly rich to me. Stone houses are rare, and enough firewood to never be cold is very expensive."

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"Then we're rich by your standards. I could hold my door open and call for a mage to come enchant you a heater and a chiller and a couple insulated boxes to keep them in. It might cost you as much as a few days of food, depending on how expensive the food you like is."

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