Raafi in Revelation
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Tools are fine if that's how it's usually done, but (on reflection) he'd like someone keeping an eye on it to alert him to any problems, at least to start - he's new enough to this that he doesn't really have an idea of what that might look like but if there's a fight, or someone trying to start one, or anything illegal or especially antisocial - people doubting that he's real is fine, or being rude to him or Fharlanghn, and in general he'd rather be given the choice of what to do about problems rather than just have them disappear, though if something seems urgent it's better to deal with it than not.

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Blorker has a rubric he can fill out for content moderation guidelines, with examples of Internet fights of varying intensity.

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Convenient! He'll err on the lenient side for now but does want anything overtly aggressive removed, and to be alerted if things get heated.

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Dogwood is on it. The spam disappears without a trace.

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And he can open commenting back up. He posts about that, too.

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More people have now found the blog and are trying to guess from first principles whether one of his spells that moves him around could beat a fairy trying to grab him (consensus leans nah).

The ICRT wants to know where he lives.

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He emails the ICRT back: He's staying at this hotel, on this street between these other two in (search: 'where am I?') this city; he might be here as long as a few weeks.

He chimes in on the blog conversation: He thinks he'd beat the fairy, actually! When he teleports he's actually leaving the plane entirely for just an instant, he's not there to be grabbed.

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The ICRT is knocking on his door two minutes later.

(What about the flying spell though? asks a commenter.)

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He looks up from replying that a fairy would definitely beat him flying to answer the door.

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There's two humans and a fairy and an angel. The humans are wearing facemasks and gloves. "Raafi?" says one.

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"-yes? -would you like to come in?" He stands aside to let them.

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"Yes. We're going to need some samples to see if you're carrying any microbes we need to worry about," she says. "If you'd like a moment to look up our legal authority and dispatch code online you may."

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"What does that involve?"

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They sure want a lot of his fluids. Nothing more invasive than a few vials of blood, though.

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He's pretty dubious about the blood, but lets them do their thing.

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They take everything they want and test it there right in front of him. "We have a demon duplicating these tests at the HQ," explains the fairy, "but people are more likely to comply with us if they see it done and we're on the premises instead of getting a stern email that a demonic sample tested positive for something."

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"You realize I don't recognize any of this," he shrugs. "It'll be fine, I'm not sick."

And he's not; he's surprisingly free of even the harmless background microbes that everyone has. Not spotless, but like he was living in a cleanroom up until a few months ago.

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They're pretty puzzled by this but HQ confirms it for their copy too.

"We nonbindingly recommend that you see a doctor about getting vaccinated," they tell him.

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"Does that do something my magic might not cover?"

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"We're not sure exactly what your magic covers except that you're not carrying exotic bugs. You should talk to a doctor about it."

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He refrains from rolling his eyes. "All right, I'll look into it. Was there anything else?"

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"Nope. Thank you for your cooperation, have a nice day." They show themselves out.

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Lawful orgs, ick. He gets back to his blog - yes, fairies beat fly spells.

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Has he checked?

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Not with faeries specifically, but it doesn't offer protection from being grabbed in any other circumstance. The real interesting question is what happens if he protects himself from magic, which he also hasn't tried here.

He'll have to read more about summoning before he can test anything like that (presumably; they should correct him if there's a way to do it without summoning his own daeva) but he's definitely interested in it, if they want to come up with suggestions for other things to try.

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