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Once the meeting of alternates has concluded, it's back home for the resident monarchs. Zevros grouses about his alt not being reachable yet. And then he grouses about his alt not being a man for - for reasons. Edarial tries very, very hard not to think about those reasons, and makes a face every time it's brought up. Zevros has mercy on his twin, and Edarial doesn't have to make many faces before Zevros's desire to screw himself isn't brought up again.
He also tries very hard not to think about how all of his alts have killed someone. This time, he's not as successful. Edarial's not sure if Prime's killed someone before the fiasco that was finding him, so he might be absolved for that, but the other two certainly chose to. Neither of them regret it in the slightest. He knows this because he asked, quietly, privately. It was in the defense of their matching Bells. That's - he doesn't know how to feel about that. That's worrying.
Obviously, the solution is math. He asks both alts for their - mental numbers, the factors behind them, and then he scurries off to crunch his own and compare with what they have. Iobel didn't want to have a competition, but - this isn't that. He's comparing notes. If he's - likely to kill someone in defense of her, he'd like a heads up first.
Copious amounts of math is completed. Edarial is - kind of frightened by the results. He gets up, and he goes to find Iobel. Because according to Adarin-math, he is probably capable of killing people in her defense.
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royal_obligation
"Aha. So it might have been required for me to ask for help on, say, a project for a certain fountain."
come_midnight
"I would have been fascinated by the fountain. I'd probably have given you the spellbook for free just to look at what you had on it."
come_midnight
"And you've seen what I'd do with it - although if I'd gotten at the chart in an earlier stage of development I might have been more useful."
come_midnight
"I didn't say I wasn't, but I could have contributed more if there had been more left to do."
royal_obligation
"Fair. I'm sorry, next time I remake a lost hex, I will enlist your help."
come_midnight
Iobel digs them out of her pile of papers on her desk, and unfolds the teleportation one first.
"It's huge," she says, and it is. "I'm probably going to wind up pruning it into a few versions, each with its own massive drawback, unless we find alts with magic that handles working memory - I checked Phix's notes on runecasting and it doesn't have anything like that."
"It's huge," she says, and it is. "I'm probably going to wind up pruning it into a few versions, each with its own massive drawback, unless we find alts with magic that handles working memory - I checked Phix's notes on runecasting and it doesn't have anything like that."
royal_obligation
Edarial nods, grinning and looking over the huge teleportation spellchart. "Maybe we'll find something that offers extra working memory. If that happens, don't be alarmed when I start cackling maniacally."
come_midnight
"I will be too busy cackling myself to have any attention to spare for alarm," she assures him.
royal_obligation
"Oh, good. Then there won't be an issue."
Read. Read read read rea-
"- I think you might be able to condense this part if you tweak the wording here," he says, and he points at part of the spellchart.
Read. Read read read rea-
"- I think you might be able to condense this part if you tweak the wording here," he says, and he points at part of the spellchart.
royal_obligation
"Well, remember the part of the fountain chart that was worded similarly? I managed to condense a branch by specifying the later part first."
come_midnight
"Oh, I see -" Iobel starts drawing arrows and annotations on the chart.
royal_obligation
Edarial smiles again, and then goes back to reading.
"... Oh, that's clever," he praises.
"... Oh, that's clever," he praises.
come_midnight
"I was very proud of it. I was sure the contingency about passengers would take up square feet of chart by itself, and I literally woke up one morning, sat bolt upright, and wrote that down."
royal_obligation
"I wish my wake ups were like that, I'm worthless at spell charts in the morning."