This post has the following content warnings:
Vanda Nossëo meets Har
+ Show First Post
Total: 765
Posts Per Page:
Permalink

At least he's not going to cause any problems big enough for the precogs to hear about it, so they go ahead.

Permalink

Yep. The Shadow King proceeds to give interviews and look into leaving the universe and maybe resurrecting an old friend eventually. Despite all the incidental hiccups, resurrections seem to be going normally in Har. Demand is low per capita and the population is low but the requests trickle in.

Permalink

The local office is keeping up handily with demand even when someone's exasperated insurance company brings them a dead Klingon who decided to go try Hari bloodsport.

Permalink

The imperial government does investigate all killings of free people but sometimes the investigation takes five minutes and doesn't result in a prosecution.

All the resurrectees so far have come back nice and properly with whichever of the twelve types of local magic is proper. And so does the Klingon.

Permalink

Now the Klingon is a command mage. This has nothing to do with anything she wants to do with her life though so she just goes home.

The resurrection office hastily makes some additional hires.

Permalink

Shortly there are ads on the internet and the noticeboards in Mar Geru and Anavel Sani and Elit City advertising suicide methods and secure places to store valuables temporarily.

There's a slight upswing in emigration now that ending up with animal children is fixable. 

Permalink

Where do Hari emigrants want to live?

Permalink

A disproportionate number are interested in Cube Earth, it turns out.

Permalink

What about it is attractive, Butterfly wonders.

Permalink

Morph, apparently. (And the extent to which the infrastructure is designed around the idea that sometimes people are tigers doesn't hurt.)

The Shadow King, however, will be trying to hire a demon to conjure a planet in Hex for him to rebuild his kingdom.

Permalink

There is a Dwarf-demon firm suitable for this task! What would he like on his planet?

Permalink

Mangroves and caves and this forest city he has a design for and a giant desert in the middle of the continent and huge mountains.

Permalink

Does he only want the one continent? He can get a discount if he'll leave the other part of the world for other purposes.

Permalink

He wants a very large continent and to own the whole place but if the other purposes are compatible with that then maybe they can share.

Permalink

If he wants to own the whole place, no discount. He may as well decide how he wants the rest of the surface of the planet to be and then he can rent it out on his own if he wants.

Permalink

Sounds good to him. He'll put in an extra large island especially for renting out.

Permalink

Here are the weather projections with this geography, does that look okay?

Permalink

Tweak tweak now it does.

Permalink

And this ecosystem look all right? It's one of the stripped down hybrid Earthlike and Valian plants-and-bugs setups; importing undemonic animals is extra.

Permalink

He'd like to import animals for hunting.

Permalink

Sure, he can use this inside-out taxonomic field guide and check off what he wants and how aggressively he wants them introduced. One star if you can drop it on the existing ecology and it'll get along, two stars if it has 1-5 supportive species it needs like prey or symbionts, three stars if it's part of a complex web.

Permalink

He mostly picks - well, he mostly picks one-star species, but he mostly cares about two-star species.

Meanwhile, after some work that looks a little pointless in hindsight, an apartment building in Cloudbreak starts advertising its humanoid-compatible facilities and complimentary assistance in navigating local society. Leases last about one Amentan season. An attempt at an Amentan-style advertisement features a blue-haired woman and purple-haired man (who are actually both human, a footnote clarifies) smiling and holding a baby who is wearing an Amentan-style onesie with the Hari defense magic symbol on it. It's starting to seem unlikely to be popular now since of course they can simply solve the problem where their babies come out as animals by having them killed and resurrected, but they're still going to try to run their ad in whatever the most popular ad-supported Amentan publication is.

Permalink

Amentans actually really hate having their babies killed and resurrected! Har becomes a destination just like Revelation and Hex for families hoping to have magic babies. Someone does suggest that maybe they should not specifically put an intercaste couple on there? That's weird?

Permalink

They contact this person to thank them for the feedback and ask if they're in the market for an Amentan market consulting gig if they need to run more ads in the future.

Permalink

Yes, actually!

Total: 765
Posts Per Page: