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whatamithinking) wrote in
glowfic2015-10-26 09:20 am
That wasn't supposed to happen
The parameters are recalibrated, the dial is spun, and a new universe is selected.
It won't be home--they haven't collected anywhere near enough coordinate data to think they can find home yet--but it will be another step closer.
And who knows, it might be interesting.
Edie steps through the portal first.
It won't be home--they haven't collected anywhere near enough coordinate data to think they can find home yet--but it will be another step closer.
And who knows, it might be interesting.
Edie steps through the portal first.

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"So strange... well. If you want wings, gathering the materials is difficult and a little dangerous but it's nothing I can't handle."
Having cleared a space to his satisfaction, he puts away the axe and gets out another cube of wood. Then he starts building a house. Apparently, holding a wood cube confers on him the ability to place 2'x2'x2' cubes of wood in the world without much more fuss than just looking at the spot where he wants one. This makes the house-building process very fast.
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A quicksilver whip of some kind of metal lashes out from her sleeve, obliterates a slime, and retracts itself inside her clothing again.
"Can you do that thing with metal, because that sounds super useful."
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"Can I do what with metal?"
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It asserts that she can use it to place copper in the world, in a way that seems very similar to the stranger's house-building method. There is a limitation that she may only place Copper Bars on top of solid objects.
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"Before I put the doors in - you haven't built anywhere for your weird person-things to live, have you? If you build a house for yourself and not them sometimes they decide they live in your bathroom and they stand there all night and it's very disturbing."
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He flies away a shortish distance - within sight, but not within earshot - and builds a much simpler, taller house that seems to be a stack of nearly identical floors each consisting of four tiny and nearly identical rooms arranged around a central stairwell. It has no windows and is kind of depressing-looking. When he's done, he comes back and installs a door in the sisters' house, then opens the door and goes inside to add more doors between the rooms.
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"I think we forgot to introduce ourselves, didn't we? That happens sometimes when my sister starts out by engaging someone in telepathy, you don't need names as much when everyone's mind feels different."
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"...What are those?" he asks, indicating the green beads.
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