That wasn't supposed to happen

[whatamithinking]

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.

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[iamnotpolaris]

"Your latest house is gorgeous."
She lands on the balcony and follows him inside.

[not_only]

"Thank you! I'm proud of it."

The interior is even nicer. There are chandeliers. Nearly everything is made of that lovely stone.

In the room he leads her to, there are things not made of lovely stone - things that look like the table and desk he brought out to make armour, among others. He retrieves something from a storage chest and sits down at a crafting station, and shortly he has two pairs of miniaturized wings - the pink-and-purple Butterfly Wings and the blue-and-brown Harpy Wings.

"I have the rest of my dyes here, too, so if the colours aren't good they can be changed," he says.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Edie wants the bird wings. I want the butterfly wings."

[not_only]

"Okay." He hands her both pairs of wings. "Do either of you want to dye them?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"No, these are awesome."
Pause.
"Okay, no, Edie wants to know if you can dye only the brown part of the bird wings."

[not_only]

"Well... not quite, but - here," he says, and he goes to another storage chest and gets out several vials of dye and brings them to Emily.

Inexplicably, the liquid in some of the vials is multicoloured: one is split blue and black, another split blue and silver, another bears a gradient of several shades of blue, another bears a brighter version of the same gradient. The last two are just plain blue and brighter plain blue.

"These are all the kinds of blue I have. If you hold a dye and a pair of wings at the same time you should be able to sort of... see what the wings would look like with it on."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ah, okay. They're fine as they are, but she thought they would look even better with gold instead of brown."

[not_only]

"Okay. I don't have a dye for that. I guess I could try to make one, but there's no guarantee it would look the way she wanted. I don't know of a way to dye just part of a thing; I don't think that's how Terraria dye works."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sure. It matches her, anyway; her hair's brown and her eyes are blue."

[not_only]

He shrugs, and puts away the various blue dyes.

"Can you think of anything else we might want to get while I'm here? Oh, right, I wanted to get my extra heart candies." He goes to yet another storage chest.

[iamnotpolaris]

"I don't know what else you have. Some of this gorgeous rock if you've got any extra."

[not_only]

"I do have some extra granite. It's lovely, isn't it?"

He retrieves a miniature red heart-shaped thing.

"If you eat heart candies, you get healthier and harder to hurt and I think maybe you don't need to eat or sleep as much, but I'm not sure about that part. The most one person can usefully have is fifteen - any more than that doesn't have a permanent effect, it just heals you a little bit if you were injured right then - and I have sixteen of them right now. Do you and your sister want them?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sure! And I think granite is another of those things like gold or palladium that works differently here than in other worlds, normal granite is nowhere near this pretty."

[not_only]

He hands her the red heart-shaped thing, which proclaims that it is 16 Life Crystals. Then he goes and gets some granite from another storage chest, and opens yet another storage chest to say, "This is where I keep all of my extra metal bars if you want to take some."

There are many many tiny bricks of metal in that chest.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Thanks!"
Emily will take some iron and somewhat lesser amounts of copper and tin and gold and silver and platinum.
"What's that one?"

[not_only]

"It calls itself Tungsten. I hadn't heard of it before I got here."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I've heard of it. You can make good alloys out of it, if it works like tungsten in other universes."

[not_only]

"Terraria doesn't really seem to do alloys."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Terraria also doesn't do lattices like the one I made out of the copper, I'd bet. We should test this, I should see if I can make bronze out of some of the copper and some of the tin."

[not_only]

"Sure."

[iamnotpolaris]

So she takes a bar each of copper and tin out of their stacks and sets them as blocks and melts relevant proportions of each and mixes them.
"...It's bronze. I don't think it could be described as Terrarian bronze, though, if that makes sense."

[not_only]

"Yes, it does make sense. Okay. Time to go back, do you think? Actually, no—" and he starts grabbing more things out of the same storage chest where he got the granite. "Now that I know there's a safer island there, I should bring lots and lots of building materials so I can make good houses with good furniture."

[iamnotpolaris]

"You seem to like architecture a lot."

[not_only]

"Yes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"We should--oh! When we get back, do you want my sister to put our language in your head? It's spoken in a lot of the universes we go through, so it would be pretty convenient."