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Curiosity did what, now?
The kobold's research cave is coming along nicely, after her previous adventure - the floor carefully flattened (by teleporting stone out) and softened (by teleporting sand in); the permanent portals to Deva and the cavern's exit, currently closed to anyone who doesn't know the passwords, but marked off, with spaces set aside for several more portals; her experimenting supplies tucked away behind further portals in her workspace; a small cache set up for her new translation necklace and any other magical items she might happen to find in her travels.
And, now, another portal, leading to another new world. She double-checks that she has her traveling gear - translation necklace, teleporting ring, twine - completes the spell, and peers through.
And, now, another portal, leading to another new world. She double-checks that she has her traveling gear - translation necklace, teleporting ring, twine - completes the spell, and peers through.
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After a moment, one of the mages speaks up. "So... how does magic work, on your world? That translation necklace would be ridiculously hard to make, for us."
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One of the other mages scoffs, and the first one replies "no, look at it, Glade. See the..." She pauses, and huffs, and retrieves a few sheets of paper and some inks and brushes from the back shelves, and makes a quick sketch of an abstract but clearly meaningful shape. She points to part of it. "That bit, it moves when he talks. And this one moves when we do. Like this." She adds some inscrutable notations to the indicated spots. "If we can see it, the Sight can see it."
"Yeah, but..." the conversation quickly turns incomprehensible, largely because half of it is happening on paper rather than as words. A third mage chuckles quietly and turns to Elarron: "They'll be at this a while. She could be right, though, we'd have to try it to know for sure."
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About halfway through this, River comes back in. "Well, this looks like good news."
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"Oh - the ring is magical but it isn't doing anything, not right now. We can see when the necklace is translating, if we pay attention - " Glade gets a pointed look " - and if I'm right and the magics can work together, that'll be amazing - his is smarter than ours, and ours is better at effects. Even if we can't get full bi-directional interaction, we should be able to do a bunch of new stuff."
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"I sort of wish I was an artificer so I could have anything at all to contribute to this discussion."
Of course, if he was, it would soon become obvious that the necklace has nothing to do with his own world's magic.
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"I would've thought it would make more sense for the trap to have been set from my world to send things somewhere else, rather than set from this world to bring things here. Magic that moves things from place to place is hardly remarkable in my world, although it's usually not so... trap-like."
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The workshop appears to be a small hut set away from everything else, and the path to it takes them past pens full of all sorts of animals, many of which are enthusiastic to see River.
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About two thirds of the way along, they come to a giant tortoise, which she does stop for. "This one's mine, his name is Beetle," she explains while she scritches his head.
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