And the first drink's free

[the_fires_deep]

A young woman opens a door, and quirks an eyebrow. There is a bar where there should not be one.

She considers her options, briefly, then decides that she really can't resist investigating. Risky? Perhaps. But it'll bug her if she doesn't figure out what's going on. She informs several people that should likely know that she is going into a strange magic bar thing, and then in she goes.

Comments

[seewhathappens]

"We are in agreement."

[the_fires_deep]

"It's a pity I have to renew the preservation touch," she sighs. "It would make my job a lot easier if I could just poke a mortal and un-mortal them."

[seewhathappens]

"Unfortunate," he agrees. "My shared immunities last, but of course they need renewing anyway because there are always new diseases."

[the_fires_deep]

"Yeah. The limits of divinity. Aren't they grand?" (They are not grand.)

[seewhathappens]

"No."

[the_fires_deep]

Her tiny pebble emits tiny giggles.

"Agreed!"

[seewhathappens]

Kirovalin laughs.

[the_fires_deep]

"Thankfully," she says lightly, "I'm not stuck with just one manifestation."

[seewhathappens]

"Yes. That would be very inconvenient."

[the_fires_deep]

"Thankfully, being a god or goddess is often convenient. Often very inconvenient, too, but those tend to be stuff you can compensate for."

[seewhathappens]

"Yes."

[the_fires_deep]

"It's nice," she says.

Conversation trails off from there. Much later, after exploring has been completed and people have been spoken to:

"How long are you planning on staying in Milliways?"

[seewhathappens]

"I was just going to leave this manifestation here indefinitely," he says. "Collecting disease immunities and perhaps offering to let someone immigrate once in a while."

[the_fires_deep]

"... That is a very good idea," she says, after a pause.

She sounds vaguely like she might like to borrow it.

[seewhathappens]

"I thought so."

[the_fires_deep]

"I think I might borrow it. I can afford to make a replacement manifestation."

[seewhathappens]

"This place is too useful to abandon."

[the_fires_deep]

"Agreed. I'd forgotten that leaving my manifested form here was an option. I'm not used to parking them places, usually they're travelling all over creation to poke people."

[seewhathappens]

"Here, the people from all over creation come to you."

[the_fires_deep]

She laughs. "Yes! Very convenient. I can have a body dedicated to sitting. That'll be novel."

[seewhathappens]

"Yes."

[the_fires_deep]

"Feel free to tell me if you find someone interesting that you think should be blessed and poked."

[seewhathappens]

"I will. Feel free to do the same."

[the_fires_deep]

"Yep!"



They turn out to make a really excellent team. They want the same sorts of things. They have powers that work in similar, companionable ways. Somewhat hilariously, they even have blessing sets that work extremely well together. ("Danger sense and a resistance to panicking, both - I don't think we could have planned that better unless we sat down after starting and working it out," comments Tisvetaia.)

More holy objects are exchanged to bless each other's mortals. They bless each other. They bless and poke people they meet in Milliways, often taking different sides of the bar to cover more ground and informing each other when they find someone who could use some blessings or pokes of a specific kind. And sometimes the bar is empty, and they can keep each other company and talk about how their domains are doing.

During one of these moments: "It strikes me that you could send a couple animal manifestations to my domain, to spread and collect disease immunities. I already have a system set up for people petting animals for immortality, my mortals will adjust pretty well to it, and obviously we can just coordinate as we like. I don't think my neighbors will mind."

[seewhathappens]

"I'd like that," says Kirovalin. "You could do the reverse, too, but I have a lot more people to cover than you do."