Alicornutopia

Art: "So they hunt anyone who's singing magic but not singing hymns."
Eve: "…simultaneously? Are you supposed to be a Tuvan throat singer?"
Art: *bursts out laughing* "No, but hymns work as magic."
Eve: "That's very interesting. What do they do?"
Art: "The only thing I've seen is 'teleport a group of people and an unwilling victim'. Probably anything related to the words of the hymn could work, if you chose well. But I'm a little sour on religion recently."
Eve: "People do all sorts of things in the name of religion. That shouldn't sour the entire concept any more than people doing all sorts of things because they feel like it should sour you on emotions in general."
Art: "Well, finding out that miracles are probably just magic you can do with any popular song didn't help either."
Eve: "Yeah, that I don't buy. There could be both miracles and musical magic. These hunter folks of yours don't exactly sound like authorities."
Art: "I guess that's fair. I've been a little busy being a fugitive to do any kind of experiment."
Eve: "I can't really blame you. But, you know. Jesus isn't chasing you. You wouldn't get very far if he was."
Art: "Oh? Did I skip the miracle of the seven league boots in Sunday school?"
Eve: *snort*
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Cooper: "So, wait, you sing? Arrrre you sure the music is necessary, what happens if you just do lyrics? …Did you by any chance find a weird book at or before the age of fifteen."
Art: "It worked noticeably better with accompaniment, and I think less well when I was switching up some of the verses. Should I have found a book?"
Cooper: "I guess not. I found a book, but I don't sing."
Art: "That sounds way more convenient. Does it care if you put a lot of emotion into it?"
Cooper: "Nope."
Art: "Yup, *way* more convenient."
Cooper: "It does come with free divine enmity though."
Art: "Secret religious conspiracy enmity is bad enough. How'd you get past a god?"
Cooper: "Its attention is spread thin or… something. I had more of its attention than usual and some people had to save me from it but it hasn't tried to kill me again. I'm not sure why. It doesn't make a lot of psychological sense."
Art: "Well, good luck not looking crunchy and good with ketchup."
Cooper: "Thanks. Luck keeping ahead of your conspiracy."
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Art: "So you're going to publicize a big magic conspiracy?"
Revelation: "Carefully. And without special attention to exactly who was conspiring. I just want infinite free energy and stuff for everybody, you know?"
Art: "Can't argue with that. I've been thinking about something similar, but I have almost no idea what magic is capable of here. And the conspiracy is pretty aggressive."
Revelation: "I don't think my conspiracy is actually conspiring per se. They just all have reasons of their own to keep mum."
Art: "That sounds much easier to manage."
Revelation: "Here's hoping."

Have Revelation and Theo spoken?

Eve and the Phaetonbell, talking about Christianity.

Tamien wrote:Have Revelation and Theo spoken?

I dont think Theo has met *anyone*

but he should meet Shell Bell too ;)

Eve: "So, crosses, in particular, and holy water, in particular -"

Phaeton: "Not another shred of evidence anywhere, but yeah, it is weird, and we have a lot more Catholics now."

Eve: "But not you."

Phaeton: "If somebody's running this joint we have a major theodicy problem."

Eve: "It does seem like a mess. Are you going to fix it?"

Phaeton: "One does what one can."

Theo had not spoken to anyone at all.

Revelation: "Ooh, I can talk, that's new. Hi, summoner, what can I do for you?"
Theo: "I'm doing some speculative legal research on daeva contracts. Mind talking about what terms demons are likely to accept, in general?"
Revelation: "I don't mind, but you know that bindings are not the stuff of law school, right?"
Theo: "Yes, but demons particularly seem underused, and I'd like to change that. I've been thinking that if there were more complex agreements we could form, that might help. And hell, I went to law school, might as well get some use out of it."
Revelation: "I'm not sure how more complex agreements will help people decide they should summon demons."
Theo: "So the bad rep is entirely undeserved?"
Revelation: "Not entirely. You can pay fairies in cookies, and you cannot pay demons in cookies." *makes a cookie* "So you get all kinds of fairies, because everyone likes cookies. You only get demons who want intangibles. If you're lucky, that's a list of all the books in your library. If you're not, and you fuck something up or you're desperate, could be something less pleasant."
Theo: "Well, are there things demons want but aren't often offered? It does seem difficult to express preferences via 'Yes, summoner' and 'No, summoner'."
Revelation: "You have no idea. For instance, if you'd summoned me in 2010 or thenabouts, I would have wanted a phone call."
Theo: "To who? I'd be happy to give you one if it was still relevant."
Revelation: "It's very irrelevant. They're dead now. But you could find other demons - angels and fairies too, for that matter - who wish to exchange their services for access to the human Internet."
Theo: "That's an excellent idea. It would have to conflict with gags, presumably, but if we could filter for being amenable to it, that would go a long way to improving trust...
Thank you, this could be a big improvement."
Revelation: "I can find you a shortlist of demons who want the gig, if you like."
Theo: "That would be great. Should I summon you again next week?"
Revelation: "Sure, although I'll find more people in two."
Theo: "That works, I'll want to get in touch with some contacts myself. What's your name?"
Revelation: "Campbell Mark Swan. Call me Cam."
Theo: "Thank you, Cam. See you again soon."
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Theo: "Wow, your world sounds awful."
Shell Bell: "It is!"
Theo: "I'm trying to think of what I could do to help. I probably have better technology than you can get?"
Shell Bell: "That could be useful as long as it doesn't require infrastructure or a lot of storage space and will fit through a door."
Theo: "Yeah, that limits things a lot. There's probably something I can get from Bar that we could use as a catalog. And I'm rich, eat on my tab as much as you want."
Shell Bell: "Thank you! That will help a lot, the longer I can stay here the more I can potentially find."
Theo: "You're very welcome."

I recently had cause to reread black friday, and so:

Alicorn/Kappa:
Vampire!Mark and Sunday!Bella

EDIT: Specify type of Mark

Spring and the population of Muse
...Kiro and Muse, for that matter.

Spring: "...I can, uh, fix the infection. I'm not sure I can reverse the brain damage, but at least new kids wouldn't get it."

Population of Muse: "And have our children grow up not caring? They'd drive us insane."

Spring: "........"

I really want to put Nick in this thread, but he hasn’t been volunteered.

Alicorn:
Kithabel and Bar, because I am mean and Kithabel wouldn’t know not to go in until it’s too late. Although I’m now wondering if that magic could affect doors.
Loki and Jane, because Jane sounds like she be good at inventing seiðr spells
Ace and Butterfly (not sure why I thought of this)

Alicorn/Aestrix:
Loki and Dispersive Prism
Korulen and Dispersive Prism