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[jasidian]

[ There's a matcha green, underbite-y toddler staring at the other end of the device. She's wearing a loose-fitting cotton dress, her dark brown hair messily pulled back, and holds in her hand a half-eaten, baby-sized banana.

She puts the banana down on the goddamned floor and taps the device a bit before trying to put it in her mouth. It is too wide to go in her mouth.

As she babbles something that's comprehensible only to an exasperated parent, you get a glimpse of the area around her. Clearly the private study of some sort of eccentric millionaire obsessed with weird magic forbidden knowledge shit. There's like, specimens in jars and anatomical diagrams framed on the walls and everything. Plus walls and walls full of old-ass bookshelves. Not the kind of place that you'd expect a toddler to be in, but then-

Then she gets scooped up by a massive, bearded orc man who sighs, boops her nose, and places the device on a table before wiping the saliva off the screen with a handkerchief.]

Oof, I didn't anticipate this ending up here, but... um, hello! Sorry if I ought to have said something earlier, I've been away from home for a while and then I was so caught up with some research, and I suppose I didn't-

Harliss, Harley sweetie, no, I promise you that you do not want to eat this-

-erm, I just didn't expect there to be a... Whatever this is. In my study.

... this isn't another demon thing, is it.

[ There's a weak little laugh. ]

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[have_hat_will_travel]

Mostly no. Other than some people might demonize it in the descriptive, metaphorical sense because this scale of interplanar communication is kind of, um, a lot?

Also there's me, and there was one other guy but I think he's gone now.

Pidonus Marasia, Succubus but more importantly Bard, hiding in a cave at your service.

[jasidian]

It's fine, I wasn't being particularly serious.

Klaus Vanderboren, priest, scholar, all-around...nerd?

[ He still gets called a nerd, even after all these years. ]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Hmm. Where you're from, does being a priest mean divine magic?

Mostly curious. For clarity, bardic stuff does allow me to do a bunch of magic and adjacent stuff, so, yay.

[jasidian]

Erm, yes?

I suppose there's most likely worlds on which it doesn't, but...in my experience, it usually does.

[have_hat_will_travel]

From what I've seen on this network, quite a few worlds are more boring about that.

But yeah, it should be safe. At least, it's probably enough that I could use info from it for plane shifting.

If I knew Plane Shift.

[jasidian]

[ He's doing some mental arithmetic right now. Mostly about how many spell slots he's got.

He eventually comes to the conclusion that, at the very worst, Pidonus might just have to do a sleepover at his place for a day. ]

...if you need any help with something, well.

I can see what I can do for you.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... It's appreciated, though perhaps it's best that you, um, know some of what's going on before assisting.

There's a few situations that I'm kinda concerned about on other worlds, not counting my own which is why I can't just find a local ally of the appropriate power level.