UN: Lady | Audio

[sinkthe8ball]

Does anyone else have a blue glyph and not know when they got close enough to their partner to turn solid blue to start with?

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[11calls]

Who were you fighting? And why?

[sinkthe8ball]

White-haired guy. Superfast.

[She pauses a moment.]

What do you know about demons?

[11calls]

[Alex just goes pale and very still for a moment before she asks in a small voice: ]

Demons? Why is it always demons?!

[sinkthe8ball]

Because they're insatiable for whatever happens to make up their specific appetite.

[11calls]

Destruction and children normally in my experience.

[sinkthe8ball]

Power with a destruction by-product in mine, but both are equally awful.

[11calls]

I hate demons so much.

[sinkthe8ball]

Welcome to the club. Demons aren't exactly in my good books either.

[Lady your best friends are a lightning demon and a half-demon respectively remember.]

[11calls]

So how do you handle them back home?

[sinkthe8ball]

Shoot them until they explode into dust. You?

[11calls]

We don’t know yet.

[sinkthe8ball]

That's not good. How can you not have ways to kill them in your world?

[11calls]

Uh. Well, I mean most people don't believe in them in any concrete way. The Church has exorcism rights of course, but the ones that surround my story are different.

[sinkthe8ball]

I think most people where I'm from don't want to admit that they exist despite them living beside us and preying on us. Different how?

[11calls]

They’re Sumerian. I think anyway. There’s a lot of stuff around ancient Babylonian deities.

[sinkthe8ball]

I guess that makes some kind of sense, but definitely different from what I'm used to. Demons are just demons, they don't have any specific cultural source, though some were more likely to appear in some areas for a while until it was easier to travel to other places.

[11calls]

Why was it easier for them to appear in some places rather than others?

[Relevant to her interests.]

[sinkthe8ball]

Yes but the development of world travel played a part in it too. The portals mostly only work one way. You need a very particular magic to open one that works both ways.

[11calls]

Does it involve sacred geometry and math?

[sinkthe8ball]

Blood, symbols, pieces of dead demons. Not something I've looked too much into since I'm usually more focused on closing the portal than opening it.

[11calls]

Sorry. That just sounds more than a little bit familiar.

[sinkthe8ball]

I guess some of it should be constant across the different worlds.

[11calls]

Which is kind of terrifying. I mean, especially considering these demons, or at the very least the people summoning them are definitely trying to break down the boundaries between worlds. I don't know if they mean multiversal or like... hell but it's still a hard thought nonetheless.

[sinkthe8ball]

Definitely, hell where I come from. Though I'm not so sure in most cases it's about breaking down boundaries between the human world and hell so much as thinking that if they summon a demon they can control it and force it to do their bidding. It doesn't usually end well for the human that tries that though.

[11calls]

The people doing it have been successful so far.