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[the video starts focused on a shelf, and on that shelf is a doll. absolutely the kind that just exudes 'listed on ebay for having the spirit of an angry victorian child in it' vibes with its dead eyes.

when viktor speaks his tone could not be more dry.] Some of you might have noticed the unpleasant dolls that, when ignored instead of bought, come to life violently. This is a matter our household is not entirely aware of because Palamedes continues to gladly buy any unpleasant doll he sets his sights upon.

[offscreen, but not like, very far offscreen (it is not a big living space), palamedes chimes in with a pointed, 'While I respect your aesthetic tastes, you're wrong, they're delightful,' that viktor will pointedly ignore as he continues.]

He will not stop bringing them. Some of them vanish after a week or two. He calls this one Sensible Bethany.

['She calls herself that, actually, I explained this already,' from the peanut gallery. the camera shifts as viktor turns to address him back]

Is this entire place not haunted enough without ugly dolls, I ask again? There is a limit, Palamedes.

[in the unfocused corner of the camera the doll absolutely turns its head to stare directly at the screen.]

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What's the not-real-magic that they do, then? Are there cards involved? I've heard of 'tarot.'

You can fight the other necromancers from my world, if you're bored. I'll politely pass.

Yeah, stuff like that. Stage magic is fun, but a lot of it is just a form of conning people.

[Michael waves a hand.]

As long as you aren't stealing my humans, I guess it's fine.

I have no idea what stage magic is. Unless— [he snaps his fingers a few times, hm-] Was there any at the new year's party, eons ago? I only kind of remember that night.

And which humans are yours? Not that I steal people by design, but I don't want to step on toes.

[Also, it kind of sounds like a joke to him, so...]

Yeah! I did some there, actually, it was fun!

[Has real magic; thinks stage magic is super cool!]

Any of the dead ones under my purview. I'm not...against people coming back to life in theory, I suppose, but I don't think it would be good for them to be yanked back and forth like that. Especially after they've been in the afterlife for a while. Anyway, they're my responsibility, I can't just let them get kidnapped!

Did you? I should have had fewer drinks.

[And... hmm. Being a twice-revived individual himself, he has plenty of feelings about this topic, all of them, for lack of a better term, grave.]

No, I think you're right. That's a lot of stress for a human mind to go through. I hope your people are doing well.

They should be. I left my best friend in charge when I came here - she's honestly a lot smarter than I am, she'll be great.

Oh, lucky. My best friend is still in the sea, but I like to think she's formulating some kind of grand plan down there.

So, for the sake of asking: your humans are from Earth, is that right?

Yeah. Just the one version of it, though.

What do you mean, the one version? [this is terrible what the fuck earth] How many versions are there?

Well, it's an infinite multiverse, so...infinity!

Okay. That answers a nonzero number of questions, which I'm going to consider a victory under nebulous criteria.

[...]

Does your version of 'Mercury' have people on it?

No, it's pretty much just a rock. Unless that's where the angels ended up going. It's boring there, but they were boring people.

[oh good this is somehow a relief-]

I'm from Mercury. We call it the Sixth, in my version. It is relentlessly boring, compared to everything else I've learned. Guess what we used to do for fun as children.

Look at rocks?

[hey, you asked for a guess!]

That's the one. Except we had to do it from the view screens indoors, unless we wanted our skulls to melt. Sometimes we'd watch the cleaning constructs do maintenance.

Ha! I was never really a child, but I played a lot with space rocks too when I was young. We all did, that's all there was. Rocks, dust, some burning gases.

Who knew that being from Mercury was so similar to being a demon.

[ha ha. anyway,] Can you teach me stage magic?

Oooh! Yes! I totally could!

[oh fuck yeah]

Really? Do you have a— place? I can come around sometime.

Yeah, my old house from the dream followed me here. It's near Willful Machine -

[What follows is the kind of long description of how to locate a house you get when a city doesn't have any street names!]

I've got a dog, are you good with dogs?

A whole house? [what in hell] And that depends; is it a normal dog? I'm good with, hm—

[He spins the omni around to show Rio, Viktor's super large lizard omen, currently using his lap as a pillow. She is several dogs in size.]

Well, this. I've seen a normal dog before.

Oh, no, she's some kind of wolf war mount.

[He'll never stop calling her a dog though!]

She's fine, though.

[why is it always wolves]

In that case, don't worry about it at all. I keep meeting wolves and I've yet to be mauled. Odds are good.

Great! We'll set that up then - I own my shop, so I can open and close it whenever.

Alright, I'll make time. I'm in Willful Machine plenty of afternoons; maybe in a few days?

Do I have to bring my own supplies?

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