3rd summon [text]

[likesfootnotes]

There doesn't seem to be any understanding of manners on this boat. Twice now I've had people abruptly disconnect on me in the middle of a stirring discussion of how utterly imperfect their grasp of reality1 or revenge2 is

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[ceilingezio]

A djinni.

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[likesfootnotes]

A djinni.

Unfamiliar with the magnitude of the term?

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[ceilingezio]

What magnitude is this? Children's stories from Arabo legends.

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[likesfootnotes]

They were the single culture to raise their children to use the right terminology to address spirits. We quite exist, after all.

Would you call it legend still to see a demonio1 in person?

1 - This term is crude, akin to the use of 'demon' by English speakers. I use it to get the point across, not set a precedent.

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[ntjstapwn]

Everyone's grasp on reality here is flawed. What worked in one doesn't work in another, and none of us are really certain what works here?

What the fuck is a de-je-ne? *Marco's a bit drunk, otherwise he might recognize that word or at realize that's not how its pronounced.*

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[likesfootnotes]

Most of my abilities are intact and working here, this reality is unchanged. But the perceptions here are far too favourable towards magicians. That is the reality skew.

[You did not just-- patience, Bartimaeus. Ignorance can be cured.]

Say it with me correctly and you might earn an answer.

Jee-nee.

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[ntjstapwn]

If your abilities are intact here, you're one of the lucky ones.
I can't say I know many magicians here, though. What's your problem with them?

*Pause*

Ooooh, a genie. Like from Aladdin? And the lamp and all of that.

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[likesfootnotes]

Magicians are disgracefully rude creatures. You would take offense, if you had the same exposure to them as I have.

[That certainly sounds closer, but the reference is all wrong.]

An associate of mine was trapped into a lamp by the Indefinite Confinement spell. It is fortunate that someone had the sense to rub him out of it after a time. I have escaped that kind of discomfort for decades now.

[Not counting any close calls thanks to Mr. Mandrake.]

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[thenotmagician]

A djinni, huh?

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[likesfootnotes]

You are definitely not speaking with the likes of foliots or imps, I assure you.

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[thenotmagician]

Well shit, that's pretty swell. Never thought I'd ever get ta meet one.

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[likesfootnotes]

[That sounds absent derision or sarcasm. Could it be the first sane voice he has encountered on this boat? Best to verify before his hopes get up.]

Then count your fortunes, as you speak with one now.

[One with a little more form and coherence than when you first spoke with him. Though--]

You have heard of djinni. What makes you familiar with them?

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[fancy_evil]

A djinni? Now, that's interesting. If the people you were talking to were humans I can only suggest patience, after all, mortals tend to have very limited abilities in that regard.

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[likesfootnotes]

Finally, a kindred spirit! There are so many humans and magicians around here that I began to think myself alone against this tide of corrupt normalcy.

They do lack in certain regards, but one claimed to be a God of sorts. That seems ludicrous even for this place. Who would summon a higher being here?

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[fancy_evil]

Personally, knowing that they are fakes, I find those who proclaim themselves gods very amusing (and their punishments even more).

I can't give you a reason but so far, I can tell that what happens on the boat doesn't really need one.

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[likesfootnotes]

These things are bound to catch up with them. 1

I've been able to see that. How else could I have even ended up here in the first place, when already summoned by another magician. What about you? Had you been summoned, or were you just resting in the Other Place.

1 - It takes on a very literal form that I've witnessed plenty of times. Riotous mobs are never very nice to false Gods once they've chased them down.

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[electroniccrane]

You kind don't exist where many of us are from.

[She finds Bartimaeus's writing style (and arrogance) amusing.]

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[likesfootnotes]

What deprived lives many of you must lead!

[Or is it that the djinni are simply never summoned there? Permanent vacation.]

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[electroniccrane]

I don't know. If you're all so hung up on manners, I imagine we got off lightly.

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[likesfootnotes]

So you're saying that you come from a world without manners?