likesfootnotes | 4th footnote [text] how to dismiss your djinni 101

Unleashing a horde of hawks upon the Keep gains you marks for creativity, but you are missing the mark by a substantial degree if you think that raptors alone could rid you of my enchanting presence.¹

Obviously you lack the intellectual fortitude to assess the means by which to free me and gain some peace. As a being of magnanimity, I will offer you a tip to help you along this path:

There's nothing like a good dismissal incantation to scrub away my essence from this dismal plane.²

While all the magicians that I know to be present puzzle that one out, a query to the commoners: Has anyone seen a delightful orange squash with pleasant enough demeanour?

[aka: 'Djinni seeking nubile young pumpkin for long rolls on the beach and loud mocking of magicians.' Bartimaeus had good fun chatting with her before the wonderful Hallowe'en festivities. Yes. Wonderful. He had a good chuckle over it all.]

1 - Were I restricted to the form of a raven, this method could work. The key term here being 'were' for the fact that I am not restricted to just any form. I could, in fact, take your hawks and raise you a dual-horned, goggle-eyed dragon with a taste for feathers.

2 - Don't expect me to hand the answer to you on a silver platter. That unfortunate alloy aside, providing you magicians with the means to an end is the same as assisting you. I cannot allow this on a professional level, no matter how the ache of existing builds up. We spirits have certain rules and standards we hold ourselves to.

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[Well, Liz has certainly seen more than her fair share of the hideous and hellish in her days running (or floating) around with Chloe and Derek! With her dad being the big and scary demon he is, she's seen that sort milling around from time to time as well. You might find that she'd appreciate your forms far more than you give credit, Barti, dear. She wasn't sure anything could rattle her more than losing her head recently, but she'd certainly give credit where it was due!

Although no, she'd never much given mind to the whole journaling with claws aspect of it. Hmm...

His question puzzles her and she blinks, her confusion evidently that and not something more nefarious or tricky.]

Planes? What?

[Clearly this was a matter best fixed by meeting in person, Bartimaeus. We should arrange this...]

I mean, it's not like I haven't tried to do stuff I normally would. Like, something about this place seems to, like, put a damper on it or something. I can usually do, like, a whole lot more than I can do here.

[She then looks a bit uneasy... that is if you can see her and all.]

Umm.. I'm not too sure how keen I am on, like, that whole dismissal thing. Do you mean, like, an exorcism? Cause... yeah, no thanks. I kinda like being all, like, haunty and stuff.

[Obviously he will have to start from square one here. Bartimaeus has minimal experience with poltergeists, since they tend to be of the foliot level at most, and the disparity between his magnificence and them is no minor thing.

How lucky she is that he is so magnanimous.]

The seven planes of existence that we spirits can see, though the humans insist that there is only one. Are you appearance-challenged on all seven, or is this a delight of just the first few?

[It would rather be like a poltergeist to just mess around with the first two or three levels, where humans and cats could be freaked out. Bartimaeus would verify this for himself, but videos do not carry the same auras as reality and without a scrying imp to see through, he is plane-blind.

...ah, there she goes again. Just a disembodied voice speaking what sounds like nonsense to him.]

Dismissal rids you of the physical body and the need for hanging around. Who would want to exist in the physical plane?

4th footnote [text] how to dismiss your djinni 101

[video] I'm uncertain how I feel about this dismissal stuff... :\

[video] you should feel amazing - that is how he feels!