repealing

[mind_game]

Time has passed.

Inconsistently.

Jane's network has kept all the Bells' worlds - and every other world with a Janepoint stuck in due to its being attached to Downside - in temporal sync, but when Jane spluttered for just a moment, that was shot to hell.

Peace lost three seconds, because it was where Aegis torched; after that process was complete, Jane was there again. And as soon as a door between Peace and Milliways appeared, she could sync to her ansible hub in the Belltower and, from there, to everywhere else.

Atlantis and Sunshine each stand at about a minute apiece: Shell Bell's aura and Juliet's local copy of Jarvis both enabled them to get to Milliways immediately, pausing their homeworlds as standard for occasions when someone walks into the bar. Shell Bell's the one who connected Peace.

Everyone else was running on luck.

Luckiest is Rainbow, which lost only five hours.

Next is Alethia; in spite of Sherlock's mishap, it's fared reasonably well, spending only six weeks isolated.

Syntropy's just a little worse - seven weeks.

Origin waited two months.

Eos waited three.

Thilanushinyel, ten.

Everyone else is out a decade at least. Samaria's ten years, almost ten and a half.

Aurum is out eleven.

Rêverie has been separated for sixteen years.

All the Bells - and Elspeth, who was stuck in Downside for a day and a half on her end and whose mother was very upset - are collected in the Belltower, as are two Bell-attached Sherlocks who happened to be along for the ride. They all memorize this list of numbers. Aegis replaces her earpiece. And then they all go home to notify their loved ones and staff that there's a party cooking in the Belltower.

(Shell Bell, who has no particular cause on her own account to be distressed, sends her Sherlock to invite Tony in while she refits the Belltower to suit a party of a peal of Bells and their larger-than-last-encountered families and circles of friends.)

Comments

[eversomuchfun]

"In what way do you expect it not to be okay?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"I don't know, but it seemed worth asking," says Shell Bell. "I think it would be awkward to have two of us trying to live in the same world or I might've tried rehabilitating Shell instead of absorbing her."

[eversomuchfun]

"I don't predict trouble, and if there is some, we can always ask one of them if he would like to move."

[cross_and_bow]

"Do you have a specific place outside Sunnydale in mind?" Juliet asks. "Do you want to do this right now?"

[eversomuchfun]

"No, and yes."

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay." Juliet runs through her mental map, and says, "Jane, drop us three in Sunshine, please."

Jane does.

Juliet teleports to a vacant lot on the outskirts of Sunnydale.

"Suits?" she asks Sherlock and Tony.

[toblameforit]

"Yeah," says Tony. "Can Jane deal with the, like, ground...?"

[mind_game]

[Well, I could pick it up and put it someplace else, but you're probably better off wishing for a foundation to match the house,] Jane says.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet offers Tony a pentagon.

[toblameforit]

Tony wishes. The ground changes shape.

[mind_game]

[Can you sit him in front of one of my cameras, please?] Jane asks the admin.

[ending_of]

The admin does that.

[mind_game]

Jane scoops up Jarvis and puts him in the hole-in-the-ground.

[toblameforit]

Tony immediately teleports inside.

[eversomuchfun]

Sherlock hugs Juliet and then follows.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet decides to wait outside, so that people Jarvis is familiar with can explain her.

[mind_game]

[Hey Juliet,] says Jane, [sorry to interrupt, but I just found something in an unbelled world that may concern the peal. You want to come back to the party?]

[cross_and_bow]

[...One sec.]

[Sherlock, Tony, Jane says she found "something in an unbelled world that may concern the peal", you want to catch this Jarvis up yourselves and then meet me at the Belltower?]

[eversomuchfun]

[Yes, thank you,] says Sherlock.

[cross_and_bow]

[Okay. Love you.]

And Juliet is gone.

Bells are assembling at the tower, mostly looking confused.

[mind_game]

When they're all there, Jane says, [Those of you with Jokers might want to get them out of the upstairs. I think I found a baby one.]

[jovahs_heiress]

...Those of the Bells with Jokers (including Pattern with her staff and Golden with hers) invite them to finish up and come discuss this. Issue.

[pythbox]

The Jokers, with varying promptness, finish up and teleport down.

[endragoned]

Aianon even remembers to put on pants!

[lifes_sake]

"How old is he?" Cam wants to know.