sweeping changes

[mind_game]

Jane has finally been updated in all of the "extra" worlds with no Bells, Jarvises, or other routine visitors to the peal, and she is conducting template sweeps in them.

[Hey,] she tells all the Jokers and all the Bells. [There's a Joker in world number twelve who wasn't there before I crashed. Can't find him online at all, though.]

Comments

[inhispockets]

"Yeah," says Felicity.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"There have been strandings both times. At the party, though, there will be Shell Bell, whose aura lets her open doors to Milliways, from which everyone will be able to get home."

[inhispockets]

"Lucky for whoever goes, I guess."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yep."

[mind_game]

"And there's also that thing where I'm not going to break and even if I broke I have my new roomie syncing up time for everybody and she can pass messages," grumbles Jane, "so some judicious door-forcing and Jarvising could get everyone home anyway, and also I'm not going to break, I am done breaking."

[inhispockets]

"The way you keep saying that, I'm expecting you to explode any minute," Felicity informs her.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth laughs. "I definitely don't think she's going to explode."

[inhispockets]

He giggles. "You sure?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"She's software. And heavily warded. It would be extremely difficult to make her explode."

[inhispockets]

"If you say so."

[her_imperial_radiance]

[inhispockets]

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I should leave for my meeting soon. It's scheduled to take an hour, and could run a little over or under. I can leave you here or bring you somewhere else. Jane can get me if something comes up, or I could get one of my grandparents to watch you. What do you prefer?"

[inhispockets]

"...I dunno," says Felicity. "Somewhere else like where?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"The island comes to mind. For such a short period of time the active capital might be okay, too, although since your alts expect you to run around pushing people's buttons and destroying property it might not be a good risk."

[inhispockets]

"Well, here is boring," he says, looking around. "I don't wanna be stuck here for an hour."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"All right. I can take you down to the island." Elspeth holds out her hand invitingly in his direction, mostly to see if he'll take it.

[inhispockets]

He eyes the hand suspiciously.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Do you want to go to the island, or somewhere else?"

[inhispockets]

"Island," he says. "Sure."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Okay." She drops her hand, and teleports them without that signifier.

The island on which her parents spent their honeymoon is mostly covered with tropical plants, with an attractive house perched on it near the beach. Elspeth spends a coin to fill the kitchen with human food, with reference to what the Québec house tended to contain after Harley restocked. "The kitchen's full," she tells Felicity. "You have the run of the place." [You can contact me like this if you need anything.]

There aren't currently any boats docked here.

[inhispockets]

He smiles.

[her_imperial_radiance]

Elspeth smiles back. "I'll be back in about an hour. Jacob is going to wait until I'm around to introduce him before he turns up."

[inhispockets]

"See you," says Felicity.

[her_imperial_radiance]

And she vanishes.