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

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Okay. There will probably be other chances, assuming Jane remains up. There's a party every time another Bell is found."

[inhispockets]

"How come Jane's so sure she's staying up and you're so not?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I'm not because she's gone down twice. I got stranded in the afterlife, the first time."

[mind_game]

"I'm not going anywhere because I have been thoroughly decanted from Aegis and my containing body now sits in the Belltower, collects dust, and encounters no superweapons and no horrible worlds."

[inhispockets]

Felicity looks thoughtfully at Elsie, for lack of a visible Jane to take a share of his glances, and then shrugs.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I can't produce definitive truth either way," says Elspeth. "I'm just cautious."

[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?"