i am the oncoming storm

[autokinetic]

There are three Bells in Milliways.

They want a fourth. A fifth. A sixth. A seventh.

And then Downside is going down.

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[she_sells_seashells]

Shell Bell laughs and forces the door to Aurum.

[pythbox]

"It's 'cause of me," Sue says smugly; also, I love you, Jane. You're the cutest Internet-eating ansible person.

[mind_game]

Jane loves him right back!

[luminous_regnant]

Golden, summoned by brainphone, appears.

To Sue, her mind isn't so much walled off or insubstantial as it is not in the correct sphere of existence. He can detect a shadow - she isn't Juliet's absence-of-a-person - but her mind definitely declines to be interacted with.

At Shell Bell's verbal summary, Golden says, "Let's do this, then."

[she_sells_seashells]

"I can presumably get to Samaria just fine, but Eos..."

[dark_light]

"The coins - the mint powers - come from Eos - can we use that?" asks Amariah.

[autokinetic]

"Worth a try, but grab Angela first?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"Yeah."

Door. Hmm, looks like Angela and Micaiah aren't in their quarters right now.

[jovahs_heiress]

But they're still brainphoneable.

And Angela's as linkable as Shell Bell is.

"...Love, I'm going to go join all the other Bells on the Downside project," says Angela. "After installing something on the ship really quick."

Show me what to conjure?

[toblameforit]

I don't know your world's technology from a hole in the ground. Get me some specs and I'll tell you.

[yovahs_kisses]

Micaiah hugs his angel. "Okay," he says. "Love you."

[jovahs_heiress]

Hugs! Teleportation!

"Get me a complete technical specification of your computing hardware by text brainphone," she commands the ship, and she funnels it to Tony as it comes. They're laughably oversupplied with processing power right now.

[toblameforit]

Tony gets it all through his mind in the blink of an eye, and designs her an ansible installation to hook directly into Jovah's processing centers.

Also, holy shit, is her planet's god really a dumb AI? That is terrifying and he hopes Jane eats it.

[jovahs_heiress]

I have it under control, now, but she's welcome to it. Angela conjures the hardware, and hooks it up.

[mind_game]

Snackable, says Jane. She projects her face onto one of the screens. "Hi! Ready to go?"

[jovahs_heiress]

"All set."

[she_sells_seashells]

Now they are six.

Shell Bell tries the door, tries to tell the coin to wish for its own home, the origin of minting...

[pythbox]

...and it opens on Stella's moon palace.

[self_composed]

And there's Stella.

"Shell Bell! How'd you get here?"

[she_sells_seashells]

Shell Bell beams. "Let's see if Sue can explain it the quick way."

[self_composed]

"Sue? The tiny Whistle is back?"

[pythbox]

He taps Stella.

[self_composed]

Her power is like Golden's, but friendlier. It assesses him and lets him by.

Ooh, says Bella. Spiffy. All right, I'll just give Jane a server room here, then, shall I?

[mind_game]

Jane talks her through, and she eats up another Internet in short order, and Stella walks into Milliways to join the peal of Bells.

[self_composed]

[Gonna go wreck Downside with the whole gang,] Stella adds to Alice, Lazarus, and Libby before she goes.