belltower | i am the oncoming storm

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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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ending_of

"I've connected all requested," she says. "There are a lot more dead people in the queue now."

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luminous_regnant

"As long as we can order them sensibly, we can get the urgent ones out of the way soon enough," says Golden. "And have the process streamlined in time for the others."

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she_sells_seashells

The Bells hash out to-do lists.

Those with stable empires - Shell Bell, Golden, and Stella - will set up processing on their end for receiving and repatriating dead people. Golden's going to have to accelerate her unveiling process a bit; Stella will have to work a bit harder on integrating with the governments of Earth which she has thus far left largely unmolested.

Golden will set Elspeth to writing instructional materials for those who'll awaken in the catacombs going forward. (Nathan is induced to door to Aurum and fetch her so she can be linked up and summarized at. She begins work on a first draft.)

Template (who still hasn't settled on a better nickname, but is considering "Pattern") will take a while collecting representatives of each world connected to Downside, and going in with them to install a Jane-point therein; she'll then return to her own world, find a way to explain herself to her parents, and catch up with everyone else in terms of empire-building.

Juliet, Angela, and Aegis will work on their empires, and whenever it is possible they'll set up their own processing intakes.

Amariah will have no dead natives to process. She'll act as support and be the first port of call for appeals processing.

Jane's going to acquire the ability to see life histories and worlds-of-origin at a glance, and she'll flag anyone who's not only "sketchy" but also dangerous; these will only go to worlds fit to hold them, if applicable, and otherwise be shunted into Downside-at-large, newly inhospitable to unfriendly violence.

Once all the Bell-operated worlds are smoothly reintegrating the dead, they'll take what they've learned and start branching into the worlds that have no such leadership, starting with the worlds in which they already have friends to help show them the ropes and moving out from there.

Edited Date: 2013-03-19 12:34 am (UTC)

$mind_game: (fractal)$

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mind_game

To avoid latency issues, Jane's going to want to do most of her processing about dead people locally. She whips up a design for a few vast floors' worth of sweet hardware - hybrid designs, part Jehovah, part Tony's inventions, part her own wishful thinking - to put under the cliffs, more than enough to support everything she's going to do there with only occasional pings to her hub in the Belltower even after the administrator blesses her with judgesight. There's a few racks of ansibles in there too; she doesn't want to be bandwidth-limited to the point of pinching off a part of herself. She's going to have cameras and microphones and projectors everywhere, and she can wake up anyone she wants based on when they died, where, and how easy they'll be to reintegrate. Everybody will get the latest edition of Elspeth's pamphlets when they wake up and can talk to Jane if they need to be processed with a loved one to make decisions about where to go - she can of course send them back to sleep to wait for people who have not died yet. Also she now speaks all the languages that there are.

I think I might be God, she muses when she starts pouring into the new swag.

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autokinetic

Am I the Virgin Mary?

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pythbox

Sue snickers.

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ending_of

Even the administrator is amused.

Speaking of inhospitality to unfriendly violence, she empowers every Bell present to freely distribute the choosiness-toward-injury power, in addition to having it included with the torching package in everyone who arrives here through normal channels.

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autokinetic

"Nice," says Aegis. "You can be Persephone. ...Wait, do you have a name?"

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ending_of

"I don't prefer to use one," she says.

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mind_game

I want to be able to do that too, Jane pipes up as she starts hunting for initial emissaries for Pattern to follow into Milliways. She pokes Jarvis about his door-opening trick. She wants it.

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self_composed

"Do you care if we refer to you as Persephone?" inquires Stella.

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ending_of

"I'd rather you didn't," she says, obliging Jane's request.

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poeticterms

He suspects, but has never been able to directly prove, that it has something to do with being-a-house in the body/identity sense. He'll happily transmit the mostly-unconscious difference between the action of opening a door and the action of opening a door to Milliways, but he's not sure how much good it will do Jane, who is thoroughly not a house.

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jovahs_heiress

"What should we refer to you as? Just 'the administrator'?"

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mind_game

Oh well, I guess I don't have to do it by doors anyway, I can just pick up Pattern and her escorts and put them in Milliways. She preens. Lookit me, Jarvis, I'm glooorious.

Edited Date: 2013-03-19 01:09 am (UTC)

From:

ending_of

"'The administrator' is fine. For a while it was fashionable on both sides of the cliffs to say 'her upstairs'. Descriptive phrases that aren't names are fine in general."

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poeticterms

Extremely glorious, Jarvis agrees. While we're making you into a multiversal network, are there a few ansibles to spare to link me with my counterparts when we have a moment to find them?

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luminous_regnant

"I don't believe you ever described how you plan to handle duplication as distinct from Juliet's sort of problem."

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mind_game

I don't see why not!

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poeticterms

Jarvis is pleased!

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ending_of

"Duplication occurs when someone is successfully resurrected without being removed from the queue. There are no extant cases now that you've merged yours. In the future, if someone is resurrected before processing, the unconscious version in the queue can be automatically merged into the resurrected version without any problems; if someone is resurrected after processing, the version retrieved can be the version that is here, and they can choose whether or not to return. Anyone who has died to this afterlife can choose to return after leaving it."

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cross_and_bow

"Very tidy. I'm going to visit all the known Sunshinelike worlds and render vampirism non-infectious, first thing, for that part of the business," mutters Juliet.

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ending_of

She smiles slightly. Tidy is good.

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luminous_regnant

"Are we going to be able to get in touch with you in some more civilized manner if we need to add another world? If half of us weren't hooked up to start with I'm sure many of the people we meet in Milliways aren't."