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

After a moment's hesitation, she puts herself on the brainphone network.

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mind_game

[Testing testing! Okay, I can relay as necessary,] says Jane merrily.

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self_composed

"If we don't want to rely on Sue full-time, can we work out something like a portable, wearable half-ansible so that Jane can aim into worlds we visit?"

Edited Date: 2013-03-19 01:36 am (UTC)

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toblameforit

Sure, says Tony. Gimme a minute.

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autokinetic

Don't compromise function for it, but it should be something that doesn't look, you know, un-Empressly, or anything.

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mind_game

Jane eats up some ansible theory from her homeworld's nets and muses on the subject for a split second. If it only has to be half the ansible I bet you could do it with a jewel-looking thing. Corundum.

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toblameforit

You guys are already pretty well supplied with crowns. How about other jewelry? Rings, bracelets, pins, earrings?

That kind of thing isn't exactly his forte. He thinks about it for a while, and then designs (with Jane's help) something that combines microphone, speaker, camera, and half-ansible into a small jewel that you can wear as any of the above, or like a single earbud. (He does do ergonomics. The earpiece type is as comfortable as you could ask for.)

Now, who wants one? And where should their other halves hook up to? The Downside installation and the Milliways one both have room.

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self_composed

All the Bells conjure one. Stella's is blue, and her crown's already full of star sapphires; she just swaps it out for one of the ones in her crown.

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autokinetic

Aegis goes with orange and puts it in her ear.

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luminous_regnant

Golden puts a clear colorless one on a gold necklace chain.

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jovahs_heiress

Angela swaps out a gem on one of her Eyrie bracelets.

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dark_light

Amariah goes with a bracelet, too, though hers is made from scratch and the gem is green.

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cross_and_bow

Juliet picks a necklace, with the gem one of a string of them in her signature indigo.

Pattern does an earpiece in cornflower blue.

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she_sells_seashells

And Shell Bell's is dark blue and worn as a ring.

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mind_game

Jane puts the matching halves in the Belltower installation.

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pythbox

Pretty, comments Sue.

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ending_of

"While you're here," says the administrator, "would anyone for whom this is not already the case like to be awarded the torching mechanic with all their current magic permanently included?"

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luminous_regnant

"Yes," says Golden, "please."

Everyone else agrees, except Juliet, who's already covered, and Amariah -

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dark_light

"If you aren't hooked into my world - do you know how it'll affect my daemon?" She feels safe enough here, for now; Path comes out in a shower of gold, sitting on her hand.

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ending_of

"If either of you is killed, you will both torch, in the usual way."

She provides a prototype-light so Amariah can examine the effects for herself. Meanwhile, she grants everyone else's request.

Edited Date: 2013-03-19 02:08 am (UTC)

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dark_light

"Okay, me too, then."

Path hops up to sit on her shoulder.

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luminous_regnant

"And," says Golden, "it would probably be more convenient if we could bestow that, too, so we don't have to get Jane to jump people we like or need past the queue should misfortune befall them."

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ending_of

She considers this. (The prototype-light reports that it has been implemented, and disappears.)

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dark_light

"Especially since I can't, apparently, just do that," Amariah says. "If something happens to my parents, my boyfriend, my teacher, my favorite cousin, I'm shit out of luck until we figure out what Alethia has instead of this, right? And we're going to do that but in the meantime I don't want to lose anybody I'm close to."