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[alicornucopia]

So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

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Downside’s coverage

[mtc]

This isn’t really aimed at one character in particular, but if it was aimed at just one, it would be ending_of, the (former) administrator of Downside & Upside.

Throughout the early chapters featuring Downside, only human occupants were mentioned (and a de‐turned Aurum vampire, but they count as human IMO). The term “world” in this story tends to be used to refer to a universe, not just a single planet, and Downside was said to serve various “worlds”, so why wasn’t the place full of sentient beings from many different species? Did the characters perhaps visit only the human version of Downside? Might there be versions of Downside for each planet, or each sentient species? It seems a little out of character for none of the Bells to comment on this at the time, especially Aegis, the only one familiar with a truly alien species at the time (the demons from Juliet’s world might not count for all I know, we already know that vampires from that world get split into a vampire and a Downsider/Upsider when turned.).

So does Downside accommodate Buggers? Or do they go somewhere else? Perhaps they have no afterlife? Whatever the answer, I am just surprised none of the Bells asked the question at the time.

PS: Some of these questions may have been answered in chapters I have yet to read. I am reading as fast as I reasonably can, so feel free to ignore any questions for which I will get to the answers eventually, but I don’t mind spoilers if you want to answer those anyway.

PPS: Re‐reading this, I seem to have asked a lot of questions, but probably no more than a typical Bell encountering something new and interesting, so I suspect you don’t mind.

Re: Downside’s coverage

[autokinetic]

Downside catches buggers just fine, though I haven't woken any up yet. (It's hard enough working out diplomacy with the ones who remember agreeing to be humanity's little sisters.) They weren't there originally because Peace wasn't hooked up originally so there wouldn't be any dead ones running around Downside until one of us arranges it. Aurum was hooked up (but Downside humanized vampires and wolves it caught and no half-vampires have ever died before). Origin was. Sunshine was; I guess the demons never were allowed to wake up. They'd make trouble and the admin doesn't like trouble. None of those three worlds has actual aliens like Peace has, and Sunshiney nonhumans are the kinda headache the admin avoids.

Re: Downside’s coverage

[ending_of]

TThe original few worlds to funnel into my afterlife contained only humans. Therefore the original system worked only with humans. I would eventually have expanded it, but I was in no hurry, as the number of humans alone coming in already tended to exceed the capacity of the sorting system. All things that die in worlds linked to my domain are available to me, but not all of them are automatically dealt with.