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This isn't the bathroom, this isn't the bathroom at all.
"Excuse me I will be totally up for learning new magic stuff as is apparently required if someone will first direct me to a bathroom," Lexi says loudly to this bar full of people that is not even slightly a bathroom.
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incanted
Eventually, Bella says, "Okay, have a sorter worked out, can I get another hexagon?"
incanted
She wishes on it.
She flicks her triangles into it, one, two, three, and then pulls them out and puts them back in various combinations. "Awesome. I'll take anything else you care to distribute, now."
She flicks her triangles into it, one, two, three, and then pulls them out and puts them back in various combinations. "Awesome. I'll take anything else you care to distribute, now."
manofmyword
He appears a sparkly purple velvet drawstring bag full of coins and tosses it to her. Contained within: a hundred pentagons, fifty hexes, ten stars, and an evil.
incanted
Bella peers into it. "Geeeenerous," she purrs, and she upends the bag and her coin-sorting power catches them all. "And yeah, that eight-pointed thing does look seriously evil. These big ones declawed yet?"
incanted
"Spiffy, thank you. Let's hear more wish-related technical details? If I wish for something that for some reason I can't have, what happens? What are good examples of things that require each sort of coin? Are wishes in any sense indelible or irreversible?"
manofmyword
"If you wish something that's impossible or too big for the coin you're trying, it just doesn't work. Triangles will give you a new haircut or turn the lights on from across the room, squares will conjure little stuff, pentagons will conjure big stuff or magic stuff or teach you a language or how to cook or play the piano, hexes will conjure you an entire underground lair or give you a permanent superpower. Evils will raise the dead, but probably so can the Bells once they check out your afterlife."
incanted
"...Raise the dead. Damn. What's the probably for on the afterlife issue? Some kind of - incompatibility this world might have?"
manofmyword
"I wasn't there for all of that, but one of the Bells has to raise her dead the old-fashioned way if she wants - I haven't heard if she's tried it yet. The rest consolidated all their afterlives and put Aegis's daughter in charge. Aegis's daughter is a computer," he adds helpfully. "Actually, at this point she's probably billions of computers. When she gets here, I bet she asks if she can eat your Internet."
incanted
"Aegis's daughter is an internet-eating computer?" Bella asks slowly. "Can you maybe explain that a little more?"
incanted
"Okay. Can I get a complete list of all the me's and their - blurbs, I guess, distinguishing features?"
manofmyword
"Okay," he says, shrugging, and he lets go of Brilliance so he can have both hands free for storytime.
"Stella's the one with the colony on Mars," he begins, his aura displaying an aerial view of Olympus. "Minting's from her world - Eos. She's got a Joker called Alice." Stella and Alice appear, holding hands and smiling at each other, then dissipate as he goes on to the next Bell.
"Golden's a vampire," and she does have some peculiar visual attributes that Alice shares, "she's got a husband nobell else does," and Edward appears wearing the slightly constipated expression that is most familiar to the Joker. "Her world's called Aurum. I live there these days, with my sweetie and our kid." A blond vampire with a mustache tosses a giggling toddler into the air and catches him again. Then this illusion, too, vanishes.
"Shell Bell's from a pretty shitty world," which he has never visited, so he can only display an illusion of the Bell herself. "But she took over and stuck all the assholes on the moon and now she likes it fine. It's called Atlantis. She died for a while, I think she was the first resurrection before anybody found out about the afterlife. Her girlfriend's name is Sherlock," and she looks like so.
Next, a Bell in tattered black silks with an owl on her shoulder: "Amariah's from Alethia. Don't touch the owl, his name's Pathalan and he's her soul, that's a thing in her world. She's got a Joker too; she called him and his daemon Kas and Petaal after some kinda witch god thing. She's a witch." Small illusionary Amariah commences flying on a small illusionary cloudpine branch, then vanishes in midair.
"Juliet's got another Sherlock but this one's a boy," their illusions appear side by side but not touching, "and she died too, something about a kidnapping, I'm not sure about the details. Her world's Sunshine. They have vampires, her Sherlock is one, but a different kind from Golden's." Juliet and Minus walk out of illusionspace in opposite directions.
"Angela's the angel," with gorgeous soft-looking wings and a six-month pregnancy, "she's from Samaria and her husband's a Joker named Micaiah; he's one of the lucky mes who's never been raped. For a while she thought she had a god in her world but he turned out to be a spaceship so she made herself his captain."
"Then there's Rose, from Rêverie," with her aura making her hair blow prettily in the wind and grass sprout in her wake. "She's an enchantress. Her husband's a Joker too, calls himself Beast," and shifts fluidly between his human and beastly forms as he hugs his illusionary wife. "Enchanting's fun stuff, but it runs on pain even worse than minting does."
"Aegis is Jane's mom, from Peace. She's got a Joker called Sue, but they didn't make Jane the usual way. She grew up with a nifty little exoskeleton," the illusionary becopper'd Aegis does a casual backflip, "so she moves around a lot more than most'a you guys, and she grew up on a military space station so she's kinda rude sometimes."
"Pattern's from Origin, that usedta be my world, but we never met 'cause she got flattened by a van. The rest of 'em dug her out of the afterlife when they took over. There's a pair of Jokers hanging out in her world to mint for her, Queenie and Ghosty. She's the one with the Saturn colony. She let the rest of us hang out there and enchant it up for her when they found Rose, which is how I got this nifty aura that shows you all the stuff I'm talking about."
"And finally there's Cam," the boy one, "from Syntropy, who's terribly offended that the rest of you are girls." He grins. "He's got a Joker boyfriend too, goes by Jellybean, and they are both wizards, which is some other kinda magic that the rest of the peal either can't figure out how to copy or doesn't wanna. Jellybean's the other lucky one."
"Stella's the one with the colony on Mars," he begins, his aura displaying an aerial view of Olympus. "Minting's from her world - Eos. She's got a Joker called Alice." Stella and Alice appear, holding hands and smiling at each other, then dissipate as he goes on to the next Bell.
"Golden's a vampire," and she does have some peculiar visual attributes that Alice shares, "she's got a husband nobell else does," and Edward appears wearing the slightly constipated expression that is most familiar to the Joker. "Her world's called Aurum. I live there these days, with my sweetie and our kid." A blond vampire with a mustache tosses a giggling toddler into the air and catches him again. Then this illusion, too, vanishes.
"Shell Bell's from a pretty shitty world," which he has never visited, so he can only display an illusion of the Bell herself. "But she took over and stuck all the assholes on the moon and now she likes it fine. It's called Atlantis. She died for a while, I think she was the first resurrection before anybody found out about the afterlife. Her girlfriend's name is Sherlock," and she looks like so.
Next, a Bell in tattered black silks with an owl on her shoulder: "Amariah's from Alethia. Don't touch the owl, his name's Pathalan and he's her soul, that's a thing in her world. She's got a Joker too; she called him and his daemon Kas and Petaal after some kinda witch god thing. She's a witch." Small illusionary Amariah commences flying on a small illusionary cloudpine branch, then vanishes in midair.
"Juliet's got another Sherlock but this one's a boy," their illusions appear side by side but not touching, "and she died too, something about a kidnapping, I'm not sure about the details. Her world's Sunshine. They have vampires, her Sherlock is one, but a different kind from Golden's." Juliet and Minus walk out of illusionspace in opposite directions.
"Angela's the angel," with gorgeous soft-looking wings and a six-month pregnancy, "she's from Samaria and her husband's a Joker named Micaiah; he's one of the lucky mes who's never been raped. For a while she thought she had a god in her world but he turned out to be a spaceship so she made herself his captain."
"Then there's Rose, from Rêverie," with her aura making her hair blow prettily in the wind and grass sprout in her wake. "She's an enchantress. Her husband's a Joker too, calls himself Beast," and shifts fluidly between his human and beastly forms as he hugs his illusionary wife. "Enchanting's fun stuff, but it runs on pain even worse than minting does."
"Aegis is Jane's mom, from Peace. She's got a Joker called Sue, but they didn't make Jane the usual way. She grew up with a nifty little exoskeleton," the illusionary becopper'd Aegis does a casual backflip, "so she moves around a lot more than most'a you guys, and she grew up on a military space station so she's kinda rude sometimes."
"Pattern's from Origin, that usedta be my world, but we never met 'cause she got flattened by a van. The rest of 'em dug her out of the afterlife when they took over. There's a pair of Jokers hanging out in her world to mint for her, Queenie and Ghosty. She's the one with the Saturn colony. She let the rest of us hang out there and enchant it up for her when they found Rose, which is how I got this nifty aura that shows you all the stuff I'm talking about."
"And finally there's Cam," the boy one, "from Syntropy, who's terribly offended that the rest of you are girls." He grins. "He's got a Joker boyfriend too, goes by Jellybean, and they are both wizards, which is some other kinda magic that the rest of the peal either can't figure out how to copy or doesn't wanna. Jellybean's the other lucky one."
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Bella is fascinated.
"I think," she says, "I'll call myself Aurora. After the mana color."
"I think," she says, "I'll call myself Aurora. After the mana color."
incanted
"So apparently I come in angel, external-owl-soul, boy, vampire, and - is Shell Bell bi or outright gay? And they will all be surprised to learn they come in sister, I guess."
manofmyword
"I can tell," says the Joker. "Milliways'll come through. Could be a while, but it'll come through."
incanted
"How long have you been meeting Bells, if you have to wait a 'while' for doors every time? Is there even somebody worth meeting there every time?"
manofmyword
"Oh, now they've got Jane they can hop in and out whenever they feel like it. She hooks up all their worlds, Milliways and the afterlife included, and she can send people any which way."
incanted
"Dang. Here's hoping Milliways likes at least one of us, huh?"