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Bella's mid-conversation with Jane when she cuts out.
[Jane?]
Jane... pretty much fails to exist.
[Jane.]
Nothing.
Bella goes to the Janepoint, and there's a message for her on the screen, something about lost ansible connection.
Well, shit.
[Queenie, Ghosty, Slipstick?]
bellfounding
bellfounding
[Jane's ansible cut out. Local stuff like the Saturn toplevel domain that she set up will still work, but we can't leave the universe without a conventional Milliways door, or talk to anyone outside it either.]
bellfounding
[Yeah, seriously. Just letting you know. Slipstick, I would really appreciate your help figuring out how to backpedal on my claims of being able to raise the dead if anyone calls me on it, I don't know how long Jane will be gone and evil-based resurrection has its flaws.]
prima-sequentem
[Now there's a thorny problem,] she says. [I'll think about it. For now, don't remind anybody.]
bellfounding
[And I would appreciate it if all of you would open perhaps more doors than you usually bother with and tell me immediately if any of them lead to Milliways.]
bellfounding
Bella scales back all her communications with world leaders, and manages to proceed without any of them asking her to produce a dead person or explain how it might be done.
She has the news on in the background while she designs herself a ninja costume. She might as well look the part, since her aura insists. Her seeing-through-things power means she could cover her entire face and operate unimpeded...
She has the news on in the background while she designs herself a ninja costume. She might as well look the part, since her aura insists. Her seeing-through-things power means she could cover her entire face and operate unimpeded...
gunpowdergelatine
[Some chucklehead's trying to take over Gotham,] she says. [I turned his nuke into a big fluffy rabbit and now he's having a tantrum.]
bellfounding
[Thank you for letting me know, and thank you for fixing the nuke.]
Bella wishes up a version of her current draft of the ninja suit. It's black, fading to gray at a few places, covers her head to toe, and generally looks like she ought to have a couple of swords on her person even though she has not included swords.
She teleports to location of the ex-nuclear rabbit, stealth on, to scope out the situation.
Bella wishes up a version of her current draft of the ninja suit. It's black, fading to gray at a few places, covers her head to toe, and generally looks like she ought to have a couple of swords on her person even though she has not included swords.
She teleports to location of the ex-nuclear rabbit, stealth on, to scope out the situation.
gunpowdergelatine
A large bald man with a strange mask obscuring the lower half of his face is wandering back and forth across the intact end of a mostly destroyed football field, roaring intermittently. Nearby is a smaller, more conventionally dressed, infinitely more anxious-looking person, edging nervously away from an enormous fluffy white rabbit with a tiny top hat perched between its floppy ears. There is general chaos in the stands, particularly the part of the stands that is a fresh smoking crater.
Queenie is the only person in the audience who is still calmly seated.
Queenie is the only person in the audience who is still calmly seated.
bellfounding
Oh dear. Pattern whips up a quick wish that will prevent anyone from getting crushed or trampled in the chaos, and then she spotlights her aura - the stadium lights turn to accommodate her - and stalks in the direction of the roaring person. "Excuse me," she says, "but what do you think you are doing?"
The roaring person whirls and tries to grab her.
bellfounding
Super-speed is Bell standard. This Bella may not have much to boast beyond the standard, but she has that. She's not there anymore. "I asked a civil question," she says.
The roaring person continues to roar. It's a very impressive sound, really.
bellfounding
"You're going to develop a respiratory ailment." She doesn't really want to come out with all her powers on what is undoubtedly national television.
...at that, he actually starts to laugh.
bellfounding
"Seriously, dude, what's going on? Why did you want to nuke this place?"