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Time has passed.

Inconsistently.

Jane's network has kept all the Bells' worlds - and every other world with a Janepoint stuck in due to its being attached to Downside - in temporal sync, but when Jane spluttered for just a moment, that was shot to hell.

Peace lost three seconds, because it was where Aegis torched; after that process was complete, Jane was there again. And as soon as a door between Peace and Milliways appeared, she could sync to her ansible hub in the Belltower and, from there, to everywhere else.

Atlantis and Sunshine each stand at about a minute apiece: Shell Bell's aura and Juliet's local copy of Jarvis both enabled them to get to Milliways immediately, pausing their homeworlds as standard for occasions when someone walks into the bar. Shell Bell's the one who connected Peace.

Everyone else was running on luck.

Luckiest is Rainbow, which lost only five hours.

Next is Alethia; in spite of Sherlock's mishap, it's fared reasonably well, spending only six weeks isolated.

Syntropy's just a little worse - seven weeks.

Origin waited two months.

Eos waited three.

Thilanushinyel, ten.

Everyone else is out a decade at least. Samaria's ten years, almost ten and a half.

Aurum is out eleven.

Rêverie has been separated for sixteen years.

All the Bells - and Elspeth, who was stuck in Downside for a day and a half on her end and whose mother was very upset - are collected in the Belltower, as are two Bell-attached Sherlocks who happened to be along for the ride. They all memorize this list of numbers. Aegis replaces her earpiece. And then they all go home to notify their loved ones and staff that there's a party cooking in the Belltower.

(Shell Bell, who has no particular cause on her own account to be distressed, sends her Sherlock to invite Tony in while she refits the Belltower to suit a party of a peal of Bells and their larger-than-last-encountered families and circles of friends.)
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[Hi all!] Jane says to those who have participated in Pattern's genome collection thing. (This is everyone present with an alt, plus Elspeth, except Brilliance who does not appear to have genes.) [I have now processed all the genetic data! I'm about to ramble at great length about it! Speak now if you want to opt out of this ramble.]

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The Bells want to opt in to this ramble!

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When everyone else does too, Jane starts a-rambling.

[There are some but not overwhelmingly many exact matches. The only two perfect Bell matches are Stella and Pattern. Some of the others are close. Golden is template standard, plus one different gene that I bet is related to witchcraft, plus vampire chromosomes that I have no idea how to interpret without looking at more vampire genes. Shell Bell has some noise relative to template, probably just from being extracted from a different gene pool. Aurora and Juliet are like the template plus small genetic markers that I'm going to assume are related to sorcery and Slaying respectively - the fact that James has the exact same thing as Juliet's deviation strongly supports the Slaying hypothesis, and Lexi shares Aurora's sorceress gene. Aegis has gene pool noise and also her mutation, which was already identified for me by the lovely geneticists of the I.F.. Cam is close to standard everywhere but sex chromosomes, but not exact - I bet you the template was pulling him towards a behavior standard, and the exact same genes everywhere but there would've expressed themselves too differently in different hormone soup, so he has some tweaks. Angela bears obvious marks of genetic engineering in her history - it's smoothed out a bit by the intervening generations but it's still very plain that certain bits were inserted - and this is on top of a big helping of gene pool noise, bigger than the aforementioned since she's not from Earth. Rose looks templatey except that it appears almost as though something went over her genome with a spellchecker. The vast majority of the little broken pieces and small harmful mutations that everybody has just aren't there in her. I think that's why she looks prettier. Amariah has recognizable template genes, but she's also got scattered markers that I'm identifying as witch species markers - mostly on the X chromosomes, but not all of them - and she's also got some noise from being extracted from a different population, I guess daemons affected the trajectory of her Earth a fair amount - and she also has, I shit you not, a section of her genome devoted to what I was eventually able to identify as extremely, lossily compressed raccoon and owl genes that are all turned off so they can't do anything in her actual body. So now we know how daemons work, I guess. And Sarion looks almost nothing like any of you except in the obvious visual sense. I'd need more elf genomes to look at to make guesses about how any of it corresponds to her phenotype.

[Jokers - except for the obvious outliers of Brilliance and Aianon - have more matches. The eponymous, and Queenie, and Alice-post-de-vampiring, and Jellybean, and Ghosty, and Harley - where applicable, this is while manifesting male - all match. The female versions of those who routinely wear same match. The fact that Jellybean is one of those matches is why I think that Cam's extra deviations apart from the sex chromosomes aren't some kind of wizard marker - that and the Matildas. Who completely match. Micaiah has genepool noise. So does Beast, and he doesn't look spellchecked the way Rose does, and there's no evidence of the beast thing having a genetic effect. Sue's about like Aegis - noise and a useful mutation. Aianon is even more incomprehensible than Sarion; in her case I could at least imagine running simulations of various genes coding for proteins, in his case I wouldn't know where to start. And Kas has got genepool noise, and obviously no witch marker, but does have compressed daemon genes; if anyone was curious Petaal probably appeared as an axolotl when Kas was born. There's literally a stretch of randomness where Amariah has owl stuff. At some point I want to look at an Alethian kid. Sue doesn't have any of this, and neither does Minus, so spontaneous daemons don't retroactively genetically engineer you.

[The Sherlocks and the Tonies, including the soloists, are all exactly genetically alike except for some genepool noise in the Atlantis pair, who match each other, and Strat, who has different noise. Apparently being a Sunshine vampire has no genetic effects whatsoever.

[Damaris and Keziah show angel engineering, and Dominique and Céleste are human and are also spellchecked, and they have different genepool noise - although less of it relative to their respective alts than their parents have relative to each other. Elspeth's extra chromosome aside, they'd register as her half-sisters on a primitive test, and if it was primitive enough it could probably write off the spellchecking and angel genes as within experimental error and read Damaris and Dominique as twins and likewise Keziah and Céleste.

[Slipstick and James are close to genetically identical, except for the Slayer marker which Slipstick lacks, but I hesitate to call either of them the genetic template for Libbies, because both of them appear to be some sort of half-not-human I don't have the context to identify.]
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[...I'm half what?] says James, privately to Jane. And Slipstick.

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[Hang on a sec, everyone.]

And to the half-non-human Libbies: [...Was this news? Based on mitochondrial results it was your dads.]
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[Yeah, it was news.]

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[Not to me,] says Slipstick. [I guess Chris didn't tell you yet. We're half Eshvoi. Talented with languages, receptive to shapeshifting magic, a few nice little boosts that will probably be drowned out by the fact that you're the Slayer.]

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[Okay, should I just carry on with what I was going to say? Should I have mentioned this privately first?]

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[I don't think there's a reasonable way you could've known that we might not know about it,] says Slipstick, [unless you knew our family situation.]

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[That is not a thing I know much about specifically,] says Jane. [Anyway.]

[Sorry about that, everyone. Anyway. Slipstick says she and James are half-Eshvoi. That's probably specific to Sunshine worlds, what with humans being extremely common and no particular type of non-human cropping up nearly as often. Nothing exciting with Libby. Lizzie has some genepool noise relative to all of them.]

There are further ramblings, but none of the other templates present show up much that's surprising in light of these findings.
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