"I commented on Origin for Pattern, already," says Glass.

Cam wanders by and puts down a profile.

Name: Sunshine

Worldfamily, if applicable: Sunny

Primary inhabited planet(s): Earth

Known intelligent species: humans; vampires, "sunshine" variety; a staggeringly extensive list of nonhuman species collectively referred to as "demons".

Technology/magic situation: Early twenty-first-century Earth, with aforementioned demons and a flexible but occasionally hostile magic system common to the Sunny worlds.

Afterlife situation: Downside world number 29, connected since before pealing

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Most nonhuman species consider humans food. Magic is not generally known among humans. Safe for cautious visits, but not a good tourist destination. Don't turn into a local vampire; the transition comes with unpredictable personality changes and a frequent hobby of recently turned Sunshine vampires is killing all their pre-transition friends.

Glass's commentary: "This place is mean as anything, all the worlds in the family are. The Sunnyworlds are distantly related to Wellspring on one layer and to Yggdrasil on another, but Sunshine in particular is more weakly connected to Yggdrasil than the others."

List of inhabiting templates: Bell, Juliet, human, ex-Slayer; Libby, James, human, Slayer (a Slayer is a unique person with combat-related superpowers); Virginia, Virginia, human; Sherlock, Minus, vampire, with soul (important distinction); Tony, Red, human.

Name: Origin

Worldfamily, if applicable: contains a Gotham

Primary inhabited planet(s): Earth, Saturn

Known intelligent species: Humans

Technology/magic situation: Early twenty-first-century Earth; no native magic, but Saturn is heavily enchanted thanks to the local Bell

Afterlife situation: Downside world number 70, connected since before pealing

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Magic is nonsecret but not formally acknowledged; no special hazards except that Gotham is an especially unfriendly city. Please do not disturb the prison colony on Ganymede.

Glass's commentary: "Slightly mean, but without much leverage behind it. I think the Gotham is related to that."

List of inhabiting templates: Bell, Pattern, human; Joker, Queenie, immigrated from Downside, originally from world #48; Joker, Ghosty, human-ish, immigrated from #81; Joker, Joker, human, moved to Aurum; Libby, Slipstick, immigrated from Helios.

Golden swings by to profile herself.

"Well, I can do Chronicle, if you like."

"Go for it!"

"Perfect," says Libby. "Hmm, I should edit Aurum's entry to add the Jokerling. And Golden's warning about Addy." She does that.

Stella's turn.

(Libby laughs at the nemesis part.)

"I'm glad you're not my nemesis," comments Stella.

"Me too!"

"This sounds like an amusing story."

"It is!" says Libby. "Do you want to tell it, Stella, or should I?"

"You go ahead," laughs Stella.

"Short version: Stella came to my attention when there were very, very few mints around and I knew all the rest of them. I didn't really know what to make of her. She didn't appreciate the way I tried to find out. So we were having a very tense cup of coffee together when I stumbled on Milliways and started talking to Elspeth, who was delighted to tell me all about her mother the magical vampire empress. And then I went home and handed Stella the star secret."

Glass laughs. "So there's a long history of people learning about one Bell and deciding to trust another."

"It wasn't that long ago for me, but yeah."

"You've got a pretty good template going on there."

"We rock."

"I'm pretty pleased with us. Although I think Aegis may have upset my mother-in-law and definitely irritated my Sherlock."

"What'd she do?"

Sarion writes a profile.

"Assumed that I was plotting usurpment."

"Ouch."