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Behold the wolf in his unnatural habitat, eating the foods of his people in traditional quantities, his typical companion away in the distant land of The Bathroom.
That is to say, Zeus is in Milliways with one and a half heavily topped pizzas, waiting for Harley and Andrea to come back.
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floofcoaster
Zeus eats another slice of pizza first.
Then he says, "Wait, I'm an idiot, I forgot I'm telepathic, I've gotten used to Andrea being on my shoulder or whatever all the time and forgot about the brainphone. Hang on."
[Harleeeey found a maybe-Joker in the bar.]
Then he says, "Wait, I'm an idiot, I forgot I'm telepathic, I've gotten used to Andrea being on my shoulder or whatever all the time and forgot about the brainphone. Hang on."
[Harleeeey found a maybe-Joker in the bar.]
apprivoise-moi
[Ooh,] says Harley, and he appears next to them while Ophelia is still just beginning to giggle. Andrea, currently a ferret, leaps from his shoulder to Zeus's.
"Hiiii," says Harley.
"Hi!" says Ophelia. "I want magic. And then I wanna fuck every single one of you."
Harley cracks up. "Yeah, I'll bet you're a Joker."
"Hiiii," says Harley.
"Hi!" says Ophelia. "I want magic. And then I wanna fuck every single one of you."
Harley cracks up. "Yeah, I'll bet you're a Joker."
apprivoise-moi
"Seriously though: magic," says Ophelia.
"All right, all right," laughs Harley, "one sec, I'm gonna check you're actually one of me."
He leaves Andrea with Zeus and freecasts to the Enchanted Forest.
[Hey, Glass! There's a new Joker in Milliways, can you come look at her and make sure she actually is a Joker before I mint her? I'm pretty damn sure, but she's a new face.]
"All right, all right," laughs Harley, "one sec, I'm gonna check you're actually one of me."
He leaves Andrea with Zeus and freecasts to the Enchanted Forest.
[Hey, Glass! There's a new Joker in Milliways, can you come look at her and make sure she actually is a Joker before I mint her? I'm pretty damn sure, but she's a new face.]
thaumobabble
[Coming.]
Jane drops Glass in the Belltower and Glass lets herself into the main bar.
"That's a Joker all right," she confirms. "Felicity and Corona's cluster, first phase. What do we call you?" she asks.
Jane drops Glass in the Belltower and Glass lets herself into the main bar.
"That's a Joker all right," she confirms. "Felicity and Corona's cluster, first phase. What do we call you?" she asks.
apprivoise-moi
"Ophelia," says Ophelia.
"Pretty," says Harley. "How'd you pick it?"
"Shakespeare," she shrugs.
"Anyway, poof, you're a mint. Did nobody tell you how minting works, do I get to tell you how minting works?"
"I guess you get to tell me how minting works!"
"So the deal is, you make wishcoins out of pain," says Harley, grinning.
"Awesome," says Ophelia.
"Pretty," says Harley. "How'd you pick it?"
"Shakespeare," she shrugs.
"Anyway, poof, you're a mint. Did nobody tell you how minting works, do I get to tell you how minting works?"
"I guess you get to tell me how minting works!"
"So the deal is, you make wishcoins out of pain," says Harley, grinning.
"Awesome," says Ophelia.
thaumobabble
"You can also acquire an enchanter's aura if you visit my world and donate some magic to the forest. I bet Harley will help. And we can give you a Janegem."
thaumobabble
"Jane is a computer-person." Glass taps her own gem. "She uses these to have eyes and ears various places, with which she can pick us up and put us down, even between universes. She also syncs time. She doesn't have a hundred percent uptime history, but she's very, very handy."
[Hi,] says Jane. [You're an alt of my dad!]
[Hi,] says Jane. [You're an alt of my dad!]
apprivoise-moi
[Oh, weird. Hi!] says Ophelia. "Siiiince the very next thing I'm about to do is go have a ton of sex, I think I'll pass on that for now."
Harley giggles.
Harley giggles.
thaumobabble
"You can," says Glass, "turn off the camera and microphone without wrecking her connection."
apprivoise-moi
"Yeah but I'm really keen on the ton of sex I'm about to go have."
"Should I see who's free?" giggles Harley.
"You should!"
Harley vanishes for approximately a second.
"Poof, now you can teleport," he says when he reappears, "I'll teach you to freecast later, right now you and me have a date with a huge pile of our alts. Follow me. Bye Glass! Bye Zeus, love you!" And he disappears again.
Ophelia teleports after him.
"Should I see who's free?" giggles Harley.
"You should!"
Harley vanishes for approximately a second.
"Poof, now you can teleport," he says when he reappears, "I'll teach you to freecast later, right now you and me have a date with a huge pile of our alts. Follow me. Bye Glass! Bye Zeus, love you!" And he disappears again.
Ophelia teleports after him.
aeskhyne
Milliways time dilation makes it hard to determine exactly how long Ophelia spends in a pile of Jokers. She does quite a lot of shapeshifting, including mimicking the other Jokers and playing a game of who-can-be-the-fluffiest-thing with Petaal and Ivy. (There is not really a clear winner, but there wasn't meant to be.)
But she never takes her original form. No one cares - it's moderately obvious that the shape she met them in wasn't the one she was born with, but she doesn't show anyone what she used to look like and they are all fine with that.
She amasses a large store of coins. She learns how to freecast. She doesn't bother enchanting herself an aura just yet. She conjures cake. Everyone freecasts to the Joker's asteroid in Origin and she redecorates it extravagantly.
It's pretty obvious to all the Jokers that Ophelia wants wishcoins for something, and has some reason to be deeply paranoid about telling anybody what it is. None of them raise a fuss about it. She's early-phase, but she's still a Joker; she can solve her own problems if she wants to. So.
Ophelia freecasts home, with a dormant Sue-link as her line back to the rest of them. (By admission, Janegems are basically spying devices. She doesn't feel like taking chances with being spied on. She trusts her own alts, after they all linked up and shared their various histories with her and nobody said a thing about how much she was leaving out of what she shared in return. She has no idea how she would even begin to verify that a strange Bella was actually a Bella, and has no point of reference at all for Jane herself.)
And Trouble perches on a roof as a pigeon, and brainphones Bella.
[Hey. I found a thing.]
But she never takes her original form. No one cares - it's moderately obvious that the shape she met them in wasn't the one she was born with, but she doesn't show anyone what she used to look like and they are all fine with that.
She amasses a large store of coins. She learns how to freecast. She doesn't bother enchanting herself an aura just yet. She conjures cake. Everyone freecasts to the Joker's asteroid in Origin and she redecorates it extravagantly.
It's pretty obvious to all the Jokers that Ophelia wants wishcoins for something, and has some reason to be deeply paranoid about telling anybody what it is. None of them raise a fuss about it. She's early-phase, but she's still a Joker; she can solve her own problems if she wants to. So.
Ophelia freecasts home, with a dormant Sue-link as her line back to the rest of them. (By admission, Janegems are basically spying devices. She doesn't feel like taking chances with being spied on. She trusts her own alts, after they all linked up and shared their various histories with her and nobody said a thing about how much she was leaving out of what she shared in return. She has no idea how she would even begin to verify that a strange Bella was actually a Bella, and has no point of reference at all for Jane herself.)
And Trouble perches on a roof as a pigeon, and brainphones Bella.
[Hey. I found a thing.]
aeskhyne
[A thing. A kind of really hard to explain thing? Where are you right now? Uh, a decent short version might be 'I scored what sure looks like totally arbitrary magic fueled by pain off of what sure looked like about twenty alternate-universe versions of me, without telling any of them anything about where I was from or why I wanted it'.]
aeskhyne
[Nobody around who'd be surprised by me teleporting right in front of you? I mean, and shouldn't be?]
aeskhyne
Now it is her and a pigeon.
Now it is her and human-formed Trouble, fully clothed.
"Poof, you can teleport," he says. "Poof, you can arbitrarily shapeshift."
Now it is her and human-formed Trouble, fully clothed.
"Poof, you can teleport," he says. "Poof, you can arbitrarily shapeshift."
Bella blinks at him. "How do I work these new powers?" she wonders.
aeskhyne
"I dunno, it was obvious to me," he shrugs. "Anyway, those are kind of trivial, the big one is minting and you'd get way less use out of that than me. You can have it anyway if you want, it's just a hex, hexes are cheap." He fans out a progression of coins in his hand, from triangle up to seven-pointed star, all made of what looks like clear glass veined with thick twisting streaks of colour. The streaks move, slowly but visibly. "Arbitrary magic fueled by pain. You touch a coin and make a wish and if it's a big enough coin and it's not a specifically impossible wish, wish comes true. Anybody can wish on 'em but only mints can make 'em. These are all mine."
Bella looks at these coins.
"Can they by any chance pause time everywhere but here so you can explain this to me and I can think without large quantities of awful things happening elsewhwere while we do that?"
"Can they by any chance pause time everywhere but here so you can explain this to me and I can think without large quantities of awful things happening elsewhwere while we do that?"
Bella looks out the window.
Bella sits down.
"What happened?"
Bella sits down.
"What happened?"