she_sells_seashells | at the door

The Bells are assembled, except the ones missing into the unknown world.

Shell Bell opens her aura up as far as it will go. (Back in Atlantis, Neptune glows with the spillover, snuggled up to Tinia.)

She reaches for the door.

She gets Atlantis.

She tries again and gets Downside.

"It doesn't look like I can get it," she says softly. "It looks like they're stuck until -"

The door opens, again.

"Thank fucking everything," Aegis says, "hello. Aether, Celo - these are - everybody and then some."

"Tab," supplies Tab.

Meanwhile, Glass staggers in the direction of the bathroom. [THAT IS NOT A NICE WORLD.]

[We fucking KNOW,] says Aegis, [how broke is Jane?]

[Very broke,] says Juliet, [tried a tenner, didn't go.]

[I might be able to do something now you're here,] Stella says, [with aura.]

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subtly_artistic

"Hi," waves Aether. "Celo called me 'epic level', so I guess that's one thing?"

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thaumobabble

"Yes and - and - I think - you can go home," says Glass. "I think this is - the opposite of the thing that is horrible about your world. I think you cancel it out, near yourself."

From:

subtly_artistic

Aether bounces this to Celo.

From:

pythbox

...okay but like what does that mean, says Celo.

From:

subtly_artistic

"Can you be more specific?"

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thaumobabble

"Your world is - anti-causal. Not all the time, but much more often than is healthy. Your aura won't let that happen within -" Glass squints. "A mile or line of sight whichever's farther. Even if you withdraw it. That's an always-on feature - well-behaved causality. It doesn't make you invincible, but - you can take actions and rely on their effects and nothing can cheat to stomp on you."

From:

subtly_artistic

Bounce.

From:

pythbox

That is pretty fucking helpful, says Celo. I want one.

From:

subtly_artistic

You're not going to get the exact same thing probably, but you'll get something. "I can go home," she says slowly. "I can do my Belling at home."

From:

pythbox

Yeah, but if that's how helpful they get, I want something that's that helpful to me, says Celo. I don't really give a fuck about causality the way you do, but I've got my own shit, you know?

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thaumobabble

"Yep, you can! And I won't throw up again if I look at your world while I'm close enough to you. And it won't break Jane if you take a gem home as long as you keep it on or near you," says Glass.

From:

mind_game

[That's nice to know.]

From:

subtly_artistic

Still bouncing everything.

Yeah, I get it. D'you want to call in one of your alts to channel for you?

Edited Date: 2013-07-29 03:07 am (UTC)

From:

pythbox

That'd be awesome, he says cheerfully. Wanna come mess with me first?

From:

subtly_artistic

Sure do. "Thanks so much, Glass," she beams at her alt, "nice to meet you, Tony," and she pops back into the guest room.

From:

pythbox

Where Celo proceeds to - mess with her.

From:

subtly_artistic

Hurray!

She leaves her aura out. Why not?

From:

pythbox

He loves her so much.

He tells her so, in every conceivable way.

From:

subtly_artistic

Mmmmmm psychic powers are good to have. Celo is good to have. She has him. More than once.

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pythbox

He is so there for that right now. Mmm.

From:

subtly_artistic

Good, good.

From:

pythbox

And eventually, when she has had him as many times as she wants, he can summon another Joker. Corona happens to volunteer.

From:

subtly_artistic

Aether goes Downside to collect torchabling (it is on her checklist) and makes a Janegem with a chain that tucks under her hair and hangs on her forehead. It'll look like a psionic enhancer, hanging over the third eye location like that. She reminds Shell Bell that she should find Etty at her earliest convenience, though Glass remarks vaguely that the amount of time it takes to get around to visiting a place doesn't affect how much time will have passed there at the time one arrives, so there's not a particular hurry. She writes a Bellbook entry and learns about the history of the template. And when she has done all of these things, she checks in on her boyfriend's aura progress, since handling it through Corona's supposed to be particularly swift.

From:

pythbox

Come see, come see! he says delightedly.

Celo and Corona are snuggling; Corona has his aura turned on low, projecting warm snuggly contentment that makes the whole room a nicer place to be, and Celo...

Nymphs have a divine nature. They can express it if they choose, and glow with the gods' own light.

Celo is doing something very like that.

His aura says that he does not just have a divine nature; he is divine. There's a slight sunny glow rising from his skin, and a hint of his name in the air, the ripe-grain scent and impression of summer heat mingling pleasantly with the comfort/warmth of Corona's aura. And he loves Aether, and his aura tells her so; he literally radiates it, in a way similar but not identical to the way he used to glow divinely when he healed someone.

"My aura," says Celo, "took Mama Kh out of me and put me there instead." He takes a breath. "And I think I figured out how to get my field out of Materia."