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Shell Bell goes home with her Sherlock and puts a Jane-point in her floating palace. There's no Internet to speak of in Atlantis right now, but there's a little snack in the moon city - Jane gets a half-ansible plugged into a deserted office terminal and uses Shell Bell's ring to pull away the other half into her Belltower hub - and some in District Three - another half-ansible to this largely self-contained network, this one in Tony and Sherlock's house.
She'll figure out how to announce the imminent return of the dead soon. First, there's a stray Sherlock back in Milliways who may need a merger - depending on how he came to be dead - and who may have a Jarvis at home to be networked with the other one. There's also at least one Jarvis that she's the only Bell to have met - the one belonging to the lone Tony who has no Sherlock to match - and so she's the one who's going to go extend the offer to that one. (And politely inquire if Jane may eat that Internet, too, less Jarvis, and have an ansible point installed. There's no reason for Pattern to have to do all the work. That world might not even be hooked up to Downside already; she should check in with that Tony and with Darcy and perhaps Heimdall about the subject.)
Also -
[Hey, Bells, after we're all settled down some, let's throw a party to celebrate fixing Downside.] Jane can relay through their ansible gems; she counts as being in every world she's got her tendrils into.
[I'll host on Mars,] Stella volunteers at once.
Shell Bell smiles.
She gives her Sherlock a kiss and asks to go back to Milliways to see about some Jarvises.
Jane, ever-obliging, picks her up and puts her down.
she_sells_seashells
she_sells_seashells
Bam. "Well, that was much simpler than any of the previous instances," she says. "D'you have a Jarvis here? There's a way to network them with each other, world to world. Also, us Bells have a friend who'd very much like to eat your Internet if this world has got one."
dearsweetsoulful
"...Yes," says the newly merged Sherlock, "I do in fact have a Jarvis. And I am sure he would be very interested in meeting more. What exactly is involved in the eating of an Internet?"
she_sells_seashells
"The same thing that's involved in networking Jarvises, only whenever Jane so much as looks at something she automatically incorporates it into herself. She won't eat Jarvis, though. I would just conjure her an ansible set and hook her up anywhere that didn't involve her going through Jarvis himself. The Internet wouldn't perform differently or anything, she'd just be able to see it all. Also, then it would be possible to get in and out of this world without Milliways."
she_sells_seashells
"Is your Tony around? He'll probably want to talk directly to Jane about ansibles - in case this Jarvis installation is different from the others in some way - and where should I put Jane's own insertion point?"
dearsweetsoulful
"Tony will answer all of these questions," he assures her, and indeed - when they find him - Tony does. Jane is soon chewing on another Internet, and Jarvis and Jarvis are happily chattering back and forth.
she_sells_seashells
"All right then. All my known alts and our friends are going to have a huge party on Stella's Mars after we've finished some relatively urgent tasks - if you guys want to come, Jane can take you?"
mind_game
Jane's Janepoint has a little projector. She manifests a face. "I'll let you know when," she says merrily.
she_sells_seashells
"Send me back to Milliways and I'll see about dooring to that lone Tony, please," Shell Bell says to Jane, and she's gone.
And here she is in Milliways. She tries coaxing; the door will show her Atlantis or Downside but not Darcy's world until she throws a star at it, but then it does.
[Hey, Darcy!]
[Hey, Tony!]
[Hey, Jarvis!]
And here she is in Milliways. She tries coaxing; the door will show her Atlantis or Downside but not Darcy's world until she throws a star at it, but then it does.
[Hey, Darcy!]
[Hey, Tony!]
[Hey, Jarvis!]
she_sells_seashells
[Want to network with some other Jarvises? I'd need to come into the house and conjure some stuff.]
she_sells_seashells
[Well, there's two others already on the network, the one from Juliet's world and another I just added in. There's these devices called ansibles that can do instantaneous communication even between worlds. I give you a half-one, and our new friend Jane picks up the other and puts it with one of the other Jarvises, and then you both get hooked up and you can talk. Also, Jane would like to eat your internet, and promises not to eat you on top of that.]
mind_game
[You'll like me once you get to know me,] puts in Jane. [Used to be I'd automatically swallow up anything I looked at but now I don't. Code that looks like me eating something is thus:] And she sends along rapid-fire text-brainphone dumps of the variants.
poeticterms
[Let's hear what the other Jarvises have to say about it,] he decides. [I'll hook up with them first. Unless this is an all-or-nothing proposition...?]
she_sells_seashells
[I can hook you up and not install a Janepoint,] confirms Shell Bell. [I do need to be in the house near someplace to plug the ansible in, though; may I? I just watched a Tony install one of these and I can probably do it without embarrassing myself unless you've got very different hardware. Or I could wait for him to wake up.]
poeticterms
[You may come along and wait in the living room. He should be up in another few minutes,] says Jarvis. [And I'm sure he'd rather supervise if anyone is going to touch my hardware.]
A few minutes later, Tony stumbles out of his bedroom, yawning and scratching his arm.
"So what's this about upgrading Jarvis?"
"So what's this about upgrading Jarvis?"
she_sells_seashells
"Hi, Tony, it's a very long story, but the short version is I can conjure up a device that'll let him talk to Jarvises on other worlds. Two so far, at least one more to come."
she_sells_seashells
"The ansible? It can look like all kinds of things. My ring here's a half-ansible." She squares up a pair, twists them apart. "This is a more standard less bejeweled model, though. I don't know if the connection is the same kind you need, but this is like the one I just saw installed."