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.)
Generated:
Post last updated:
guest list
Jane
mind_game
Belle Marie Cygne ⚜ "Rose"
beheld_beauty
[Mon cœur! Girls!] Rose calls out when she's returned to Rêverie. [Jane is back! Let's all go meet everyone. None of them have been cut off as long as we have.]
Beast
deslandes
Her Beast appears, trailing their firstborn.
Some Daughters Of Some Bells
campanas
Céleste follows her papa, clinging to the hem of his shirt nervously. "Truly for real?" she wants to know.
Belle Marie Cygne ⚜ "Rose"
beheld_beauty
"Truly for real."
Jane
mind_game
And in they are brought.
Isabella Marie Swan Ø "Pattern"
bellfounding
[Hey, Queenie, Ghosty, Slipstick,] says Pattern. [Jane's up and running again. Party in the Belltower.]
Queenie
gunpowdergelatine
[Ooh,] says Queenie. She pops over to the Janepoint. (Ghosty, as usual, is included but not visible.)
Isabella Marie Swan ✝ "Juliet"
cross_and_bow
[Tony, you wanna get to the Belltower nowish? Sherlock was stuck in Alethia for six weeks and missed us like crazy,] Juliet tells Tony, and then she makes a more perfunctory announcement to James, Virginia, Giles, and Minnie that a party is ongoing.
Anthony Edward Stark
toblameforit
Tony gets to the Belltower.
Isabella Amariah ⍋ "Amariah"
dark_light
[Sweeties! Jane's back, party in the Belltower!]
Kas Petaal
truthwright
[Awesome!]
Her sweeties pop over to the Janepoint.
Her sweeties pop over to the Janepoint.
Isabella Amariah ⍋ "Amariah"
dark_light
And in they go.
Isabella Marie Swan ⚚ "Aurora"
incanted
[Jane's back,] Aurora reports to Lexi and Brilliance. [And we were lucky, ours was one of the very shortest outages, three of the Bells waited over a decade.]
Alexandra Phyllis Swan | "Lexi"
lexicality
[Awesome! I bet there's another party.]
Isabella Marie Swan ⚚ "Aurora"
incanted
[Right in one.]
Brilliance
cardistry
[Ooh, party,] says Brilliance. [Let's go to the party!]
Isabella Marie Swan ⚚ "Aurora"
incanted
[That's the plan!]
And the plan is enacted.
And the plan is enacted.
Isabella ♪ "Angela"
jovahs_heiress
[My love, my treasures!] Angela tells her husband and two eldest girls. [Jane is connected again. Let's leave Ariel and Pen' with Serah and go to the Belltower to see everyone.]
Some Daughters Of Some Bells
campanas
[Will they like us?] Keziah wants to know.
small belldaughters
carillons
[Of course they'll like us,] says Damaris.
Some Daughters Of Some Bells
campanas
[What if they don't?]
Isabella ♪ "Angela"
jovahs_heiress
[Everyone will like you, treasure.]
Micaiah sia a Manderra
yovahs-kisses
[How could they not, when you're so tremendously lovable?]
Isabella ♪ "Angela"
jovahs_heiress
Angela deposits the younger girls with Auntie Serah and minimal explanations about a "family outing", and meets everyone else in the family's suite. "Are we all ready?" she asks.
Some Daughters Of Some Bells
campanas
"If you're sure they'll like us."
Micaiah sia a Manderra
yovahs-kisses
"Of course they will," says Micaiah, hugging his daughter.
Isabella ♪ "Angela"
jovahs_heiress
"I think we're ready," Angela laughs, and they are scooped up and set down in another world.
Campbell Mark Swan ҂ "Cooper"
lifes_sake
[Hey Jellybean, Tilly, the long dark confinement of Syntropy is at an end,] says Cam.
[Joy oh joy,] says Jellybean dryly.
Matilda Wormwood Honey
withmypowers
[So what in fact happened?]
Campbell Mark Swan ҂ "Cooper"
lifes_sake
[Aegis torched. Some kinda Peace superweapon. Irony at its finest, I guess. And Jane sorta lives in her, so that knocked her out and threw everybody out of sync. We got off easy compared to some worlds. Rose has a teenage daughter now.]
[Wow,] says Jellybean. [Good for Rose, I guess.]
Campbell Mark Swan ҂ "Cooper"
lifes_sake
[And a younger one too. And Angela has four girls but Samaria wasn't knocked as badly forward so the oldest is ten. I guess they're coming, except Angela's not telling her kids about magic and such till they're older than her third and fourth, so just the two cherubs.]
[Huh,] says Jellybean. [Everybody's breeding all of a sudden.]
Campbell Mark Swan ҂ "Cooper"
lifes_sake
[Angela was already knocked up,] Cam points out. [Wouldn't call it sudden.]
[Well, yeah, but two months ago there was one pregnancy and now there's six kids, I get to be surprised.]
Campbell Mark Swan ҂ "Cooper"
lifes_sake
[Fair enough,] laughs Cam. [We don't know yet if any of them are alts of each other but I bet you they are. Let's go see.]
[Definitely!]
Campbell Mark Swan ҂ "Cooper"
lifes_sake
And they do!
Isabella Marie Swan Cullen ☼ "Golden"
luminous_regnant
Notifying the Joker is not the first thing Golden does when Jane is back online.
But she gets around to it eventually.
[Jane is back, Elspeth is back. Party in the Belltower. Go if you want, bring who you want.]
But she gets around to it eventually.
[Jane is back, Elspeth is back. Party in the Belltower. Go if you want, bring who you want.]
Jokes
manofmyword
[Thanks,] he says to Golden.
And to Nathan and the kids: [Pumpkin, Kerron, sweetness, who wants to come to the interdimensional party?]
And to Nathan and the kids: [Pumpkin, Kerron, sweetness, who wants to come to the interdimensional party?]
Nathan Corlett | Minister of Temporal Affairs
temporal_affairs
[I will delightedly attend the interdimensional party.]
Kerron Corlett
pina_colada
[I'm in. Wonder if anyone'll recognize me.]
Jokes
manofmyword
[Bet you they won't,] says the Joker. [Let's find out!]
Aedyt Corlett
pumpkin-pie
[I'll go, too,] says Aedyt. [Just as soon as somebody tells me how to get there.]
Kerron Corlett
pina_colada
[You just stand in front of one of the computer setups in any capital and ask Jane,] says Kerron. [Also works if you stand near the Empress or the Princess, they have fancy gem-things that Jane can use to move people when she's working.]
Aedyt Corlett
pumpkin-pie
[I've never even met the Princess, I'm not going to teleport in front of her and ask for a ride,] says Aedyt. [I'll see her at the party, I guess!]
She stands in front of a computer in a capital and says, "Um... so I hear there's a party?"
She stands in front of a computer in a capital and says, "Um... so I hear there's a party?"
Jane
mind_game
"There is! You must be new," says Jane. "Hang on, processing imperial records, om nom nom - hi, Aedyt, I'm Jane! I am slightly not really at all your cousin! You going to the party or just commenting on it?"
Aedyt Corlett
pumpkin-pie
"I would like to go to the party, please!" says Aedyt.
Jane
mind_game
Yoink!
Aedyt Corlett
pumpkin-pie
"Neato," says Aedyt.
Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella"
self_composed
[Alice, Lazarus, Libby, Anna, Sandy, assorted personnel,] says Stella to the named persons and assorted personnel, [Jane's up again. Party in the Belltower, come one come all!]
Alice
edgeofyourseat
[Count me in!] says Alice.
Rook
nonbird
[Me too,] says Lazarus.
Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella"
self_composed
[Awesome, let's go.] Stella fetches the respondents and off they go.
Isibel ✧ "Sarion"
small_magics
Sarion pops back into Thilanushinyel after the brief base-touching meeting to broadcast to her beloveds that Jane can reach them once again and they may attend a party in the Belltower. As an afterthought, she invites Liselen again. And Magania, though she has little hope of the latter accepting.
Aianon
endragoned
Her beloveds would love to attend a party in the Belltower!
So would Liselen.
Magania declines with the utmost politeness.
Magania declines with the utmost politeness.
Isibel ✧ "Sarion"
small_magics
To the Belltower, then!
Jane
mind_game
Worlds with networked Jarvises have lost only about a minute relative to Jane, but she invites the corresponding Tonies and Sherlocks anyway, including Iron Man, and also Darcy from his world.
Stray Matilda's world has lost about a year; there is no accumulation of hysterical email messages or anything so Jane presumes that the handful of people there who knew about her weren't too upset by her absence. That Matilda gets an invite too. [Your alt from Syntropy's there,] Jane adds.
Stray Matilda's world has lost about a year; there is no accumulation of hysterical email messages or anything so Jane presumes that the handful of people there who knew about her weren't too upset by her absence. That Matilda gets an invite too. [Your alt from Syntropy's there,] Jane adds.
Darcy Lewis
sailorheavymetal
Darcy accepts this invitation!
Matilda Wormwood Honey
withmypowers
So does Matilda.
Jane
mind_game
Jane conveys them both.