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Etty catalogues and indexes the library of magic.
Since she has not had luck finding Astgabels or anyone who can direct her to it by flying in slightly different directions each day and asking random people, she stops trying, and instead tries to come up with ways to rejigger the available divination spells into producing a compass direction for her to follow. Or maybe she can come up with some variant on the food-generation spell that would be practical for a long trip, and bring Nona with her, and then they could be gone for days looking farther afield than she can get in half a day's flight.
Eventually she finds a spell that is not exactly right, but might be close enough, and she shows it to Nona.
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mute_pen
mind_game
[Reunion after multi-year separations from their Bells, mostly. I can ask the others!]
And she asks the others.
And she asks the others.
Alice, Ghosty, Corona, Celo, Sue, Queenie, Brilliance, Beast, Micaiah, Jellybean, and the Joker would all be delighted to meet the new one!
mind_game
[Eleven of them are free, though. How about you all just congregate in the Belltower, and Bells can walk Etty through new magic and you can meet those eleven?]
mind_game
Jane picks up and puts down a lot of people over the ensuing several seconds. Here are a dozen Jokers and three Bells in the Belltower!
mute_pen
Etty is set up with the Bellbook while Glass and Shell Bell sit on either side of her footnoting the contents.
yourheartstrings
"C'mere, you," says Ghosty.
And the Jokers, Nona included, all head up to one of the orgy chambers.
And the Jokers, Nona included, all head up to one of the orgy chambers.
mute_pen
Etty watches them go.
Then she goes back to the book.
She goes through her checklist, except for her aura (she wears her Janegem in an earring, with another Janeless one to match on the other side) and waits for Nona for aura-ing. She writes in the book.
Then she goes back to the book.
She goes through her checklist, except for her aura (she wears her Janegem in an earring, with another Janeless one to match on the other side) and waits for Nona for aura-ing. She writes in the book.
growcrooked
Nona takes a little while!
But she does come back.
"Everyone's learning how to move between worlds!" she says. "I tried a few times but I didn't get it yet. Ghosty did, and Brilliance. Brilliance is pretty!"
But she does come back.
"Everyone's learning how to move between worlds!" she says. "I tried a few times but I didn't get it yet. Ghosty did, and Brilliance. Brilliance is pretty!"
growcrooked
"Yes! And Corona says he'll come if he's figured out how to freecast by the time I want to do mine, and otherwise Ghosty will."
mute_pen
"That's nice of them." (Etty has a perfect memory now and knows who these people are and which of her alts they work for.)
thaumobabble
"Will I be scandalized if I go up there and have a look? I'm curious if this is just a Joker thing or if anyone could theoretically learn it."
thaumobabble
"Except Celo, presumably, but I can leave him censored. All right." Up she goes, only as far as the door. She knocks. [Guys, I want to see if freecasting is a template thing.]
[Does that mean you want to come in?] says Corona.
[We're mostly decent in here,] says Jellybean, to a round of giggles from the rest. [Make that completely decent - Celo's under a blanket now.]
[We're mostly decent in here,] says Jellybean, to a round of giggles from the rest. [Make that completely decent - Celo's under a blanket now.]
thaumobabble
[Thank you.]
In she comes. At Jokers she peers.
Eventually she says, "Can one of you go just across the room or something? Actually - Sue and any other one of you."
In she comes. At Jokers she peers.
Eventually she says, "Can one of you go just across the room or something? Actually - Sue and any other one of you."
Sue flickers across the room.
thaumobabble
"Okay, interesting. I think Jokers can all pick it up but some of you will have an easier time than others - ones without any magic or practice splitting their attention and who've never dreamed to Milliways will have it hardest. It's related to dreaming Milliways; your template interacts strangely with being stuck in both cases. I don't think freecasting is exclusive only to you forever, but trying to pick it up probably is not worth the time investment for anyone else whose life's ambition isn't to be able to do it. It's not-technically-magic, in the sense that it doesn't show up to my witchsight, only to my metacauasality sight."