[Yes. While you're here, there are some adjustments I'd like to make to the ability to distribute torching. We can discuss those, if you think your responses will be representative of your alts.]

[I can probably at least predict where they'll differ if they will.] Glass teleports to the admin. "Also, you may be pleased to know that we've removed Jane from Aegis and the former's stability shouldn't be dependent on the latter staying out of trouble anymore."

"I find her absences only mildly inconvenient," she says.

"In what way am I shiny?"

"You're also purple - so far I think all the shiny people are purple, though I'd have to double-check the scary one to be sure - and - you're just very bright, metacausally. Attached to your world." She waves generally at Downside. "Which come to think of it is also strange, most people aren't attached to Downside like that even after dying to it, it's too catchall."

"I am attached to my domain. It is mine," she says.

"Yes, yes it certainly is, but I don't think Lissa's attached to Thilanushinyel the same way and I hope that Callahan's not like that about Materia. Lissa's at least known not to be omnipotent - but then she's less shiny..."

"The shininess comes in quantities?"

"Sort of. At least two quantities. Yours and Callahan's, and then there's Lissa, who's - less - shiny, but still very noticeable."

"I see."

"I don't suppose you know what it could be - or have a guess? It'd have to be something that applies to several worlds, including two that weren't initially hooked up to Downside and one that still isn't - but be world-flavored per person..."

"...I do have a guess," she says. "But the thing I am thinking of doesn't come in quantities as far as I know."

"What is it?"

"There is a... place," she says. "At most one person per world is able to go there. Once someone is able to go there, they do not stop being able. I have been there once. I did not like it. I will not be returning."

"...Yeah, that doesn't obviously sound like it comes in amounts. I don't want to ask Callahan and if Lissa knew I think she would have brought it up."

"Some of the people I met there could be said to embody their respective universes," she adds. "Others could not, at least not obviously, and I would say no such thing of myself. I believe they all shared my ability to observe any part of my world to which I might direct my attention, but I did not confirm it before I left. It was long enough ago that recalling specific details about individuals would require more effort than I care to apply."

"Hmmmm. Why didn't you like it?"

"It was... unaesthetic," she says.

"This place sounds interesting even if it's unrelated to shininess; what else can you tell me about it and the people in it? Without the," Glass waves, "excess effort, anyway."

"It did not have a fixed physical reality."

"That's interesting - did it have a fluctuating one? What controlled it?"

"It was mutable. Responsive to the influence of anyone present."

"What's it for?"

She shrugs. "Its purpose is not obvious to me."

"Huh. I guess I'll tell Lissa to keep an eye out. Anyway, what changes to torching did you have in mind?"

"To the ability to distribute it," she says. "It's irritating to bestow it individually on your alts and their friends. I would rather make it replicable. And you seem to do enough editing of which characteristics persist that it would be worth including that capacity. To distribute the effort even further, you could optionally make the recipient able to modify their own persistent characteristics."

"That sounds like a great idea. I can take that to the party and propagate it to all the other Bells and most everyone else who'd need it now."

She doesn't take any visible action, but: "You are updated."

"Thanks! Anything else while I'm here?"

"No."

Lissa is admiring the flowers that have bloomed on one of the huge archways.

"Remember how I said you were shiny?"

"Yes I do," she says, looking away from the flowers toward Glass.

"The Downside admin is also shiny, but more-shiny like Callahan and not less-shiny like you, and she had a guess about what that could mean, although it doesn't fit perfectly, since her guess doesn't really come in amounts." And Glass describes as best she can the place that the admin mentioned. "Have you seen anything like that?"

"I definitely haven't," says Lissa. "It sounds memorable."

"It does. So maybe you're going to find it, or something. If you ever do I would love to hear all about it."

"Sure," says Lissa.