festive rainbow mirror summoning!

[incanted]

There are now one dozen Bells.

They and most of their friends are all here on Planet Rainbowsand II, to celebrate the addition of Sarion, the elf one, and Aurora, the one with a sister.

Comments

[bellfounding]

"Ooh, classified stuff. What are particle accelerators for?"

[toblameforit]

"They are for accelerating particles!" laughs Tony. "Um - physics stuff. He used it to synthesize an element that makes a really efficient catalyst for cold fusion."

[bellfounding]

"Nifty. Does it scale? That's the advantage science has over magic, pretty much, is that it scales better."

[toblameforit]

"Tech...nically yes," says Tony, "but you'd have to ask him about the details, I still haven't actually seen this stuff."

[bellfounding]

"Gonna collaborate or figure it out for yourself as a puzzle?"

[toblameforit]

"Figure it out, of course."

[bellfounding]

"No of course about it, depends on whether you're interested in the solution or the process and whether you're in a hurry."

[toblameforit]

"It's an of course for me."

[bellfounding]

"Well," says Pattern, "I guess that tells me whether you're usually in a hurry and whether you usually care about process or results more, then, doesn't it."

[toblameforit]

"I'm not never in a hurry, but if I was in a hurry to have Iron Man's arc reactor I'd have one already," he explains.

[bellfounding]

"Ah. I should have been more specific. Whether you ever attend parties while in a hurry."

[toblameforit]

He snorts.

[bellfounding]

"What all do you do besides engineering, or is that your all consuming passion?"

[toblameforit]

"Um... engineering and Sherry," he says, "pretty much. And cars. But cars are related to engineering."

[bellfounding]

"I suppose they are. I sort of have a car. Charlie never got rid of the station wagon I had, when I died, so it's still around."

[toblameforit]

"Guess you don't have much use for one, with all the magic, huh?"

[bellfounding]

"Right, I mostly teleport places now, if I feel like indulging in sheer travel-related delight I fly."

[toblameforit]

"Driving's fun," says Tony, "but I think that's a me thing, not a general people thing."

[bellfounding]

"I think flying's pretty universally compelling, except for people scared of heights," says Pattern, hopping a few inches into the air.

[toblameforit]

"Flying sounds awesome!" says Tony. "But I wanna do it myself, you know?"

[bellfounding]

"And having a stable magic superpower for it doesn't count?"

[toblameforit]

"It'd still be somebody else giving it to me. I want to invent it myself - well, build it at least, Iron Man did the inventing already."

[bellfounding]

"But if you had a magic system where you could do your own detail work that'd do it?"

[toblameforit]

"I don't know, what do you mean by detail work? We have a magic system, it's kind of shit," he says.

[bellfounding]

"I don't know, I just have the standards. Enchantress, mint, stack of utterly Bell-typical wished powers, I was going to copy Sarion's elfmagery but the unicorn over there said that would be a bad idea. But if there was some magic system as fiddly as the laws of physics and not actively awful like the Sunshine worldfamily magic is would you like that?"