erroneous messenger, sleep!

[incanted]

Brilliance is probably the first person to notice Rainbow's Janepoint broadcasting the message, "error 112358: inferior pattern recognition".

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[cardistry]

[...Um, Bella,] he says, [Jane broke.]

[incanted]

[Shit, again?]

[cardistry]

[Yep. Even worse this time; the terminal just says "error 112358: inferior pattern recognition".]

[incanted]

[...Shit. Well, at least we have no strandees in either direction here. Sucks for the bunch that were just going to - I wonder if that's why, actually. Aegis was with them. Maybe Jane needs her own body or something.]

[cardistry]

[Maybe,] says Brilliance. [I wonder if she'd even want one.]

[incanted]

[We will have to inquire. The alternative is apparently dealing with periodic outages or keeping Aegis in a box.]

[cardistry]

He giggles.

[What a mental image.]

[incanted]

[Ayep. Which I'm going to guess Aegis wouldn't go for, so since Jane doesn't seem to mind not even having a body, maybe she wouldn't mind having one that lives in the Belltower and doesn't do much.]

[cardistry]

[Guess we'll ask her when she comes back. If nobody else thinks of it first.]

[incanted]

[Yeah, I guess. Oh well. On with business as usual. I feel sorry for everyone who was coming to me for spare coins, though.]

[cardistry]

[We'll have a whole shitload to spread around by the time everybody comes back, probably.]

[incanted]

[Yes, but who knows how long they'll have to spend being conservative. Especially Glass. I guess she can probably get a lot of leverage combining smallish coins and local magic in creative ways.]

[cardistry]

[Yeah, Glass didn't exactly seem like she had a magic shortage problem.]

[incanted]

[It comes down to scalability, mostly, she had all sorts of nifty small things but couldn't easily mass-produce. Oh well.]

[cardistry]

[She'll be fine,] he says optimistically.

[incanted]

[Probably, yeah. Oh, well, no sense worrying about it till somebody gets a door. I'll tell Lexi.]

[cardistry]

[Love you,] he says, pushing the associated feeling as a long-distance subsitute for a hug.

[incanted]

There could also be a short-distance not-substitute for a hug!

[cardistry]

Ooh.

Snuggle! Love!

[incanted]

Yay! Best things.

[cardistry]

Snuggly lovey happy things!

[alicornucopia]

Teno should really stop getting ludicrously drunk in backwater dimensions and talking about his old job.

"It can have a wielder but you don't need unique wielder status to use its functions, there were a bunch of us and it needed constant supervision," he says tiredly. If he just tells them everything, they said they'd drop him off near Cenarist, where he was planning to go next anyway.

It doesn't cross his mind to worry about the treatment of the Device that killed all his old co-workers.

[pythbox]

"But if you don't have wielder status," asks the unnamed individual sitting to his left, "how do you get access? I assume it's controlled in some way. You don't make a weapon like that and then leave it a free-for-all."

[alicornucopia]

"Right, right, you need the access codes, not to mention the incantations for the actual functions, lemme - it's been four hundred years -" He fiddles with his memory implants. "And physical access to the Device. So yeah, the password incantation is - here, I'll write it down." He scribbles down all the incantations they're going to need, then swaps back in his standard memory module; he doesn't want to live day-to-day with four hundred years distant memories that fresh.

[pythbox]

"Thanks," says the nameless person, smiling slightly. "Those will come in handy. Does it have any protection against standard dimensional locators?"