layered net conjuration!

[incanted]

[Hey Brilliance, the welcoming committee and the new Bell are basically okay and we're going to make Jane a Device body as soon as Aegis gets back with Sue, c'mere and help.]

[Agent Honey? You back in this world?]

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[withmypowers]

[I am! What is it?]

[cardistry]

Brilliance teleports to Aurora.

[incanted]

Aurora wraps up Brilliance in a hug. [Gonna make a Device body for Jane so Aegis can stop carrying her around everywhere, thought you might want to consult.]

[cardistry]

Snuggle!

[withmypowers]

[Interesting. I don't think anyone's made a Device to incorporate an existing consciousness before. Adularia and I will be happy to help - where should we go?]

[incanted]

[My door came out in the rainbowsand village, can you find me here?]

[withmypowers]

[Yes, I think so.]

She appears almost immediately.

[incanted]

Into Milliways they go, and then from the door to the Belltower. "Aegis'll be back with Sue soon."

[mind_game]

"Hiiii," says the Belltower speakers. "Pardon me for not producing a face, I am refactoring a couple yottabytes, I am scraaaaambled. I totally have a face picked out, though, people have seen it, I'm pretty."

[cardistry]

"You are very pretty," Brilliance agrees.

[mind_game]

"This body thing," Jane says, "kind of weirds me out, will I have to do anything with it or can I just stash it on the top floor and let it collect dust?"

[incanted]

"The idea is that the Device will be very low-maintenance. I have the impression you want it human-looking, though? Since you have a face picked out?"

[mind_game]

"I don't want to look like anyone besides my face," says Jane. "If it's more convenient to put me in a Janegem or something that's fine, I just don't want to look like a person and not like my face."

[cardistry]

"Devices don't have, like, bodily needs," says Brilliance.

[withmypowers]

"More complex ones do tend to have humanoid forms available, but they also all have object-type ones," says Agent Honey. "If we managed to put you in a Device, it could certainly spend all its time as a Janegem if you preferred."

[mind_game]

"Okay. I mean, maybe I will like some things that can go on with bodies, if I try them, but I'm not impatient to give them a whirl or really expecting it even if I do."

[cardistry]

"Food is awesome," says Brilliance. "So is sex, but I think that one might actually be less universal."

[mind_game]

"Sue sent me a lot of stuff when I first talked to him and Aegis and it was informationally interesting, but not really compelling. Not that he had perfect recall or a particularly positive sexual history then, but none of the sensory stuff grabbed me at all. Are his transmissions low-fi or something?" She is apparently unscrambled enough to be a face now; she appears on the screen.

[cardistry]

"Beats me," shrugs Brilliance. "What's holding him up, anyway? Aegis went to get him, right?"

[mind_game]

"Hang on, unscraaambling - oh, he's on TV, hiiiii Daaaaaad... Probably can't get away right now. This thing iiiiis scheduled to eeeend in - a minute - and - looks like him being able to teleport is common knowledge - and there's nothing else down on his schedule for a bit - so - after however long it takes him to reunite with Aegis I guess - he should be all set to come here."

[cardistry]

Brilliance giggles.

"You're adorable."

[mind_game]

"Yeah. Hey, if you guys make me a body to be in does that mean I have extra sortaparents? That'd be weird."

[cardistry]

Brilliance shrugs. "Up to you, I think."

[mind_game]

"I'm not even supposed to talk to you," observes Jane, as though she is remembering something from very far away, "I might scare you."

[cardistry]

"I think we can put that on hold until this thing's sorted out."