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?]

Comments

[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."

[mind_game]

"'Kay." The image of her spins around, like she's twirling. "My clocks are all messed up agaaaaaaain. It was a really long time in Alethia! And Pattern's been using my residual programs a lot and now I gotta eat them all back up agaaaaain..."

[cardistry]

Brilliance laughs.

[mind_game]

"Gems gems gems - okay those are all all right even the ones that were in the land of breaking Jane - whee - and here come the parentals, yoink!"

[autokinetic]

"Hi," says a parental.

[pythbox]

"Hi!" says another parental, hugging the first one.

[cardistry]

"Yoooooou got older," Brilliance observes, looking at Sue.

[autokinetic]

"It was four years there," says Aegis, nudging Sue in the ribs. "We're gonna have to work out how to have me publicly alive again and whether to make me look nineteen or not."

[cardistry]

"Wow, okay," says Brilliance. He grins at Sue. "Looking good."