good guesser

[lifes_sake]

Cam is taken entirely by surprise when his office door doesn't lead to his office, but instead to a bizarre sort of bar.

He has Grace and his manual - he always carries them, in a backpack sort of thing with one cross-chest strap - and not much else on him to handle this situation. It might be Iggy. It might not be Iggy. He is not sure.

He looks around, concludes only that he is confused, and closes his eyes and listens instead.

Comments

[lifes_sake]

"Uh, that sounds kind of ominous, and some computers are reasonably intelligent - not like you, but enough that I'd be a little concerned about you eating them," Cam says. "Whatever that means."

[eversomuchfun]

"Jane can manage not to eat intelligent computers under some circumstances," says Sherlock.

[mind_game]

"I'm not sure if Jarvis is the same kind of intelligent he has in mind," Jane says. "He can apparently talk to all kinds of things. But yeah, I can avoid nibbling on specific things you want me to steer clear of."

[lifes_sake]

"I don't have, like, a Rolodex of computers that I don't want eaten," Cam says. "Just general nervousness around eating. I've been a pesco-pollo vegetarian for about two years now on the basis that a goat told me she didn't want things to eat her and that chickens are really dumb. I'd have to talk to more computers than I have to get an idea of how bright they are when they haven't belonged to a wizard for ages. Grace is smarter than my laptop, but Grace is pretty much smarter than anything else that isn't me or Matilda."

[eversomuchfun]

"This Matilda you keep mentioning - who's she?"

[lifes_sake]

"Why, are there nine of her too?"

[cross_and_bow]

"There's one person in our sphere of notice who's called Matilda, but name collisions also exist the usual way - we have two non-matching Alices and so on," says Juliet.

[lifes_sake]

Cam opens up Grace to a new blank page and coaxes a sketch of Matilda into existence.

[cross_and_bow]

"Yep," says Juliet, inspecting it. "Shell Bell knows one of those, she gets invited to Bell parties. She's not from any Belled world, though, she just encountered Shell Bell in Milliways."

[lifes_sake]

"Transcribed!" Grace chirps, and Cam picks her up and flips easily to Shell Bell's entry with her guided paging help. He scans the profile. "Huh. Okay. That'll be interesting."

[eversomuchfun]

"Cam also has a Joker named Jellybean," Sherlock mentions.

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh, that's useful, you won't have to put out a job ad for a mint," says Juliet. "You dating yours?"

[lifes_sake]

"Yeah," says Cam; Grace shows him minting information. "Well, this is a fucked-up magic system, but yes, I can see Jellybean helping..."

[cross_and_bow]

"Enchanting channel, too," says Juliet, "that's relatively new, Rose brought it in. You know, I'm not sure what to extrapolate about your sexual orientation from you dating your Joker."

[lifes_sake]

Cam reads about enchanting. "It'd be silly to try to extrapolate when you could ask. I'm bi." He glances up from Grace. "You want to test my claim?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh lord," mutters Juliet. "Try Amariah, she's got this habit of test-driving boys for the rest of us."

[eversomuchfun]

Sherlock giggles.

[lifes_sake]

Cam peers at him. "Has she now. Boys only? All of you straight?"

(He only skimmed Shell Bell's entry.)

[cross_and_bow]

"Basically. Shell Bell's special circumstances that apply only to her Sherlock, and according to Amariah daemons don't count so she doesn't care what shape Petaal's being at any given time."

[lifes_sake]

Cam reads up on the remarked phenomena. "This is a fantastic sort of multiverse I find myself in," he murmurs.

[eversomuchfun]

"Isn't it just?"

[lifes_sake]

"Yes. I'm still nonplussed about why I'm girls. But I'll take it."

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet laughs. "Read up on the standard powerset and describe what you want and we can stack you up with an evil," she instructs. "Takes one to make anything stick now you torch, but I stand by my order of operations since you don't even go through Downside and if something unexpected happened you'd be hard to fish out."

[lifes_sake]

"Yes ma'am," says Cam flippantly, and he reads. Partway through he says, "I'll take a pentagon-temporary super-speed thing to get through this material quicker if you've got it to spare." He is obliged. He reads faster.

[cross_and_bow]

"You should also write your own profile for future additions to the peal - current ones will all meet you in person; the book used to be more important before we had Jane - and then we should disseminate the news, and then we throw a party somewhere, I don't know if you're in a position to host one, someone else can do it."