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

[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."

[lifes_sake]

"I probably could host a decent-sized party at the Seedling offices but I don't know if it'd be a great idea," says Cam, writing in a profile to the original Bellbook. Grace copies it into herself in realtime. "Not what the place is designed for."

[eversomuchfun]

Sherlock glances at the profile and grins. "Oh, I do like you, you're delightful."

[lifes_sake]

"Yes. Yes I am."

[cross_and_bow]

"Not everybody's had a party-hosting turn yet," Juliet says. "Stella did the celebratory Downside-conquering party, Rose hosted her own introduction party. I'm sure someone else'll take a turn to do your introduction party. Jane, you want to ask around? Cam, here, have a declawed evil."

[lifes_sake]

"Pointy," comments Cam. "Thanks. Grace, you wanna help me out here?"

He confers with Grace for a bit, and wishes himself a standard power stack, except that Grace wants his perfect memory stored in her, so she can help, and they wind up with a system where everything will in fact be transcribed to her in spite of being stored indelibly in his own brain too. "I want to wish Grace some wards too, gimme," says Cam, holding out a hand, "or at least gimme a hex so I can mint up Jellybean."

[eversomuchfun]

A smoke-grey hex and star appear in the relevant hand.

[lifes_sake]

The star wraps Grace up nice and safe. "I'll go get Jellybean in here, he'll flip," says Cam. "Oh, maybe I'd better get one of those - gems, first. Hmm. Not much of a jewelry person. I'll take an earpiece, let's make it clear." He wishes one up, tucks it in, and plugs the other half of the ansible into Jane's hub. Then he teleports to the door, sticks his head out, and says, [Jellybean, you will never guess what happened! Get Matilda and c'mere!]

[pythbox]

He's not far; a moment later, he and Matilda come clattering up the stairs.

"...Whoa," he says, "what the fuck?"