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.

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[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?"

[lifes_sake]

"Interdimensional magic bar! There are alternate versions of all three of us. I'm girls, for some reason."

[pythbox]

"Of course you are," he giggles, and hugs Cam. "There, there, baby. Being girls isn't so bad."

[lifes_sake]

"What do you mean, of course I am? Do I give off a vibe of definitely being mostly girls if you sample ten of me?" snorts Cam. "Here we go." Teleportation takes all three of them back out to the Belltower.

[cross_and_bow]

"Hullo, Jellybean and Matilda," says Juliet. "I'm Bella. Call me Juliet, because there's lots of us."

[pythbox]

"Hi," says Jellybean. "You're really fucking hot, has anybody ever told you that?"

Matilda snorts.

[cross_and_bow]

"In those exact words? No, actually," laughs Juliet. "You want to see hot, though -" She permits an aura flare, grinning.

[lifes_sake]

"I want one of those, by the way, is there some Saturn left?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Sure, lots. I think the pack of Jokers," she says, waving at Jellybean, "is still around, or planning to make another trip, or something, for their own."

[pythbox]

"Fuck me," says Jellybean. Matilda pats him on the head.

[cross_and_bow]

"No. Try Amariah," says Juliet. She withdraws her aura. "Or wait and see if Cam gets something cool. They don't match, not in the special features."

[lifes_sake]

"Is Amariah happy about having her test-driving tendencies bandied about to people-in-general?"

[cross_and_bow]

"I think she'd be less prone to personally advertising them if that were the case."

[pythbox]

"I want someone to fuck me," says Jellybean. "Can I meet the other me? I bet they'll do it."

[cross_and_bow]

"You bet they will, all eight and three-quarters of them," says Juliet, "Jane, are they still on Saturn in Origin?"

[mind_game]

"They haven't got gems, so I don't know about Saturn, but I haven't moved any of them out of the world. Not that that'd stop Sue," says Jane.

[pythbox]

"Then I guess I wanna go to Saturn," says Jellybean. "Can I go to Saturn? Also, eight and three-quarters?"

[lifes_sake]

"I'm not sure why Juliet picked that exact fraction, but two of you have external souls with their own names who talk and shapeshift," says Cam with a vague gesture. "Alethia has this as a feature of everybody - except most people grow out of the shapeshifting - and Sue visited the place and got his own."

[mind_game]

[I'll broadcast the news and Pattern will probably invite you all to Origin, which would be a convenient place to have Cam's introduction party as many of the standard guests are already there,] Jane says.

[pythbox]

"Awesome," says Jellybean.