intelligent nametags

[thaumobabble]

Jane alerts everyone to the existence of a new Bell, the nature of her wives and children, and the presence of her mother-in-law.

She stands ready to move in anyone who wishes to attend this new party.

Glass stands ready to receive them.

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[thaumobabble]

Glass wanders around peering at everyone's aura. She has an idea for hers - and it'll be quick; she thinks the Enchanted Forest is probably going to be the next big thing for people who just want auras and not fancy enchanted results. But she does need a channel.

There's a pretty aura, and it's on a Joker.

"Hi, Brilliance," she says, flicking up one Lazaruslens to squint through the haze of magic; it doesn't make the nametag much easier to read, with the lightshow that is his aura, but it makes it possible. "Nice to meet you."

[cardistry]

"Hi, Glass!" says Brilliance, glowing. "Nice to meet you too! What's up?"

[thaumobabble]

"Actually, as it happens, I'm looking for an enchannel. I'm pretty sure I can just pour undifferentiated enchanting power into this forest," she gestures, "and it will consider it a pleasant snack, maybe the moss will get a little greener and some trees will gain an inch, it already knows how to be enchanted - no concentration required, I can go as fast as whoever's willing to channel for me can tolerate, I can get my aura up and running and show off while everyone's still here. I'm told you guys are the go-to for that?"

[cardistry]

"Yep!" says Brilliance. "Sounds like fun. Mind if I snuggle Queenie while you do it? I like to be snuggling somebody while I channel."

[thaumobabble]

"I can't see why that would bother me," shrugs Glass.

[cardistry]

"Okay, great," he says. "You wanna do that now, then?"

[thaumobabble]

"Yeah. Channeling doesn't come in convenient units like minting does, so, I'll start with a standard getting-aura-up-to-speed sized amount, tell me how much I need to step it up or down in terms of fractions?"

[cardistry]

"Sounds good! One sec," he says, and he conjures a big squashy armchair for snuggling in.

[gunpowdergelatine]

Queenie appears in the big squashy armchair and holds out her arms.

[cardistry]

Brilliance plops into her lap and curls up happily.

"There, go for it."

[thaumobabble]

Glass finds his mindscape with wished skill (she finds this inelegant; Rose is going to conjure up a copy of her library so she can fill in the details properly but this will do for the immediate task). She reaches up to the sky, calls down the sun, and pushes through the deck-of-cards dreamworld that belongs to Brilliance.

"There's that. I think I can manage that much per half-second at a steady rate if you can, if that's a good ceiling - if you can tolerate more I can manage it likewise, though."

[cardistry]

"I could do twice that, easy," he says offhandedly, nestling his head on Queenie's shoulder.

[thaumobabble]

Glass calls up a twice-that amount and funnels it through at the same pace. "Like so? Continuously?"

[cardistry]

"Yeah," says Brilliance. "That's - comfy." He giggles at this description.

[thaumobabble]

Glass laughs. "All right. Stop me if you need a break."

And she funnels sunshine through the mindscapes and into the forest.

[cardistry]

Brilliance snuggles Queenie and does not request any breaks for some time.

[thaumobabble]

Over that time, Glass builds aura.

This method is much, much faster than actually making things; it's also kind of boring, but it doesn't take long.

The whole thing will take an hour and a half of funneling at this rate.

[cardistry]

By the end of that time, Brilliance will be thinking about maybe taking a break sometime soon. But mostly he will be snuggling Queenie.

[thaumobabble]

After her time estimate is fifteen minutes in the past (just to be sure), Glass stops, and then goes and stands next to Rose-the-benchmark for the next nearest Bell (it's Cam) to look at. She's all set.

"Thanks!" she says to Brilliance. And she spins and flares aura; she doesn't have any plainly distinctive features advertising her species or a quality like Juliet's menace or Cam's truthiness, but there's a faint forest flavor to her; she belongs here in this place.

[cardistry]

"Neat," says Brilliance. He kisses Queenie on the nose, and they and their snuggly armchair vanish.

[thaumobabble]

Glass then reaches up to take her spectacles off.

She discovers that she isn't actually wearing them.

She throws her head back and laughs.

[nonbird]

"You got an aura!" says Lazarus.

[thaumobabble]

"I did! And it is better than my spectacles," she laughs, "oh, wow, I can see everything. I'm supposed to get a second special feature, and I did, I can see it, but I don't know what it is. Do you?"

[nonbird]

"It's a... knowing things... about things... thing," says Lazarus. "Other than that, it puzzles me deeply."

[thaumobabble]

Glass laughs. "Well, maybe it will tell me soon! I'm excited, this is an exciting day. Oooh, numerous alts of my wives," she says, and wanders in the direction of some Tonies and Sherlocks who are over there.

And then, her magic-seeing aura-feature shows a pulse of activity from her mystery aura feature, and she stops in her tracks and double-takes at the set of party guests before her.

"...Whoa."