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.

Comments

[thaumobabble]

"Aurum's not as mean as Sunnyworlds, but it's still pretty mean - but perfectly exploitable. It's related to Eos, like I said. I think it might have some kind of special relationship to the Bell template but I don't have any more detail."

[bellfounding]

Pattern puts in a profile too.

[prima_sequentem]

Shortly afterward, Libby opens the Worldbook to display a profile for Aurum:

Name: Aurum

Worldfamily, if applicable: Eos-Aurum

Primary inhabited planet(s): Earth

Known intelligent species: humans; vampires, "diamond" variety; werewolves, Quileute variety.

Technology/magic situation: Mid-twenty-first-century Earth. Apart from special characteristics of aforementioned species (pamphlets available), there is a kind of innate non-transferable per-person magic called witchcraft, where witches are people with single non-duplicated magical powers.

Afterlife situation: Downside world number 61, connected since before pealing

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Someone might fall magically and irrevocably in love with you! And magic is not fully known to the population at large. Consult the local precog, name of Alice, before meeting anyone else.

Glass's commentary: "Aurum's not as mean as Sunnyworlds, but it's still pretty mean - but perfectly exploitable. It's related to Eos, like I said. I think it might have some kind of special relationship to the Bell template but I don't have any more detail."

List of inhabiting templates: Bell, Golden, vampire; Libby, Granny, human; Joker, Joker, human, immigrated from Origin; Anna, Eights, human, died and moved to Downside; Jasper, Jazz, vampire.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet reprofiles herself, incidentally providing an excuse for Glass to put her Sunnyworld commentary into words.

[prima_sequentem]

Slipstick is the next to come through with a profile for her home world, appropriately enough:

Name: Helios

Worldfamily, if applicable: Sunny

Primary inhabited planet(s): Earth

Known intelligent species: humans; vampires, "sunshine" variety; a staggeringly extensive list of nonhuman species collectively referred to as "demons".

Technology/magic situation: Early twenty-first-century Earth, with aforementioned demons and a flexible but occasionally hostile magic system common to the Sunny worlds.

Afterlife situation: Downside world number 78, introduced to Downside post-pealing

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Most nonhuman species consider humans food. Magic is not generally known among humans. Safe for cautious visits, but not a good tourist destination. Don't turn into a local vampire; the transition comes with unpredictable personality changes and a frequent hobby of recently turned Sunshine vampires is killing all their pre-transition friends.

Glass's commentary: "This place is mean as anything, all the worlds in the family are. The Sunnyworlds are distantly related to Wellspring on one layer and to Yggdrasil on another."

List of inhabiting templates: Libby, Slipstick, human, moved to Origin; Tony, Sapphire, human; Sherlock, Cloud, human.

"She might come up with a profile for Origin too," Libby comments. "And James will have Sunshine done in a minute."

[thaumobabble]

"I commented on Origin for Pattern, already," says Glass.

[lifes_sake]

Cam wanders by and puts down a profile.

[prima_sequentem]

The next two world profiles roll in shortly.

Name: Sunshine

Worldfamily, if applicable: Sunny

Primary inhabited planet(s): Earth

Known intelligent species: humans; vampires, "sunshine" variety; a staggeringly extensive list of nonhuman species collectively referred to as "demons".

Technology/magic situation: Early twenty-first-century Earth, with aforementioned demons and a flexible but occasionally hostile magic system common to the Sunny worlds.

Afterlife situation: Downside world number 29, connected since before pealing

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Most nonhuman species consider humans food. Magic is not generally known among humans. Safe for cautious visits, but not a good tourist destination. Don't turn into a local vampire; the transition comes with unpredictable personality changes and a frequent hobby of recently turned Sunshine vampires is killing all their pre-transition friends.

Glass's commentary: "This place is mean as anything, all the worlds in the family are. The Sunnyworlds are distantly related to Wellspring on one layer and to Yggdrasil on another, but Sunshine in particular is more weakly connected to Yggdrasil than the others."

List of inhabiting templates: Bell, Juliet, human, ex-Slayer; Libby, James, human, Slayer (a Slayer is a unique person with combat-related superpowers); Virginia, Virginia, human; Sherlock, Minus, vampire, with soul (important distinction); Tony, Red, human.

Name: Origin

Worldfamily, if applicable: contains a Gotham

Primary inhabited planet(s): Earth, Saturn

Known intelligent species: Humans

Technology/magic situation: Early twenty-first-century Earth; no native magic, but Saturn is heavily enchanted thanks to the local Bell

Afterlife situation: Downside world number 70, connected since before pealing

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Magic is nonsecret but not formally acknowledged; no special hazards except that Gotham is an especially unfriendly city. Please do not disturb the prison colony on Ganymede.

Glass's commentary: "Slightly mean, but without much leverage behind it. I think the Gotham is related to that."

List of inhabiting templates: Bell, Pattern, human; Joker, Queenie, immigrated from Downside, originally from world #48; Joker, Ghosty, human-ish, immigrated from #81; Joker, Joker, human, moved to Aurum; Libby, Slipstick, immigrated from Helios.

"And that's all my alts' worlds of origin or current residence," Libby concludes. "I think I'd rather these things were written by people from the world in question, generally. Who do you think I should bother next?"

[luminous_regnant]

Golden swings by to profile herself.

[thaumobabble]

"Well, I can do Chronicle, if you like."

[prima_sequentem]

"Go for it!"

[thaumobabble]

Name: Chronicle

Worldfamily, if applicable: N/A

Primary inhabited planet(s): It's just called "Planet".

Known intelligent species: Humans; cats when in cooperative relationships with witches and squirrels when in the Enchanted Forest, I don't know if the species are fundamentally different or not; dragons, "morning" variety; elves, "sylvan" variety; dwarves, "smith" variety; wizards, "staff" variety; unicorns, "pool" variety; giants, "citadel" variety; various others of small population

Technology/magic situation: Low tech, high magic (many kinds, some learnable by people in general, others specific to species or family lines)

Afterlife situation: Added to Downside, numbered 85

Safety rating and notes for visitors: Magic is fully public; the world is very nice, and contains pockets of temporary unpleasantness but nothing too dreadful.

Glass's commentary: By far the nicest world. No relation to any other on record, but vaguely similar in flavor to Thilanushinyel and Rêverie in some ways.

List of inhabiting templates: Bell, Glass, human; Sherlock, Steel, human with some fire-witch; Tony, Iron, human with some fire-witch

[prima_sequentem]

"Perfect," says Libby. "Hmm, I should edit Aurum's entry to add the Jokerling. And Golden's warning about Addy." She does that.

[self_composed]

Stella's turn.

[prima_sequentem]

(Libby laughs at the nemesis part.)

[self_composed]

"I'm glad you're not my nemesis," comments Stella.

[prima_sequentem]

"Me too!"

[thaumobabble]

"This sounds like an amusing story."

[prima_sequentem]

"It is!" says Libby. "Do you want to tell it, Stella, or should I?"

[self_composed]

"You go ahead," laughs Stella.

[prima_sequentem]

"Short version: Stella came to my attention when there were very, very few mints around and I knew all the rest of them. I didn't really know what to make of her. She didn't appreciate the way I tried to find out. So we were having a very tense cup of coffee together when I stumbled on Milliways and started talking to Elspeth, who was delighted to tell me all about her mother the magical vampire empress. And then I went home and handed Stella the star secret."

[thaumobabble]

Glass laughs. "So there's a long history of people learning about one Bell and deciding to trust another."

[self_composed]

"It wasn't that long ago for me, but yeah."

[prima_sequentem]

"You've got a pretty good template going on there."

[self_composed]

"We rock."