Bella draws up some more Planet Rainbowsand Place For Underspecified Purposes enchantment guidelines, and when she has about enough for two auras' worth and then some, she tells Brilliance, +If you want to invite the demon and the dragon over for enchanting at some point there is now stuff to do.+

Author: incanted	Bella draws up some more Planet Rainbowsand Place For Underspecified Purposes enchantment guidelines, and when she has about enough for two auras' worth and then some, she tells Brilliance, +If you want to invite the demon and the dragon over for enchanting at some point there is now stuff to do.+
Author: cardistry	+Ooh,+ says Brilliance. +Thanks! I think I will!+
Author: incanted	+It's non-urgent, so if Sarion or somebody has something more interesting lined up don't feel obliged.+
Author: cardistry	He giggles. +We'll see.+
Author: incanted	She giggles. +And other visitors can come over too. When you guys want breaks. I'll sleep with you, but not the demon.+
Author: cardistry	+We'll have a little Joker party,+ he says, laughing. +You can spy on us if you want.+
Author: incanted	+If I decide I wanna do that do I have to tell you guys I'm doing it? That sounds embarrassing to have to announce, I don't know if I'd want to even absent that but still.+
Author: cardistry	+No! Wasn't that the whole point of that announcement we made that time? Jokers fucking is free porn.+
Author: incanted	+So noted.+
Author: cardistry	+I mean, if you want to watch it and then talk to me about what parts you liked, awesome, but you don't have to keep us informed or anything.+
Author: incanted	Bella giggles.
Author: cardistry	+Anyway, I'll ask.+ [Hey Jane, can you ask demon-dragon if he's found something to enchant for his aura yet, and if he hasn't, does he wanna come visit?]
Author: mind_game	Jane relays this to the demon-dragon, in Brilliance's voice.
Author: endragoned	[We have not, and we would love to.]
$mind_game: (fractal)$ Author: mind_game	[Go stand in front of Sarion's ring and say when. Are you both going?]
Author: endragoned	Sarion's beloveds share with her the fact that they are going to go and do this, and ask her to come and have her ring in front of them. [Yes.]
Author: small_magics	Sarion comes and kisses them goodbye.
Author: mind_game	Yoink!
Author: endragoned	To Planet Rainbowsand they go.
Author: cardistry	[Awesome, thanks!] says Brilliance to Jane. [Tell the rest of the Jokers we're having a party, wouldja?]
Author: mind_game	[Will do.] She does.
Author: pythbox	The rest of the Jokers seem to think this is a great idea. They start trickling in over the course of the next few minutes, most of them notifying loved ones on the way, some of them in case those loved ones want to drop by.
Author: lifes_sake	Cam may drop by as offered, later on.
Author: cardistry	In the meantime, now that they have plenty of channels, Brilliance and the demon-and-dragon can get to it! So they do. It takes time, and plenty of breaks.
Author: incanted	Aurora is available if Brilliance happens to want to take any of his breaks apart from the deck. Otherwise she'll amuse herself with wish designs.
Author: cardistry	He does do that, once or twice! Requests for Pants may be involved.
Author: incanted	Aurora can supply same! Although she is not clear on how this constitutes a "break".
Author: cardistry	It is a break because he's having sex and not casting spells! Silly Aurora.
Author: incanted	Silly Aurora indeed. Pants are removed. Metaphorical Pants are applied.
Author: cardistry	Brilliance loves her very much, and shows her so. The spell also shows her what channeling aftereffects look like in his nervous system. They have a pretty distinctive pattern. He's not experiencing very much of them; there are enough Jokers to go around that no one channel is carrying much of the weight.
Author: incanted	"Huh, I can see the channeling residue," she murmurs, and she pokes a bit of it, seeing if she can tamp it down.
Author: cardistry	It recedes obligingly. "Ooh," says Brilliance. He laughs. "That's new and different."
Author: incanted	"Yeah," laughs Aurora. "Painkiller applications. D'you want it gone? Turned up? Augmented with unrelated odds-and-ends?"
Author: cardistry	"I dunno!" he says. "Try some of those and let's see!"
Author: incanted	She laughs, and does a different thing to each of his limbs. One arm gone completely painless, one with enchanneling pain slid up to double this modest intensity, and each leg subject to different odds-and-ends on top of the painkilling residue in the mid-pentagon range - one constricted, one lacerated.
Author: cardistry	He giggles and hugs her. "That's cute. I love you."
Author: incanted	She presses a kiss to his forehead.
Author: cardistry	Brilliance snuggles up. "I like it with more, and I like it with extra," he says. "Play with those."
Author: incanted	Bella obeys, snuggling back. She still operates his nerves like he's a piano, but she's a fast learner and has gone beyond gentle flailing. It amuses her to concentrate on some place, drifting between flavors, and then startle him with an intense, pinprick-small touch in an unrelated location.
Author: cardistry	He tends to squeak, giggle, and hug her when she does that.
Author: incanted	All good signs.
Author: cardistry	Also there is snuggling. Lots and lots of snuggling.
Author: incanted	Copious snuggling. As much as he likes.
Author: cardistry	Snuggly snuggling! It's possible he gets a little distracted from the whole enchanting thing. But then, he's got plenty of time.
Author: incanted	All the time in the world. Well, unless his guests get bored and leave.
Author: cardistry	His guests are really unlikely to do that! Well, anyway. Snuggles, and Pants, and probably some sex, and more snuggles, and then he kisses her and hugs her and goes back to his party.
Author: lifes_sake	Cam has shown up. He is making out with Brilliance's favorite Joker at the moment.
Author: cardistry	Brilliance beams at them, hugs Queenie - because you always hug Queenie - and borrows Ghosty to do some enchanting.
Author: pythbox	Brilliance's favourite Joker carries on making out with his favourite Bell.
Author: lifes_sake	Good. That is the idea. Cam might try the two of the deck he hasn't gotten around to at some point, but for the time being he's just visiting his boyfriend who's been gone for awhile.
Author: pythbox	Fine by Jellybean! (Cam totally should try them, though. They are kind of delicious. Says the guy who tastes like literal candy.)
Author: lifes_sake	(That's the plan. First, though, a thorough indulgence of sweet tooth.)
Author: pythbox	Jellybean is very sweet! And he does not cause cavities. No matter how much of him you eat.
Author: lifes_sake	Cam will have to rely on his own self-restraint to stop! Eventually. Sometime. He's managed to interrupt himself from kissing Jellybean before, and he can do it again.
Author: pythbox	Even though Jellybean is the tastiest! Cam sure does have some self-control.
Author: lifes_sake	Yup. Next time an un-Cam-tried Joker wanders by and wants to take a break Cam will be right there, ceasing to nom his Jellybean.
Author: endragoned	There's one!
Author: lifes_sake	Cam waves!
Author: endragoned	Aianon waves back.
Author: lifes_sake	And Cam tilts his head and raises an eyebrow. "You're the only person in this room I haven't had sex with, it's dreadfully asymmetrical," he says.
Author: endragoned	"I would be delighted to help you soothe away this trouble," says the demon.
Author: lifes_sake	"How helpful of you! I'm so glad." The trouble is, in due time, soothed.
Author: endragoned	Aianon makes use of his ability to understand the functioning of bodies, much to their mutual satisfaction. At the end of their time together, he conjures a red fruit the exact size and shape of the human heart - a specific human heart - and hands it to Cam. It smells delicious.
Author: lifes_sake	Cam - looks at it. "What."
Author: endragoned	"It's for you," he says. "I like to make good things for people to eat."
Author: lifes_sake	"I feel rather inappropriately like the wicked queen from Snow White."
Author: endragoned	He laughs. "Do you not like the shape? I can change it."
Author: lifes_sake	"Why is it shaped that way?" Cam asks.
Author: endragoned	He shrugs, fanning his wings. "A whim."
Author: lifes_sake	Cam shrugs and bites into it.
Author: endragoned	It is possibly even more delicious than Jellybean.
Author: lifes_sake	"Nnnnnng," says Cam, and he asks the fruit for its seeds please thank you.
Author: endragoned	The fruit is happy to give them up! Aianon smiles.
Author: lifes_sake	Cam pockets the seeds. "This," he says, "is fantastic, thank you."
Author: endragoned	"You are welcome," says Aianon, and hugs him. Arms, wings, and tail.
Author: lifes_sake	Hugs! Hurray. "Although I'll probably have trouble marketing the fruit if it goes on being shaped like that. Maybe I can get it to grow in stylized heart shapes. That won't gross people out. For some reason."
Author: endragoned	"It is made for you," says Aianon. "I will make another one for other humans, if you want. One with a more pleasing shape."
Author: lifes_sake	"It won't taste nice for other people?"
Author: endragoned	"It will taste nice for other people who are like you in how they taste things."
Author: lifes_sake	Cam laughs. "I have a business, at home," he says. "I'm branching out since I minted, but the primary business is still seeds for useful plants."
Author: endragoned	"I like to make useful plants!" says Aianon.
Author: lifes_sake	"Cool. If you feel like it sometime you should check out Syntropy, make some plants. These," Cam says, patting his pocket, "since they're for me and all, I think I'll just grow 'em in my yard and not for commercial use."
Author: endragoned	"They will be happy to grow for you. I don't know what it is like where you might plant them, so I made them adaptable."
Author: lifes_sake	"Thoughtful of you," says Cam. "I'm thinking they'll be conspicuous around the Seedling office and I have no idea what Renée will think of them in her yard - besides, the tree that's already there is a jerk - so it's probably about time I made my own space palace." He pauses. "I wonder if seeds made outside of Syntropy by non-Syntropy magic will grow up to be clever, in Syntropy. I guess I'll find out."
Author: endragoned	"They will make beautiful trees," he says.
Author: lifes_sake	"I hope they'll make happy trees."
Author: endragoned	"If they are not happy, send for me and I will help them."
Author: lifes_sake	"Unless they're smart and tell me not to, yeah."
Author: endragoned	He shrugs.
Author: lifes_sake	"Well," says Cam, licking his fingers, "thank you, it was delicious."
Author: endragoned	He beams.
Author: lifes_sake	Now there is only Brilliance to wait for to correct wretched asymmetry.
Author: cardistry	Brilliance comes along eventually!
Author: lifes_sake	Cam repeats the same lines. They worked so well last time.
Author: cardistry	"Should we fix that? Let's fix that!"
Author: lifes_sake	"Do let's. C'mere."
Author: cardistry	He goes there. They fix that. Then, snuggles.
Author: lifes_sake	Snuggles, sure. "And the natural order is restored," snickers Cam. "Till we find more of you."
Author: cardistry	"Yep!"
Author: lifes_sake	"You've got a bit of aura coming in," Cam observes idly.
Author: cardistry	"Ooh," he says. "Is it doing anything fun yet?"
Author: lifes_sake	"Nope, just - being an aura."
Author: cardistry	"I better get on that, then," he says, and he kisses Cam cheerfully and wanders off to snag a channel.
Author: lifes_sake	Cam kisses his Jellybean goodbye. Very thoroughly. And he goes home to make himself a space palace. His is going to be on Mercury, not quite within shouting distance of Sol but still nearby.
Author: cardistry	The Jokers continue to have their party. Eventually, Brilliance says to Aurora, +My aura's going strong now! You should come see!+
Author: incanted	+Will I be alarmed by your surroundings if I teleport to where you're at right now?+
Author: cardistry	+Um... one sec,+ he says. There is a brief pause. +Okay, I'm not with everybody else now.+
Author: incanted	Port!
Author: cardistry	Brilliance is brilliant. Light collects on his skin and hair and clothes, glinting off him in a million colours. He glows and sparkles and shines in shifting, radiant patterns. When he spins around, the glow leaves behind fading trails in the air; when he hugs Aurora, it envelops her too.
Author: incanted	"It's beautiful," she breathes.
Author: cardistry	"I know," he says, and kisses her.
Author: incanted	"You're beautiful. Wow."
Author: cardistry	He beams. Fairly literally.
Author: incanted	Hugs. Fascinated open-eyed hugs. She lets her aura free to see if they'll combine at all, the way Angela's and Micaiah's can.
Author: cardistry	Alas, they don't. But Brilliance's is spectacular enough even without help.
Author: incanted	It's true! Aurora tucks hers away again; she finds the threat-gauge feature distracting when she's not using it.
Author: cardistry	Snuggle snuggle!
Author: incanted	"...Hey, you know how you are my Barrier Jacket? Do you suppose you can aura out of it?"
Author: cardistry	"Ooh," he says. "Let's find out!"
Author: incanted	"Go for it."
Author: cardistry	Brilliance steps back; his aura unwraps from around her. He puts her Barrier Jacket on her, and his aura springs back into place, dancing over her clothes and hair and skin just as eagerly as it does over his. For the hell of it, he shifts to staff form and flies into her hand. They look glorious together.
Author: incanted	Bella conjures up a mirror to have a look. "Awesome," she says, beaming fiercely.
Author: cardistry	His aura glows brightly around her. +I love you so much,+ he says happily.
Author: incanted	She kisses the end of Brilliance-the-staff.
Author: cardistry	He giggles.
Author: incanted	"What'd the demon-and-dragon get?"
Author: cardistry	"Aura of comfy," he says, transforming back to human shape and hugging her. "People nearby them are more comfortable."
Author: incanted	"Probably handy for a guy who looks about to invite you to sell him your soul."
Author: cardistry	Brilliance snickers.