aurum tourism

[temporal_affairs]

There is a Janepoint in each of the capitals, including this one in Forks. It has its own building, and in it two vampires are waiting - Nathan, because his mate is incoming, and Alice, because she's supposed to check if the guests are going to need to avoid meeting anybody for matey reasons (Jellybean, and Cam, are both coming and both in potential danger of being mated to).

But she can't see anything till they show up.

Cam arrives first, despite having been a later addition to the expedition - no one was distracting him with last-minute goodbye makeouts - and she clears him and he waits around for Jellybean.

Comments

[pythbox]

"'Cause I bet you'd end up falling in with Iggy and then I'd have to kill you or something and I don't really wanna bother," he suggests.

[taste_tester]

"Iggy? Who's Iggy?"

[pythbox]

"He's kind of a problem. His main deal is lying to people and offering them power so they'll do stuff for him and then killing them when he gets bored."

[taste_tester]

"If somebody killed me I'd turn up Downside, but come to think of it I'm not sure if Bella would bother to get me out at this point," muses Addy. "But if he's only lying about the power that'd be no fun, would it? I'd never get to play with anything he promised. So that's not a concern, is it?"

[pythbox]

"He's a really good liar," says Jellybean.

[taste_tester]

"I could show up borrowing Maggie," suggests Addy.

[pythbox]

Jellybean cracks up.

[taste_tester]

"You know what she does, right?"

[pythbox]

"I can guess!"

[taste_tester]

"So there's that! Then d'you suppose I could go to your world?"

[pythbox]

"I don't really give a shit," says Jellybean, "and I can't put you there myself, so why're you asking me?"

[taste_tester]

"Jane does what Golden says, Golden'll ask Cam, Cam'll ask you 'cause you've met me and he hasn't."

[pythbox]

"And I'll tell him I don't really give a shit," says Jellybean.

[taste_tester]

"He's not gonna ask you if you care, he's gonna ask you if it's a good idea, can I bite your hand again?"

[pythbox]

"Nope," he says, "feels weird now, I'm bored, bye," and he teleports to the Aurum version of the Joker's asteroid.

[luminous_regnant]

This one is not terraformed. It's just a rock.

[pythbox]

But it fulfills the criterion of 'away', so he'll take it.

He wonders what Nathan and the Joker are up to. Probably sex. [Hey, are you guys fucking?]

[manofmyword]

[Yep,] the Joker says cheerfully. [Why, did you wanna watch?]

[pythbox]

[I'll try Cam first,] he laughs.

[Hey, whatcha up to?]

[lifes_sake]

[Still talking to Golden. You can come talk to us too if you want.]

[pythbox]

[Sure.]

Port!

[lifes_sake]

Cam and Golden are the only ones having much of a conversation, but Edward is there, too, and he indeed does not seem to find Cam particularly unsettling.

"Hey, Jellybean," says Cam, putting an arm around Jellybean's waist and tugging him over. "I don't think you actually met Golden, I think you were off doing your own thing by the time she showed up to have a look at me. This is her. Golden, this is my Jellybean."

[luminous_regnant]

"A pleasure," says Golden, and Edward, behind her, nods once with a neutral expression on his face.

[pythbox]

Jellybean wraps his arms around Cam's waist and leans on him comfortably, making sure to keep his aura closed to prevent imperial incidents.

"Hi," he says. "Whatserface is kinda creepy. And really pushy."

[luminous_regnant]

"Addy? Yes. Both of those things. Also completely amoral and only barely kept under control by the fact that she can get access to more interesting magic by keeping me happy than otherwise, so thank you for not attempting to grant her access to any of yours, I would have had to have words with you or asked Elspeth to do so."