Milliways time dilation makes it hard to determine exactly how long Ophelia spends in a pile of Jokers. She does quite a lot of shapeshifting, including mimicking the other Jokers and playing a game of who-can-be-the-fluffiest-thing with Petaal and Ivy. (There is not really a clear winner, but there wasn't meant to be.)
But she never takes her original form. No one cares - it's moderately obvious that the shape she met them in wasn't the one she was born with, but she doesn't show anyone what she used to look like and they are all fine with that.
She amasses a large store of coins. She learns how to freecast. She doesn't bother enchanting herself an aura just yet. She conjures cake. Everyone freecasts to the Joker's asteroid in Origin and she redecorates it extravagantly.
It's pretty obvious to all the Jokers that Ophelia wants wishcoins for something, and has some reason to be deeply paranoid about telling anybody what it is. None of them raise a fuss about it. She's early-phase, but she's still a Joker; she can solve her own problems if she wants to. So.
Ophelia freecasts home, with a dormant Sue-link as her line back to the rest of them. (By admission, Janegems are basically spying devices. She doesn't feel like taking chances with being spied on. She trusts her own alts, after they all linked up and shared their various histories with her and nobody said a thing about how much she was leaving out of what she shared in return. She has no idea how she would even begin to verify that a strange Bella was actually a Bella, and has no point of reference at all for Jane herself.)
And Trouble perches on a roof as a pigeon, and brainphones Bella.
no subject
But she never takes her original form. No one cares - it's moderately obvious that the shape she met them in wasn't the one she was born with, but she doesn't show anyone what she used to look like and they are all fine with that.
She amasses a large store of coins. She learns how to freecast. She doesn't bother enchanting herself an aura just yet. She conjures cake. Everyone freecasts to the Joker's asteroid in Origin and she redecorates it extravagantly.
It's pretty obvious to all the Jokers that Ophelia wants wishcoins for something, and has some reason to be deeply paranoid about telling anybody what it is. None of them raise a fuss about it. She's early-phase, but she's still a Joker; she can solve her own problems if she wants to. So.
Ophelia freecasts home, with a dormant Sue-link as her line back to the rest of them. (By admission, Janegems are basically spying devices. She doesn't feel like taking chances with being spied on. She trusts her own alts, after they all linked up and shared their various histories with her and nobody said a thing about how much she was leaving out of what she shared in return. She has no idea how she would even begin to verify that a strange Bella was actually a Bella, and has no point of reference at all for Jane herself.)
And Trouble perches on a roof as a pigeon, and brainphones Bella.
[Hey. I found a thing.]