About a day after the return from the Jaunt

[amadine]

This is certainly the clearest message we've had from our delightful hosts in quite some time. Maybe they actually intend to make us aware of which of them is winning after all, instead of leaving us to guess and grope after everything.

Tell me, I'm curious: was it the intent of our Investigators that the Hermit should win, or was it just left to chance?

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[dino_zarf]

We weren't trying to tip it toward one particular Arcana. We just wanted to do something about the disease and the Deepsinger.

[amadine]

Sheer dumb luck, then. Not an encouraging start.

Not a surprising one, either.

[dino_zarf]

I think we were a bit stuck in the old single goal mindset.

[thornsofmalkav]

... oh god. Why didn't... I mean, we were stupid busy with all that crap like the vaccines and the Deepsinger, but.

Oh my fucking god why didn't I start this discussion when we still had time to... Fuck.

[amadine]

That's always been the way we've done things in the past.

It's just not a habit we can keep going forward. Not if we want any say in the outcome of this farce.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, no. You're right.

So I guess this means whoever starts the check in should probably start the 'Who is it?' discussion.

[awondrousplace]

Honestly, I think the deck was stacked against Amina in the first place. I was not Investigating, but looking back, all of the main human groups, at least, were predisposed to either wanting to leave or wanting to stay. I am uncertain about the sea groups, as my overlay rather did not like them in the first place.

I do not believe I saw that many Investigators.

[amadine]

Given how quickly the Crownbreakers gave up on isolation, and how loudly so many whined about the few days it was maintained, I'd say your Amina started with an advantage, but couldn't shift opinion enough to maintain it through the plague flare.

[awondrousplace]

She's not mine, not by a long shot. My particular host is a robot without legs.

However, as I mentioned, my overlay knew very little about the sea groups, so my perspective is likely quite skewed.

[ninjayeehaw]

Th'Pulao school wanted info, not friendship, I can say that much fer 'em. Like, a few individuals in th'group were workin' under their own agendas, maybe they mighta wanted t'stay, but fer the most part I don't think Teruo's grouo was gonna stick around for long even if they did get the info they needed.

[willyousee]

If I may ask, what information were they truly looking for, and what were they going to do with it?

[naturaltwohands]

Lovers... Lost?

[He can barely breathe, and his mental voice is weak. And for good reason:

She was one of two chances to bring his father home, from what they were told. And now there is only one that has promised it left: Justice.]

[amadine]

So it would seem, and there's little enough reason to mislead us on that point at this juncture.

[naturaltwohands]

Damn.

[seestheworld]

I'm not sure how many people knew it was Hermit. Lovers was the one we knew about.

[amadine]

That doesn't exactly make things better.

[claudiometer]

Like Minako said, most of us didn't know for sure who was running the show. We never really had a chance to sit down and noodle it out, and I think everyone who knows enough to start the conversation was either infiltrating or sidetracked.

[amadine]

Perhaps we should be certain to make time in the future.

[claudiometer]

Well, yes, now that we've got the hang of the new status quo. If we were gonna miss anyone putting in an appearance it figures it'd be Hermit, but we can't take that kind of chance going forward.

[teamsad]

Yeah, we kind of tripped into that. Which... doesn't seem like the worst thing that could have happened?

Have we discussed at all which of the Arcana we should be pulling for? Or trying to remove from the competition as soon as possible? I assume most of us are more or less sympathetic to the ones who marked us, but that doesn't necessarily mean a world made in their image is an ideal outcome...

[professorwolf]

This is definitely something we should discuss, at the very least to narrow down the ones we don't want to win. I doubt picking one of the Arcana or even a small handful to specifically root for is going to be very useful at this point in the game, but finding the ones we absolutely don't want to come out on top is a good start on narrowing the field to something acceptable.

We should also perhaps make it clear what each Arcana has told us they want out of this, and what we have been promised. It would be useful to compare what we all have been told.

[teamsad]

I expect we're going to have a lot more disagreements when we get down to the final handful, but that's a long way out. I'm hoping it'll be easier for a majority of us to agree what doesn't seem like a good outcome... but I don't actually know enough about the Arcana to make that call myself.

[ Except that she likes Justice, enough to fight for her when it comes to it. She's keeping that card close to her chest for now, though. ]

I didn't get any promises out of mine. The stakes here seem a little too high to worry about what's in it for me.

[amadine]

The outcome might have been favourable. That doesn't make the methods useful.

And that's quite the assumption.

[morbirdinterest]

I, at least, was not aware of any attempt to tip it one way or the other.

[amadine]

Apparently, no one was.