[Secondish day of Chuck E Cheese Liminal]

[itsananimalthing]

So hey. Everybody. Tell me what all our asshole patrons had to say about Moebius. I already talked to Malik and Matthew, so I got their stories. Already know that we killed one of 'em, so Moebius was a punishment, presumably for that. Death was behind the whole doing-things-over part, and Devil was behind the whole kill-all-your-friends part.

Also there's the tidbit that Lovers claims they don't make the places they send us to, they just pick 'em. Which is interesting. Unless she was lying, though I'm guessin' she wasn't.

But mostly I wanna hear if any of the rest of you talked about Moebius with your Trump. I got most of my memories of that Jaunt back, but not much of anything from that whole thing we apparently did to earn it, and I'm thinkin' that's gonna be pretty important. I'm hopin' somebody else can give me somethin' to go off of to jump-start workin' on that.

Besides, nobody ever talks about this shit, and we're down to too few people who lived it to let people forget about it.

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[neverfeltthatway]

We called it going on walkabout, except for the past year and a half, that's a name for something else too.

Hey, Luke. I haven't seen you in a long time.

[returnofme]

Hey Armin. I guess technically you still haven't.

[Since he doesn't beam his face at everyone.]

[neverfeltthatway]

[That gets a small smile from him.] I guess I haven't.

Is there anything you want to know about the time you've been gone? I'm not sure how much you've already heard. [And, after all, Armin is the only one who's been around the entire time.]

[returnofme]

... what happened to Joscelin? I couldn't detect him when I got here.

[Joscelin... well, they were friends.]

[neverfeltthatway]

I'm sorry - he's... out of ambit. In a dungeon, somewhere, from what we've heard from our captors. They all are.

Everyone we used to travel with - with you here and Liara gone now, that makes five of us that were present for Moebius.

[returnofme]

... just five of us? Stang.

[He believes Armin, though. If he takes a moment to concentrate he can 'see' all the minds in view and most of them aren't familiar.]

[neverfeltthatway]

[It's hard for Armin, too - after all, he lived through all of it, losing everyone.]

Yeah. You, me, Riddick, Rosalie, and Souji.

[returnofme]

Yeah. That's what I'm sensing.

[neverfeltthatway]

Some of them come back, now and again. I'm the only one from Moebius who hasn't been in a dungeon or on walkabout for some of the time.

And they're all out there right now, somewhere - none of them have ever gone home.

[returnofme]

... none of them?

[neverfeltthatway]

None of them. Nobody goes home once Synodiporia has begun. Not if we can trust what the Arcana have said. [And while it is fairly obvious what Armin thinks about that...] But in this case, I don't see what reason they would have to lie.

They go out of ambit, to another state of being, and for the Arcana it's too much energy to be worth bringing them back before the game is over. What happens to them, and us, then, depends on which Arcana is the victor.

[returnofme]

Stang.

[And that's all he says. He's too floored (not that kind of floored) by the notion to do anything but use one of his weird space swears.]

[neverfeltthatway]

[He raises his eyebrows.] Yes.

If you don't mind me asking, which Arcana marked you?

[returnofme]

This upside-down droid. Riddick calls him Hanged Man. He's not in a Sabacc deck.