[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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[returnofme]

Well, you've got one more person who remembers it.

[Now here's a mental voice he hasn't heard in years.]

[leftbehindagain]

Death said it was a response to... [There's a pause as Naoki tries to recall the wording.] 'A rebellion the likes of which was not in Fortune's rules.' Whether that was the death of one of their own or not, he didn't say and I didn't ask.

[Mostly because he has his own theories about the one death the Travelers are known to be responsible for.]

He also said the memory loss wasn't intentional, but after Devil set the 'kill all your friends' condition, it was probably a blessing, at least as far as the events of that particular jaunt went.

[hazardlight]

That particular shitstorm was way before my time, but when I was in for my interview with Sun he did say that they choose the Jaunts together, but not very far in advance?

Which I guess isn't really new info, but it's another collaborating data point. And I don't think Sun's got a lot of interest in misleading us on anything. I mean, I kinda suspect he's the sort to flake out on remembering to tell people something important because he gets distracted by something shiny? But I don't think he was lying on any of the shit he was telling me.

[amadine]

I'm not certain whether it would be better if they truly didn't create the worlds they inflict on us - and inflict us on - or worse.

[runawaystory]

If Lovers isn't lying, then how does that even work? Death and Devil just found a world lying around somewhere and customized it for maximum trauma?

[bite_the_hand]

[Eren hasn't spoken much about his conversation with his Arcana, outside of a very select group. But that's mostly because he's been busy and distracted for one reason or another. Now that the topic's been brought back up, he's more than willing to share this time.]

The Chariot talked about Moebius, and it told me more about that rebellion Naoki mentioned. Not a lot, but enough to know the Travelers refused to play their game. Everyone just stayed in Liminal Space. I don't know why. It said it wasn't paying attention to that Jaunt, and I didn't get the feeling it was lying about anything. But the Jaunt failed because time ran out. That's why they made time repeat itself during Moebius. To make it impossible for the Investigators to just quit again.

[neverfeltthatway]

I didn't get a chance to ask ROSE about Moebius, I'm afraid - she ended the conversation before I had the chance.

But then, that's part of her idiom, as far as I can tell - letting people figure things out on their own.

[awitchdidit]

I'd tend to agree with the idea that the Arcana don't create the boards for this game, they just plop us down into appropriate roles. As Thorne pointed out to me a while ago, there are too many external threats that the Arcana obviously see as competition or threats - that King fellow and the Illuminants, for example - to believe they control what is present there.

That said, I didn't ask Magician about Mobius either. I wasn't there and I'm not sure she was involved, anyway. She also doesn't seem the type to dwell on dead comrades...at least openly.