Arcana-talk time [A day or two into the new liminal]

[professorwolf]

We're still assuming that the liminal space before a Jaunt represents the Arcana competing in it, yes? I know someone's mentioned this earlier, but it definitely needs to be highlighted-- I think it's pretty obvious this time that the contest will be between Chariot and Tower. The giant wooden horse running through a thunderstorm really couldn't be more blatant. For once.

[He's not great at understanding symbolism, but damn if this wasn't an easy one.]

So if that's right, it'll be a contest of motion and persistence, versus dramatic change and catastrophe. I think it's easy enough to decide who we want to support, in this case. We'll just have to find ways to make sure we see what sort of conditions make for a win for each ideal.

Any ideas for what to look for and how to keep things from devolving into a catastrophe? Those seem to happen a lot when we're around, unfortunately.

Comments

[fridgeninja]

Let me think about it.

Back on the Spark, the locals took over the psychic network. We've had two Jaunts in the universe with the Starmovers, who seem to have some kinds of power the Arcana don't. Questing Country is a different look at that same universe, I think, and it's one giant Liminal Space. In Purgatory, Travelers were supposed to retrieve the Divine Name, but we didn't manage it. When we were in the Bando peninsula, the Arcana seemed like rivals to the dragon-spirits there. When we were in Newport, the Manticore might have been a rival, too...

... That's eleven of sixteen Jaunts I remember, counting revisits separately. Every world we've been to twice, with one exception, and only one world we've only been to once.

[memoryandtheft]

Could be a coincidence, but if it is, that's a lot of coincidence.

[fridgeninja]

I hadn't put all of it together like that before. If every powerful group is someone they're trying to undermine...

Hm. It means that, the way we learn things as we travel, we might pick up enough to stand up to them.