[A day or so after the Werewolf Mess]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall's voice pops back onto the network a good long while after his aborted, panicked message from when the full moon rose. His voice isn't panicked anymore, now, but it is tense, and he's talking a bit faster than he usually does.]

Well. So. It's Randolph Lyall again-- I'm back, and no longer a maddened werewolf, or, in fact, a Heraclide. I'm very sorry about all that. Very... very sorry.

But I'm not in liminal space. I had to punch through to get to the network, the way I punched through to the other Jaunt a month or two back now, and I'm fairly sure I don't have very long.

I appear to be... underground? The underworld, perhaps? I know some of us were going here, are you still here? I would... really very much like to get out of here, but I can't seem to get a proper portal open to liminal space. And even if I could, I would just have to come back down here when I opened it again, and--

[He cuts himself off, and starts again, a bit more steadily, but even more quickly, trying to impart information.]

--and even if no one can get down here, I did have another vision when I came to. Watch out for shooting stars. Either at dawn or dusk or some other time where the sun and moon aren't making a mess of things, there's going to be shooting stars, and then a very large earthquake. We may want to start thinking about disaster relief, or else finding whatever idiot gods or titans or whomever are going to cause it and stop them before it happens.

... but I really would like out of here, too. Please. If anyone can manage it.

Comments

[memoryandtheft]

Can you get to Liminal Space when you're being two people at once like that? Or should we start scouting out safe locations when we hit a new world, just in case?

[professorwolf]

I can, thankfully. I did it last Jaunt with no ill effects. Somehow the people we're sharing mind-space with don't actually notice anything amiss, like they don't realize I'm talking on the network or turning into a wolf. If Lanides had survived my encounter with Thorne, I even think he wouldn't have remembered going mad and eating people-- though other people would remember.

It's best, really, that we were killed off.

[memoryandtheft]

...Every time I think this entire Traveling thing couldn't get more horrifying, someone manages to prove me wrong.

[professorwolf]

I'm sorry. I know it's not really pleasant to think about. But I'm grateful nonetheless, since otherwise we might have had this same situation last Jaunt. I won't turn down anything that keeps people safe.