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[wholeheaded]

Ah... hey everyone, it's Ambrose. I was Milo for a while there but I'm back to being me and one hundred percent less tree-like. So, I've gotta ask do we uh. I mean, some other folks've gotta be wondering too so--

[ a slight pause, then in a rush: ]

What's the least harmful way we can test for immortality? Cuz I wouldn't put it past the Arcana to leave people stuck with that.

[ he's totally not asking for a friend, okay. ]

Speaking of Arcana: I'd like to meet with all the folks who've been Marked by the Fool - he calls himself Don Orlea - so maybe we can coordinate or. Something. Dunno if we want to do it all together or what but either way, I'll provide snacks.

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[wholeheaded]

Hello Sara, good to meet you. And... yeah, with how everything's going we should see about working together.

[ there's a little fussy concerned pause. ] How hard was the hard way?

[otomechapilot]

My overlay might have stabbed a god.

(There's a nice solid beat)

The one who was tossing the other gods down the mountain, so she deserved it, but still.

[helborn]

... Wait, you stabbed Hebe?

Damn. Nice work.

[otomechapilot]

I mean. Sarai did, not me. She figured she was a monster, for all her blood was silver.

...I guess if I'm getting congratulated she probably wasn't that wrong.

[wholeheaded]

Wow. Both of those are pretty high on the sentences-you-don't-get-to-use-every-day-o-meter.

[otomechapilot]

It's certainly a way to start my Jaunts and also to start Infiltrating.

[wholeheaded]

Gosh, that was your first? Ah, well, welcome to Traveling. My first infiltration was a super sorcerer who embodied all things symbolized by the color violet. Kind of a bad guy. Folks are forgiving, who we are on jaunts isn't really us.

[otomechapilot]

Weird. At least I was a hero this time. ...More or less.

Violet. Why violet?

[wholeheaded]

It was a world called Dolorosa, and magic was channeled through color symbolism. The most powerful mages were called Illuminants and they were more or less the embodiments of each Color on the Spectrum, Red and Yellow and Green and all that. I was the Violet Illuminant and he was all about illusion, ambiguity, royalty... he was a snobby lying liar who lied. It was messy.