Pre-Moebius Sharing [A couple days into the racetrack liminal]

[itsananimalthing]

So a lot of you know I've been tryin' to rebuild memories from before Moebius. For you new people, Moebius was a Jaunt before most of you got here, were we died a lot and lost our memories every morning. A lot of that stuck.

[Look, he's being helpful, filling things in for people who don't know the story. Isn't that nice of him?]

Managed to put together somethin' kinda big out of them.

[Enjoy a brief lifestream of Riddick's strange vision: everything is tinted slightly purple, sources of light are doubly bright, and everything seems much more focused on heat and motion. It's an image of his hands, held apart in front of him, and after a second, an arc of electricity jumps between them, from one hand to the other. He holds it only briefly, then lets it dissipate.]

We can make energy out of liminal stuff. Claudia don't need to shoot me with her electricity gun to power lightcycles no more, we can just make that shit.

Came with somethin' else interesting while I was tryin' to put that trick back together. I was on at least four Jaunts before Moebius happened, might be more-- but there were people back then from the last round of this. The one Fortune won. We called 'em the Unlucky Dead. I don't got much about 'em yet, just a couple names and faces, but I'm workin' on it.

Figured that might be important to know.

[The last bit is said dryly. He knows that's an understatement.]

Comments

[galvanizer]

I'm still a bit hazy on things before Moebius, but if you don't mind helping, perhaps I could piece things together and remember some of the tricks I picked up before I went missing?

... And we might be able to find some more on the Unlucky Dead. The name vaguely rings a bell.

[A frustrated 'growl' of a sigh.]

This never gets any better, this damn amnesia.

[itsananimalthing]

It doesn't. That's why I started fightin' back, to get back what I could. It takes a lot of work, and a lot of that work's in the brain. But I can try and teach you what I know about it.

Helps if you have somethin' to start with. I started with Moebius itself, since I still had a few shreds from that, and Nova Venizia, since we'd been there before.

[galvanizer]

I can deal with brain work, just point me in the right direction. I wasn't here for Nova Venezia, though. I think I got brought back after that revisit.

[forcechanic]

Okay I know that Moebius stuff is important but...

We can make energy? I mean I guess if we can make matter it makes sense but still that would be so useful. No more trying to cobble together weird clockwork generators...

[itsananimalthing]

Yeah, kid. It's pretty useful. You can come find me to learn it, or you can track down Matthew. He helped.

[forcechanic]

Where are you now?

[She and Matthew are on... awkward terms. Vader.]

[reallymean]

You've been putting those pieces back together? How?

[itsananimalthing]

With a lot of time and a lot of work. You wanna learn it, it'll take some time to get you up to speed, but I can start pointin' you in the right direction of you wan.

[reallymean]

I do.

I've never been afraid of a bit of work.

[claudiometer]

...Holy shit this is super relevant to my interests how does that work. [Given that Claudia's one of Liminal Space's main 'tinkers with electricity' people, her enthusiasm prooooobably isn't much of a surprise.]

Not uninterested in the other part, but I'll be of about negative help there, since I wasn't around for it.

[itsananimalthing]

[Hello, person he expected to be one of the first ones to pipe up to this. He sounds amused when he replies.]

Get down to the forge and I'll show you.

segue into action here?

[claudiometer]

Be there in a sec.

[truerevelation]

Man, that's a hell of a trick! Been blowing my dreamcatcher tryin' to keep some'f my junk powered...

Is it... uh. How d'you get it working?

[itsananimalthing]

It's like makin' somethin' out of liminal stuff, but stopping before it becomes that something. If you really wanna know, come find the forge and I'll walk you through it. Or track down Matthew, he helped me work on it.

[truerevelation]

... huh. I think I get whatcha mean. But yeah, I'll grab one of you guys sometime if you don't mind - thanks.

[awitchdidit]

Oh! Of course. If we can make matter out of nebulous liminal aether, naturally we can do the same with energy.

That's very, very interesting about the previous players. We haven't seen any trace of them since Mobius, have we?

[itsananimalthing]

Nope. I only have vague memories of them, myself. Fleeting glimpses in other memories. They weren't there for Moebius or for the first time we hit the floating city.

[awitchdidit]

Maybe their forms only carried over to the very earliest parts of this round...I get the distinct impression the lingering amnesia after Mobius was not an intentional part of the game. It could be that they were brought into this round as an information source, and their knowledge was meant to be passed down continuously from player to player.

[butthemiracleneverhappen]

...There was a round of the Arcana's game where we were dying and dying and dying again in an endless curve of time. Unaware of the past iterations.

I.

(There's a very long pause.)

Please describe the environs of Mobeus. (She's not sure what would be worse: it being in Hinamizawa on the banks of the Onigafuchi Swamp... or another game like it.)

[fridgeninja]

A jungle island at night, with concrete bunkers and hidden cameras.

[itsananimalthing]

You put it that way and it sounds like Belljar, too. They had all that. Just not the dying over and over part. Makes you wonder what it is about social experiments and jungle islands.

Wasn't always at night, either. Spent a full 24-hours there, then woke up again and started it all over.

[dalectable]

[There's a flicker of amusement from Vilari.]

Did I ever tell you about a friend of mine who showed me a trick using electricity from his fingertips?

[itsananimalthing]

Don't think so. Why, you gonna tell me now?

[There's a grin in his voice. It's actually possible that she has (mun finds it vaguely familiar, but is too lazy to go digging for the thread) and he just wants to hear her tell it again.]

[bite_the_hand]

Whoa! So we can make our own electricity now too?

[Eren might be from a world that hasn't invented electricity yet, but he ended up studying the basics of how it works if only to avoid shocking himself every time he has an encounter with modern technology. Although after that initial reaction the rest of what Riddick said finally sinks in. When Eren speaks again his voice is much less excited and instead is much more serious.]

...The Unlucky Dead, huh? I guess you don't remember why you called them that?

[itsananimalthing]

I think because they were dead. Didn't have a world to go back to after the last Jaunt. Guess that's what Fortune did, sent everybody back where they came from.

And yeah. We can make our own electricity.