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

[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.

[itsananimalthing]

I got the impression that they just didn't have anywhere to go to. But I'll keep digging, see if there's anything more to it.

[awitchdidit]

Hm. If anyone's going to be here for not a reason related to the game, it's going to be the remains of Fortuna's win. Still, I'm going to work with the assumption that anyone present in Liminal Space is here for a reason, even if it's just somebody's whim.

[itsananimalthing]

Somebody's whim ain't really a reason that matters, in the long run. At least not if it's the whim of somebody who's dead.

[If it'd been someone still alive, then it would be something one could learn from or manipulate. But somebody dead? Pretty useless.]

[awitchdidit]

What I mean is, it's more than likely that if they were on the game board, they served a purpose in the Arcana's game. I just admit the chances of that are somewhat lower when we're talking about a game designed by the embodiment of chance.

[itsananimalthing]

Until we find out how they were picked last round, who the winner before Fortuna was, won't get us very far to speculate. But I'm workin' on that.

[He pauses, then adds:]

I wasn't very friendly back then. Might be I never found out. But I'm still gonna try.