A public service announcement and a request.

[eldritchwheelies]

Hey all. Been a while. It's Madoka Mawaru. First Jaunt Harrowgate, last Jaunt before getting Dungeoned I spent on the Grid as the Malware/Automaton Defenses Optimization and Compiler App. Sorry to worry you - I just came back from talking with Best Pony. How long have the Champs been so blatant?

Anyway. Come find me. I'll be around - gonna charge my phone, then see if someone put up a place to stay or can make food.

A little bit later, there's something like a mental groan.

...One last thing. I didn't want to have to ask this, but... I was worse than useless as I was, Infiltrated in Harrowgate and the Grid.

Every single traveller here has blanket permission to shock my Overlay out of a Jaunt, using whatever it takes to do it. I know... at least one way to do it, though I normally wouldn't recommend it.

Comments

[eldritchwheelies]

"Either your Ancient One was much less powerful, you were much better at stopping the incursion, or both," Madoka says. "But then, SHUIZN is one of the nastier ones."

She nods. "Based on that, and what you've seen... which other Arcana are worth half a second of our time?" she says.

[truerevelation]

Kanji thinks for a moment. "Hermit seems alright from when I've talked to him, and ... I think he at least gets letting his folks be independent." Never mind the dog thing. "Emperor and Empress are decent in a ... 'your parents know best' kinda way. Naoki's always said good stuff about Death and the one talk with him I had kinda agrees with that, and I ain't talked to Justice but I've heard good things. Magician's pretty tight with Chariot, too, but I ain't dealt with her. Couple of my pals rave about Sun, but ... I dunno how much is that he chose 'em for themselves, and how much is what he's like."

[eldritchwheelies]

She thinks about this. "Hermit would want to be left alone, and would understand why we want to be left alone. Death probably wants this over and done with as much as we do; that fits and I'll ask Naoki when I get the chance. Justice would also by its very nature be on our side until we eff up royal; what was done to us can't possibly be a useful definition of Just. Magician could go either way - her, Magician being female here is interesting, my training had a dood Magician."

Not merely 'dude' but exaggerated, drawled dooood.

"Sun... Sun's about hope, optimism, and the Truth. I'm inclined to believe your friend when they say he's decent. As decent as these things are. They are Ancient Ones by any useful definition, and my world probably has a file on them."