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

[leftbehindagain]

That depends on what you mean by 'blatant' - there were like four of them on the Grid, and a pay phone that called some of them afterward. Actively pulling people aside for chats is... the last six months or so?

[You know, as far as one can tell time when jaunts are involved.]

There's another option for bringing people out of overlays now. You're still sharing a body with them, but you can get on the network and into Liminal Space like usual. I don't know how many of us can do it - I seem to have discovered it by accident.

Which faction were you in, on the Grid?

[eldritchwheelies]

Red. Uh, the Defenders. Low-Priority stiff, good at intuiting how to fight Automata, basically made attack Functions for other people. And I remember - Magician, Hermit, and Devil were not hard to figure out. Tower wasn't much harder.

Do it. If I'm ever not myself, just do it. Do you have any idea what it's like, knowing as yourself exactly what you could have done to have salvaged a Jaunt, if only you hadn't Infiltrated?

[leftbehindagain]

That would explain why I didn't bump into you. I was investigating and ended up neck-deep in the rebellion, which... didn't draw a whole lot of Defenders. [For probably obvious reasons.]

If I'm myself to do it, I'll keep an eye out for you. And I can't say that I've been on one that... intensely personal.

[He's guessing Harrogate, if only because he's not sure anyone could have predicted the Grid and it didn't particularly need 'salvaging,' but he's not going to ask.]

[eldritchwheelies]

Yeah, it wouldn't have.

Thanks. I'd say I owe you, but... we're all Travellers here, I'm gonna pay it forward.

[If he's aware of what her world is like, Harrowgate becomes an even better guess; she was a student of the occult and a computational sorceress.]

[leftbehindagain]

Hey, we did reel in a couple. [It was a good rebellion and Naoki's still glad he was part of it ok ok.]

It's no trouble. Being stuck in a useless overlay isn't good even when you don't know exactly what the jaunt needs.

[eldritchwheelies]

...no kidding.

Even hearing the name of the play as myself could have stopped it.