[Open Broadcast: End of Investigation!]

[notinthecards]

Well. That was a very cultural experience, no? But from all the confused noises in my head now, it seems like we have finished the Investigation. Successfully, too. Sometimes when we do well, our benevolent masters give us a few days vacation time, and it looks like that’s the case now. There’s an open portal behind the Midnight Rose, or if you’re stuck far away, just give a shout and Remy will come and get you. Anyone hurt? Or dead, for that matter? There was enough shooting that even on vacation, we should maybe keep our heads down the next few days. Or just day trip to Manhattan.

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[thezerothlaw]

If anyone requires aid, I will volunteer to go back as well.

[Of course he does. He can't be safe and well if someone else isn't.]

[wholeheaded]

I'm all right but... I can't be the only one in need of a drink. And I still don't get what this whole prohibition thingy is supposed to accomplish.

[hakodate]

We had at least one casualty among our newcomers. I'll deal with him.

[Who's gonna go hunt down Yamazaki and guilt like a professional? This guy.]

[unabatedly]

Glad to have you back with us, Remy.

[And she certainly sounds please enough about it. This Jaunt's been too confusing for her. She's still not used to these more modern worlds.]

If anyone's injured, I can heal them. But I'm voting for a drink before we duck off.

[notinthecards]

Looks like we have a dungeon portal here. Maybe hat should be first priority. Still interested?

[notinthecards]

Well, with a speakeasy right outside the door, sober should be an easy problem to fix.

As for Prohibition, mon ami, all it really did was drive up the prices.

[notinthecards]

Maybe check the big candy skull. Usually they wake up in something like a grave.

[notinthecards]

Good to be back, chere. Ambrose already mentioned a drink, and we happen to have a speakeasy just outside the door.

Looks like Drake got a little singed somewhere, but so far, everyone else seems just fine. Or still dead.

[hakodate]

A big candy -

[Liminal space, why u so fuckin' ridiculous. He sighs.]

Got it.

[wholeheaded]

Which is exactly why we just had a sin district back home.

[ let people do what they wanted so long as it could be taxed and regulated, everyone goes home happy. ]

I'm out by the bridge with a few other folks, I'm pretty sure I've got the subway figured out enough to get us back down that way. Um... sorry about the whole deal with Kansas, I sorta improvised.

[thezerothlaw]

Perhaps so. I beg your pardon, as I am still relatively new to this. What is the significance of the dungeon portal?

[notinthecards]

Don't worry. That's all we ever do.

[notinthecards]

Once they were all in cocoons. Like caterpillars.

[hakodate]

Glad I missed that one.

[A beat.]

I think.

[After Moebius, though, who knows.]

[notinthecards]

At the end of a jaunt, sometimes we lose people. They don't come back through the portal. Instead, they get lost, in places like that. Every now and then we have the chance to go and get a few back.

[notinthecards]

All I remember from that one.

[hakodate]

Usually I'd say "better than nothing," but...

[n o p e]

[thezerothlaw]

[That's troubling, indeed.]

Of course I will help. Are there predictable risks involved?

[notinthecards]

There's usually a fight. Something keeping them there. And a maze, something keeping them lost.

[notinthecards]

On the better than nothing scale, for me, it barely registers.

[thezerothlaw]

Then I will offer what aid I can.

[He's not a fighter. He never will be. But he's strong, and he recognises, however reluctantly, that sometimes violence is a necessary evil.]

Where is this portal? I can be there directly, if that is what you desire.

[mentalisolate]

Ah...did we? I seem to have...missed it. Is that not a problem, as long as someone finds himself involved? I'll admit, I was expecting a much stricter system from what I'd heard of the last Jaunt.

[wholeheaded]

Right, and I guess it did kinda work out for us.

[unabatedly]

Good. I'll grab something before we go.

I'll check into him. We lost at least one person during the Jaunt. [She doesn't say Erik's name, content to give him his privacy.] I suppose we can do a head count. I hope we don't lose anyone like we did between last Jaunt and Liminal Space.

[notinthecards]

Better to be lucky than good, they say.