She's baaaack

[acapriciousthing]

Okay, Death here. Back to... being Death and not a random goth.

I know what the situation looked like to a random tourist. Can someone fill me in on what we've found beneath the surface? Something's obviously direly wrong.

[The fact that the network went like this between her getting de-infiltrated and actually getting this out there is a pretty big clue]

Especially the ghosts. What do we know about the ghosts?

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[elevatoravatar]

Death as Nyx, or death as another incarnation?

I apologize, I have been tied up in finding artifacts from this world, but do you need assistance in destroying ghosts?

[acapriciousthing]

Death as in dividing life from what comes before and after. IN one universe.

[Since that matters now]

I'm not sure if destroying is quite what I want to be doing. I want to find out why we have ghosts at all, for one thing.

[elevatoravatar]

I have gazed upon the endless collection of universes once. It can make sorting out things difficult.

As for not destroying, have you considered incapacitating, or attempting to talk with them?

[acapriciousthing]

Talking to them sounds like a good start. Finding out why they're here, if this is where they're actually meant to be and if it isn't how to get them there.

[elevatoravatar]

It also may be useful to find what broke the barrier between worlds. In my experience, the rite of power frequently determines the type of being you will be dealing with.

Do you think that information will be in the giant pit?

[acapriciousthing]

It seems like the sort of answer that is most likely to be in the most dangerous location.

[elevatoravatar]

I was planning to explore it a bit once the ground settled a bit. Do you wish to accompany me?

[acapriciousthing]

I would. None of us should be there alone, but we can't just ignore it.

[elevatoravatar]

Well, if you like I can wait for you. I will be in the uniform of my ex office as a Velvet Room attendant. I suspect you may be the one being who would not be off put working with someone who has pacted with their world's avatar of death.

[acapriciousthing]

You're right that I'm not put off. I'm not so sure about being the only one who wouldn't be.

It won't take me long to get there.

[elevatoravatar]

I was merely going to look for a copy of the King in Yellow, but I will wait near the lip.

A friend suggested the Buddy system, but didn't wish to go by the code name Buddy, what are your thoughts?

[acapriciousthing]

Buddy wouldn't be the strangest thing I've been called.

I think there's history with the King in Yellow.

[elevatoravatar]

Yes, it seems that way. I simply want it for persona research, but people seem quite afraid of it. From what I understand as long as mortals don't read it, or see the play the book is quite harmless.

[acapriciousthing]

I think the king was a player in the last excursion here and people don't want to take the chance of a repeat.

[elevatoravatar]

A player as we are, or one outside our realm of influence?

[acapriciousthing]

An outsider. Something running against the Arcana.

[elevatoravatar]

These games seem to need a better mediator to keep things like this from happening.

[acapriciousthing]

I'd argue that this kind of interference is another reason to not play games.

[elevatoravatar]

I was created to assist on one side in such games so I can not say yay or nay, it simply is what I am used to.

I simply have abandoned my position in those games, so this is my first time seeing it as a pawn.

[acapriciousthing]

My younger siblings play games sometimes. They forget how much power they have and how badly they can damage mortal lives.

I'm not sure how old the Arcana are, but it should be old enough to know better.

[elevatoravatar]

The Velvet Room was created to assist the mortals in the games Philrman and Nyarlathotep so I do have some insight into the working of Great Old Ones.

They are quite good at causing problems, but I wonder about the Arcana.

[acapriciousthing]

That experience could be valuable down there.

[If they're right. And they probably are]

The Arcana aren't so different from my family. They just tend toward their most juvenile moments.

[elevatoravatar]

Are they young in a galactic sense then?

As for that experience, I myself have spent most of my existence dealing with an issue man brought on itself when it thought it could manipulate those powers outside of game. I still do not understand why anyone would use despair to awaken death under the idea that they then would be able to remake humanity in their own image? And I am incapable of even shaking those responsible till they answer me because they are all dead.

[brokers]

They do not seem to be commonplace in this world. Most accounts I have found appear to either be fictional, or be presented as fictional by the person reporting them.

[acapriciousthing]

So they're definitely an aberration. Probably from some kind of interference.

[brokers]

It may have something to do with the threats faced the last time there were Travelers in the city. If not, it is a disturbing coincidence.

[acapriciousthing]

It sounds like what happened last time would be powerful enough to pull it off. So let's hope there aren't two forces that could.

[brokers]

I expect there are. If we are truly unfortunate, they may be the only things keeping each other in check.

[acapriciousthing]

We'll have to tread carefully about that.

[brokers]

I only hope we can manage that.