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[runs]

[Someone has seen one Changeling record too many for comfort. So many fake Changelings... And that's made her think.]

Does anyone know why this is happening? Shouldn't we have been back on the next jaunt like, last Liminal? ...Did the Arcana leave, or something?

[If she just had a vague idea of how to break out of Liminal Space, she'd have tried to go for it right now because it really looks like it. But she doesn't, and so she takes the thought to the network instead.]

Comments

[rustyhonesty]

This feels like the beginning of Phase Three all over again. There was a long pause on Jaunts and instead Liminal kept changing multiple times... and everyone who wasn't marked was marked.

[runs]

...Do you know if that has happened before that? A month long pause and then things changed?

[rustyhonesty]

I don't recall that happening before. Sometimes we have three liminals instead of two in between but rarely this many.

[runs]

...So it doesn't necessarily indicate that we are entering a new phase.

What were the phases two and one like?

[rustyhonesty]

In phase two they used the Jaunts to see who to mark. Or that's how it seems now... there wasn't really any kind of a competition, but there were conditions for 'win' and 'lose' on them. If we lost, well... Liminal Space wasn't happy.

I'm not sure about phase one.

[runs]

How was Liminal Space not happy?

Why are you not sure about phase one?

[awitchdidit]

My calculations of the calendar put us some time in December. They probably did what American radio hosts do and decided to put in a month-long vacation while playing the same five or six records of holiday music on repeat.

[Deep Liminal interpretations from your local witch.]

[runs]

...you think they're really gone?

[Concentrating on the important part here.]

[awitchdidit]

Some of the psychic effects imply "absence" or "being busy elsewhere". I doubt they've gone far, but they may be paying us somewhat less attention than usual.

[runs]

Well, I guess that doesn't really change much then if they aren't far.

[Says the child and goes to find Beatrice in person. She does not want to continue this conversation in the least guarded place that Liminal has.

So not too long after, she wanders into Beatrice's mansion and looks around, listening hard for an indication of where the witch is.]

[awitchdidit]

[Beatrice's largely been staying home since the strange record mechanisms seemed to take one look at her and give up on showing her something she hadn't already seen. She's quick to find her new guest once Kitty enters the front door.]

Ahaha, welcome, my dear. Did you come for more stimulating conversation, or just want to get away from the foolish recordings?

[runs]

I came because it's less likely that they can access our conversation if we talk in person.

[Not impossible, but at least less likely.]

[haveabiscuit]

My current thought was that adding Lovers back in made them have to rework their schedule and they need time for it.

[runs]

...Maybe they're fighting one another.

Or at least squabbling enough to ignore us while they're busy dealing with people who they think are actually important.

[haveabiscuit]

Quite possibly. They don't seem the sort to enjoy having their plans disrupted.

[So they should try to do that more often]

[runs]

You think they started fighting because we made them tie?

[Huh.]

But how do we make them tie?

[haveabiscuit]

We need a better picture of their goals on each Jaunt. I'm still not sure what we did for Hermit.

[runs]

Well, what did we do for Death?

If we rule out what we did for him we at least know what we didn't do for Hermit.

[flatteries]

Does us staying here usually not last this long?

[ Look, he knows Kitty has been longer than him here, okay, so there's totally no shame in knowing less than some young girl..... The thought still kind of embarrasses him anyway. ]

[runs]

Usually there's two different Liminals and then the next Jaunt starts.

And we're on the fourth now.

[Something is obviously wrong. Or at least off. What even is the definition of wrong in a place like this?]

[flatteries]

Then.. maybe one of them forgot to start off a Jaunt or something? Or they're taking a break for some reason.

[runs]

Or they got bored and decided to abandon us.

[Not convinced.]

[flatteries]

.. Abandon us?

[ That would be Inigo's luck, only one Jaunt after he showed up here.. ]

Shouldn't they send us home first if they got bored?

[unapologeticallyaffected]

It's Christmas break.

[runs]

.......You mean like when [security] staff everywhere is at a bare minimum because everyone wants to take a day off at the same time?