[Backdated to second day of Liminal Carol III]

[summerorange]

Is--is anyone else getting warnings of the future?

I...I need to know if I'm the only one getting them. Because if I'm not? I think there's a terrible danger ahead...

Comments

[haremtrap]

I saw dragons fighting. Big ones, not the little ones people brought back from that one planet. They didn't seem to be fighting us though, so...maybe we just need to stay out of the way?

What'd you see?

[summerorange]

Western dragons, or eastern? I think the little ones seem more like the dragons of western folklore...

My future self, walking on a lava-like road while ash rain down around her--me. She was warning me about what they--I mean, 'us' would do if we went back to save 'her'.

...I think that it must be dire indeed, and not just because of where my future self was.

[haremtrap]

One was more western style, the other was more eastern style. The western dragon was WAY bigger.

Any idea who 'she' is? Was? Will be?

[summerorange]

I don't know. My future self didn't say who, only that if we do go back, we can't mess it up, or we would end up like that. I - I'm afraid that if we do...it would have terrible consequences on the world we're in...or worse.

[haveabiscuit]

I saw us back in Achaia. And Prometheus knows.

[summerorange]

Prometheus? Wasn't he one of the gods there?

[haveabiscuit]

One of the Titans. The one who stole fire for the humans.

[summerorange]

Oh! And he...knows about us?

Is that supposed to be something to be worried about?

[otomechapilot]

Two of my future selves got together to send me a warning, yeah.

They told me to tell you all, and the Arcana too, that time isn't a loop or a line. It's both. It spirals out.

[summerorange]

...time is a...spiral?

Are you saying that we may be dealing with time travel in the future?

[otomechapilot]

If we haven't already. God knows the Arcana have been doing this game for more than one round.

I mean I have personal experience with Dreamy Time Weirdness but Future Me and Later Future Me specifically said the Arcana need to know about this.

[summerorange]

Future you and Later--?!

I think I'm getting a headache.

[amadine]

There's always terrible danger ahead. And I'd caution against taking these visions as truth. Contingency plans are useful - trusting the Arcana to be honest, or to present information that actually means what it appears to...isn't.

[summerorange]

Even if these visions may be from your future selves? Or potential future selves?

Though...you might have a point about the Arcana. Half the time, they don't speak very clearly.

[amadine]

They may be from your potential future self - or from a card-god who can appear as anything it likes, or some other self three realities over, or drawn from your own fears and hopes.

I'm not saying we should dismiss everything we've seen out of hand - if you've seen something you can work toward or take precautions against, by all means do so. But looking too closely for a clear prophecy drawn from anything Liminal Space stirs up is as likely to end in disaster as doing nothing would.

[summerorange]

Perhaps...perhaps you may have a point.

But still...to think that such a disaster to happen again is possible...It concerns me.

[razorblade_empress]

Assuming the one I saw was true, there's a chance we may end up seriously pissing the Arcana off again.

...Although Magician seemed to be pretty impressed.

[summerorange]

Again? How did - I mean how would we manage that?

[razorblade_empress]

The vision neglected to show me that part. [Of course.] It just showed a portal opening and Magician coming out to tell me not to go in there - that after what we'd just pulled they weren't in the mood to talk to anyone from the "any of the Still Places" and that we were on the Naughty List with the "Skittles." I have no idea what either of those terms mean; I'm assuming they're from either before or after my last time out.

She did say whatever it was we did was "slick" and offered to answer one question, as long as I didn't pull anything slick on her, which was the point where the vision ended.

[Of course.]

[summerorange]

The Arcana Magician? And...do you know what she meant by the 'Still Places'?

[Of course it does, and she shares her mild frustration. However, she still wonders - and worries - about what all of that meant.]

[thornsofmalkav]

... I have a guess for the 'Skittles' in question.

[all_onis_are_true]

I am... uncertain if "danger" is the right term for it, but I certainly saw SOMETHING peculiar.

[summerorange]

Oh? Like what?

[all_onis_are_true]

Um, I cannot be certain, but I feel that for some reason they will want my assistance with something involving the death of Fortune. I may be wrong, however.

['For some reason' his ass, he knows damn well what they're probably grabbing him for.]

[summerorange]

Fortune? Like the Arcana Fortune?