[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...

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[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.

[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?

[haveabiscuit]

The locals knowing about us in a world is always something to be worried about. Especially if they see us as unwanted interference or a threat.

[fruitknife]

You guys didn't fuck up his plans, but now he knows outsiders can be shoved in like that, he's gonna have like twelve of 'em if we ever go back. He probably won't lead off with hostilities.

[summerorange]

It depends upon which locals we reveal ourselves to. If it's just the heroes, or just those who are meant to help protect their world, then it's alright.

But...not those who would cause nothing but harm.

And I know what it's like to have the citizens of one world think you're the threat instead of the real enemy.

[summerorange]

That's good, that he doesn't see us as a threat. Let's just hope that there's no one in our group that would make him change his mind.

[Hopefully, those aren't Famous Last Words.]

[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.

[haremtrap]

Jeez, no pressure or anything. I guess we'll just have to not fuck it up, then.

[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?

[summerorange]

I agree. I just wish I really knew who this 'she' is...

Maybe it's for the best, though. Knowing too much of the future could not have a good impact on the time line.

[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.

[haremtrap]

You think knowing the future could mess it up? That seems a little...I dunno. Like the plot of a bad sci-fi movie.

Oh who am I kidding my life is a bad sci-fi movie now.

[summerorange]

I'd rather not take any chances. It's bad enough that there's monsters actively trying to change it in one of the worlds that I've been to before.

...in what way?

[haveabiscuit]

Any of them finding out runs the risk of others hearing, no matter how cautious our potential allies try to be. It's better that we help them without their ever realizing we were there.

[haremtrap]

Just...everything. We're lost in time and space, we have super powers, and we're fighting to save the world in half these jaunts. Hell, I even know an artificially intelligent robot. If that's not a weird as shit sci-fi movie, I don't know what is.

[summerorange]

Is it? Normally, at least letting the world's protectors know have been helpful if we ever went back to that same world - at least, from my personal experience.

[summerorange]

[Okay, that gets a giggle out of her.]

I suppose you have a point. My life was already like that, what with all the traveling between the Rider Worlds before... I just never thought of it like that before.

[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.