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[leftbehindagain]

In another round of probing the network's capabilities, I think I've found a way to just... leave information available on the network without actually having to hunt through a million conversations to get to the useful stuff. It still needs some testing, but I can't imagine the range of skills to pull the information off the network is all that big - but more important, at least right now, is what I'm planning to leave there.

The most immediately useful thing I could think of was basic information about the Arcana, to help people who aren't tarot-conversant catch up a little. I've put a lot together based on what's been discussed before, but there are still gaps in my knowledge.

If anyone knows anything about what Magician, Priestess, Lovers, Strength, Hermit, Devil, Moon or Sun plan to do if they win, I'd really appreciate having that on the list. Empress and Emperor too - all I could find in reviewing older stuff was that they agreed to do the same thing if either of them wins. I know a couple of them are out of competition at the moment, but considering Lovers has already staged a comeback, I'd rather set this up like any of them could win.

I also couldn't find anything about Tower and Justice's personalities, or whether Hierophant or Star had another name.

Comments

[professorwolf]

That sounds incredibly useful. Both the plans for what you want to leave there and leaving it there, to begin with.

Though we should probably also include some sort of liminal space primer, so everyone knows not to kill each other, that we all come back after dying, that we just make food out of liminal stuff so you don't have to pay for it, that kind of thing. I know we've talked about making a pamphlet, but it has yet to happen, and this seems easier than a pamphlet.

How does it appear when you pull the information off, do you know? Is it like a data dump, like listening to a network conversation, or reading something?

[leftbehindagain]

To be fair, we'd also need the pamphlet. Not everyone picks up a lot of network utility, and even if they do it could be months before they go looking for the information. But this seems like a good backup plan, if it works out.

I'm not sure. I'm operating entirely on a hunch right now - pushing that theory we had a while back about marking old conversations so they're easier to find a step further. If there ever was anything here to pull off, it's long gone now.

[loyalrebel]

I would also like to suggest leaving a pointer to the Library for information in your information on here.

I do not have much of anything on their intentions but I may have something for speculation once I check a few sources.

[leftbehindagain]

Not a bad idea. Thank you.

[mytearsaremine]

Uh, I like Justice, actually? She's pretty cool. Like we kind of talked in circles a lot, but I think that's because I didn't like the answer she gave to me. She's still pretty straight-forward. As these people go, anyway. She likes things to be rational and smart, and she likes things to be right and good. She said, I mean, even if she doesn't win, she's still going to ask the others to fix me so I don't have to... be quite as much a monster as being in Ryslig made me. And you know, she didn't have to do that, and I didn't ask her to, but she still promised. I think that's important.

[leftbehindagain]

Talking in circles does come with the territory, with some of them. [Hermit in particular was kind of frustrating, and Naoki can't see the experience being any better now that he's a wolf more often than not.]

Thank you. That does help fill things out a little.

[vrepit_no]

Star's name was Hoshiko. Here, let me...

[ He broadcasts a memory, and he's actually sure how it goes. It's short and it's sweet - There is a photo among others on a mantlepiece of a fireplace. This one with a regally dressed Asian couple, holding the hands of a small girl dressed in wisps of gauze. The couple are recognizable as Hakkan Caesar and his royal wife - the Emperor and Empress.]

[thornsofmalkav]

I don't know what Priestess' ultimate goals are--given that mystery is one of her things, she might not even know yet--but I think it might not be a bad idea to note that as far as I can tell, she's one of the friendly ones.

[leftbehindagain]

...Somehow, I'm not surprised they have a picture. Thank you.

[leftbehindagain]

Good to know. Thank you.

Oh, I had... a little success with that 'shaping Liminal Space' experiment. It only affected maybe a three-meter radius from where I started, but that's better than nothing.

[vrepit_no]

Yeah. No problem. He said that she was like a daughter to him, and both he and his wife seemed genuinely upset about her passing. They're still in mourning.

[youandyoualone]

'Tis a useful thing you have figured out, Naoki. I may ask for lessons in it later.

[Yes, he's using your first name. You have True Bond now.]

As for the one I talked to, they called themself both Phaethon and Icarus. They asked very little of me--merely things I would have likely done in any case--in return for a very princely bribe. I have so far kept up my end of the bargain, but only because I do not have to go much out of my way to do so.

[leftbehindagain]

Reviving her seems like a likely bet for their to-do list, but I'm thinking most of them want their fallen comrades back.

[otomechapilot]

Fool considers Hermit and Death his allies. He also wanted to warn Magician, Priestess, and Empress but not Emperor in addition to the others when bad stuff came up.

I think Ambrose mentioned that Fool wanted to bring us back to where we started, with everything we learned here.

[leftbehindagain]

Did their end goal come up at all?

[vrepit_no]

Probably. I would think so, anyway. It's hard for me to judge without knowing the situation. Thanks for all of this, Naoki. It'll be really helpful to have access to everything on a regular basis.

[leftbehindagain]

Interesting that Emperor didn't make the list. Maybe he'd push back too hard in the name of maintaining order?

Public -> Private (Protection I)

[youandyoualone]

Only that they wished to gain the world.

[Gonna switch this to private.]

I do not think that they are one of the more popular Arcana, however.

[thornsofmalkav]

Maybe it can't go as far if they're also meddling with it to send us a message.

[leftbehindagain]

I figured I might as well put my tendency toward exposition to good use.

[leftbehindagain]

I'm a little surprised it did anything, honestly, but it did.

[thornsofmalkav]

I personally think it's a good sign. It means if it comes to will vs will, they can slow us down but not stop us completely.

let's make that Protection II

[leftbehindagain]

The World is the game's ultimate prize, so unfortunately that's not terribly helpful. The question is what happens after that.

A lack of popularity on their part would account for the vagueness, though. They wouldn't want word of their plan getting out, in all likelihood.

[leftbehindagain]

That's true.

Protection II 5ever?

[youandyoualone]

Indeed.

The bribe in question was that they would give me the power to live again, alongside my heirs, on a world of my choosing--one that, if I liked, I would have the power to alter or rule to better suit me. I asked if this applied to their consorts as well and was told that those consorts were neither included nor excluded from our deal and inferred that should I better serve them, they might cooperate more fully.

But what they asked for really were such small things that I am somewhat suspicious of the bargain.