Winners and Losers

[reallymean]

[It's a day or two after the return to Liminal Space that Allura's voice sounds across the Network - long enough for people to regain their bearings, and hopefully long enough for most to realize the effects of the sunflower-floor.]

It seems clear enough which of the Arcana won this round, but is anyone certain who lost? Or, more importantly, which of them is left to play? There can't be more than one or two Jaunts left in this bracket.

[Depending, she's fairly certain, on whether or not the re-admittance of one of the Arcana to their game after Yensid meant an extension of this portion of the competition.]

Comments

[awitchdidit]

Any given Arcanum can find opposition with any other if you try hard enough, and I assume the multiverse provides an infinite number of conflicts, large and small. It's a matter of any given pair of Arcana finding the right one to have a duel over.

[reallymean]

And yet they've had secrecy versus blatancy twice. And isolation versus integration twice as well, if I'm not misreading the accounts of that haunted island. Possibly three times, depending on how you look at the events in Questing Country - I wasn't involved enough in the situation with the Harbingers to say either way.

[awitchdidit]

Questing Country was complicated a great deal by the Arcana as a group engaging in a side project of sorts. I wasn't a big fan of them playing multiple games, but given how very Liminal Questing Country is, I'm not surprised.

I suppose you can think of every Arcanum encompassing a variety of archetypes, some of which they hold in common with each other. Moon and Priestess, for example, both deal with "secrecy" and "obfuscation" in their respective archetypes. Some of these common points are easier to frame a conflict or contest around than others, hence the repetitions.

[reallymean]

I suppose it might be that simple. We're unlikely to get a straight answer from our patrons either way, more's the pity.

[awitchdidit]

Personally, I enjoy being handed a puzzle every time I ask a question, but I understand I have strange tastes.