You know, here's how it goes; you meet me on the street, and then... [text; 37 Minute Liminal]

[okanetendo]

Ah, there are the new faces we were hoping to see
Welcome to Liminal Space, for all that's worth
Don't freak out at the texting; we apparently got hooked up with pagers in our brains.
(For free, a price I can get behind)

My name is Nabiki Tendo, and I've been at this four times now
(which makes me what, an Emperor?)
We aren't gonna have much time, so here's the short version:
We're gonna find ourselves in another world, or a "Jaunt"

Pros; we get cool powers from it
Beats the hell out of training for it for years
Cons; some of us won't remember who we are
Pay real close attention if someone looks familiar -
They're probably important to whatever problem we're trying to fix

Oh, and grab some food while we're out
Liminal Space doesn't take cash or credit
But I can teach folks how to make a dimensional pocket to stuff snacks in
Or weapons, if you're anything like my sister or some of the fruitcakes who spar with her

Comments

[elementarydeartraveler]

There is something extraordinarily strange going on, it would seem. I am getting the feeling that this is not a normal Liminal Space. Can anyone confirm this?

It seems that there is not enough confusion for these Travelers to be truly new.

[okanetendo]

There's something hinky going on, yeah.

You'd be better than me at figuring out what

Course, this is a 'keep digging, Watson' situation

[leftbehindagain]

What's weird is that this is all in text. But no, we're not as new to this as it appears.

[reallymean]

The Champs could be fielding multiple teams. The assumption that we're the only group has never been based in anything other than lack of evidence to the contrary.

If they're pooling their resources now, this is going to be something important.

[rustyhonesty]

Wait, why are we back to texting in Liminal.

[okanetendo]

okay

"back to texting"



...how many jaunts have you been at this

[claudiometer]

[If the old guard needed any more confirmation that the 'newbies' aren't nearly as new to Traveling as it might appear, here's one of them sharing a memory of a song on the network already.]

Congratulations, Matt, looks like you nailed the 'Mars' part of these shenanigans.

[okanetendo]

...you had my interest, now you have my full attention.

So you think we're heading off for life on Mars? God forbid a Champ be direct; any other clues?

[dino_zarf]

Why are you using the bad network? And don't you know how to make food?

[okanetendo]

what's this about just making food now

that'd be a neat trick, popular at parties

[reallymean]

Be careful claiming that title, you might have a duel on your hands.

[Alfor hasn't gone to the trouble to link his voice to the response, but if he's visible from where she's standing, he's definitely grinning in a way that suggests yes, he's taking this chance to poke fun at his friend the space emperor.]

[okanetendo]

I hereby abdicate so I can recommend myself as Chancellor of the Exchequer

Empress or Emperor isn't my style, Alfor, Fortune's where it's at

[gutsandmorningglories]

Better you than me.

with permission

[thornsofmalkav]

[It's the name that Thorne focuses in on. Really, given her age it shouldn't sound as familiar as it does... but thanks to a local PBS station that sometimes aired subtitled anime in the evening and an older but no less nerdy brother, many things suddenly become clear.]

... your sister... she's the reason we call it hammerspace, isn't she?

yep

[okanetendo]

My little sister called it that and the name stuck, yeah

...how do you know that?

[tillweseethesunlight]

Darling, what are you going on about? I've never heard you before in my life, and I've been on two of these little Jaunts already.

[okanetendo]

Yeah there’s a lot of that going around

and I’m only darling if you’re baby, those are the rules, I just made them up

congrats on making Priestess though, two jaunts is an accomplishment

[loyalrebel]

...none of us are completely new to this.

One of our group mentioned something about time travel.

How much weight can your hammerspace hold? We have food and the ability to make medical supplies as well.

[okanetendo]

what’s so important that the Champs want you going back to the future?

Ah, jeez, I’m not sure - haven’t tested mine

But there was this one nutjob named Mousse who’s on walkabout that carried an entire village worth of martial arts weapons up his sleeves

[foolishfools]

It seems our foolish hosts have added more foolishness to their foolish game.

[okanetendo]

You’d think, Von-Karma, but read the backscroll if you can

these are no Fools

One of them is a freakin' Star and there’s mumbles about time travel

[itsananimalthing]

Nabiki?

[One can't really express surprise in textual format, but holy shit he knows that kid.

What the fuck.]

It's Riddick. I think I tried to kill you once.

[Years ago, in a memory that only just now resurfaced at that name, and which for Nabiki hasn't happened yet.]

[okanetendo]

...I hope I deserved it at the time. We are talking about infiltrations, right, Riddick?

So, definitely time travel. Any idea what's so goddamn important that they sent your crew back?

[razorblade_empress]

They already know that, Nabiki.

[okanetendo]

so i've been gathering, yeah

the big question becomes why are the Fools-who-aren't back in their past