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

[elementarydeartraveler]

Quite.

They are certainly not quite ragged enough, either. I will have to explore this further.

[okanetendo]

You'll keep us all posted, of course

If these guys are no Fools, I'll see what I can figure out

Being a human vending machine does help for mutual information exchange; god bless Hammerspace

[rustyhonesty]

Wait, why are we back to texting in Liminal.

[leftbehindagain]

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

[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.

[rustyhonesty]

I think I last counted seventeen, and only one of those had texting.

[dino_zarf]

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

[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?

[claudiometer]

Before we got hooked up with you guys, someone mentioned a nightmare with ominous mooing. So possibly cows.

[okanetendo]

Christ, you're a Star and we've never met.

Tell us what's going on from your perspective cause we got a mystery on our hands

[rustyhonesty]

I'm likely even more confused than you are, to be honest.

You didn't just return from a dungeon, did you?

[okanetendo]

...I'm guessing you DON'T mean 'dragonquest: the jaunt' by that

unless you mean a walkabout? but no - I think my little sister and her fiancee might be on one but I'm still here

[okanetendo]

what's this about just making food now

that'd be a neat trick, popular at parties

[rustyhonesty]

Confirmed, I'm definitely the one more confused right now.

Walkabouts are what we call the places we go when one doesn't end up on the same Jaunt as others. Dungeons are 'out of ambit' so to say.

[dino_zarf]

It's easy. You just take the liminal stuff and turn it into food and make sure you go all the way to real.

[okanetendo]

yeah I'm... gathering that

wish Sis was here to see this

so. What have you figured out about the Jaunt?

[okanetendo]

could you vague it up a little

[okanetendo]

...yeah you'd call what I meant a dungeon then

since when do the Champs do side-jaunts?

[dino_zarf]

First you need to know how to make liminalness into things. And then you have to learn all the little changes you have to make to make food actually fill your tummy.

[leftbehindagain]

Claudia-san's covered the more basic stuff. We're not entirely certain what the Arcana want us here for that they can't leave to your group, but clearly they decided reinforcements were necessary.

[rustyhonesty]

They've been doing those as long as I've been here. Questing Country and forward.

[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.]