we interrupt your regularly scheduled Babish rip-off for this important announcement

[otomechapilot]

I'll do the cooking show after the Jaunt, I didn't have time to prepare it, but...

What's this I hear about Tower falling?

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[tookashirototheknee]

Some bright spots decided that it would be a good idea to kill Tower.

[It's obvious from his tone that Matt is really not ok with this.]

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[otomechapilot]

You’d think a bunch of folks who want to overthrow evil empires would want to keep the spirit of Revolution around.

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[tookashirototheknee]

You'd think.

One of them said that the repercussions of this went out to different universes, up to and including, changing stellar gravity. This is so much more than 'you kidnapped me, I hate you'. This is destabilizing entire universes. Frankly, I've always been more afraid of other Travelers than the Arcana themselves.

no protection we die like men

[breakaleginhalf]

A bunch of people went and fought Tower, turns out they won, and now Magician, Emperor, Justice and Judgement are doing a formal investigation into it.

Do you need me to teach you how to read old network shit, kid? It was the Hot News of the century like two weeks ago.

extremely public deep exasperated sigh

[otomechapilot]

So the kind of people who want a revolution and to ruin the Arcana went after...

The Arcana of revolution and ruin.

Wow.

Great job guys.

[breakaleginhalf]

I can kind of see the logic. It's stupid and flawed, but like. No one said it was a good idea.

Especially when it sounds like it was really fucking close to Judgement going full reversed on them.

Not here

[youandyoualone]

[The fact that pretty much everyone he cares about here (except his new buddy Barry) thinks Team Murder fucked up is starting to really get to Delaunay.]

Not here either

[otomechapilot]

[We love you, notdad, but Sara has been stanning the Arcana for a while.]

[reallymean]

One or more Travelers opted to give Tower a push.

The truly remarkable thing is that it appears to have worked, not that the attempt was made. The first question half of our new blood ask is how to kill the Arcana - eventually, someone was going to test whether or not common opinion was correct.

[otomechapilot]

...and that it worked against something you'd think would make it stronger. Tower had to be happy that people were rebelling. Maybe not so much against it, but...

This might be a conversation we should have in person?

[reallymean]

Maybe it decided the only way to win was to lose.

[She does have her theories as to why Tower fell. That isn't actually one of them.

There's a pause, and then the impression of a faint sigh.]

You may be right. Come to the Castle and we can talk.

[modernliterature]

Careful. Ask too many of the obvious questions and everyone starts yelling at you.

[otomechapilot]

Looking back, you asked "so how do you kill them" and...

Like, it's a fair question but probably not a Network question?

[modernliterature]

Hey, you know, nobody has mentioned anything like that to me.

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[rustyhonesty]

Someone probably already filled you in, but I can tell you at least that Fool didn't participate in the briefing me and the others got for the murder investigation.

Protection II

[otomechapilot]

Probably because ROSE did. And because the Don is not that great at direct communication. He knows nothing, y'see.

...they don't know who did it.

this is the PPII that never ends

[rustyhonesty]

They don't. They know someone died during it, but not who. That's why they chose travelers to investigate for them.

what is protection when you are but an innocent child who assumes the best of everyone

[chalicejoker]

[It's not Hajime who's speaking, but Ryo, as evidenced by the high, childlike voice and far more innocent tone.]

But what if they thought Tower was very bad and dangerous?

[He is genuinely curious and concerned! Somewhere Hajime is now dying internally a little.]

Does Hajime need to have the talk. Also PSI PROTECT II

[otomechapilot]

...Ryo.

(Sara sounds frayed on the other end, serious and anxious.)

Then you remind him that there are a lot of dangerous things we keep around for a reason. Medicine is dangerous... if you don’t know what the dose is.

If you don’t exercise Temperance.

And I would also tell him and you that maybe this is a hypothetical question you should ask where the Arcana can’t read too much into it. They’re very mad that their creepy uncle died, you know.

He does, and psy protection II forever to protect the baby from himself

[chalicejoker]

...what's Temperance?

[Is anyone really surprised that he doesn't know what that is after hanging around Hajime all this time?]

Can fight to protect ourselves if they get too mad!

[Also an unsurprising reaction, Hajime continues to be the worst example.]

[canbebrave]

A few decided to throw away any small sliver of decorum we still had for all of us.

[otomechapilot]

Decorum is probably the least of our problems, but yeah, murder seems a little rude.

[canbebrave]

Decorum may very well be the only thing that can get us through this alive. Murdering one of them? Certainly not.

Private

[crouching_sin]

Some people decided that there was merit in testing their limits. I can't exactly blame them for going after Tower, given what him winning would mean.

Psi protect II forever

[otomechapilot]

...How do you know what his winning would mean?