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[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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[modernliterature]

"Star was... a child? Who was weakened by something we did, and died by accident. All the others were murdered, but before Tower, none of them was murdered by us. The books only say a little about who it might have been, but..."

He shudders, and points a finger at a book labeled Harrogate Codex.

"Don't go reading that one before bedtime, you know? There's another one that hints about someone sneaking into Liminal Space, but it didn't mention who."

[otomechapilot]

Sara nods, and she has about the same reaction at the Codex.

"Yeah. About right for what happened. Temperance went first, and is why the Arcana started the... ritual?... again.

But do you know what the dead ones mean? What they represent?"

[modernliterature]

"Let me guess. They were the nice guys."

[otomechapilot]

“I wouldn’t go that far, but they represented Morals, Balance, and Hope, among other things.” Her voice is flat. “And if they reflect each other, that means we’ve seen then as they are without morals, balance, and hope.”

“...which explains a LOT about the Lovers, in particular.”

[modernliterature]

"I don't suppose there's one of them labelled 'Immortality' or 'Spooky Kidnap Powers.' "

[otomechapilot]

“It gets better: the people who wanted a revolution killed Revolution,” Sara says. “And Ruin, And Revelation, and the being who’s job it is to say ‘maybe hands off the red hot stove.’ You don’t have to believe they affect the World by existing to be worried about that.”

[modernliterature]

"So this was one of those very brilliant plans," Caleb says, sighing. "Ja. Okay. Well, anyway, my stupid idea is, if we can crash their party with the kind of portal you call Bridges, can we listen in on them with the kind of mind-trick you also call Bridges? That's it, that's the big idea."

[otomechapilot]

She thinks about it.

“...I don’t see why you couldn’t,” she says. “I’m trying to think of why it might be a bad idea. The only thing that comes to mind is... how much bigger a mind that knows all the beginnings, say, are.”

She hums. “...I’m only guessing now. If it’s been tried I don’t know.”

[modernliterature]

"If they plot and scheme what to do with us, I'd like to try and overhear," he says. Good idea, bad idea, what's the difference, really? "I'll start working on that. I have a pretty big brain myself, I'm sure it will work out just fine."