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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Protection II

[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.]

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.

Re: Protection II

[otomechapilot]

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

[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.

[otomechapilot]

They totally are Reversed, aren’t they?

I wonder if that’s cause Hope, Tradition and Having Any Chill are also dead.

[breakaleginhalf]

I think they might just be a righteous bitch. There's definitely a layer of needing each other to define themselves, but also just who they are, like - their actual personalities, and how they act as people - is a bit of a separate matter entirely.

[otomechapilot]

Just mad at how dumb we can be. Sorry.

(psi protect 2:)

...how do you figure? Or did you figure?

PP2

[breakaleginhalf]

I asked. ROSE is pretty chill with me popping into her place with people as long as we don't ask anything that's technically against the rules for her to answer. And asking questions about what she is conceptually is apparently not illegal.

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.]

[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.

Protection II 5-ever

[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.

[modernliterature]

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

PP2

[otomechapilot]

...Given the fun and exciting adventure that's asking Don Orlea a direct question, can you blame me for forgetting that's an option?

Not here either

[otomechapilot]

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

[otomechapilot]

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

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

[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?

you know it fam

[otomechapilot]

Like...

Even if you wanted to attack them, why Tower? "Because no one likes them' is why you ask for their help, especially because of what he represents. I'm frankly surprised they didn't go after Lovers first, or Moon, nnnot that that's any better an idea.

Protection II

[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.

it just goes on and on my friends

[otomechapilot]

I'm surprised Lovers wasn't their first choice.



Equally dumb idea for the record, it's just that she's even less popular than Tower.

[rustyhonesty]

Yeah, I know. I can't really say anything in her defense... she does overstep her boundaries too easily.


No matter who they picked, it wasn't a good idea.

[otomechapilot]

Maybe we should talk in person... there's stuff that doesn't add up but the Network isn't the best place to ask those questions.

[rustyhonesty]

Sounds like a good plan. Where do you want to meet?