Londinium Calling (jaunt check-in)

[wholeheaded]

Hello everyone, Ambrose here. Well, mostly. Just doing a check-in thingy to see who's themselves-ish and where everyone is. I'm in London - sorry, Londinium - and hanging around the palace and there's a lot of hustle and bustle here. The High King is abdicating in favor of his nephew and there's gonna be a big ceremonial gizmo for that in a few weeks. Which experience tells me is the thing we will not set on fire, right?

[ okay, the Travelers haven't literally burned anything down in a while but in his mind it's still worth advising against. ]

Anyway, like I said I'm mostly here and doing the half-infiltrating thing. My overlay is Scottish and I have a pet hawk, which is...fine, it'll be fine. I'm going by Angus MacLeod.

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[thezerothlaw]

I am myself.

I am on my way to Londinium for just this reason, apparently. Many are. I will see you soon, I hope.

[wholeheaded]

Oh, hello, thank goodness. I'm glad we'll be able to at least communicate, and...I'll steer Angus your way. How soon do you think you'll be here?

[doesntcomputer]

Uh, hi! I'm Sora, and I guess I'm by these really big cliff things.

Though, uh... why do you have two names? Are you pretending to be somebody?

[yeah guess who never got an actual Jaunt explanation.]

[wholeheaded]

Uh...sort of? It's weird, there's a thing where we're on Jaunt where we only half-Infiltrate, so instead of just all the way being this world's version of me - Angus - I'm also myself - Ambrose. He's in the driver's seat but I can still use the network and sometimes pull some of his strings.

[scarsolderthanyou]

These stupid carts are a horrible way to travel.

I might be able to get away with flying to this Londinium city place, since there's magic things around. If anyone wants a ride, just say so.

[Stone's apparently himself, though he doesn't actually say so. You all know him by now, right?]

[wholeheaded]

[ he sure does! ]

I suppose they beat walking but...yeah, flight may be more efficient. Maybe you can pass yourself off as a genius?

[youandyoualone]

Anafiel Delaunay here. I seem to be wholly myself this time--and at a port called Dubris, just across the strait from this world's version of my homeland. They call Terre d'Ange 'Gaule' here--I think it might be derived from an ancient name for our ancestors, before Elua came... well, never mind that. I am here and I will be coming to Londinium anon. It seems that there is a fairly large group of my counterpart countrymen heading there. I'll likely travel with them.

[The chance to spend prolonged time with other d'Angelines, even alternate universe d'Angelines, is not too be denied.]

... it seems that the succession here resembles that of my world's Alba. Curious.

[forcechanic]

I think it's because they don't have DNA testing so they're worried that they can't be absolutely sure who anyone's father is.

A bit disrespectful to their mothers.

[protect_and_serve]

My Lord. If you find Alcuin, or Thorne, before I do, let me know.

I know it is the same isle - England, Alba, Albion - but this image of it feels closer to home than I have been since I became a Traveler.

Be wary of the feeling.

[rustyhonesty]

Jean here and I just summoned Mikasa from Walkabout, so there's definitely one right now.

[There's something important to ask though.]

Does anyone know when the next full moon is going to be?


(ooc: note that we're going by the dates in our current calendar for full moon.)

[wholeheaded]

...it's tomorrow, coinciding with the spring equinox.

(OOC: at least I hope that's accurate, assuming the jaunt starts on the 19th and the full moon is the 20th. lmk if I need to edit.)

[forcechanic]

Jaina here and have I mentioned how much I hate politics? Because I really hate politics.

I'm half infiltrated as a druid named Janeta Amhain who also is not a fan of politics.

[wholeheaded]

Agreed, politics was my least favorite part of...being in politics.

[ whoops. ]

Anyway, uh, hi fellow overlay passenger! Are you in Londinium already or coming along with the others?

[acapriciousthing]

That sounds like where the chaos will break out.

This is Death. I'm investigating but it's probably best that you call me...

[Brief review of what they know so far]

Deirdre.

[wholeheaded]

Deidre. I'll try and remember that. And yeah, I need to get out into town to hear more but there might be shady things afoot too.

[dino_zarf]

Daddy's infiltrated but he knows who I am so it's okay. We have fancy clothes that I'm not supposed to get dirty.

I'm going to get them dirty anyway.

[crouching_sin]

If you need someone to give you a quick clothing change, let me know, Rose.

[crouching_sin]

Naoya here. I'm fully myself, though I do have world knowledge of this place. I'm with the group traveling. I'm not certain what to pass myself off as. I don't look European at all, so I'll have to think of a name.

Q'uila is infiltrated, I can tell from our bond.

[wholeheaded]

It's possible this event is a big enough deal that visitors from your neck of the woods won't be too out of place, so if you're comfortable your actual name should be okay?

[ he's actually not sure, and Angus has had very limited contact with non-Albionese, so it's mostly a hopeful suggestion. ]

[claudiometer]

Claudia here. If anyone wants in on a quasi-Macedonian cover story, I can make room for a few other people in what I'm going with.

...Also, if anyone knows how I seem to've stumbled into the jaunt-arrival infodump without touching the brain-hackery side of the network? I'm all ears for that explanation. Could be useful for other people.

[forcechanic]

I wonder if it can be done by the same sort of network zoom out for seeing what's happening.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Bismuth checkin' in, and I'm still me.

I'm still a Gem too, not human like you guys. I'm getting a lot of weird looks for it.

[wholeheaded]

Huh. Maybe you can try and be a genius?

[chalicejoker]

Hajime here, I'm myself.

...Ryo's here and also himself, and no one is actively running and screaming from a talking mantis, so I guess this place has that going for it.

[wholeheaded]

There's a lot of magical shenanigans happening, so random giant bugs won't get too much of an eye-batting. It's kind of nice being somewhere we don't have to hide as much, yeah?

[keepcalmcookon]

Ignis Scientia, here. I am myself.

[wholeheaded]

Hi Ignis! I...don't think we've talked before but it's always good to hear a investigator voice. How are you doing with this place?

[protect_and_serve]

This is Joscelin. I am myself.

... I have been to England more than once, and I know it is the same isle, but truly, this is more Alba than England.

[wholeheaded]

Yeah, same about the England...thingy. It's pretty but experience says I can't recommend it. What's Alba like, besides Albion-ish?

[unapologeticallyaffected]

It's Eliot, Prompto and I are ourselves as well. Seems like a crowd this time around. It'll be nice not to have to hide my magic.

[leftbehindagain]

This is Naoki. I'm entirely myself, this time. [God, don't even joke about the prospect of setting this whole thing on fire, they've finally gotten better about not doing that...]

It'd be nice if this stays a straightforward succession proto-crisis, but I'll be very surprised if that's the case.

[fruitknife]

This is Shinji. Minako ain't here. [She would've answered him by now if she was.]

Koro-chan's with me, unless it gets too dangerous. For once that doesn't look likely, though.