[pre-Emodriver Liminal] We interrupt your Jaunt preparations for some metaplot

[razorblade_empress]

[It's relatively late in the Liminal when Yukino contacts the network, although in fairness she's been a little busy being stuck in a dungeon for much of its duration. Still, though.]

A little while back, Judgement had this whole dungeon... thing... going on that a bunch of us got dragged into. One of the rooms was Belljar, and there was a closed-circuit TV showing a selection of images, one of which was a portal in a field of crystals that the Travelers of the time were evacuating into. So after we got back from this Jaunt, I tried to do some digging, and, well... I got this.

[This being a memory, which she is now sharing:]

The network was not full of happy chatter, during the visit to the place with the crystal fields. Granted, having to deal with ‘nation-eaters’ would likely put a damper on anyone’s mood, but on top of that, the Protectorate’s built-in psychic intrusions to enforce their idea of what’s best for everyone are Not Helping. The intrusions probably wouldn’t have helped in any round, but especially not with how freedom-minded the Travelers Fortune’s rig pulls in tend to be.

It’s quickly becoming apparent that there are two courses of action available to the Travelers: Back the Protectorate’s 'right-think' and keep the peace, or assist a violent coup so that the people can start fresh. If the coup works, and there’s no guarantee that even the Travelers can help convince enough people to defend their minds against their own government. There are two choices, but they both suck.

If it's a choice between this and the Champs being displeased, someone says on the network (it’s all text, of course, so discerning who might be difficult), I'll take my chances with our local True Fae.

After a pause, they add, Si se puede. Let's strike.

The strike itself isn’t that flashy, memory-wise; it consists largely of herding all the investigators into Liminal and camping out with whatever food they'd stashed or could manage to manipulate until the Jaunt's clock runs down. It's pretty clear when that happens: Liminal Space suddenly upends itself, with everyone falling endlessly away from a planet they'd know above them - since this is Yukino's memory, that planet is Earth - towards clouds they never reach, with swords falling along with them...

[The memory cuts off there.]

Next stop after that was Moebius.

Comments

[leftbehindagain]

Judgement had a dungeon?

[He'll get back to the rest later, possibly - it's of more interest to the other Moebius survivors, in all likelihood.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Si se puede, huh.

[There's an odd note to Thorne's psychic voice. She kind of really wants Yukki to replay the memory for her so she can get a better look at some of those pre-Moebius Travelers... but is also kind of aware that might be a weird request to make just now.]

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

[Bismuth is quiet, but her presence is intense.]

Do you remember who they were?

[desperate_times_right]

Well. Guess that answers my question about what happens if we choose not to play.

[claudiometer]

I mean, Bando was nothing if not a violent coup, so whatever uncertainty was tied to this one must've been bad for 'you both suck, we're leaving' to win out.

Bet the whole thing could've been avoided if they were just more talkative at the time. Or at least the aftermath could've been handled some way other than Killer Death Jaunt.

[insidegalra]

That memory has implications.

[Ones Thace doesn't like. Maybe he'd been infiltrating but...]

Have you recovered anything else that might help clear it up?