I invoke the 17 who were 21; may the fallen 17th rise once more (Audio, one thread locked to Thorne)

[eldritchwheelies]

So.

I've volunteered to DJ for the Fallenheart Vale Benefit Concert.

I'm not going to explain why or justify myself. We all have good reasons to hate the Arcana. Suffice to say my reasons for helping them now are more compelling to me than my reasons to see the OG Miner, OG Crypto, and Dear God Let This End Personified suffer further consequences. Doubtless some of you are asking if I've gone insane, to which I say: that's my secret, Captain, I was always insane. Remember, Harrogate was old news to me from training on my world.

So.

Still listening?

Then I'd like requests for my playlist* for the ball. It's a work of phonomancy, my contribution to the ritual battery we're charging. I hope it helps. Put in requests for music you want to hear, or if you're of a more mystical bent, music you think will assist the ritual.

Thanks for listening.

*(When this post goes up, only the first 22 tracks - the Invocations to the Major Arcana - are up. After talking to Thorne and/or Allura, there are suddenly a lot more songs with hopeful outlooks. Weird.)

Comments

[brokers]

We could have refused to interfere, as we did the last time we visited this world. We didn't.

Are you so outraged that you will sacrifice six thousand lives merely to damage three of the Arcana? If you believe that blood would not be on your hands, you are lying to yourself.

[eldritchwheelies]

If I thought that they - okay, if all of them, not just Fucking Satan - engineered this to take hostages, I’d be checking out of the Jaunt too. But unfortunately I’m in a wheelchair, not blind, so I have to follow ROSE and SAGE’s fucking example and take responsibility too.

Again: they’re willing to risk their lives to unfuck the air.

So forgive me if I’m more concerned with putting together a mixtape cause it might save thousands of lives than I am with letting the three Arcana that are trying to fix shit die.

[brokers]

Goddess give me strength, I'm arguing on your side.

[eldritchwheelies]

Huh?

[Liara can feel the backing-off energy from Madoka.]

...Yeah. I know. I knew that. I thought I was agreeing with you?

[brokers]

[There's the mental equivalent of someone scrubbing a hand over their face, and when she replies, her telepathic voice carries a hint of chagrin.]

I apologize. The...intensity was a little overwhelming.

[eldritchwheelies]

Like on any other day I'd probably be on team They're Just Ancient Ones, Eff Em. But this day has been a hell of a day.

Hermit is risking death to be responsible.

Fucking.

Hermit.

[brokers]

So would I. I don't like having to argue in favour of helping them either.

But six thousand lives is too high a price to pay for the probable deaths of three Arcana. If we were to make that choice, it would make us no better than the worst of them.

[desperate_times_right]

Sounds like the gods have enough worshippers here that they can stand to spare me.

[brokers]

Then take your self-absorption off to some created space and leave those of us who care to save lives to our work.

[desperate_times_right]

Sure. I don’t know why I bothered saying anything.