(The evening after the Liminal Ball, post Sift results)

[rosewater_path]

[Everyone will recognize ROSE's voice on the Network, and will see her in their minds' eye, as though she was using Image Projection - but she's gone fully monochromatic, her voice is curiously autotuned, her hair is done up in coiled buns on either side of her head, and she's wearing a simple, pale blue dress or robe the same color as her skin and hair.]

Okay, hep cats and hoppin' kitties. You did it. Now for our end of the deal.

You and everyone we scooped out of Godzilla's Midnight Snacktime get a free ticket back to the Umbrian Vale, any Spire except Stricken Star, any time from fourteen minutes before we brought you out to fourteen days after.

Me and the Heavenly Choir have veto power, but we trust you and we owe you on this one - so we're listening.

If you need more time here to prep we can give you a little while - but the longer we wait here, the more our options on where to drop you off narrow. For every day here, shave two days off the times we can drop you off after; and two minutes off the times we can drop you off before.

I'll open a channel where you can talk to me; a channel where you can talk without me; and a channel where you can vote.

((OOC: voting will close at 11:59 PM CST on 1/9; a fresh Jaunt plotting post will go up immediately thereafter, and the Jaunt will resume sometime on the evening of 1/10.))

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CHANNEL 01: AMA

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CHANNEL 09: Private Discussion

[sagetime]

CHANNEL 21: Vote!

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[breakaleginhalf]

...why fourteen?

[someone has to ask]

[rosewater_path]

A bunch of reasons. One is that's how much we can stretch the power from the dance without taking any scary-big risks.

[breakaleginhalf]

Is one how with the four of you putting all your energy down, it's up to the rest of your lot to help us out? One unit of time per.

[rosewater_path]

That's...

[Her hologram waggles a hand.]

It isn't not true? It helps; but it's more like serendipity.

It's closer to true to say you guys generated fifty-six 〓〓〓〓 more than we needed, and split between the four of us, that means we can move you fourteen � � � from where we picked you up.

[fearinahandfulof]

If you send us to a time after... that means that the attack still happened, doesn't it?

[It seems like it would follow anyway, but it's still worth asking, if only to confirm.]

[rosewater_path]

Yeah. We're just sending you, not big and toothy.

[fearinahandfulof]

[She'd figured as much.]

What about the people of Fallenheart?

[rosewater_path]

They go where you go, when you go. Which might be a little confusing for them.

[breakaleginhalf]

No language-based word or spoilers?

[rosewater_path]

Kinda both.

[breakaleginhalf]

Fair enough.

Are the locals gonna notice that they're missing time, once they're done flipping their collective shits about being fuckin' teleported?

[Fuck, he hopes Samel won't have a heart attack.]

[rosewater_path]

I mean, I'd notice. But maybe they're not as quick as me.

Kidding.

Yeah, they'll definitely notice if there's a big enough gap.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Probably, yes.]

How much would they remember?

[rosewater_path]

Everything up until time stopped or they dropped through the portal - whichever came first."

[fearinahandfulof]

So they'd still be traumatized... unless we chose a time before the attack, or would they still remember even then?

[rosewater_path]

We still took them from after the attack. I think they'd still remember?

It's been a few yawms since we tested that kind of thing, though. Maybe not?

[fearinahandfulof]

Yawms?

[rosewater_path]

Uhhh...

A yawm is an interval of time distinct from adjacent intervals, but without a quantitative reference.

[fearinahandfulof]

So... you can't count it, but it's distinct from the intervals surrounding it?

[She is not parsing this at all.]

[rosewater_path]

That's right!

It's how Arcana count inside Liminal Space.

[desperate_times_right]

Sounds like we all have to go back together. If we go to before the attack, do you think we could make enough commotion to draw the Nation-Eaters up outside Fallenheart instead of in the middle of it?

[reallymean]

Even if we could, unless we can be set down somewhere separate from the people of Fallenheart, we'd just be drawing the Nation Eaters down on top of them in the open instead of inside the city. We might be better off evacuating the area around the towers and laying a trap.