Just after liminal space changes

[comebewe]

Um.

Why does liminal look a lot like Star's deadspace? Did the Arcana do something?

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[amadine]

Did some idiot go and hand them the means by which to time travel again?

[comebewe]

Maybe? We don't know.

...There weren't any secret time travel machines someone forgot to mention in the last jaunt, were there?

[amadine]

Gods, I hope not.

We're nearing the end of the road. It's possible this is just some morbid fucking shrine along the way.

[comebewe]

No, I don't think it's that. Her deadspace is...already very much a shrine. This does not have the feel of a monument to the dead.

[amadine]

Then we're back to time travel as the most likely explanation - the second manifestation between Jaunts is usually a notice of intent.

Unless something's broken. Again.

[And with the Illuminants sniffing around the door, something being broken is not a pleasant thought.]

[lightnovelexperiences]

I thought this was just, like, a regular shift, liminal space deciding it wants to try something else on. What do you mean, deadspace? Deadspace does not sound encouraging.

[comebewe]

...Bloody hell, this probably means we're going to be in liminal for a while, aren't we?

[comebewe]

Ah, sorry. Not deadspace as in the space is going to try and kill us or anything. Just that the Arcana's spaces, the ones were they bring us to speak with them, those remain even after they die. Star is gone, but her space still exists.

Liminal is not exactly the same. But the similarities are striking. We find it unlikely to be coincidence.

[lightnovelexperiences]

Yeah, being in the headstone to an Arcana is only slightly more encouraging than being in Super Death Zone.

Star's Hope, right? Hoshiko?

[comebewe]

Yes. She died after the first visit to Belljar. Before my time, but some of the old guard around here were there for it.

From what I know of it, it did not go well. There's a reason she died then.

[amadine]

Probably.

And we're probably going to have to deal with all manner of delightful fuckery while we're stuck.

[lightnovelexperiences]

Yeah. Last time we went to that particular scenic post-apocalypse didn't help either, I hear.

...but unless the symbolism machine broke, or something, this Liminal looking like Star's grave doesn't make sense.

[comebewe]

When don't we have to deal with all manner of fuckery?

[comebewe]

Ah, well, she was already dead at that point. Not like we could make her any deader. Not even when Jules went and broke liminal space.

...We could go visit her dead space again. See what it looks like now.

[amadine]

Some manifestations of liminal space are lighter on the mindgames than others. Hideous balls of fused feet instead of chaotic manifestations of our previous infiltrator identities, say.

[comebewe]

Well, yes, but that's just less fuckery that usual. I mean, those feet are just creepy.

[lightnovelexperiences]

...Checking up probably - well, it probably can hurt but I presume you wouldn't offer unless it wasn't actively hazardous.

Should I grab like, my tank gear or healer gear for this before any expeditions? I just figured out how to create them.

[comebewe]

Ah - well, we were planning to just visit ourselves. But I could bring you along.

[sometimes, confusion happens when you tend to switch between plurals like Matthew does]

Tank gear? It's - her space isn't underwater, or anything. It's just like all the other Arcana spaces, but...dead.

[lightnovelexperiences]

...god, been hanging out with AWOl adventurers so long I forget that that's jargon. I spent three months stuck in a video game before I came here and the lingo rubs off on you.

(She might need to unpack that later.)

Tank gear as in armor and defensive gear. I'm just... hah, maybe sharing a mind with a Katador didn't help much either.

[comebewe]

[Matthew has no idea what AWOl adventurers are, and right not he's not really sure he wants to ask]

Ah. Well. Defensive hear is not necessary. There isn't anything to fight. Not unless one of the Arcana decides to kick out us, in which case the armour isn't going to do any good anyway.

[ninjayeehaw]

[It's a tragically short time after Matthew makes this post that Kinji hops on and sounds... distressed.]

So y'all askin' that made Yakumo try askin' his Arcana, an'... well, that didn't quite work out how we were hopin' it might?

Justice done went an' possessed Yakumo an' now he's out cold.

[comebewe]

I...

What?!

[ninjayeehaw]

We sure as hell didn't know that was possible! She said she would a' killed him if she done stayed any longer!

[comebewe]

Why was she possessing him in the first place?!



...Scratch that, since when can the Arcana possess people?

[ninjayeehaw]

[Kinji still sounds no less panicked than he did at the start of this.]

It was somethin' Yakki did, not her! She was as damn shocked t'be there as I was!