coming clean (starplot)

[reallymean]

I'm sure some of you have already discovered the reason for Liminal Space's current shape, but for those who haven't, Star is one of the living Arcana once more. Their restoration wasn't my work alone, but it was my idea to make the attempt, and my plan that we followed. The resurrection, and any consequences it might have on the Jaunt or Jaunts to follow is my responsibility. Not my team's, not the result of some plot by the Arcana or any outside forces. Mine.

Before anyone asks, I don't have any intention of resurrecting the rest of the fallen Arcana. I don't think it could even be done the same way a second time. With one exception, we don't know enough about how and where they died - and I suspect even making the attempt would be so against the idiom of that exception as to guarantee failure.

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[reallymean]

Given that the Nation Eater went straight for the towers, and those were likely to have been turned on even if we hadn't ever returned to the Vale, there's a very good chance that Chara and everyone else in Fallenheart would have been dead. So no, they wouldn't have chosen it for themselves. They would never have had the chance.

The only way to be sure you don't change the course of history is to never do anything. Our small group can shift the balance on a world - but we could shift the balance on our own worlds, too. Many of us have. And we didn't stop to get a consensus before stopping a war or pushing back against a tyrant.

[desperate_times_right]

And you'd be okay with that, if it was your own world? Some superpowered strangers from another dimension just show up, ruin things for your faction, then move on? A war you're fighting was sparked by something an investigator did on a centuries-old jaunt? Do you really think popping into some other world for a couple of weeks and changing it is the same thing as changing your own world yourself?

[reallymean]

My world was destroyed in a war that spun out from an invasion of transdimensional parasites. I've seen a woman - not one of the Arcana, just a woman - rip her way through countless dimensions in pursuit of a selfish wish.

There is far worse than the Arcana out there. There's far worse than us.

[desperate_times_right]

That may be, but that doesn't mean this is a thing we should be doing!

If things work out like you're hoping, I hope none of you ever think about my world, even in passing. If someone I love gets hurt - gets killed - because of intervention, I won't stop until I tear this whole thing apart.

[reallymean]

I don't know what you've decided I'm hoping for, but it's certainly clear that continuing this conversation is pointless for both of us.