[some time into the coffeshop liminal] Informed voting

[capital_asset]

I know the candies represent potential Jaunt worlds, but has anyone been able to identify which worlds they are? I know the blue ones symbolize the Grid and the lavender ones Questing Country, but I'm still unclear on the other two.

While we're on the subject, the voting area looks to be another Jaunt reference; specifically, it looks like the Ground coffeeshop from La Tour Ivoire Academe.

Comments

[leftbehindagain]

The black one is most likely some kind of space jaunt. Which one, I don't know, but if I had to guess I'd go with the space side of Questing Country, as often as that's popped up before.

As for the green... your guess is as good as mine. Something to do with animals, so it could be Yensid again, or one of the walkabouts to something animal-heavy, or somewhere else entirely.

I'm just glad none of them seem to be Bando. [Or involve the Illuminants.]

[capital_asset]

I've been wondering if they're all meant to be return visits.

[leftbehindagain]

If they can swing it, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[capital_asset]

Nor I.

[leftbehindagain]

On a related note, I poked into why Liminal Space is growing like it has been. That would be because we've focused its energy over the course of this stuff, and focused it on idioms connected to growth, so it took off from there.

[capital_asset]

Is that likely to be a temporary or permanent thing?

[leftbehindagain]

That I don't know, but at this point I'd assume it will continue until there's a clear winner.

[capital_asset]

At least our own affected abilities don't seem to be continuing to expand - it might be useful, but only if it didn't become overwhelming.

[lightnovelexperiences]

A refresher on which those are might be helpful for those of us that weren't there the last time.

Potentially that's just me, but still.

[capital_asset]

The Grid is a world that seems to exist within a computer system, where people exist as as individual 'programs' classified into several different factions. Questing Country is a sort of communal dreamworld accessible by a number of different sapient species that takes place in an indeterminate future timeline; the people there take on roles and domains related to both their personalities and a given archetype and gain magical powers from that. We've been to both locations at least twice that we know of - more for Questing Country, including multiple visits to its waking worlds - and each of them is aware of us as a group.

[And he would really prefer not to explain how that happened, but he also knows that's a valid question.]

[leftbehindagain]

That is something, yes.

[capital_asset]

Speaking of Liminal Space, did you notice that the elevator has six potential stops, not two?

[desperate_times_right]

Listen, this is all academic 'cause I don't think we should vote, but we did have that animal walkabout where we lived in a mine and had parties every day. All the humans were wiped out somehow so it could be a return to one of the worlds you've seen before. Without visuals, I don't know how you'd tell them apart, though. They were more realistic animals than what you guys were in Yensid.

[capital_asset]

['To vote or not to vote' is not a discussion Raidou is prepared to have right now (and they probably both know Chloe is outnumbered on this point, anyway). The rest, though...]

Home was another thought, but I'm not sure how many of us would be up for a return visit there.

The candy had a definite impression of berries and fresh-baked bread to it, along with a breeze ruffling through fur. Does that sound like the walkabout you were on?

[razorblade_empress]

For what it's worth, I used psychic synesthesia on the beans and got a few things from that. The black ones look cyan and feel superheated, the green ones smell like a forest, the blue ones feel like a multicolored neon light, and the lavender ones look like a metallic-hued sky. Make of that what you will.

Also, there are three extra perspectives in here with us, present but invisible, all of them supercharged with energy, and each of them each of them spinning each other up to higher levels; there's a fuckton of potential energy in there. Pretty sure it's three of the Arcana, ones whose idioms include energy and/or potential. And they're resonating.

[desperate_times_right]

[Yeah, yeah, she's just saying...]

Home was more... desert-y, right? All that sand. I don't think it's that. Besides, they’re all split up there, now, unless they send us way before it way after.

Brockengard was cooler, temperature-wise. The caves where we lived were right by the sea. The last feast was some kind of season changing renewal thing, and we all had bread, cheese and berry wine.

[capital_asset]

Were there forests?

[Since Yukino just mentioned forests]

[desperate_times_right]

Yeah, on the way to the ruins.

[capital_asset]

So it's a definite possibility...

[desperate_times_right]

They're - like, I don't want to doom a world to get ruined just because it won't fuck us up as bad but it was nice there.

[levelthreehooligan]

My first Jaunt was Questing Country, and I know of Yensid and I...

I have been on the Grid.

I very much do not want to go back to the Grid.

[levelthreehooligan]

I...

For as much as I do not want to go back to the grid, I have a...

I have something leftover from last time that could help if we do.

I would much prefer something else, though.
Questing Country doesn't sound bad right about now.

[capital_asset]

Questing Country can be terrible in its own special ways. But the Grid is worse.

[Being devoured hadn't even been the worst part, for him.]

[lightnovelexperiences]

I have had enough of being stuck in computer systems, thanks.

Penny must not be happy that the secret is out in - like, what's our count? At least three? - worlds. Subtlety thy name is Traveller.

[lightnovelexperiences]

If it's half as glitchy as Another World Online got, don't blame you.