Check-In [Week 1]

[helborn]

All right, you know the deal. If you're yourself, psychically raise your hand.

Or, uh, if that doesn't make sense to you, just... let people know you're you. I'm myself, obviously, but I have no idea what the hell my archetype or role is. I was infiltrating last time as Ace -

- shit, I need to avoid him. Anyway! Yeah. Uh. ... Yeah...

[His psychic voice just trails off as the awkward overtakes him.]

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[finalizes]

[The raspberry blows two longer feathers far apart enough that one of the rainbow-like pictures appears, this one of Casper in his husky form trying to get across some rocks.]

That you did.

...a lot of people are themselves this time.

[helborn]

[... Aw.]

... Yeah. Maybe because it's our last Jaunt? No idea. ... But I'm glad you're here. The two of us make a really good team.

[finalizes]

We do.

[It's a simple truth that he has no issues agreeing with.

...they should have that 'this is our last jaunt, and then?' conversation sometime soon, but then on the other hand, can they really have it before they even know for certain what the 'after' looks like? No. Not reasonably. So he doesn't mentioned it, and instead leans into Casper.]

...how do people find out what role they are, here?

[helborn]

Delaunay said that if you've got a familiar around and no one else can understand them, you're an oracle. Which is apparently what I am.

[finalizes]

...did he have an idea for figuring out the aspect, too?

[helborn]

Sadly that one seems harder to figure out, because I don't know mine.

[finalizes]

...you're going to be a god one day, aren't you? What aspect will you have as god?

[helborn]

I... don't know. I think frost or death or both. But I'm not sensing an increase in entropic energy from me, and my frost abilities aren't coming to me with more ease than they usually do. So I don't think it's either of those.

[finalizes]

How do oracle powers work?

[Gladhalagon had been supremely uninterested in anything but keeping the kidlets safe; Laughs hadn't really learned a ton about anything while with him, despite his many years of experience.]

[helborn]

I think it's more knowing things than doing things? They're the advisors, generally. They know stuff about their field and don't really display too much magical power. I don't remember if I saw Right's overlay use much, it was just a lot of talking. Maybe when I - when Ace went Harbinger, but that time is... fuzzy.

[finalizes]

[Well, that sounds unhelpful for figuring the aspect out.

...] How do the locals figure out their aspect?

[helborn]

Ace's was pretty obvious. The others? I'm... not sure.

[finalizes]

...I could go asking.

[Not that it has anything to do with why they're here, but it could work as a conversation starter. And maybe even enlighten him about what the hell is up with himself and Casper.]

[helborn]

Might be worthwhile.

[He rubs Laughs' back gently - not petting, just soothing.]

Sounds like I'm going to have to go start pretending like I'm some kind of authority, if I want to get information out of these weird people.

[finalizes]

You've been an authority figure before. I'm sure you can do it again, [he reassures.]

And they are no weirder than anyone else, all in one. [Weird has started to be a pretty useless category after how long they've been travelling.]

[helborn]

I know, it's just not something that comes naturally to me.

... And yeah, you're right. It's just... well. I guess I shouldn't have expected we'd have all the relevant information coming in, even if we've been here before.

[finalizes]

They just don't like for us to achieve the best results that we could if that comes at the expense of struggling.

[In the end, it's a game to them. A game with lives and the fate of whole communities. Which ...well, they never claimed to have a system of reason and moral that even remotely resembles that of their play pieces. Which is why Laughs doesn't think that they're evil as a whole. More just... well. Very high level spirits, is what they are.

So his tone is neither amused nor angry, only factual.]