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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[fearinahandfulof]

Do we need to list our archetypes and roles this time, or...?

[She knows how check-ins work - she's certainly been here more than long enough for that - but the last Questing Country check-in asked people about archetypes and roles, so...]

[helborn]

That might be helpful? If you know them... I just don't know mine.

[crouching_sin]

... I'm myself. I still have Memory as an archetype, but I believe I've shifted to some variety of Oracle.

Alice has come along, and she's some form of Doppleganger, given how she looks like me and doesn't look happy about it.

[fearinahandfulof]

Oh.

I'm still Oracle of the Hunt, although I still don't know how that really works.

[helborn]

I mean last time I was infiltrated as Champion of Light so I only kind of know how oracles work. Maybe... someone who knows more about it will say something, because I don't know that what Ace knew would be helpful.

[fearinahandfulof]

Was that on the walkabout, or on the Jaunt before it?

[She doesn't remember seeing him on the walkabout, but she might just have missed him.]

[youandyoualone]

This is Anafiel Delaunay. I remain wholly myself and am still the Oracle of Oaths.

I have not been able to locate Alcuin as of yet, but I can confirm that I saw an elven version of Thorne among that band of white and silver clad dreamers, dressed all alike. I did not get a chance to talk to her.

[helborn]

The Jaunt before. Forgot there was a walkabout - what Jaunt was that running next to?

[fearinahandfulof]

The Beastfolk one.

[AKA the one Cassandra is still very glad she missed because she couldn't have coped with all the reminders of home.]

[helborn]

Thorne's with the creepy cult-looking people, got it.

[He's only mostly joking.]

Alcuin's probably somewhere close by unless their relationship got real messed up by infiltrating.

... Also can you help me figure out what the fuck I am?

[helborn]

... Oh.

[He goes quiet for a long while, but eventually speaks up.]

That's pretty - uh. I don't want to say 'lucky' since I'm sure it sucked and comparing misery is never good, but. Yeah.

[fearinahandfulof]

I would not have coped with it well.

[helborn]

[He just laughs a little brokenly before privating the conversation.]

I uh. Didn't either. They didn't look well on people who were missing limbs.

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[fearinahandfulof]

I see. I'm sorry.

[The Organization likely would have judged such people unsatisfactory as well, and gotten rid of them. In retrospect it had been surprising that they had kept Neideen, since she'd been missing an eye as a human and couldn't regenerate it.]

The reasoning behind it was not the same, but the mutilations were. Familiar.

[helborn]

... Probably. I... I mean I keep my leg covered most of the time for a reason, and then having people just point and stare on that Jaunt made it worse.

private/protection ii all the way down

[fearinahandfulof]

And there would have been no way to keep it covered on that Jaunt, and even if you had, they probably would have kept asking.

[helborn]

Yeah. Clothes weren't much of a thing. I could cite 'shame' as a reason, but I wasn't ashamed. Just pissed off.

[fearinahandfulof]

Was there anyone who wore clothing there?

[dino_zarf]

Daddy's actually Daddy this time, so that's better.

And I'm me.

[helborn]

[There's the psychic impression of a hand wiggle.]

Not... really. In retrospect it would have been nice if they wore more since they were being broadcast as a TV show, but it's not like they knew that.

[helborn]

That's good. Do you have an archetype, Rose?

[fearinahandfulof]

...I wonder how they feel about that now that they know.

[helborn]

Shockingly, they don't like it! But the show's been stopped.

[waitatick]

I am myself, as far as I am aware.

I do not yet know my role, as I have not been in this place before and it is an unknown to me.

[helborn]

That's good. I'm sure we can figure it out, though?