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synopsychic2015-09-09 08:01 pm
willyousee) wrote in synopsychic2015-09-09 08:01 pm
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Forgive me, but I am unfamiliar with what liminal space has become this time. Can anyone tell me what it is? What the cultural significance of it is? Are there usually balls of mice which try to run you down? There must be some reason it is what it is this time.
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There has been a discussion in the past of what the Trumps have gathered us here for. Your pardon, my lady, have you been with us long? You have heard of the Trumps marking chosen Travelers with indelible ink?
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Anyway, yeah, I caught that part of the story. Saw frickin' Doki and the Grid and then apparently spent three months stuck in some shiny gold nonsense.
[That part she is upset about. There are reminders she didn't need in her life, and that was one of them.]
I know about the surprise tattoos, I know about the dead ones, and I apparently missed the fact that the Grid was Trump-palooza, not just SAGE. I'm less sure about where the round business comes into it.
...Actually. Now that I think about it, this isn't the first Liminal I've seen that implies we're being observed, when you take the apparent inside of the hamster balls into account. The zoo, right before the Grid.
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If you prefer a different title, you have but to name it. [Can't bow psychically, dang it. Mucking with his whole comportment here.]
[...Also riding right by that palusa word thing. Not familiar with that one, but it sounds like it might refer to there being more than one Trump on the Grid. He loves languages but sometimes their evolution becomes very strange.] If you were present for the Grid, then you may remember the liminal space directly afterward - the prison beneath the gaming parlor? Some Travelers were able to speak with a Trump of their limited choice via the telephone in the parlor. One Traveler was told that this is Stage Two. This last Jaunt split Travelers into two separate places. There has also been discussion of the Trumps potentially splitting Travelers after the marks were discovered. Of Travelers as pieces in a vast game between the Trumps. There was most certainly animosity between The Devil and SAGE on the Grid, and a more-or-less friendly competition between The Sun and The Moon at the Orrery.
Is it not likely that we are constantly observed?
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I... think I missed out on that one in favor of the shiny gold nonsense. Too bad, Dial-a-Trump sounds useful, even if it was limited - everyone who'd turned up so far, I'm guessing?
I see the game more than I see trying to split us all up. Why get us used to working together in the first place if that's the end goal?
Oh, it's totally likely, they have to know what passes or fails their little tests some...how...
[There's a few seconds' silence, and then:] Oh goddammit. The hamsterpinballs. Granted, I haven't seen one up close and personal and I don't want to, but from the sound of it, you get sucked in, set a task to complete, and spit back out to where you started when you're done. Sound familiar?
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Thank you, Claudia. Please, call me Alcuin. As I understand it, yes and no; I believe the Fool, the Moon, the Sun, the Magician, the Lovers, the Hermit, and the Devil were all available... as well as the High Priestess, whom no one has yet seen and yet has marked at least one individual.
[He remains silent on the subject of the nature of the game - he himself has his doubts about the goal, but that is the predominant theory among Travelers, so he lets it be for now. ...what hamster means he'll have to discover later.]
Ahh. Yes, I see what you mean. I wonder if it would allow for multiple people within one maze, or if each would experience a separate one. Interesting, that the most dangerous time appears to be between these balls, rather than within them, if the hazards are truly so minimal.
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I wouldn't be surprised if people in the same ball are dealing with the same puzzle. Only so many of those to go around.
...huh. If the metaphor carries, that'd imply someone's more vulnerable in Liminal Space. The question is who - and if it's us, what we can do about it.
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I am not as familiar with the symbolism inherent in the tarot cards as I should like, I confess, but I believe the Priestess is one of the more mysterious? As I understand it, thus far they have exhibited traits similar to those the cards are meant to represent. Though I am curious as to whether or not the name given them was first provided by a Traveler or by somewhat else...
...I am uncertain if any Traveler has ever died in Liminal Space. Injury, yes, but death? [There's a pause, like a mental head shake.] If one is killed during a Jaunt, one revives within Liminal Space as yourself, even if you were infiltrating. If the same principle does not hold true within its bounds, perhaps that might account for that vulnerability. In a less dire case, we know that the area within Liminal Space is finite. There are boundaries we cannot escape - not only in this place, but in all of them. Whatever dangers are introduced, we cannot flee them very far.
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That's a good point. I mean, they must revive us during jaunts for a reason, but if no one's had to put it to the test in Liminal Space before we don't have all the information we need for that.
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Nor would I advise testing it simply for curiosity's sake. [Strangely firm on that for some reason.] There is also the question of the eldritch incursions. After Harrogate there has always been danger in liminal space from those portals.
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Yeesh, he's still trying to poke around?