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[willyousee]

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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[claudiometer]

...Rood, Priestess, you could at least turn up in person like everyone else. [The inflection suggests 'rude,' even if her pronunciation's slightly different.] Probably trying to keep us on our toes or something.

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.

[willyousee]

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.

[claudiometer]

Tarot's not really my thing. I should probably look into a crash course sometime. As for the name... who knows, but there's obviously something in the imagery they like using.

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.

[willyousee]

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.

[claudiometer]

Don't plan on testing it. There's things you do for information, but suicide really, really isn't one of them.

Yeesh, he's still trying to poke around?