Open broadcast | backdated to the first day of second liminal

[rustyhonesty]

This is my first time actually trying to make a message through the whole network... hopefully this will work.

[Jean sounds rather exhausted as he talks. While he had been away from the dungeon for some time, he still hasn't really recovered completely. Not with all the damn emotions and thoughts he had to process. Now he had finally sorted out the most important things so he was ready to talk with others to apologize or just explain.]

To anyone who interacted with Jan Wirths at the previous Jaunt. If there's something you need to talk to me about with that, I'm at workshop for most of the time. I know there were some things that he did that were rather fucked up.

[That's actually an understatement, at least in Jean's mind.]

... and well, if someone wants to tell me a bit more about Persona's, I would appreciate it. Now that I've rested I might understand any explanations a bit better.

And then things that happened in the dungeon... I'm ready to talk about them now.

[He's really been avoiding everyone for some time now. Especially one called Eren Jaeger, who he heard perfectly well over the network the other day. He almost adds "Jaeger stay out or I'll feel worse" but

1) Mikasa wouldn't like that
2) Eren would yell at him
3) Headache guaranteed

So he just leaves this as this.]


(ooc: Jean is back from his dungeon and can be found mostly from the workshop!)

Comments

[awitchdidit]

"Persona" is a term for the different roles played by people in interactions with others. It comes from the Latin term for a theatrical mask.

[Something about the way he said it caught her interest. Maybe it's overdeveloped suspicion, but it can't hurt to investigate.]

...why do you ask?

[rustyhonesty]

[Well that's an interesting explanation of the word, at least. Jean hadn't thought of the actual meaning, to be honest.]

It's the name a of a power I apparently received... though the word description sounds pretty accurate for it, too.

[awitchdidit]

Persona as the name of a power...interesting, very interesting! Normally it just seems to be a less delineated form of an alter ego. I don't suppose this power consists of transforming into a spandex-clad superhero, does it?

[rustyhonesty]

... I actually don't know the details. That's why I asked from people who might know more about it.

That sounds kind of lame and annoying though.

[awitchdidit]

It's why I don't watch much television, to be sure.

[Let's just not mention the other kind of superhero show for now.]

Was this something you acquired from one of the "Jaunts" Travelers are taken on? Or this dungeon you spoke of?

[rustyhonesty]

... what's a television?

[The most important question today, clearly.]

It was from the dungeon, actually, but I think it's not a normal thing to happen, from what I've gathered.

[awitchdidit]

An inferior alternative to a good book, honestly.

[Not that he can see it, but Beatrice gets her pipe out to twirl it thoughtfully.]

And what do you suppose was special about your dungeon experience?

[rustyhonesty]

[Sounds like something Armin wouldn't like, when he loved books as much as he did. Maybe it was something they didn't need in their world. Reality shows of titans. Sounds pretty awesome.]

Hmm... guess I had some skeletons in my closet that needed to get out. That's the only reason I can think of.

[awitchdidit]

Torment to face your inner demons? I can see how that might leave you stronger.

[Works for most of the people she knows, even if it tends to also lead to homicidal rampages.]

What causes this, exactly? Some kind of punishment game of the Trumps?

[rustyhonesty]

Something like that, basically. Though I don't know if it made me mentally stronger just yet.

[Then again, he's seen a lot so at least he's not going to break because of everyone he cares about saw what he'd been hiding.]

I don't know. It might be karma, too. I was a bastard in the Jaunt before I got tossed in there, so who knows.

[awitchdidit]

Feel free not to share the gory details, but were you, or was the piece you were playing? Karma can be as fickle and powerful as any god, so I'm wondering what standards apply in this place...

[rustyhonesty]

Not that high, apparently. I just tried to be a murdering kidnapper. On those who are my closest friends in here.

[Which is actually a source of his problems today, if you ever tune in on the Attack on Reality Show going on later.]

[awitchdidit]

Well, here is here and there is there. I'm not the one running this game, but I would think if you were an unaware piece...

...ah, but perhaps it's not karma, but guilt in your mind. That can be far more exacting than any universal constant.

[rustyhonesty]

Guilt, huh? You know that might be more likely. I might have wanted to disappear for a while because of what happened.

[awitchdidit]

Hm...and in a place like this, if you truly want to disappear, there's a chance that you simply may.

[rustyhonesty]

It feels possible, yeah. Then again, you may also be found if you wish for it.

[awitchdidit]

[There's a long bit of mental silence as Beatrice considers the layers of meaning in that.]

This is quite an interesting place...

[rustyhonesty]

It really is. And I'm pretty sure no one has seen all of it, as it's always changing.