Trump-Talk

[someonetocarry]

So somebody wanna tell me where the Trumps were hidin' this Jaunt? My other self in there was kinda on the sidelines of whatever action went down, given the whole havin'-a-baby thing, and I don't remember talkin' to anythin' that might fit a Trump in disguise.

[Little does she know... still, it's a place to start the conversation for various interested parties, right? Including herself. Because she's not actually even sure which Trump marked her.]

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[claudiometer]

Considering the fuss about 'barbarian dragons,' I'm going with the shrines. I didn't do any shrining myself, though, so I have no idea which two were kicking around.

[volving]

[ Cass generally avoids the network, but she's half been paying attention because of this very thing... ]

One was... a dragon. I think. I talked to... it a bit.

[runawaystory]

There were four of them. Two were posing as dragons, the foreign ones. Hijacking prayers so on. The other two were there as observers. I don't know where, though.

[thornsofmalkav]

There weren't any on the walkabout as far as I know. We even had a seance and you'd think that shit was pure trump bait.

[comebewe]

They were in the shrines.



...We spoke to one. They told us that they were after 'synodiporia'.

[And since not everyone can speak Greek...]

Fellow travelers. Those who walk together.

handwaving that by asked for release when he noticed other travelers disappearing

[bypartisan]

I'd been wondering. The language--Old Earth Greek to Barrayaran Greekie--seems to have shifted a bit over the last millennium. I got the 'walking' and 'meeting' from the root words, but--

[...]

Ah. Thank you for releasing me when I begged it of you, by the by.

[comebewe]

You were listening?

[No, Matthew hasn't checked the network yet. He was going to eventually, but he hadn't really been all that keen on doing so, so...]

He wasn't me. Don't thank me. He wasn't me.

[someonetocarry]

Went to a shrine all of once, but never did talk to any dragons or spirits or anythin' like that. Just my midwife, who was coming in to give an offering the same time.

[someonetocarry]

Yeah? Uh, what'd the dragon say to you?

[claudiometer]

...This is just a hunch, but. Describe the midwife.

[someonetocarry]

Huh. Wonder if the observers could mark folk, or just the ones who actually talked. Cuz I definitely didn't talk to no dragons, or anybody paradin' about as one.

[someonetocarry]

What was the walkabout this time? You got the lay of what happened in the Jaunt yet?

... I'd offer, if not, but I only got bits and pieces myself.

[someonetocarry]

Huh. Well, we do call ourselves travelers, don't we. Do they call themselves travelers, too, then? Like they consider themselves one of us?

Or if that's what they're lookin' for, maybe they want to.

[It doesn't necessarily fit what they've been doing so far, but... what else is that supposed to mean?]

[someonetocarry]

Chinese woman, warrior much as a midwife, long hair with a round face, wore a lot of black. Kinda bossy, but guess that's pretty normal when you gotta deal with stubborn pirate women in labor. ... funny, don't remember her name. Talked the pirate woman into taking her and Wash along when she left on her ship.

[comebewe]

I don't know. But whatever it is that they call themselves, we do not think that it is a good sign that what they want is...us.

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[claudiometer]

...Mei, you sneaky minx. [Though really, considering she banged Worick, Mei would probably take that as a compliment.]

[claudiometer]

[It's a moment before Claudia continues; she's waffling on whether to make this private. But then she figures there's no reason to, not really.]

Welcome to Team Empress. Hope you enjoy your stay. Of course she'd crash the jaunt for Liminal Baby.

[bypartisan]

He had me guarding to door, remember? I was perfectly able to hear everything either of you said--although I suppose I only heard the Trump because I was a spirit.

[volving]

To... be merciful to my enemies. Not hurt... innocent people. I was... asking for help. To protect Koroshima. It... was complicated.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh, we were all criminals. [She says this blithely] It took place about ninety years before my time, in Brooklyn: a city I used to live in. Alcohol was illegal as all fuck and about half of us were in the business of rumrunning.

[comebewe]

I didn't...he didn't...spirits didn't usually listen in. Not when he talked to dragons.

[Every other time, yes, especially Keiko. But when dragons were involved, they stayed away]

Were you...when you died. You were you, weren't you? Unless there were actually weres native to that place.

[bypartisan]

First time I died I was in an overlay. Once I woke up in Liminal, I went north, grew a beard, and took on my cousin Dono's name to join the Sun Guard.

But yes, the time you rose me from the dead, I was myself. The lycanthropy was something I picked up on an earlier Jaunt.

[solvethepuzzle]

You have confirmation that there were four? [Three, he'd figured. The fourth is news to him.]

[leftbehindagain]

So it is cooperative. Whatever it is they're up to, they can't do it without us.

[comebewe]

...You died, and so you decided to grow a beard?