(a few hours into the Jaunt, open broadcast)

[protect_and_serve]

[Joscelin's voice, sent across the network, is warm, dry, composed - instilled with enough confidence, he hopes, to reassure the new and uncertain.]

A calm beginning makes for a welcome change. We should still start sharing what we know. Who's with us, and who is missing? Who is infiltrating? What do we know about this world?

If this is your first Jaunt - and there were many new faces in Liminal Space - ask for assistance, and we'll give it.

I'll begin. This is Joscelin Verreuil. We're on the coast of an island, somewhere between Alba and Terre D'Ange- England and France, I think, locally. Magic of some sort appears to be open and commonplace. I can't make sense of their calendar, but we're in or just after the Twentieth Century, as.... Christians... reckon time. This is a port where foreigners are common and unremarked. I have clothes that fit the era, and in my pockets were ten five-pound notes. The Trumps don't mean for us to be spotted immediately, or starve, but I can't guess more than that.

Comments

[oftoomuchfaith]

Only if you withhold your Pikachu from us! Prepare for Trouble!

[ ignore her melodrama, she is kind of scrambling to steal someone's smartphone so she can play, okay? ]

[mysunnydisposition]

And make it double?

[ She's got your back, Persephone. ...not so much for the stealing, but she can't just leave that hanging. ]

[oftoomuchfaith]

[ YOU HAVE MADE A NEW FRIEND STEPHANIE ]

To protect the world from devastation!

[mysunnydisposition]

...okay, I honestly can't remember anything that comes after that. I just thought you could use some backup from a fellow 90s kid.

[oftoomuchfaith]

Honestly, I don't think I can either. There's more, then they say their names, and then Meowth comes in. [ laughs ] And boy, I'm only a 90s kid if you count "was born in the 90s" as being a 90s kid, I think I was three when that ended.

[mysunnydisposition]

Pfft. Close enough, compared to Middle Ages Man.

[ Thoughtful pause. ] That's a terrible superhero name.

[oftoomuchfaith]

[ Cackles ]

Not much better than Map Man, which is what I would've picked.

[mysunnydisposition]

Yeah, the alliteration really isn't helping... Sounds like part of Batman's rogue gallery. The lame part.

[loyalrebel]

...What is a pikachu and why should I care?

[oftoomuchfaith]

It is, for some reason, one of the most popular little cartoon monsters called Pokemon, even though it's so not the cutest.

[ she is a little picky about her pokemon. ]

[loyalrebel]

...cartoon?

Are the ones considered cute better than the others?

[oftoomuchfaith]

Um... [ FINE, she'll actually be helpful. ] Well, it's moving drawings. Some of them you just watch, but some - like the ones on the smart phones, the bricks? Those you can interact with. It's a game. It's technically meant for little kids, but it's been around for ages, so a lot of grownups are into it too.

[loyalrebel]

[Thank you, it's not nice to trick the elderly... or those deeply displaced through time.]

But they... seem to be ignoring their jobs in favor of this? Will they not get in trouble?

[oftoomuchfaith]

Probably. I haven't heard of it before, so it's probably new. People get like that sometimes. If it's new, things'll probably go back to normal before we even leave.

[loyalrebel]

Or this is the problem we must correct, people who are supposed to be heroes playing children's games.

[oftoomuchfaith]

[ snorts, then busts out laughing ]

Wow, you are taking this way too seriously. Like, not even trying to be a shit like last time, just... it's a game. This sort of thing always happens when a new popular game comes out.

Fucking hell, dude, deep breaths, find an actual problem to try to solve. Maybe that Solomon Ring thing people heard about?