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Okay, I only just came over last week and I'm still catching up on things so this may have been covered already, but... does anybody know anything about that communications station just outside the city? And would anyone be up for breaking into said communications station? Because it looks like Erebus has that thing under tight control, which means people Earthside probably don't know what's going on up here.

truerevelation

[Here's a psychic voice that the old-time Travellers haven't heard - or experienced? - before. There's an air of calm determination to the words.
Newer-era ones will be far more likely to recognise the tone.]

Yo, alright. Kanji here, checkin' in - just arrived from over Walkabout with some friends to lend a hand. Heard you folks are sticking it to the man by... re-stealin' a bunch of cows? Am I getting that right? Could use a bit of filling in.

But I ... [want to make the trip worth it, don't want to have run out on people for no good reason] wanna do something if I can. Uh, I do communications - hacking, sorta, and signal crap, or I can go bust a few goons down if they need busting. Hope that's useful somewhere...

So yeah. Good to ... be here?

leftbehindagain

[Naoki's been at a bit of a loss as to what to do on this jaunt, it's true, but it has occurred to him that he knows some people who might be able to help.

...Who are not here. And might be infiltrating. He can't remember if Minako replied to Armin's earlier infodump or not; he was mostly listening for Kanji, who didn't say anything.

In the end, it's a pretty small filter. If Kanji's there they should talk; if Chie's there, she deserves to know what's going on; and depending on how quiet things are, Minako might be glad of the potential escape too. Jean sounded content to spend some time with Eren and Mikasa, so Naoki leaves him off the line. Jauntside, he's only got Thorne on, so that she knows whether she needs to go pick anyone up, and has a start on how many people might be leaving.]

Kanji? Are you infiltrating, or did you just ignore Armin-san? Things are getting... interesting, on this side of things.

triggerhappytraitor

I'm talking with Matthew Cuthbert, one of the Travelers from the first time we were here. Azure is very insistent that he's Stone, and has been this whole jaunt, only Matthew himself had an overlay, one who died in the storm last week.

Has there ever been this sort of... layered infiltration before?

okanetendo

[A new voice comes over the Network, all contralto brass.]

Okay, so. I appreciate staying up to date on the inner workings of Erebus, but I've suffered from three Reply-Allpocalypses in as many days.

Is a Traveller responsible for this, or is the Company just that panicky?

...Also, hey. Nabiki Tendo, alias Faith Maxwell, alias The Operator, broadcasting to the Network live for the first time. I'm Garret's new secretary after my quote "Daring escape," and I have a CB radio and a voice-changer, so I can coordinate.

claudiometer

So I just had an idea that would really cramp the enemy's style in any hypothetical showdowns that may or may not still happen.

Who wants to give Erebus the biggest collection of laser pointers this side of Jupiter? Anyone who's up for downloading a trick from the later timeline's last jaunt can join in, and frankly the more of us hit 'em, the better it'll probably work. Their own damn fault for over-relying on one kind of weaponry.

itsananimalthing

So I think I've got all the important shit back from the first time we did this Jaunt. You guys have already changed things a lot. This might be some kinda proof that who infiltrates as who really does make a difference, like we're influencing them just by bein' there, cuz Remy was in charge of the cattle stealin' last time and he made a huge fuckin' mess of it. This time it's goin' pretty well, from what I can see.

And last time nobody really knew about all the shady shit Erebus was doing, so that's a big change. Either we got better at this shit after a few more years of workin' on it, or all you new people since this Jaunt are more nosy than we were.

Okay, now I got a warnin' for you all. Worked out what happened after the storm, last time. When the thieves headed out of the caves and into Ridge Rock, there were Erebus assholes waiting for 'em. Bunch of people died, Erebus got their cows back. So keep an eye out if any of you are comin' this way. I'm here in Ridge Rock now, so I can be here if things go down like that.

If we manage to keep even some of those cows away from Erebus, I'm thinkin' that might change the win condition on this thing.

[Private addition to Yukki:]

You got anything to add to that? I know you were doin' different shit on the Jaunt than I was.

okanetendo

I don't know what you did or how you did it, you have to teach us that trick

But it's probably a good thing you did because hooboy is Erebus dirty

( the titular Red Dirt )

thornsofmalkav

Hey! This is Thorne. I'm in the, uh, second Traveler group. The one that's been doing this longer. Anyway, one of the things we learned how to do that the first group should also learn how to do in time is to... well, basically break into the private spaces of the playing card themed entities that serve as our Hosts, be they called Champions or Arcana or Trumps. And some of us have reason to believe that Fortune is involved with shit for this Jaunt.

A small group of us had privately made some plans to do the aforesaid breaking in, but we had to delay it to wait on some business here and in the time since our first plans we'd figured out that Matthew, who is our primary person for accomplishing that breaking in, can actually bring a LOT more people with him when he invades the spaces of our Hosts than he used to be able to. Which means we don't have to actually limit the breaking in to the four of us who originally planned to do it.

Basically, with Matthew being the primary taxi and me and Claudia helping, we can get somewhere around thirty people there and back with us. Because Matthew is officially the Armin of Liminal Space now.

ANYWAY. Anyway. Because of that, we figured we'd open up going on the Fortune Field Trip to everyone, both our group and the first group. Or, you know, the first thirty? I don't know how many people are gonna want to.

We'll probably leave in a day or two and hopefully should be back the same day. We'll meet in Liminal Space, in front of the theatre marquee that's unfortunately on the ground right now. If you don't have portals, let us know and one of us will open up a portal for you.

elementarydeartraveler

Travelers, as it is much too cold for anyone to think on this Jaunt, I propose a bit of mental exercise to keep ourselves warm.

What does everyone believe our purpose is in this place? What have we learned and where should we go from here?

Who has any information on the cattle theft, and does anyone have any information on the activities of the large company?

I would also especially like to hear from those on both sides of our current time divide.

razorblade_empress

Okay, so I've been trying to reconstruct my memories of our first time here, admittedly without a hell of a lot of success so far. But I did just remember this: There's a storm coming - a real nasty one, from what I've managed to scrape together. If our cattle thieves aren't either properly prepared for it, or aren't in the caverns by the time it hits, they're probably gonna lose most of the cattle.

verdeleonessa

So, I have good news and bad news.

[She should probably just message Matt and maybe Zarkon and Alfor, but... what the heck, let everyone hear.]

The good would be that I found Shiro, Keith and Lotor. All in one place!

[Wohoo!]

The bad would be that we're all in jail.

I'm working on getting us out of here though, if we don't get released. We did kinda bunch cops in the face so they might not want to let us out and... yeah.

naturaltwohands

I understand the gravity of the situation these colonists are in... but what sort of animals are everyone’s companions?

Guenhwyvar is a giant black chicken.

[This is important to share, considering she’s normally a 600 pound black panther.]

itsananimalthing

Okay. I have fuckin' been here before. I remember this stupid Founders Day party. There's going to be some kind of upset soon after it, but I don't remember what yet.

And just in case it wasn't obvious, those are Travelers from years ago. I know them. I ain't got names for all of them yet, but I got memories now for almost all of them.

Pretty sure I ain't crazy, and I can't be the only one. So who else remembers this, and those other Travelers?

dino_zarf

I swore never again with cows. And it's even cows on a frontier colony. Don't suppose there's a chance of it switching them over to beagles...

[But he's getting off topic]

Most kids don't get any milk once it's not from their Mama. That's bad.

Rose and I are both investigating and are looking to work out who else is too. So far this doesn't seem too different from home. Closer to Earth That Was, but the resemblance is still uncanny.

Everyone be sure to dress warm up here.

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seestheworld - [Jaunt - week 5, pre-showdown] Hello Earth?
truerevelation - [Jaunt] Just a stranger riding into town. Or something.
leftbehindagain - jaunt > walkabout, filtered and double protected
triggerhappytraitor - Inception or Double Rainbow, pick your meme
okanetendo - Hot water can probably break this curse, but at what cost?
claudiometer - (no subject)
itsananimalthing - [Early week 4] Update on The Past
okanetendo - (taps forehead) can't steal what already belongs to you [Midweek 3]
thornsofmalkav - [JAUNT] Who wants to go on a trip to the METAPLOT?
elementarydeartraveler - Beginning of Week Three
razorblade_empress - [Jaunt - forward dated to mid-week 2] Stormy weather
verdeleonessa - [Jaunt] This is worst party yet
naturaltwohands - [Jaunt] A Slight Feathery Diversion
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Entries tagged with !red dirt

[Jaunt - week 5, pre-showdown] Hello Earth?

[Jaunt] Just a stranger riding into town. Or something.

jaunt > walkabout, filtered and double protected

Inception or Double Rainbow, pick your meme

Hot water can probably break this curse, but at what cost?

(no subject)

[Early week 4] Update on The Past

(taps forehead) can't steal what already belongs to you [Midweek 3]

[JAUNT] Who wants to go on a trip to the METAPLOT?

Beginning of Week Three

[Jaunt - forward dated to mid-week 2] Stormy weather

[Jaunt] This is worst party yet

[Jaunt] A Slight Feathery Diversion

An hour or two into Jaunt [Locked to modern travelers]

[Jaunt] Check-In