changeitall: (Born with all that I need)
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Weiss Schnee here, returning Champion of Ice from our first time in Questing Country. Presumably I still have thing called Dust with me, so ice isn't my only element here. [Plus she has ice dust.]

My Spirit Companion is called Winter, she's a pale blue kitsune and big enough for riding. [So in other words it looks like Alolan Ninetales in the size of an Arcanine but Weiss doesn't know that!] Coincidentally her color is pretty much the same as my summons are, not that I'd trust anything like that to be a coincidence here.

So, who else is here with us and what kind of companion did you get?
wholeheaded: (something happening somewhere)
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Hello everyone, Ambrose here. Well, mostly. Just doing a check-in thingy to see who's themselves-ish and where everyone is. I'm in London - sorry, Londinium - and hanging around the palace and there's a lot of hustle and bustle here. The High King is abdicating in favor of his nephew and there's gonna be a big ceremonial gizmo for that in a few weeks. Which experience tells me is the thing we will not set on fire, right?

[ okay, the Travelers haven't literally burned anything down in a while but in his mind it's still worth advising against. ]

Anyway, like I said I'm mostly here and doing the half-infiltrating thing. My overlay is Scottish and I have a pet hawk, which is...fine, it'll be fine. I'm going by Angus MacLeod.
claudiometer: looking up from a case file (o rly?)
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So, uh. Having poked my head out the door just now...

Doveresque cliff faces shouldn't mean we're heading back to Newport, right? Please tell me we're not heading back to Newport. I don't think any of us want to try to clean up that mess again.

[Also that would be the worst birthday present ever.]
wholeheaded: (a revelation is had)
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Hey all, especially newish folks, I hope you're all settled in okay. Well. As okay as you can be given the circumstances, which aren't ideal. But that's a little bit of why I'm doing this all-call thingy.

[ also he needs distraction, and figures a decent number of other folks do too so here we are. ]

As you've probably figured out, the Arcana nab people from all kinds of places and times and...different versions of places and times. So I'm thinking we could try connecting the dots a little? Like, let people know who's from where and when and if there's anything notable from your home. Place. Gizmo.

To start things off: I'm Ambrose and I'm from a place called the Outer Zone, or O.Z. It's sort of a fairyland/dimensional neighbor to Earth with sorta-easy access from Kansas or Australia. You might know it as Oz. Far as I understand in Earth years it was around 2010 when I left but that was four and a halfish years ago so...right. How about you?
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So, given that the Don of the Foolish Mafia lost, anyone got a clue why we’ve got frolicking bandaged dudes running around?

I mean, they’re horses, so it might be Chariot too, but...
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[Did you know Kitty was technically present? No? Well, she never planned on announcing her presence. This overlays of hers was quite fun to watch from the backseat, and really wasn't in the mood to have someone tell her that she should divert or stop the woman's efforts. Plus the woman was intelligent enough that her remembering a co-driver might cause issues in the long run. So she decided to take the equivalent of a prolonged nap in the sun.

...Until her overlay just had to go and do something that she can't let her do.

Drek. What a bother.

So quite suddenly, sometime towards the end of the walkabout, there's a surprise young voice on the network, sounding quite urgent.]


My overlay - one of the agents - just got her hands on Inigo and Utsusemimaru. They're currently unconscious, and she's preparing to experiment on them.

Someone should break them out of here.


((Here is the log!))
wholeheaded: (2 even if we're just dancing in the dark)
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Is anyone else...I dunno...really really kind of fed up with snow and cold and all that? And getting shadowed by weird folks in sunglasses and--

[ there's a little pause and some background mental chatter as Ambrose talks through things to himself. ]

Oh, hang on, just had a thought. A brainstorm. The folks-in-black investigating weird things...what if they had other weird things to investigate besides shapeshifters? Can we maybe go...somewhere else and do weird things to draw them away? So the folks up here can snowboard in peace and we can maybe skeedaddle to somewhere warm before we get yanked back to liminal.
wholeheaded: (middle distance)
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Hey everyone, Ambrose here. Couple of things: I ran an interface on one of the eyeball-cloud things and they're not just decorative, they're looking for folks doing stuff to liminal space they're not supposed to do. Or more like shouldn't be able to do. FY-eye.

[ that probably won't come across but he thinks it's punny. ]

Second: remember before last jaunt when I was thinking we could use a steam-blowing informal dance-club party with like... small-S singing and dancing and having a good time? I still think we could use one of those, just need a venue.

I'll bring the karaoke machine.
wholeheaded: (friendly neighborhood headcase)
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Hi folks, Ambrose here. We've got...all kinds of weird nuttiness right now with the long liminal and the past present future revelations, so I was thinking we could do with some blowing off of steam. With the power of song and dance.

I know we've got the fancy liminal ball coming up soon and I'm looking forward to that - and might need some help with a frock - but what I've got in mind is more casual. Like we can have a little performance stage for folks to sing or play an instrument or tell jokes or stories, and maybe we can put together a karaoke machine? Then maybe go for a nightclub thingy with a dance floor and mirror ball and stuff. Silly cheesy fun to tide us over.

I could maybe convert my rooms into it but if we get decent interest we might need more space so...yeah. Sound like a plan?
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If we make it all the way to our current Jaunt, there's a few movies left.

In that time, as long as we're discussing the new things we're learning about the Arcana, maybe we should review the old things, as well. There's a lot left out of these movies...


The Fool, who goes by Don Orlea, doesn't do a very good job asking questions, but he seems to be easy to speak to. He probably can't help not answering; his archetype doesn't know the answers.

The Magician, or ROSE, seems tricky but friendly. She managed to pretend to be a Traveler for most of a Jaunt. We know she's very close to SAGE, or Hermit, and that she cheated somehow when she took us to rescue him.

High Priestess is mysterious. She uses a lot of different names, and in Questing Country, she pretended to be someone's Spirit Companion.

Empress, or Mei, is mothering. She shows up frequently to check in, and she cares about how we're doing even if she doesn't understand it. Star matters to her, too.

Emperor, or Hakan Caesar, represents rules and order and fatherhood. He and Empress seem like a team, even though their archetypes disagree on a lot of things.

Hierophant is dead. I'm not sure how many of the details about that we know, but we had some theories I'm happy to discuss - unless anyone's heard anything definite now?

Lovers, or PSYCHE-chan, is allied with the Devil, and opposes Magician and Hermit. She shows up for weddings. She's friendly in a way, but it's because we're toys she likes to play with.

Chariot, or Cairbre, is about action, and doesn't talk much. They don't seem to be very good at disguising themself, either.

Strength, or Durga, seems to be pretty positive, but also doesn't talk much. I know that most of the people she's marked think pretty well of her.

Hermit, or SAGE, tried to leave the game once, and was captured by Lovers and Devil. We rescued him, but now he's a wolf.

Fortune, who won the last game, is dead now. Technically, it's Fortune's rules we're all playing by.

Justice is about clear decisions. We shouldn't expect Justice to take sides. I don't know much else about this version of the Arcana, and I don't want to make assumptions based on the card.

Hanged Man was so relaxed that he didn't seem to care about losing the game. He's also an Arcana that we know declined to Mark certain people. Some of them are more picky than others, and some are more greedy than others, and some care more about the rules. That's useful to know.

Death seems pretty straightforward and willing to talk, but has been involved in some past decisions that hurt Travelers badly. 'Death' in the Tarot deck means 'change,' so he's not as scary as you might think from the name.

Temperance is also dead.

Devil-san, or MALBOLGE, is most likely to abuse, mistreat, and punish Travelers, or to deliberately hurt other Arcana.

Tower represents violent change and disaster, and was pretty bad at pretending to be anyone else.

Star is dead.

Moon is tricky and untrustworthy - it seems like some Arcana know how to lie and some don't. I'm not sure Moon knows how to tell the truth.

Sun definitely doesn't lie. Apart from Death, Sun's probably told Travelers more than any other Arcana.

Judgment isn't an Arcana I have very much experience with, so I'm not sure what to say about them, except that they're usually positive in a deck of cards.


For me, it makes most sense to help Sun to win, if we're playing their game at all. But I'm sure other people have much more information than I do, and I might have gotten some things wrong. I'd like to hear what everyone else has learned about their Arcana, or what they think. We should probably discuss our theories, too, at some point.

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Nov. 20th, 2017 12:59 pm
hatefuldays: (What are our options)
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This is *Hyun-ae again! Sorry I wasn't really able to contribute anything to the Jaunt, but it sounds like things turned out pretty well.

So, I was thinking about how all of us were apparently taken from various worlds or alternate universes, and was wondering: Do we have any sort of compiled list of what worlds we've discovered? Liminal Space and Jaunts are both crazy, but there's a whole extra layer of this experience where we're basically all getting a chance to discover dozens of other worlds and universes through each other! We can't see them directly, but there's still got to be plenty of interesting stuff we can learn just by talking about where we're from and how those places differ or how they're the same.

I was going to follow that up with "so let's assemble a list of all those worlds and what we know about them", but the more I think about it, the harder it seems like it's going to be to even figure out where to start. Like, for example, I know we've got a lot of people from "Earth" or some variant of it, so how can we tell which ones are parallel Earths and which ones are the same planet? It gets even hairier when you factor in that there's different periods of time represented, so saying "this person and that person are from the same Earth/different Earths" is practically impossible most of the time.

So as a compromise, if any part of this sounds useful, interesting, or cool, tell us a bit about where you're from! It's not like there's too much for us to be doing while we're stuck in Liminal Space, so why not? I don't have a specific format in mind, but maybe some basics like...

* Homeworld name
* Other people you know are from the same world as you (to keep this organized)
* Local year when you left
* Whether or not you know what Disney is (this seems to be some kind of divide, at least for Earths)

I'll go first! I'm from the Mugunghwa, which is a generation ship sent from Earth to another planet where it was going to start a new colony. The trip was on the order of thousands of years long, so in between, the ship was basically its own isolated society. My situation's a little complicated timeline-wise, but it was 4989 AD when I was warped here, which might or might not be why I've never heard of Disney before. Magic and monsters don't exist (as far as I know), but it seems like our tech was pretty advanced compared to most people I've talked to - space travel tech has gotten pretty advanced by the 60th century, and human-comparable AI is a thing.

...If I'm going to talk about the ship for culture exchange purposes, I guess I should probably talk at least a little about what happened in the later years of the ship's society... So, I spent a very long time in cryostasis and accordingly don't have a firsthand account of what happened, but a few millenia after the ship's voyage began, there was a coup and a family managed to instate themselves as a new royal family. They blamed a bunch of things they did on rebels as an excuse to take more power for themselves, and pushed society back to Joseon Dynasty ideals - stability, strength of family lines, male superiority. A couple hundred years down the road, you end up in a world where scientific research is dead in the water and women aren't allowed to learn how to read.

...Eesh, sorry to end that on a dark note. But, well, that's how it was, and why I'm so glad to be here now. There's probably some kind of fancy moral you could come up with to summarize the whole incident, but I'm honestly not far enough away from it to look at it objectively and come up with one, so I guess I'll leave that to you.


[ Private to Malin ]

Status report! It took a while, but I managed to get the hang of making portals! A couple other things, too - I experimented a bit, and I can psychically change outfits and stuff. It's still so wild that this is just something I can do by thinking about it.

Thanks for all your training~
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[feelings of panic and terror accompany this psychic message, as well a disjointed, haphazard livestream: first a large, flying, dragon-like creature, then flashes of cobbled paths and bone china flowers streaming past, as Richelle runs. There is, overall, the sense that this message is more of a reflex made in fear than something intentional]

It's going to eat me! It's going to eat me! It's going to eat me!
neverfeltthatway: (this is my calculating face)
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I can confirm that this is definitely Harrogate, though 123 years in the future, the year 2020.

Everyone themselves on the jaunt, check in here. [His acting skills from his overlay here the last time are being used to good effect, as he appears confident and energetic, hiding whatever fear and uncertainty he has about this place.] Who's investigating here, and who have you seen infiltrating? Is anyone themselves but with an infiltrator persona - and if so, what can you tell us of the current situation?

I'd also like to know who has memory restoration - we should coordinate who we turn back into themselves, starting with other people who know memory restoration, so we can affect the greatest number of people. And if you have any ideas of what we should ask people on the walkabout side of things, let me know - I'll likely be contacting them as soon as we start to have things organized and know what's going on over here.

I can help if anyone has more general questions about the customs, culture, or history of this place. Additionally, if you want to know if someone is around on the jaunt, but they're not responding to psychic hails, I can help - as long as they're within about sixty miles of here.
wholeheaded: (2 you can't start a fire)
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Hey folks, Ambrose here. I know the other day Elphaba was asking after magic users to learn stuff from, but I was wondering... does anyone else want to learn magic? Who's willing to teach it? Maybe we should get together and do a big ol'... workshop? Exhibition? One of those things.

[ look he's been in the champagne a bit, it happens. ]

Basically everyone who is okay with teaching their particular stripe of magic can show what it's capable of, and anyone who wants to learn can shop around. We did this once a while ago, sorta, but I think it's time we do it again.
wickedestwitch: Alexia Khadime (you're full of it)
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So. Quick questions.

How many Witches or Wizards do we have among us? I suppose Mages count too, but that seems a less formal term to me and 'magic users’ is a bit broad considering some of what some of us can do.

I'm asking because my own magic is… unpredictable and irreversifyible in it's outcomes.

Flying monkeys were an accident.

[Which is probably one of the oddest statements to hear anyone say outside of context.]

Before anyone yells, I'm a trained Witch and well aware of the risk and dangers of magic. I went to college for it.

I don't want to invade anyone's toes when it comes to specializations within a subset of this color magic. I just… don't want to sit back and be rescued all the time like some silly damsel in impractical footwear and a tiara.

...also if anyone could bring me more of that fuzzy water in Liminal I would appreciate it.
wholeheaded: (something happening somewhere)
[personal profile] wholeheaded
Ah... hey everyone, it's Ambrose. I was Milo for a while there but I'm back to being me and one hundred percent less tree-like. So, I've gotta ask do we uh. I mean, some other folks've gotta be wondering too so--

[ a slight pause, then in a rush: ]

What's the least harmful way we can test for immortality? Cuz I wouldn't put it past the Arcana to leave people stuck with that.

[ he's totally not asking for a friend, okay. ]

Speaking of Arcana: I'd like to meet with all the folks who've been Marked by the Fool - he calls himself Don Orlea - so maybe we can coordinate or. Something. Dunno if we want to do it all together or what but either way, I'll provide snacks.
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[Here's a voice that hasn't been heard on the network for some time - deep and rich as always, though with a bit of a long-suffering sigh mixed in.]

Sometimes these Trumps make me feel like a toy they like to put away before bringing back out again at random.

Does anyone know how long I was gone this time, and is there anything extreme that I've missed? This is Asaraanda Adaar of Thedas, by the way, for those I haven't yet been able to meet. Easy enough to spot, just look for the giant with the horns.
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Hi. This is Luke. I've got some news. First the good (I think) news: I got in contact with the Walkabout, although I could only talk for a couple minutes before I got cut off. Like Lyall said, they're in Sarmatia. There's only three of them now who're Investigating. The rest are Infiltrating. Cassandra says there's some people--'Americans?'--shooting a 'movie' about vampires and werewolves, but the real ones just want them to go away. They still aren't sure what they're supposed to do there.

I filled her in a little about everything that's going on here. When I mentioned Nevermore's 'Edgelord' title, she said that evidently Devil's been called that before, so I don't know if that means that Devil is mixed up in this too. She did say something else interesting, though. There was another Investigator there, Melissa, that she hasn't seen all week. And I know through my work for Agent Jules that Malik's wife Melissa just woke up from her coma.

I also asked about Raidou and Lupa. None of them know who Raidou is, but Cassandra's seen Lupa and he's an Infiltrator again. So that might be what happened with Melissa? Since it sounds like she might be our Melissa.

So that's the news from the Walkabout.

The other news is that, well, I tried to use the Force to help me gain insight into everything going on here. I didn't get any insight through the Force... but I think my Mark just told me something. And I know that sounds ridiculous... but it's true.

It told me that Malik was actually complicit with 'Auriel's' most recent schemes... because he wants to be in charge of human-Pogemon relations. So... I think this might be what the Emperor meant when he was telling people that 'chaos can't be a servant of order.'
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I'm here to talk about goo. )

Oh yeah. One last thing. In non-science non-goo news, Rise figured out it was Valentine's Day earlier today. I've got my small single-screen movie theatre set up between the whack-a-mole and the game where you knock clowns over and in about an hour I'm going to be doing a screening of The Princess Bride. Chocolate snacks will be on the counter in the lobby. Everyone's totally invited if they want.

[No need to worry about showing up in a log. We're handwaving that one.]

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Feb. 10th, 2017 02:54 am
neverfeltthatway: (this is my calculating face)
[personal profile] neverfeltthatway
[As he has after every jaunt for nearly the past two years, Armin appears 'on screen' to announce the release list.]

I have the list of Travelers who've vanished over the course of the jaunt. Elphaba, Eliza, Liara, Xena, Gabrielle, Jotaro, and Persephone.

[He closes his eyes for a long moment, still and silent in respect for those departed - giving everyone a moment to hear and accept his words before moving on.]

I know there have been other conversations about it, but, I think, nothing comprehensive where everyone can hear - we should share what we found out from the Arcana during out conversations with them. We've learned more about them, our past, and our situation in the past couple months than in years before that, it can be hard for everyone to keep up.

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