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So uh.

I realize this probably doesn't seem super important with everything else going on but...I've been working it out in my head the best I can. It's hard to keep track of dates when you're traveling but if I'm doing the math right, I turned seventeen like a week ago.

I can't believe I forgot my own birthday.

haremtrap

Ugh, okay I wasn't going to add to the flood of people talking about weird visions but there's this one bit of the one I saw that is really sticking with me.

The vision: A pair of dragons were fighting. They were WAY bigger than the ones you guys brought back. The smaller of the two was like the size of a bus. Then while I watch it all an evil tree spoke to me, saying something like "You aren't the only one who has a mascot!" Which, who knows what that means.

That's not the weird part.

The weird part is One of the dragons was using Liminal Portals.

[Private to *Hyun-ae]

Also being drunk is weird. Being hungover is terrible.

summerorange

Is--is anyone else getting warnings of the future?

I...I need to know if I'm the only one getting them. Because if I'm not? I think there's a terrible danger ahead...

haremtrap

I learned how to teleport.

That's really cool but like, it's also kind of really dawning on me. Back home I was always going to be a C-lister at best, but being a traveler means I have the potential to get pretty dang powerful doesn't it?

So like. What kind of crazy stuff can you do with liminal manipulation? Or the psychic stuff? Can you teach me? I want to be stronger. I want to be someone who rescues people, not someone who gets rescued. Not combat training, I've got that under control. I mean freaky super power stuff.

thornsofmalkav

[Once again, Liminal Space is being subject to a livestream of Thorne making important announcements! This time, she’s in a library study room, with books and papers of her and a Malik-created map-in-progress hung up behind her--and the map in question seems to be to an unusual location indeed.

She is wearing a black pith helmet with a pink band.]

Hi! Thorne here, with Alcuin playing cameraman as usual. Once again, I’ve got some important discoveries to share with people, but in this case these discoveries were made by a group of us. In fact, I pretty much spent the entire expedition we went on recording everyone else’s data. But before I talk about what we found out, I should probably explain about the expedition.

( ABOUT THAT EXPEDITION... )

hatefuldays

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~

otomechapilot

Sara here. How weird would it be if I showed up in my armor to protect the Woods? Keep in mind I am a pastel pony right now.

I'm totally sure I'll get glowy blue BARDING with "magic" weapons and it also covers my face; what I'm worried about is my ANIMa being too weird for this place, I'm not worried about getting caught.

haremtrap

Hey I got a guy here who's new and confused named-

Hey what did you say your name was again?

Right.

-named Mamoru looking for a blond named Usagi. Also showing him how to do this psychic thing. Say hi, Mamoru.

neverfeltthatway

It's Armin.

[The text is somehow bigger and bolder than usual when the network is like this, attracting your attention even if you'd usually try to filter it out or ignore it.]

Yes, I'm dead. Well and truly dead, not just a ghost, but I can still access the network. I'm not really sure how. I'm broadcasting to both sides right now, so this connection will only last about half an hour. But everyone, please listen - this is important. Before she tortured and killed me, I recognized the being inside Bernkastel.

It's Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. One of the outer gods. I think the ghost Bernkastel was in is essentially his overlay now - merging with her didn't give him access to the network, at least. Don't approach the lakebed - not yet. You don't stand a chance on your own, any more than I did.

But I have a plan.

I can teach the living to make talismans that will repel the god. If we have groups to distract and repel him, there's a brief ritual that can separate him from his host, and do to the witch what they've been doing to other ghosts, stripping and consuming will and power.

Doing that should leave him adrift - as long as he's being repelled, he'll have no choice but to return to where he came from. If he's not being repelled, he'll be free to do as he pleases. This is all if there's someone ghostside willing to lend me your form in order to perform the ritual.

It will be hard, and incredibly dangerous. We'll need to coordinate and work together, and I can't promise we'll all survive. But it can be - it must be done.

[ooc note: in game, this post takes place after Malik will have reported Armin's death to everyone lifeside, even though Bix hasn't thrown it up yet.]

haremtrap

I feel like I was just on here but I am having a bad night again. Worse than bad dreams this time. There's some...thing out here.

[She starts livestreaming on the network, showing you things from her point of view. It's worth noting that despite her being a psychic of fairly low to middling power, the detail and quality of the stream is incredible. It's like an IMAX where you can count the individual hair follicles on someone's head. The scene shows some sort of shadowy creature with bright blue eyes stalking around the small pool of light provided by a streetlamp Kohaku is apparently sitting under. You can also see her forearms in the corner of the stream, and they both have a handprint on them, as if someone had grabbed her arms and their skin had started ripping away her skin. Which was more or less what had happened. They were dripping blood slowly onto the pavement.]

It won't go away, but it also won't come into the light. My sword doesn't seem to hurt it and I'm way out on the edge of town. Every time it touches me it hurts.

...I could use some help. Bring lights, I don't think my cellphone light is gonna cut it.

haremtrap

Maybe I'm just freaking out about nothing, but everyone's so on edge right now and it was just so REAL.

Sorry, I'm starting in the middle.

I had a dream. It was like I wasn't me. I was someone else, and they were exhausted and terrified of...something. I think it was chasing them? I was running towards a freeway on ramp, but I saw some guys blocking the road with like spike strips and stuff and was SURE the whole town was getting sealed off like that. Then I heard a weird noise behind me, kinda like someone gasping for breath, and then I woke up.

Normally I'd just dismiss it as a bad dream but...It didn't FEEL like a dream, you know? Like dreams just kind of flow out of your memory after a while normally but this whole thing is perfectly etched in my brain.

Someone tell me I'm making too big a deal about this before I freak out.

capital_asset

I'm sorry to bring talk back to Harrogate again, but if that's where we're going, it's worth noting that the last time we were there, we lost access to both the network and Liminal Space midway through the Jaunt. That doesn't mean it will happen again this time, but it's still something we may need to plan for.

awondrousplace

Hello, fellow Travelers. For once, I am not addressing everyone in regards to an entertainment of some sort.

Gentlemen, and those without a female reproductive system, you might want to tune me out from here on. Ladies, and anyone with a female reproductive system, I have something for you.

A few Liminal Spaces back, I realized that no one here has made any sort of contraceptives for those who might wish to engage in activities that would result in unfortunate consequences.

[For all that she adored Christina eventually... it was an unfortunate consequence.]

I have made a liquid that will halt conception for three months. It is completely reversible if you ever wish to bear a child, but it will prevent both pregnancy and menstruation.

For those who live in an earlier age and do not understand, I am happy to talk you through what goes on, and what my concoction does.

If you would like some, please, by all means, come to my rooms. My door is always open, and I will not ask any questions of you.

haremtrap

Okay guys very important question so stop what you're doing and listen up. Battle lines are about to be drawn in the sand.

Now tell me, fellow travelers: Are muffins cakes?

[like half an hour later, after Kohaku realizes that Ako is now in the game]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I don't have time to explain. If I live through the next hour I'll explain. If not...

...good luck to you all.

[The line goes dead as Kohaku focuses on hiding. She's a fool to try. There's no escape from this.]

ninjayeehaw

This ain't anywhere near so excitin' as some a' the other skills that keep croppin' up as a' late, [nor one of the more exciting ones even he's picked up] but... I think I mighta just hitched a ride in someone's else's head. Like straight up gone into their body.

An' mighta controlled 'em a little durin'.

...so that's interestin'.

fantasy_heaven

This telepathy thing seems really convenient, but also like it might be really inconvenient. What if I think something, then accidentally end up saying it to everyone else?

[It was bad enough meeting just ONE person who could tell whatever she was thinking. Then again, it's not like she's in the habit of keeping secrets.]

Anyway, I'm Reimu Hakurei, a shrine maiden. I'm also a youkai exterminator, so if any non-human weirdos are causing any problems, just let me know and I'll be sure to punish them thoroughly.

Beyond that, I don't really have a clue what's going on, or how any of this stuff works. I'm getting a headache just thinking about the whole incident in Greece again, let alone whatever the heck the Fool is trying to pull by kidnapping me. Someone was talking like there's some kind of competition between the different Arcana or whatever, but they all seem pretty suspicious to me. I don't see why I should care which one wins.

[Pause. It's easy to start rambling on tangents with this setup, huh.]

...See? I'm using this for the first time, and I already got distracted and ended up saying a bunch of unnecessary things. You need to be careful with telepathy.

[Aaaaaand stop while we're ahead. Or at least, before this gets any more rambly.]

meanballerina

[Natasha's voice comes across terse, as if she's not used to or comfortable with the network...and trying not to let it show. Anymore than it already does, anyway.]

It's pretty clear that the gods are the problem here. I don't know if any of the bigshots here are going to actually convince people to head up Mt. Olympus -- but I think we should try to beat them up there. To do some recon, if nothing else.

Who's with me?

haremtrap

So this whole "jaunt" thing is very weird.

SAGE said I shouldn't act until I've got a better picture of what's going on and honestly, that doesn't sound like bad advice.

So I got a job. I am now a scribe at the Temple of Apollo. There's lots of important people talking to each other here, and they don't pay attention to scribes. Even if they did, they don't think scribes can overhear their important but private conversations about politics and stuff from fifty feet away.

I have really good hearing.

If I find out anything interesting, I'll pass it along here. If you all have anything you want me to keep an ear out for, lemme know.

mightypen

So uh… funny thing. You guys remember how I can do that water stuff? Well, okay maybe some of you don’t know because I’ve been gone since forever and have some memory problems.

[Again.]

So hi newbies, I’m Percy. I’m mostly harmless and like blue things and can breathe underwater… among other things.

Anyway, I’m gonna apologize in advance for whatever shenanigans my dad’s side of the family puts us through. They’re not all that bad, really, they’re just…. well, they’re gods. They don’t really get humans all that well.

Blah blah blah, my dad’s Poseidon and that might either really help us here or turn out terribly for me depending. I can help you guys with cover stories if you end up having to use your powers or whatever out in public, demigods aren’t exactly a new thing and if you say you’re one most folks probably won’t be too upset if you break something.

Try not to break things though, it’s not nice.

I can give folks pointers on do's and don't's of ancient Greek society too, though it's mostly "don't claim to be something you're not" and in this case... "Assume everyone might be a god in disguise, even the animals because Zeus is a bit odd sometimes" and don't take sides if asked to judge something.

Uh... I guess folks can also check in here?

professorwolf

We're still assuming that the liminal space before a Jaunt represents the Arcana competing in it, yes? I know someone's mentioned this earlier, but it definitely needs to be highlighted-- I think it's pretty obvious this time that the contest will be between Chariot and Tower. The giant wooden horse running through a thunderstorm really couldn't be more blatant. For once.

[He's not great at understanding symbolism, but damn if this wasn't an easy one.]

So if that's right, it'll be a contest of motion and persistence, versus dramatic change and catastrophe. I think it's easy enough to decide who we want to support, in this case. We'll just have to find ways to make sure we see what sort of conditions make for a win for each ideal.

Any ideas for what to look for and how to keep things from devolving into a catastrophe? Those seem to happen a lot when we're around, unfortunately.

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hatefuldays - [text]
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neverfeltthatway - Psychic Bridge II to everyone jauntside
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haremtrap - Shitposting has consequences
ninjayeehaw - On the topic of unexpected skills
fantasy_heaven - Meandering thoughts on nothing in particular
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[Backdated to second day of Liminal Carol III]

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A few hours after Souji’s Arcana discussion

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Candy coated sweetness, swords beneath my clean dress [Audio]

Missed connections

Psychic Bridge II to everyone jauntside

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Report at like 1am

Harrogate was a lovely Jaunt, really.

An offer to the Travelers

Shitposting has consequences

On the topic of unexpected skills

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[a few days into the jaunt]

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