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(All Travellers, new and old, hear a peppy tune as Sara starts the livestream in her industrial brushed steel kitchen. This time, though, Travellers can wave it off with a thought if they want or need to...)

Heeeey what's up guys, welcome to the new Liminal Space. I'm Sara Smith, and I'm here with a friend to teach you how Liminal Space and the network work through the magic of cooking. Thanks to Armin, I figured out how to make this opt-out, so if you have better things to do than learn how to make a perfect bowl of ramen from scratch - like, really from scratch - you can tune out now, and I'll be accepting questions from anyone about where this is and how to deal with it after!

( Still here? )

helborn

So I had one of those dreams again. The ones that feel different from normal, the really important dreams? For the newbies, I started picking this up after Harrogate and it's not just 'you ate too much cheese before bed' or something like that.

Anyway. I was in a garden - it was a pretty nice garden? - and holding an embroidered handkerchief. There were a lot of corgis around. They were very fluffy and happy. The Queen was on the radio, giving a speech from the new Prime Minister, who was cancelling elections for the next thirty years.

... So here's my take on on this. First up I think Phillip is somehow involved - he's infiltrating right now but he has a whole thing with corgis. Second of all... didn't this Dark Lord supposedly try to impersonate the Prime Minister?

I think we might have an attempt at that happening again. No idea about the handkerchief, though.

highsteaks

So I dunno if everyone's heard about it so far, but this is Chie and I twisted my ankle during my dance because my shoe flew off and it made me mess up a landing. I'm in the infirmary now. If you want to come by and bring me get-well meat, I'll be there at least overnight, maybe for a second night too.

But here's the thing: somebody messed with my shoe.

I don't know who did it and I only can sort of guess as to when, but sometime this morning, someone put this bit of metal into my shoe that was sawing away at the lace as my dance went on until it broke. I might have kind of left them unattended backstage while I was on the other side of it doing barefoot exercises--but seriously, why would someone do that? And how did they manage to sneak their way into doing it? I thought they might be invisible, but Coach Riverson says that's impossible--but then again, he's got Kinji in him, so that might make him be stupider. I'm pretty sure being Kinji is a good reason for anyone overlooking stuff.

But my point is that someone's cheating. And I bet I'm not going to be the only one that gets messed with. Not by a long shot.

bigbookofd

This is Ringabel, and I seem to be quite myself. Who else is in possession of their true memories?

I've found myself outside of the curtain wall of a castle on a floating isle. I smell brimstone and saltpeter, and there's a fleet of airships here coming from the direction of the rising sun.

Yet we're among cheering and laughing children barely old enough to lift a sword, and the mood is jovial. What have we stepped into this time?

I'd like to know what I can so as to avoid drawing undue attention to myself. Fortunately, a Black Mage's robes seem to be in fashionable style here, so my first mistake was not fatal.

notadisappointment

I feel so offended by my overlay. I was Wulfenite in the Space Mall and there he got Chie arrested and Jules almost too, but now he was a dreamer too and wow can that guy get shittier? That freaking bastard.

I even kept his Hecatite form. How can I be a rock without being reminded of him and his crappy antics?

More importantly, I can't get a hold of Souji. Has anyone seen him after the Jaunt? Is he... out of the ambit? I can't sense people yet, so...

helborn

... So does anyone know how to deal with radiation? I got a vision, too. Someone using a Geiger counter - that tracks a specific kind of bad stuff that's floating around, for those of you who don't know - in somewhere with metal paneling, with a weird glowing light. There was soot, and someone around the corner...

I didn't get to see who it was, though. But we might want something that can deal with that, just in case.

tobegood

Hello. I... this is Imriel. I've agreed to help provide music at the Liminal Ball.

...I'll probably need help. I play guitar - if anyone wants to join me in making music, let me know and we can find a time to meet up and practice together. And if anyone has songs they're going to want to hear, let me know and I'll try to learn them.

[He feels like he should say something more, but after a long, uncertain moment decides against it. The entire post is a little stilted, with how unused to using the network Imriel is. He's not even used to hearing it - he generally mutes the entire thing, unless someone addresses him directly, and he's never made a post before. Still, he's trying.]

notadisappointment

So, who all know the stories of Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come? Christmas isn't such a big deal in Japan, but our History teacher was insistent on us studying this particular story during the holiday season.

That's what I'm thinking about these past few Liminals. We all were able to see our past in the last one, right? Now it looks like we're getting alternative realities of our home worlds. So it's safe to assume that we'll have yet another Liminal... with our futures.

What do you think?

[And yes, his tone is a bit passive-aggressive thanks to what's going on right now, thank you very much.]

notadisappointment

Hey, this is kind of a random and doesn't have anything to with anything recent but I want to test something out. For that I'd need three things.

1. Someone to make me unconcious (no hitting please)
2. Someone to try and contact me while I'm unconcious
3. Someone to wake up me up as well

Let's just say I may have found something interesting in the network. You'd see what if it works.

Of course, this could be something super old that I just haven't come across, but still kind of cool.

[And once he's out cold, an automatic message plays with his voice when you try to contact him.]

Testing... I figured I'd try prerecording a message. You know, like an answer machine? So if you're hearing this when I'm out of it, it looks like it works! Which is awesome. Who knows, maybe this can be set to all kinds of situations? Like 'In case I become an infiltrator'?

[And theen he's back a bit later.]

So, did it work?

(ooc: Psychic Contingency test. You can either volunteer to knock him out or respond to the latter part - or both, really.)

truerevelation

[There's a brief burst of what sounds like radio static on the mental airwaves, a couple of sensations and flashes akin to the telempathic signalling of a Jangwan dragon...

And then, voices. One familiar enough on the network, the other new, high pitched and musical with a faint sound like feedback to it which steadily clears up as the speaker talks.]

Okay. You hearing this? [asks Kanji, though sounding a spot distant.] Can you...

[The new voice chirps in:] Mm! I ... Um, am I... Is this working?

Yeah. I think so. ...Uh, it's an open line.

Oh! H-hi everyone? This is... This is Piyo? Uh, I'm a Pogemon. ... I don't know, this is scary, it sounds weird... But I think I can hear you?

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~

glampuss

[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!

naturaltwohands

[Drizzt's flat annoyance filters through slightly despite his attempts to contain it.]

You must be joking.

[He lets out the equivalent of a sigh.]

How does one return to their true form after they have "received" one from the previous Jaunt?

rebellioninbloom

Good - good day, I suppose, everyone? I presume we were successful, by ... someone's criteria?

I have a couple of things to ask of people, however, now everyone is back to themselves. Just some small favours.
Firstly, can anyone tell me where it might be possible for me to charge a cellphone? Even if I'm hardly going to be using it for calls or messages, I'd like to have the apps available.

And secondly. Something ... kept coming up during discussions over the Jaunt that had me curious.

What's a "Disney"?

[Look, is it her fault her universe and timeline have a ... somewhat different media and theme park culture?]

claudiometer

Holy mother of God.

[That's it. That's the broadcast. Odds are good Claudia didn't mean to make it, really, but considering Helena's overlay is getting married...]

naturaltwohands

[An undercurrent of annoyance, some vague amusement, and already being resigned to his fate.]

... What exactly should one do when a small boy and his father take one into their home? Especially if they believe the person is an... orphaned kitten in needing of said home, and especially if it would cause anguish and worry if they were to leave unannounced.

[Then, dripping with an amused sort of sarcasm.]

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

[That's it. That's the entire thing. Guess what happened.

Also, Drizzt has been incredibly quiet over the network since the start of the Jaunt, and this is what he says when he breaks his silence.]

notadisappointment

Yosuke here. Naoki brought me back from my overlay and explained a bit on what's going on - at least anything he was able to. I don't have much to add, other than that I'll keep an eye on Thunder Mountain once I get back up there.

Also, it looks like Kanji's overlay is our current leader. Yasoinaba isn't very close to him or any of the other more "famous" stonefolk, but I'll try talking more with his great times twenty grandparents to see if they can tell me about the old days.

... and no, I don't know why my overlay's name is Yasoinaba.

One last thing can... someone go to liminal space and check on my Mothman? He gets terribly lonely and when he gets lonely he tends to cause trouble.

hatefuldays

Testing, testing... is this reaching anyone? I'm just going to assume it's reaching someone and keep talking.

Okay, my name is *Hyun-ae, it's nice to meet everyone! The * is silend, it just means that I'm an AI. This is my first Jaunt AND my first time on Earth, so I have to be honest: I'm VERY confused. I've been doing okay so far just sort of being a tourist and learning to make portals (thanks, Malin!), but I'm not really sure how much longer it's okay for me to do that.

Issue 1: What should I be doing right now? The descriptions I got from other people of what Jaunts are usually like left me expecting some kind of disaster, but as far as I can tell, it's basically just been a cool festival! Am I missing something, or should I just enjoy myself until everything starts exploding or whatever?

Issue 2: How can I tell who's from Liminal Space? I've been able to spot a person or two who I already knew, but beyond that, I have basically no way of telling who's a local and who's part of our group. I might have even talked to some of you without noticing it. It feels kind of lonely.

Issue 3: This is a stupid question because I spent my entire life on a spaceship, but what's the name of... geeze, I don't even know how to describe this one. The bottom deck? The insanely broad flat area that almost everything is on. I guess the outer surface of the planet? What's the word for that? Update: It was 'ground'. It's called the ground.

claudiometer

So I'm thinking it might be time to consider stealing the amulet and giving the pieces to people who'll actually use it. It's not gonna do anyone a damn bit of good sitting in this museum, that's for sure.

The real trick is going to be, well, stealing it, considering it managed to animate the suits of armor in here. That might outstrip whatever mundane security's on the place - I can handle people and technology, but this might even be a step beyond Artifact snagging. We should get the Forest Folk bit to those guys ASAP, but we at least have investigators who can relay it.

We also, uh. Need to be able to tell the pieces apart.

So. Who's in, what can you bring to the table, and what say we shoot for next week? Best chance of planning something that doesn't go totally pear-shaped.

$otomechapilot: (:\)$

otomechapilot

Sara here with some stuff you should know about being a small fuzzy animal.

First off, humans here hunt and trap animals. Not to be jerks or anything, just for the reasons that humans anywhere do - for food or for fur and leather. But they probably think the Forest Folk are just from stories and don't know the difference, and the locals want to keep it that way for some reason (which might be why we're here), so be vewy vewy qwiet when wandering around the woods.

This goes for Humanvestigators as well as Furvestigators. The pastel fuzzy guys will probably panic if they see you and they aren't one of us.

Second, I ran into Probably Gil. He's a honey badger, he don't give a damn, his name is Gilligan Reed here, and he made it his personal mission to find new fuzzy friends and warn them everything I've just said in a Royal We about the Forestfolk. I don't know if he's in charge but he's important.

Third, Forestfolk are starting to go dumb and stupid. Feral's the word they use. Probably real high on the list of stuff we have to fix. It's a handy excuse for not having parents, among other things.

Last off, Forestfolk names are usually just normal ones or oldtimey ones plus dumb puns, and what kind of animal you are for a last name. So I'm introducing myself as Sara Shetland.

Thanks for your time.

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otomechapilot - Bring back Cream on Cream or we riot
helborn - Corgipocalypse [Early Week 3]
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claudiometer - During the wedding
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Bring back Cream on Cream or we riot

Corgipocalypse [Early Week 3]

Later on during the fourth day of Performance Art week

At the very beginning of the Majesty's Jaunt

Yosuke has complaints to make

Vision Train

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Christmas Carols

Testing things...

The network's first tweet.

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A Few Minutes After Returning to Liminal Space

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