wholeheaded: (something happening somewhere)
[personal profile] wholeheaded
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.
breakaleginhalf: (is it gone)
[personal profile] breakaleginhalf
Okay, so, uh.

[He sighs.] Let's address the elephant in the room real quick.

Tower's fucking dead. Like, apparently for-reals dead. Which, having had a chat with Magician a little while back, I think that exactly how big of a fucking deal this is cannot be stressed enough. And apparently Travellers did it, and the other Arcana know that.

Which, from what I've heard about that, means we're really fucking lucky not to have Judgement coming down on us all like a one-ton sack of feathers and outrage. They - like, the Arcana in general, not just Judgy - sound like they're only planning on punishing whoever actually did it. But worst case scenario, like-- Moebius Junior or something? Might still happen if people don't come forward or get caught or what the fuck ever.

I'm not down, personally, for selling people out - and seriously I don't have a fucking clue who was this shit-headed - but. Guys. For fuck's sake.
scarsolderthanyou: (nope)
[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou
Looks like that lich-thing of Barry's found me. I can't actually do anything except this, talk on the network. It's making me walk around outside and avoid people, but I can tell anyone who wants to know where it is. Where I am. Whatever.

[This is awkward, okay.]

So if you people want to coordinate something to capture me and maybe get this thing contained, today might be a good time to try it, before it either kills me or jumps to someone who isn't on the network.

[He sounds grumpy and unimpressed, as usual, but anyone who knows him well enough can probably pick out how disturbed and unhappy he is with this development.]
grimjeaper: (whyyyyyyy would you say that)
[personal profile] grimjeaper
[Within an hour of the sounds of murder subsiding, there's a careful voice on the network.]

Sooooo, uh. Quick-- quick little update on the whole thing we're dealing with right now?

Because I said there was, like- a necromantic lich thing, before? Some updates there. Wish it was good news, but... yeah. Rarely ever is with this type of thing.

So, first off. The dead dude upstairs? Previous host. I got a good look at the scene, had a poke around, and there're signs of a pretty bad struggle before our dude just out and died. Someone was beating it up pretty bad, probably with some kind of holy magic just judging by the burn marks alone. They would've won, probably, except then I think the other lich exploded and fuckin' just-- ran like the wind.

S-- so, uh. Bad news - there's a life energy-eating spirit on the loose. But, uh, goooood news? [Debatably] Seems like it needs a host, so. It can't go far. Especially with that barrier up.

Uh, second thing. I managed to get a couple 'f answers out of the corpse itself. Poor schmuck just - really did not know what hit him; ol' Lichy'd been possessing him for a few weeks, minimum, before he got here and got murdered to the Nine Hells and back. But, I did get two leads out of him, maybe. The guy's employer, whoever that is, and some Hunter he said was following him for pretty much the entire time - and, honestly, knowing ghost bounty hunters, was probably the murderer.

That's, uh. That's all I got.
triggerhappytraitor: (Curious)
[personal profile] 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?

???

Jun. 30th, 2018 12:30 am
starshaper: (o__o)
[personal profile] starshaper
. . . . . Where are all the new Travelers? I mean it might be just me not noticing but has anyone seen anyone new now when Liminal changed? Shouldn't they be arriving now???

Oh, also it's my birthday around -- right now, I think it's around right now anyway. So who wants cake? I want cake, you should absolutely come eat amazing cakes with me!
triggerhappytraitor: (Side thoughtful)
[personal profile] triggerhappytraitor
...they were trying to eliminate the need for sleep. To find a way to keep working while they rested.

Only the method they found... didn't go the way they had expected.

[[a short pause]]

S3NT0's memory's been restored. He realized what was happening too late to stop it and tried to make a break for it. But didn't make it. That's why his memory was missing.
leftbehindagain: (what the)
[personal profile] leftbehindagain
...uh, guys?

[Before Naoki continues, there's a brief livestream of what happened when he tried overloading some Trojans with power to incapacitate them.]

I think I found the Signifiers.
scarsolderthanyou: (raksura-growl)
[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou
Be careful out in Taurus. Something shitting shot at me.

That means there's probably some kind of people down there. Programs. Whatever. I couldn't catch a trail, because they don't have any kind of scent.

What kind of people don't have a scent. Rrr.

[Yes, he just growled on the network. Sorry, guys, he's annoyed.]
vrepit_no: (paladin)
[personal profile] vrepit_no
All right, let's get a headcount. This is Shiro - Takashi, might be a better plan here. Speak up with your name, faction, and if you know anyone who's infiltrating or missing please!

I'm getting the feeling we were at least partly anticipated here. Can we get a run-down of which colors mean what and whether or not people expecting us is a good thing here? It was much clearer in Questing Country.
scarsolderthanyou: (kids)
[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou
We found the person doing all the sabotaging. It looks like it was that guy who was in charge of the Teikoku school, Takuya, with the son. We've got a few letters and poems and shit from him-- he's very dramatic.

[Which, from the sound of it, annoys him. Stupid dramatic children with their dumb stories and poems and lyrical explanation letters.]

There's an actual confession included, in case anyone doubted my ability to pick up the man's scent on his things.

Does anybody who isn't me want to find the right people to give these to? I really don't want to end up with everyone asking me questions. My living statue story might not hold up.
scarsolderthanyou: (Default)
[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou
I've caught the scent of whoever is sabotaging things, and if anyone else wants to help me track them down, you're welcome to try. Only problem is, I don't know how to share it with you people. I'd just show you where it is, but it's so faint I think most of you probably wouldn't be able to find it.

Those of you who can actually smell things, anyway, since I know some of you can't.

So. I know it's possible to share it, but I don't know how. Anybody able to teach me the trick of it?
bigbookofd: (a moment of angst)
[personal profile] 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.
fridgeninja: (considering)
[personal profile] fridgeninja
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.

[text]

Nov. 20th, 2017 12:59 pm
hatefuldays: (What are our options)
[personal profile] 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~
ninjayeehaw: (wait that can't be right)
[personal profile] ninjayeehaw
I know I can't be the only one what's noticed this, but I gotta ask.

Anyone else wonderin' how Hermit an' Death seem t'have both won?
dino_zarf: (Introspective yep totally introspective)
[personal profile] dino_zarf
[There actually isn't babycam for once. Mostly because Rose is currently curled up in her father's lap.]

I know the Arcana like to poke at our issues with the things that happen to our overlays. Seems to be the main thing overlays have in common, really. Can't help thinking it's downright cruel to do it to a baby though.

I want Mama back for real.

[Someone has learned to form complete sentences. And that the Arcana can be really mean]
glampuss: (Afraid 2)
[personal profile] 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!
runs: (I grew up down here)
[personal profile] runs
What do we know about Beatrice's overlay?

[She's observed a few things herself, but it is only prudent to do what legwork you can and gather what information is out there before starting any operation.]
otomechapilot: (:\)
[personal profile] 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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