Synodiporia

Another Book Is Opened (The Grand Finale)

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 03:01:32 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

Who: Everyone, and then some.
What: Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
Where: Liminal Space!
When: Now!
Warnings: So long and thanks for all the fish.

I. And The Seas Shall Give Up Their Dead
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II. What Profit An Arcana
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III. The Fifth Wall Cracks
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IV. Pomp and Circumstance
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V. To Sail Beyond The Sunset
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We're gonna win in the end (final jaunt mingle)

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:14:22 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Dreamers, Travelers, Residents of Aratta Station.
WHAT: Bending the arc of history.
WHERE: Backstage, Aratta Station, Liminal Space.
WHEN: Immediately after the last Mingle, lasting no more than forty-eight hours.
WARNINGS: Plotting goes here. We are still looking for people interested in playing Volksgeists or Spirit Companions for the purpose of the Backstage conversations - volunteer here. If a mod is needed to NPC a Volksgeist or Companion, ping us here. Last of all, if any question or information request goes unanswered for more than 24 hours, please ping the Mod Squad here so we can get you an answer right away and keep things moving.

I. We're on the edge of greatness, turning darkness to light
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II. We'll never fail you when you call our name
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IIIa & IIIb. Together we'll be heroes, joining forces as one
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IV. Strong as the steel we carry, we rise like the sun
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V. We’re unstoppable, nothing’s going to get in our way (Wild Card)
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Are you satisfied, just open your eyes, you can see the light (Midweek 4)

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 01:14:16 GMT

Posted by: lightnovelexperiences

Who: Deedee/Leah, Altair, Casper, Naoya, Eren, Thace, Thorn, Madoka, Kanji, and any others that wish to join.
What: Leah has agreed to Deedee's altered plan to make the authorities on Aratta see reason, but she needs help getting to talk to them in person and for allies to hack the antenna. Enter the Travellers and those who now wear blue...
When: Midweek 4
Where: The halls of power on Aratta.
Warnings: Religion. Comparisons to antisemitism, specifically the Inquisition. The title for this was originally going to be a reference to the Samothrace SCP, but this is no longer about memetic infections, so.

( time to cross the borderline )

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IN SEARCH OF NEW DREAMS (WEEK FOUR MINGLE)

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:49:49 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Tensions rise and shackles are broken.
WHERE: Questing Country, Aratta Skyhook, Backstage.
WHEN: Three Weeks After The Bident Incident (September 27th-October 11th, 2218).
WARNINGS: Questions go here, plotting goes over here. The final Jaunt mingle should go up October 12th - pushing it back to just after a weekend should give us time to write it on schedule.

I. We keep our rendezvous beneath the blue
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II. But I’ll be there for you
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III. I’ll place the moon within your heart
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IV. Though we're strangers 'til now, we're choosing the path
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V. Can you do something out of this world?
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VI. Baby, you got the will, you got the way
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VII. Something about you not the same (Wild Card)
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Field trip!

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:52:38 GMT

Posted by: truerevelation

WHO: Kanji, Yukki, and anyone looking to talk to Starmovers.
WHAT: Visiting some old friends to see what they have to say about the state of Questing Country. (Or how they say it.)
WHERE: Questing Country, the remnants of the Transformed Lands
WHEN: End of third week
WARNINGS: Likely nothing?

With everything else going on, the arrival of the Harbingers and Starmovers seems a long time ago, but in one realm of Questing Country the marks of what happened then are still very visible. The Transformed Lands remain: but as one realm of dream among many, where their creators have been hard at work to stabilise and safely integrate the region into Questing Country, leaving the rest of the environment undamaged and unchanged. A stranger area than most, true, but one with active caretakers doing their best.

And it's this way that Kanji, his winged friends, and the other Travellers wanting to investigate and ask a few questions find themselves heading...

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A warning to the prophet, to the liar, the honest (jaunt, week 3)

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:16:50 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Travelers and Dreamers
WHAT: Questions, Quests, and the Fall of Mount Widdershins.
WHERE: Hushabye Meadow, Mount Widdershins, Aratta Skyhook, &
WHEN: Two Weeks After the Bident Incident (September 17-26, 2218)
WARNINGS: Plotting for this week is over here, including a fresh place to poke mods for new information or with new ideas. Questions can be asked there or here. Please put all comments for Prompt 1 under the Toplevels for Prompts 1a-1c.

Ia, Ib, Ic. I let you see the parts of me
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II. Cut straight through the illusion
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III. Climbed a mountain and I turned around
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IV. Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
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V. We just wanna scream it louder and louder
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Let the voice of love take you higher; with our powers combined, we trancend space and time! (IRL)

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 02:28:33 GMT

Posted by: lightnovelexperiences

Who: Leah, Paraiba, Alexandria, Rubelite, and any and all Travellers drawn to each other, night and day
Where: A crazy noisy bizarre town within Space Station Aratta, kilometers over the surface of planet Snowflake
When: A 2218 bizarre Autumn, Sept 11-Sept-16th
What: Investigators and Infiltrators alike investigating the looming shadow melting into the hearts of a shining silver spirit that may well originate from Aratta.
Warnings: CW religious discrimination and colonialism by virtue of the Orthopraxy existing and putting pressure on the Conditioned to break down (break down); Leah specifically comparing this in her head to antisemitism; Leah's depression; and any others you can think of. Also, extended references to an anime opening theme that totally slaps ~~though I'm saving End of the World for the last week~~.

( Through the valor of the bold and brave this city will see it's Great Days! )

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Every nightmare just discloses it's your blood that's red like roses (jaunt, week 2)

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 23:36:56 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Dreamers in Questing Country
WHAT: Bold plans are made, but interrupted by a resurgence of nightmares.
WHERE: The Forest Pools around the Opaline Bore, Hushabye Meadow, and the Liminal Archipelago.
WHEN: One week after the Bident Incident (September 9th-16th, 2218 CE).
WARNINGS: Questions go here; plotting goes over here. If you’d like your character to possibly spontaneously join the Conductors, let us know here and we’ll RNG it. Report Quest groups here and plot-poking attempts (including Oracular Knowledge pings) here.

I. Who Will Wake Me from This Spell
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II. Nothing Ever Takes the Place of You
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III. Chasing Us All Underground
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IV. In the Middle of This Madness
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V. Want You To Know That for Eternity I’m Shattered
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Between the salt water and the sea strand (jaunt, week 1)

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:48:30 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Chosen Dreamers and Travelers alike
WHAT: Canticles In The Wood - Strange Music and Strange Happenings in Questing Country. A Crime. A Confrontation. A Reunion Unlooked-For.
WHERE: Above and around the Opaline Bore.
WHEN: Eighteen weeks after the end of the Ouroboros Retrograde.
WARNINGS: Prompt 1 is Infiltrators-Only. Prompt 3 is linked to a locked, Conductor-Only Psychic Post as well as action in this post. Please direct all your plot-poking questions, including (perhaps especially) those of Oracular nature, here.

I. Tracing the Sparrows with Clarion Call
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II. Find Me An Acre of Land
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III. Washing with Silver the Snow-Crested Ground
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IV. Serried In Frosted Battalions
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We're leaving together (Liminal Mingle)

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:14:59 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN (and we’re not sorry for the earworm).
WHERE: Liminal Space!
WHEN: Now!
WARNINGS: If jaunt info isn’t up yet it will be Very Shortly. Special thanks to Talia for helping us prod through this! Please leave all queries to the Comment Box here.

I. let me take you on a little trip
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II. when you get me on your wavelength
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III. I hope that someone gets my--
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IV. Waste the Rainbow
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V. The Comment Box
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[Dungeon] It isn't in my blood

Wed, 27 May 2020 22:58:33 GMT

Posted by: waitatick

WHO: Lotor and anyone who enters his dungeon
WHAT: A dungeon! He really needs help healing, and someone to convince him that it's okay to need it
WHERE: Liminal
WHEN: Right after the battle with the Red Illuminant
WARNINGS: Mentions of the AU Altean colony, in which the Alteans reacted badly to something on the planet Lotor chose and most didn't survive. Also vague mentions of the Shade walkabout where he killed the Shade inhabiting Allura's body, and basically just lots of distorted thoughts of Bad Memories as he tries not to become the actual Void.

The door to the dungeon isn't anything ostentatious. Rather, it's simply the symbol of the Alliance, though it happens to be dripping blood down the door.

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Living in a hallway that keeps growing (Liminal mingle)

Thu, 07 May 2020 06:35:09 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Liminal Space changes.
WHERE: Liminal Space!
WHEN: Now! ‘Now’ may or may not be concurrent with the Illuminant hunt.
WARNINGS: Let the mods know here if you’re going to poke at something outside of the established prompts (there’s a whole prompt for ‘poke whatever you want’). Jaunt vote is coming just as soon as we wrangle the selection.

I. Forking Paths
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II. So Much Time, So Little To Do. Wait. Strike That. Reverse It
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III. Ground Floor
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IV. Elevated Discourse
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Be very, very quiet. We're hunting Illuminants.

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:57:37 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Whoever wants to throw down with color-coded fae entities.
WHAT: Calling the Illuminants out for conflict before they're ready, and the destruction of their sources of power.
WHERE: Liminal Space; various locations in Dolorosa.
WHEN: Now!
WARNINGS: Plotting and questions go on this post; each prompt is tagged with the mod to poke if you need our input, but combat and source-destruction threads are designed to be player-sustained as much as possible. The non-plot Liminal mingle will be ready no later than the end of the weekend.

I. FIGHTS
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II. SOURCES
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III. ROSE
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IV. AFTERMATH

[TBD when we know the shape of the preceding prompts!]

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You will just leave me too, won't you?

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:08:19 GMT

Posted by: finalizes

WHO: Laughs and whoever steps into his dungeon
WHAT: A dungeon!
WHERE: Liminal
WHEN: Week 1 of the Liminal Event
WARNINGS: n/a

Between all the strangeness in Liminal, there is a certain normalcy to the large standing rock with a crack in the middle that simply stands there, announcing the presence of a dungeon. It looks a lot like the entrance to Laughs' permanent room, and it carries his scent.

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She's FOUR

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 02:01:33 GMT

Posted by: dino_zarf

WHO: The Washburnes and YOU
WHAT: Rose is FOUR
WHERE: LIminal
WHEN: Whenever corresponds to April 4thish in the current Liminal
WARNINGS: If this goes in a direction that needs warnings something has gone terribly, terribly wrong and we all need to rethink our life choices

I

It's hard to keep track of everything in Liminal space. Like the passage of time. But Wash does make sure to keep track of and that is Rose's birthday. He's always astounded when it rolls around again.

And this time he's marking it by liminal manipulating up chocolate chip pancakes shaped like the number 4. Good thing for everyone he doesn't have to actually cook them.

II

Rose likes this Liminal. It's full of all sorts of new things to find, so her explorations are always turning up new rooms.

She's particularly excited when a new door opens to the old liminal space when Emperor and Empress filled the galloping horse with waist high cake.

And that reminds her of something. Look! It's a birthday party

Wash smiles. He had been planning a small party in their rooms with a normal amount of cake. So much for that. "It sure is."

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[Liminal Space] Let the Truth Ring

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 02:05:57 GMT

Posted by: keepcalmcookon

WHO: Ignis Scientia, Felih Tia
WHAT: Ignis faces the truth with one of the men he loves the most.
WHERE: Felih's rooms
WHEN: Before the battle against the Illuminants, Liminal Space Event Week 1
WARNINGS: Spoilers for Final Fantasy XV, self-hate, potential make-outs considering the two involved

( Pride and guilt are powerful emotions. )

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Slay the Rainbow - Summoning

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:56:01 GMT

Posted by: amadine

WHO: The summoning team and their special guest fae
WHAT: The Liminal Space portion of the great Illuminant hunt.
WHERE: A sealed created room in Liminal Space
WHEN: Near the end of the boosted Liminal
WARNINGS: Violence, others to be added as necessary

The large room is all in shades of grey, silver-inlaid stone floors and stone walls lit by glowing white orbs that give off no heat, set into shallow, unornamented recesses. Once the last of those who had agreed to help with the summoning of the Illuminants is inside - or is late enough to make it clear they've been lost somewhere in the shifting chaos and not likely to find their way out any time soon - those walls shiver, and the door leading out into Liminal Space proper vanishes.

No backing out now.

The second door in the room - the one leading to a small chamber holding a few chairs, a sleeping pallet, and a handful of fictional works from varying worlds - remains. Maintaining the layers of protection that shut down portal transit into and out of the room and bend the rules of the space to exclude colour magic doesn't require participation in the summoning ritual or the violence likely to follow.

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If you want to view paradise (Liminal event, week 1)

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 04:50:48 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Travelers past and present
WHAT: Pure Imagination.
WHERE: Liminal Space.
WHEN: March 8th-15th
WARNINGS: Reclaims are permanently open and as easy as telling the mods over here that you want to come back - but this event is an extra-great place for that! ALSO, the Illuminant hunt will affect setup, execution and fallout for the Liminal mingle following this one, so if you’d like your character to contribute to the plan, head over here to sign up. Travelers looking for specific past spaces can find them at your discretion! Travelers attempting to manipulate or understand the strange phenomena can plot here and the mods will reply with results and discoveries ASAP.

I.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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Gravity release me, don't ever hold me down (Starplot wrap-up)

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 21:43:07 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone, and a special guest.
WHAT: The results of a recent covert operation.
WHERE: Liminal Space!
WHEN: Now!
WARNINGS: Liminal event starts Sunday! Head over here for more details.

The change to Liminal Space starts unobserved, but it’s a slow bleed across the space, and Travelers can watch it finish. Gradually, the rose bowl and its foot balls are replaced by a nighttime landscape, doors to created spaces dotted throughout. The hills, trees, and sky appear to be made of thick oil paint, and at the center of the space is a lake that appears to be made of deep blue ink rather than water.

Some Travelers will find the view overhead familiar in layout, if not appearance. Four smallish white stars form a half-circle around three yellow giants, and the overhead view is dominated by a positively huge bluish-white star. No one has seen this configuration in anything resembling good health before, and the light lends Liminal Space a sense of peace and calm.

Of hope.

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We'll be counting stars (Starplot)

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:26:30 GMT

Posted by: pendingjudgement

WHO: Our intrepid Starplot crew!
WHAT: The plan comes to a head.
WHERE: Star’s deadspace, which will hopefully not stay that way…
WHEN: during the Liminal return mingle
WARNINGS: Original deadspace description was written by Meta back during Unquiet Dead, and has been tweaked only slightly.
( hope is our four-letter word )

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From the ashes we can build another day (Liminal return mingle)

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:49:32 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: The jaunt (finally) winds to a close.
WHERE: The Mystic Spire, Fallen Wrath, and Liminal Space
WHEN: Now!
WARNINGS: The next Starplot update will come before the end of the month; comment here if you’re going to be part of the last bit. Plotting for the upcoming Liminal event will go up March 1. February AC will be another Pass Month, since the delay was entirely modside (our apologies).

I. The Spire
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II. Fallen Wrath
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III. Liminal Return
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Doomed to crumble unless we grow (final jaunt mingle)

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:52:03 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Having a purpose doesn't mean having no problems.
WHERE: Fallen Wrath & the Expedition to the High Tables
WHEN: Days 334-351 (January 29th-February 5th)
WARNINGS: Plot over here; comment to explore the Mystic Spire here; on February 6th the Liminal return will include a coda with the chance to put final plans in place and say goodbye to the Vale.

I. THE EXPEDITION (Day 334-343) I’ve done the math enough to know the dangers of our second-guessing
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II. THE CITY-EATERS IN FALLEN WRATH (Day 335-343) Finding beauty in the dissonance
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III. THE HIGH TABLES (Day 344-345) There was a time when the pieces fit
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IV. THE NEW ORDER (Day 345-351) The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us
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i'm getting far from where I woke up today [Dungeon]

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:50:05 GMT

Posted by: crouching_sin

WHO: Naoya and whoever would like to find him in his dreams.
WHAT: A dream... dungeon... thing. Dreamgeon.
WHERE: Liminal Space
WHEN: After the Jaunt
WARNINGS: Guilt, depression, murder, war and apocalyptic imagery.

Dungeon music.

As the Travelers return to Liminal Space, it's natural for them to disperse to various rooms, and Naoya being tired isn't unusual. Being in an overlay takes it out of him a bit anyway.

What is unusual is the fact that some time later (what is time in Liminal Space?) a patch of the space... shifts. A hallway appears, leaking blue-green mist. The sound of a mewing cat emits from inside, and for those who speak cat more than others it sounds distressed - not in pain, but distinctly upset.

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I can feel the future breathing down my neck (Jaunt, week 3)

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:41:59 GMT

Posted by: powersthatbe

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: A return to the jaunt, with a plan and a stop to prepare.
WHERE: Fallen Wrath
WHEN: Picking up on Day 326, 14 minutes before Fallenheart was airlifted out of danger.
WARNINGS: Questions go here; plotting goes over here. Comment here to establish a tag order for the boss fight, and here if you need mod input from Yurija. Don’t open the isopod picture if you don’t do well with crustaceans and/or many-legged creepy-crawlies.

I. The Door to Fallen Wrath (before dawn, Day 326)
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IIa. Fourteen Minutes (before dawn, Day 326)
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IIb. The Big One (before dawn, Day 326)
After nine minutes of fighting, any smaller Nation-Eaters remaining will turn and scatter in all directions, loping away as fast as they can. Any activated radios will crackle with squeals and static. The earth will shake and heave in tidal cascades of sand, with a grating sound like thunder.

It comes - outside the city, right into the Travelers' trap. The claws and head burst out of the mountainside together, and it bellows a roar, deafening in a long crescendo that's accompanied by a sense of awe and domination like a tsunami of psychic force.

[OOC: Boss fight thread! If you are going to comment with an attack, please make an ooc comment here so we don't get simul-tags that break the threading. After every five tags, the Nation Eater will react. Depending on what happens, there may be occasional 'interrupt' tags as well, but we'll warn in the OOC plotting thread when they come up.]

III. A Heroes' Welcome (After dawn, Day 326 - dusk, Day 327)
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IV. The Open Forum (Day 328)
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V. Digging Deep (Days 329-333)
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VI. Teaching (Days 329-333)
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VII. The Continuing Threat (Days 329-333)
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VIII. Venture Forth (Day 334)
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[dreamscape] Waking the Witch

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 23:48:26 GMT

Posted by: fearinahandfulof

WHO: Cassandra, dreamscape rescuers, and a special guest
WHAT: Cassandra wants to make a deal
WHERE: Liminal Space
WHEN: After the dance
WARNINGS: Dead bodies, gore, body horror, references to cannibalism and parasites, references to abuse and medical horror, Claymore spoilers in general

Sometime after the dance, an unobtrusive-looking wooden door appears, in an out of the way corner of Liminal Space. Iris the mink and Tatiana the dragon wait outside, but strangely, they don't seem terribly upset - concerned, yes, and maybe a little worried, but nowhere near panicking. It's as if they were expecting this.

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