November/December Plot Poking Post

[powersthatare]

If you would like to dig around in the deep end of this jaunt’s plot, or prod metaplot sometime during this jaunt’s duration, please leave us a comment here. Plotting may move from this location if something needs to be kept under wraps until it happens, but we will provide public confirmation that a discussion will follow, if that’s necessary.

If you want to use a Plot-Poking Skill, please still report that over here, and note on this post that you have done so. That way, if results need to be kept under wraps until the IC reveal, we can do so, but still have accountability here.

This includes any non-introductory Conversation Space expeditions. The mods also need to go through this process if their characters are going to poke a thing.

Comments

[reallymean]

After almost a year, Allura's going to finally break down and see what effect Shacklebreaker's chain-breaking power has on a Mark when it's not in Questing Country. On herself, during the Walkabout.

So, I need to know if its effects differ from the ones it had in QC, and if the compressed timescale of the Walkabout has any weird impact on duration.

...And, uh, if it does essentially impose simultaneous Liminal, Psychic, and Favor severance like it did in QC, what happens if someone dies while severed?

[powersthatare]

Shacklebreaker still severs or suppresses all bonds, including those to Arcana, Liminal Space, & the Network.

The time it stays suppressed for would be compressed by the same time factor as the Walkabout is compressed.

Someone who dies while severed will not revive until the severance timeclock runs out, and will revive then in the Floor.

[reallymean]

So by revive in the Floor, are we talking the full horror of regenerating over the course of days while conscious, or just being stuck in a claustrophobic space surrounded by goo until ejected into Liminal Space?

[powersthatare]

Full horror - without a psychic connection, the Arcana cannot keep them unconscious in the floor, so as soon as their body was intact enough to be alive, they could wake up.

If it was a death that caused relatively little gross pshysical damage, it could be a very brief ordeal, though.

[waitatick]

So uh. How about decapitation? would she have to endure her head and neck reattaching to one another? (and later find a piece of Lotor's claw that got stuck I mean what)

[rosewater_path]

Only, uh, partially - until steady circulation to the brain was restored, no way would the body be conscious. So she'd only have to deal with healing a slit throat while conscious, after the spinal cord, jugular, and carotid were intact again.

[waitatick]

That might be even more horrifying, all things considered. xD Thanks!

[capital_asset]

Raidou and Gil will be heading to Magician's conversation space to ask her about the Grid. This will actually be during the Liminal period, and predates the assault on Tower to avoid any potential repercussions from that.

[leftbehindagain]

Consolidating older information rather than seeking new: Naoki is compiling a list of overlapping jaunt settings, as well as updating his Arcana cheat sheet now that Fortune's back.

[seestheworld]

Not sure whether this goes here or not, but over on the walkabout, Minako will be attempting a Sift at the scene of Tobi's murder in hopes of picking up any clues.

[capital_asset]

Raidou is going to use Path to Profit to see if he can find out what still needs doing for the Jaunt to end successfully. Depending on the answer to that, he may also use Insight.

[powersthatbe]

We're working on this, but need to coordinate with Quinn and may not have a good opening until Thursday.

[capital_asset]

After giving it some thought, I think I'd like to hold off on this, because Raidou's re-Infiltrating himself at the end of week 4 after Gabe gets shot. So I'm going to go ahead and delete the ping.