Slivers & Shards: Jaunt Info

[powersthatbe]

Slivers & Shards
Post-Apocalyptic Psionic Kaiju Funtimes
December 1 - January 24

First was the Age of the Ancients. Nine billion Ancients ruled over all of the Living World, ripe with mushrooms, blue with water. They lived on the High Tables, for they were ascended beings and knew the secret of breathing there. They reigned, we think, for a hundred thousand years, since the birth of the world. They knew Paradise, and they built Heaven. But they were fools, and used fire in war. They burned the World down.

Second was the Age of the Mystics. For ten thousand years after the Death of the World, the Mystics built Spires on the edge of the Tables, unlocking glorious powers and sheltering a chosen few - eight million, it is said. They ruled whole Tables, but no one ruled all the Dead World. The eight million Mystics knew secrets of fire the Ancients never did, and while the World was not theirs to travel, everyone in it lived safe, and no one died before they turned one hundred. But they were fools, and their power ran on water. The seas dried to dirt, and the Mystics died.

Third was the Age of the Shadow. For one thousand years, the Umbrian Protectorate united the Vales of the Fallen World. They could not live on the High Tables any longer, and all people were born thirsty and died thirsty, but they were still united, and they were careful with their resources. They ruled Nations the size of Vales. They delved in the depths for crystals, and found they could place thoughts in them. Many of the secrets of the Ancients and Mystics still rang in the depths. The world had died twice, but the Umbrians thought if they could control the minds of everyone, they could prevent a third apocalypse. But they built the hellstones, crystals that could destroy Vales who wanted to think for themselves. And the hellstones, being a violation of the earth as the Mystics violated water and the Ancients violated fire, drew the third apocalypse up from the heart of the world. The Nation-Eaters devoured Vale after Vale, and the Umbrian overlords were shattered for their hubris.

This Age doesn’t have a name. It’s been a hundred years since the Fall of the Protectorate. By the end of the Age there will only be 60,000 people left, they say. Nobody rules anything larger than a Spire, and anybody who thinks he rules a Spire himself best look out. The secrets of the past were lost when the Umbrian Shadow fell. The only secret knowledge people have now is what their grandparents told them - and their grandparents knew the world would end again soon. “Don’t fuck up the air,” we remind each other. Earth, Fire, and Water all turned against us, abandoned us. The world may be nothing but Slivers & Shards, but this is all the world we got left, and it’s going away soon. Hang onto it.

World Info | Surviving Flora & Fauna | Fallenheart Locations/Map | Vale Locations/Map | Glossary | Casting Call/Plot Role Announcements | Psionic Powers in the Vale | Spire-Specific Powers | Skills | Infiltrator/Investigator Roles | A Day in the Life | Calendar | Infiltrator Directory | Player Resources | Questions | Plotting

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QUESTIONS

[powersthatbe]

This Jaunt was brought to you by Matt.

Re: QUESTIONS

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

What do Nation Eaters look like? I'm curious as to what everyone is so scared of.

[seestheworld]

With regard to Shading and Reaving, would whichever network skill those resolve to post-Jaunt be one you need to have the necessary prereqs for, or could it be any of the listed skills regardless of prereqs?

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[truerevelation]

How do Psychic Protection skills interact with the Vale psionics - can it block Reaving or Pinning, for example, or can the Intrusion Notifications branch catch Reaving in the act?

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[lightnovelexperiences]

Do Kything and Burning have any distinctive visual effects?

Would obviously inhuman Investigators look more or less human on the Jaunt, or would it be more hilarious if Jaina-Three Tails here stuck out like a sore thumb?

What assistive devices or psychic skills are available for individuals who cannot walk, such as Madoka Mawaru?

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[letsgetdowntobismuth]

When someone is Dreampushing, that's essentially pushing more fuel into someone else's stores for them to burn, right?

Apart from that and the Magnator's chemical battery usage, is it not possible to use an outside source as burn fuel at all? And for a Magnator, what counts as a chemical battery?

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[youandyoualone]

What kind of naming patterns are appropriate for the setting?

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[letsgetdowntobismuth]

sorry for fifty different unrelated questions How would regenerative/restorative skills (eg Psychic/Liminal Healing, Ichor etc) work to counteract burning damage?

Also a mild clarification: burning in general typically goes for body fats first, but Magnators are special in that they can go straight for proper muscles instead?

[crouching_sin]

What's the general skin tone/hair tone/racial equivalent makeup of this group?

[capital_asset]

Would Zeus's Mantle give Raidou any insight about the winds and storms? He's mostly used it to control weather, but I wonder if it would also help him understand how a given storm works in different worlds (although it would also help to have some idea how much he could affect them if need be).

Also, what kinds of difficult missions might a young Cleritor from Moonfall be sent out to do?

Also, are religion and/or deities a thing here?

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[how_they_shine]

How long has it been between the destruction of Scatterspore and the jaunt start?

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[how_they_shine]

Would a combination of psychic protections and telepathic power be able to reduce or block reaving and/or the Magnator Scion's VIP skill?

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[reallymean]

Will the Investigators be conspicuously healthy-looking, or does the usual Traveler SEP field confer the illusion of being as underfed as everyone else?

[claudiometer]

What's Royal Treatment look like in this crapsack?

[helborn]

Is the clothing here mostly robes or are there pants? Shoe situation?

What are prosthetics like in this world, if any?

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[thornsofmalkav]

Can a Cleritor be given a memory by another Cleritor that originally came from a third person? Say if the son of Malion gave one of his early memories of the Protectorate to one of his daughter's spouses and she gave it to their daughter? Or would it have to be put in a crystal?

[fearinahandfulof]

Would kything with an Investigator allow the kyther to take any sort of energy the kythee has in addition to physical energy, e.g. Cassandra's yoma energy or Raidou's magnetite reserves?

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[insidegalra]

Tell me a bit more about pole-badgers and burncats? I'm thinking those are the most likely for Truffle to have for Kiga's infiltration.

Like, I'm imagining pole-badgers as, like, a cross between a mongoose and a badger, and being hunters of asps and scorpions (thus, tolerated near the acacia trees, even if they are bad-tempered and aggressive) but I have no idea if that's what they are.

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[theflyingone]

I may just be reading it wrong, but clarification on the difference between primed and unprimed crystals? and between charged and uncharged crystals?

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[wolvering]

How does lying work in regards to telling? (I'm assuming it's theoretically possible, but how difficult/how easy to spot/etc)

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[theflyingone]

Is what hellstones look like common knowledge?

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[happyhalloween]

Would being a direct descendant of the last protector help at all in getting around the security in the Shadow District?

[capital_asset]

What results do using psychic synesthesia on crystals get? Does it vary based on whether they're primed or unprimed?

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[eldritchwheelies]

What could someone who has literally spent their entire life seeking have found about the Nation Eaters, how to survive them, and how to push them back or fight them or even inconvenience them?

She isn't a Cleritor, or I imagine it would be more than that. (She needs Cleritor friends.)

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[whatsina_name]

Is there a story/explanation that people would know about the Pillars?