Illuminant Hunt/Liminal Space Plotting

[powersthatbe]

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I. Fighting Illuminants

Not all of the Illuminants will be perfectly contained by the summoning measures being used. Red, Yellow, Indigo and Violet are all capable of breaking out of containment immediately, or nearly so, and will need to be dealt with as quickly as possible. (Particularly Red, who is potentially capable of undoing bindings on the others.)

II. Source Destruction
As for taking the Illuminants down at their sources, that’ll be a several-pronged affair by necessity:

*Red’s cave contains a dragon whose flame ignores elemental resistance and can inspire rage.
*Orange’s dragon scale would require tracking Orange themself down first, and that is pretty unlikely.
*Yellow’s golden lake needs both the water evaporated and the gold melted down, and both of those things are capable of inflicting jealousy effects on whoever’s dealing with them.
*Green’s tree has elemental creatures defending it, but should otherwise be fairly simple. The same is true of Blue’s frozen lake.
*Indigo’s library resists magical attacks, and can summon magical constructs to fight back. This is also a prime opportunity to raid some books.
*Violet’s source is twofold, as Violet draws both from the throne of Dolorosa and the royal family line. PLEASE NOTE, when planning who will deal with this source, whether the individuals or group intend to attack the queen directly (which will mean having to fight Griffon Knights) or leave her be (which may allow for Violet’s survival).

III. Bargaining with Rose

We don’t know where Rose’s source is. Rose also doesn’t want to hurt anyone, and isn’t capable of getting out of captivity unaided.

She’s willing to trade for her freedom, and share everything she knows about Orange’s location in exchange. It’s up to the Travelers whether they want to take this bargain.

IV. Meanwhile, in Liminal Space…

Potential avenues for exploration in Liminal proper include, but are not necessarily limited to: The dual nature of Liminal Space; the Floor and ectoplasm; how Familiar Faces function as anchors; the function of dungeon spaces.

We are also more than happy to explore whatever deep-dive questions you have about Liminal Space’s inner workings, so if you’d like to poke at something that’s not listed here, let us know and we’ll incorporate it!

Comments

II. Source Destruction

[powersthatbe]

Feel free to make subheaders as you see fit, and remember to let us know if anyone's attacking the Queen.

[capital_asset]

Would the bond between Violet and the royal family line be ended permanently if it was disrupted, or could Violet just attach themselves back to the next member of the royal family?

[powersthatare]

If Violet was killed while the link was disrupted, the death would be permanent.

If Violet survived, they could re-establish the link.

[seestheworld]

Does the queen know about the link? If so, how does she feel about it?

...Actually, let me put this question in the correct place.

[breakaleginhalf]

Gil plans on going after Indigo. With Pillar Resistance to offset magical effects aimed at him and a Lunar Presence (ie Thorne) to render him mostly impossible to defeat (though not, however, to kill) he'll be focused on causing Major Widespread Damage rather than specific focus.

That said, would System Crash work on the library in any way? I don't remember if I asked this earlier.

[powersthatare]

System Crash would not destroy the library but would disrupt its magical defenses.

[breakaleginhalf]

How thoroughly would this disrupt the magical constructs? And would it lower the library's resistance to magical attacks?

[powersthatare]

If it was used right away, the constructs would be unable to form. If it was used after they appeared, they would be unable to alter their targets or behavior but would still be there and potentially dangerous.

The resistance to magic, alas, would not be disrupted.

[breakaleginhalf]

Is there anything specific he'd need to interact with in order to crash it? Or is the whole place Magic As Hell enough that he can just touch a thing and go?

[powersthatare]

The system he would be crashing permeates the entire interior of the library.

Re: II. Source Destruction

[lightnovelexperiences]

Deedee can lob fireballs - which are actually fire-elemental if it matters - making her a natural choice to burninate Green.

Re: II. Source Destruction

[levelthreehooligan]

Pinya was going to go after green as well! A very bad no good part of white magic is being able to corrupt/poison nature and disrupt the flow of energies.

She's also very good with poisons and is very used to having to put down angry elementals.

[helborn]

Casper's going after Blue - he's a natural choice since cold can't hurt him. (Magical cold is an unclear maybe, but either way he'd be more resistant.) He can cast Cloudkill (though that's under Blue magic) and fly above, and as a last ditch effort he can and will attempt to trigger a Harbinger transformation since that's just in general a lot of lava and fire.

Oh duh also Siren Song, though if anyone's coming with him he'll warn them first.

[chalicejoker]

Hajime will be going after Blue because he ought to be able to handle that okay, and Sento will be going after Red since he's got experience in holding off rage and fighting for love and peace and all that good stuff.

[capital_asset]

Raidou will be going after Violet. He'll want to at least try explaining the situation to the Queen first, but even if that's not possible, he will be altering her bond with Violet, attaching Violet's end to either another person of her choosing or to herself (he could temporarily attach her to himself, but he would rather avoid this if at all possible because it would make him look like he wants to use her power himself, and he really would rather not).

The throne is theoretically easier to deal with, in that it could probably be Declarified or destroyed, although he'd still rather explain this to the Queen first if there's the opportunity.

Re: II. Source Destruction

[desperate_times_right]

I think I’m sending Chloe after Red’s source. She’ll be bringing her huge cannon, ability to always shoot first, and also a ridiculously large Hammerspace if anyone else wants to bring anything.