Kaksusa 22-28
The Weaver's Prompt(s)
On Kaksusa 23, a giant squid attacks the sub, which is badly damaged, requiring the sub to surface. The sub's engines are badly damaged, and can't submerge. The week is spent with the now openly-android crew fixing the sub. They ask for some help, specifically in calibrating the sub temperature, as their own systems were damaged in the attack.
When asked, they claim they're taking the three of you to see the dragon. The real one. It took them awhile to find a passage to her, and they want your help, to finally end the infinite undead army. To end Legion, who is going to win if nobody does anything. "It is not time to raise the Apocalypse Ship, for Uriel has not returned yet."
King Melny
On the feast of the Lunar Announcement, Elise tries to corner you. She's hot for you. If you redirect her, she suddenly screams and falls to the ground, dead. Something... other... something blackened, comes out the corpse. And it charges. Its body leaves burn marks as it burns a hole in the hull and escapes.
Alistar
Natasha takes you out into the Outer Abyss in a series of dreams, to the Mountains Beyond the Mountains, the places that border Seitsemann. Untold beauty is shown you by her. Waking up from these dreams is saddest thing you've ever done, but she comes to you, night after night, showing you the beauty of the Spaces Between the Daughters, The Outsider's Country.
Raphael
Ifan shows up, briefly, and tells you your sword's name is Sydanelma. "Do not bring it into the light of day, for it does not exist yet, and light is not kind to things that are necessary, but cannot yet exist. Come. Find me. Cut a hole in the world and step through. Get me out of Faerie."
If y’all could write your responses by Saturday
Raphael
Raphael freezes at the voice, eyes narrowing.
“Ifan?” He doesn’t move right away. The name Sydanelma sits wrong in his mouth, like something placed there on purpose.
“Faerie lies,” he mutters, pacing once, thinking. “It wears faces. Says the right things. Gets you to open the door yourself.”
He looks at the blade—half there, half not.
“…But you knew the sword’s name.”
A long pause.
“If you’re not him… then I’m about to make a very bad decision.”
A faint smirk.
“…and if you are, you already knew I would.”
He grips the blade, testing the pull of it against the world itself.
“One way to find out.”
Raphael cuts the tear anyway—slow, deliberate—and steps through, ready to either pull Ifan out… or kill whatever’s pretending to be him.
Alistair
Natasha is sending me messages in my dreams, but when when I awake she has no memory of our walks through the glens and atop the mountains. It physically pains me to leave the dreams, but the Natasha of the real world comforts me when I awake.
King Melny
I'm just gonna say Melny would follow the group and say "Can we have one normal day? It is this normal now?' as he leads them to relevant safety.
Chapter Eight (Kaksusa 28)
So, after the disaster that was scheduling for Chapter Eight, we got Cal on for Chapter Nine. We knew Jesse would be unavailable, but Tasha accidentally slept through the session (given they happen at 10 pm CST, that's understandable).
I think the 1:1 time is not quite working, at least not as I have it implemented. Part of it is that we started implementing it in the last book of this epic, and that probably wasn't a good idea. Missed session mechanics are definitely a good idea, and I have those already. The deeper issue, however, is that Heroes do not inherently care about time in the way that 1:1 time works. The source material skips large sections of time, and then implies the changes that happen between those two points, because of changes in the setting.
The central conceit, however, is that the background elements matter, which means time is important.
The only way out is through.
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