The Powers That Be (
powersthatbe) wrote2016-12-03 12:33 am
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Conversation Space IV.
The small room is painted a dark beige, with stained wood paneling on the lower half, and lush burgundy carpeting. The ceiling, however, is cracked and bowed, sagging alarmingly, occasionally shedding chips of plaster. Wrought-iron lamp-posts in the corners suspend pale, wan globes of light, and between them along the walls run rows of painted sunflowers, all turned towards the center of the room as if listening attentively. A jutting spire of granite rises from the floor on a diagonal, its flattened top sporting a cracked wineglass from which the wine (a white) slowly spatters teardrops across the plinth. And there is no chair, but a therapist’s couch, blue with gold trim, and ornate scrollwork on the legs, beside which the fluted horn of a phonograph player pipes music into the room, quiet enough to just be background ambience.
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(For the others, a small voice in the back of his head whispers. So that they can benefit from any information you manage to get even if you can't.)
"And how many purposes do the Marks have? They do more than confer 'benefits,' don't they?"
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If he wanted clarity, he probably should have contrived to get himself marked by someone entirely different. Never mind that he hadn't been expecting to be marked at all at the time. "What benefits do you get from them, aside from proof of our... allegiance?" He's not expecting an answer to that, not really, but he supposes another try wouldn't hurt.
In the meantime, he shifts tack. There's something else he's been wondering for a while now. "Why Tarot?"
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He falls quiet for another moment, thinking. Then: "If you win, what will you do?"
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It does surprise him a bit to hear that there's a points system in place, although given that the Arcana are now in direct competition, it probably shouldn't. Simple win/loss conditions may have been sufficient for earlier Jaunts, but now that they're entering a new phase, the Arcana would want as many ways to prevail over their rivals as possible.
"Should we expect to be placed in direct conflict with each other at any point?"
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