Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

You feel as if you've stepped through a door.

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[adastraea]

"I am engaged in what my kind call Synodiporia. For mortals, it is the Mystic Journey. It is a tournament to see which of our idioms will be reflected throughout reality."

[crouching_sin]

"I see... though you do realize that traditionally all of the tarot is involved in the 'mystic journey', yes?"

... It doesn't matter right now. "And what is it that I get from being your 'Champion'?"

[adastraea]

"We were, all but my sibling Sinregado, who is Temperance, the fourteenth among us. Time and the hazards of the game have reduced the twenty who started to seventeen extant."

A slight pause, then, "I can offer you certain gifts. To compel truth, to embolden the righteous or make sinners feel their guilt, to slow your perception of time so that you have the leisure to decide or react with clarity."

[crouching_sin]

"I have no desire for gifts such as these, though the one compelling truth would be useful in some circumstances. But after this journey is done... if you are truly that which you claim, I would ask for your assistance in payment for championing you through this tournament."

If she really is something that powerful... "I would ask your assistance in pursuing my goal, and assist me in dispensing justice to the one who is truly in need of it."

[adastraea]

"I may be able to offer it," she says. "Although what I can offer would depend if I should achieve the World at the end of the Journey."

[crouching_sin]

He hesitates. 'May' is an iffy word. It doesn't mean 'will'. It doesn't mean 'certainly'. But at this point, what does he have to lose? Another life? He's not worried about that. And as long as he's not back there... well.

"Then I will do what I can in order the grant you that... provided your 'may' proves to be more towards the side of someone who helped you win, rather than one of your opponents."

[adastraea]

She nods in acknowledgement. "I would like to aid you," she says. "But I would need to have achieved the World to do it most effectively."

[crouching_sin]

"Then the World you shall achieve." Moving people towards the right thing... well. He's always been a fan of that, even if what he knows is right doesn't always line up with what's accepted as right.

"Will there be ways to contact you once I've left this area?"

[adastraea]

"I shall leave you with a visual representation of our connection," she says, "as is traditional. Address me through that and I will bring you here again."

[crouching_sin]

"... Fine." He'll find this 'visual representation'. "Then I'll call on you when I have need of more answers." He's sure that it'll be soon. There's always more questions to ask once more information is gathered...

[adastraea]

"Do you have any other questions now?" she asks.

[crouching_sin]

"Not for the moment." Other than 'how can I hack this shit as quickly as possible', but that's not a question for her.

[adastraea]

"I shall move you to the space we have set aside for the use of the Travelers, then," she tells him. "If you wish to continue this conversation later, call upon me."

And with that, Naoya is brought to ice cream barbeque.