Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

[powersthatbe]

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Re: Adversary/Oracle of Resonance - Ringabel

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

Re: Misplaced Champion - Usagi

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

Re: Council of Senpai, Double Valence-Era - Lupa

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

Re: Harbinger of Storms - Malik

[powersthatare]

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

[uzoda]

Kentrolite is just hitting on the fact that his real talent is making people oppose him. Like, a conscious realization of the fact. While I need to find someone to point him at to purposely manipulate in a "fight against the Diabolin" direction, that's what I'd like to do.

Re: Adversary/Oracle of Resonance - Ringabel

[bigbookofd]

Apart from his work with setting up the Interview with a Starmover? (After which it was allll Kanji.)

Thae and the role of the half-elven half-diabolin must be remembered. He will be writing a comprehensive history of the role of house-slaves in the rebellion, with Thae as a case study.

From there, he will see about setting up a more unified network to unite the elven diaspora and their legends and history, by ansible (and meeting in dreams) if not in person.

Acionario for his part will begin advising Adversaries on the resonant themes of Agency and consequence, gradually going from Black Mage aesthetics to Red Mage and then White Mage (with red check), until he's... not the same as Nellarin, quite, who will gain some red in his outfit too, but as mature and wise as him. They were both pulled toward each other, but Acionario was pulled further.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Talk to people /helpless shrug. Basically continue what he has been trying to do during the Jaunt, and slowly convince Champions and Oracles that Adversaries are just a new way of protecting hope, and Adversaries that maybe attacking right off the bat isn't necessary and we can be adversarial in a multitude of ways, and make sure all Adversaries are aware of how sanctions are formed and how best to avoid them, until they fall out of style because people don't fear Adversaries anymore (he hopes) and people forget how to make them. He's got 2 years before he dies to hopefully at least lay the groundwork for this, if not get it done.

As a side-note, he's getting a ton of shit from Shiro regarding the elvish rebellion, plans and data and some devices, that he's supposed to pass on to the new rebel leadership. Once he figures out who that is.

Re: Harbinger of Storms - Malik

[loyalrebel]

I'm planning on having Sayf offer to stay in QC with the Starmovers and act as an ambassador for them with the other dreamer in the current thread!

Re: Council of Senpai, Double Valence-Era - Lupa

[papacerberus]

So! Starmovers have become the problem that he's been focusing on even if it isn't "his era's" so to speak. He has also been poking at past Adversaries (and Scarstin) a bit when he's had free time, because that's also a big problem. The problems of all the eras are important!

as for his era specifically, Lupa still sees the Travelers' state as not having choice in when they're brought, where they go etc etc as a huge problem, but he also hasn't discovered a way to solve it, yet. He's going to be gathering all the Oracles of his time to continue researching the issue. He has not found out that Shacklebreaker could break Marks yet (although it's not impossible that he might; he's got a couple talks with Altair going on), and wouldn't want it to leave its own time even if he knew about it (it's needed for the Elven fight for freedom, after all). He knows the Cabochon is the Arcana's work, and that it was harming Questing Country, and if it starts up again, would rally Dreamers to stop it (if it doesn't disappear at jaunt end, he's totally going to put a watch on it if he can).

His opinion of the Arcana is that they don't mean harm, but neither are they able to prevent harm when they find goals to pursue, much like the Starmovers. He doesn't want to harm them, and supports the revival of Star in particular, but he's convinced that the way they do things needs to change. If he got a chance at another Valance, his wish would be to give all Travelers choice, and the game what he thinks of as more balance for the benefit of all the worlds and the Arcana both. (He would never ever harm a Spirit Companion, but he might spend time down at the forest pools, seeing if he can't ever so slowly gather enough raw dream until a Valence forms. And plan to give it to the Travelers if they ever managed to get back, and his will readings didn't indicate that it needed to go back to Questing Country for a poper Valence Quest. In the event that he somehow beat the odds and managed a Valence that way and the Travelers never did return, he'd probably make the wish himself, right before he stopped dreaming forever

Also, Lupa and Lupa are going to talk, and Traveler!Lupa's plan to Bridge to past jaunt worlds is going to end up mentioned one way or another. So Spartoi!Lupa is going to know that they are trying to come back at some point, and he might try to give them something that'll help them find their way back easier, if he can.

So tl;dr Travelers lack of choice is a huge problem and needs more research and maybe a Valence wish to fix, and Lupa plans to continue working on this problem until he dies, or stops dreaming.

As an aside, he'll also look into a way to create some kind of permanence of information in Questing Country, to guarantee that knowledge isn't lost due to the high turnover of dreamers. That's way on the back burner though.

Right before the Ouroboros ends, he plans on getting the other two Senpai together and discuss some of these things. (this might be best to be slated to happen in its own log nebulously taking place at the very end of this mingle?)

[galvanizer]

Asa feels that with the Retrograde, everyone was better able to understand the role of Adversaries which resolves the issue of treating them almost like abominations in her era, so that's not something she needs to focus on. That being said, if she's still trapped in Questing Country for some time moving forward, she'll likely try to guide the generations of Adversaries to come as best she can - she's not an Oracle, she can't do too much, but maybe that's not such a bad thing, given how the older generation of Adversaries/Fallen Champions weren't too keen on them at the start. She's taken her own experience as an Unknown in QC to heart and from seeing how much better she felt with something as basic as common decency and a helping hand from other Dreamers, and feels that could be applied to younger, lost Adversaries.

As for her waking world, I was hoping Asa would put things together and realise she's a Diabolin (either from distancing herself from her self as a Harbinger or from more contact with slave elves). QC has had a very sobering experience to her so that when her memories return full force, it's going to alter/soften her personality, and she'll do her best to get more slaves free, but I'm not sure how. Either she uses her abilities in QC to fuck with the Diabolin collective to confuse and distract them while coordinating with present slave Dreamers to manage another uprising or escape, or if she ever wakes up from her coma, she'll physically help to sneak them out.

... Which actually could lead to her eventual cryostasis and exile to Gehenna, if the timelines work like that? Struck from Diabolin history, forgotten by the escaped slaves since no one would have known who she was between QC and the waking world.

[lunchleader]

Barring me upchucking my lunch and dinner, I do intend to make a last attempt to speak to his fellow Oracles regarding what must be done about to Starquakes. If Oraclebell can confirm to him that the issue is at least fixable - aka, talk the baby Starmover into not causing more damage - then Yuuki would do all he can to help.

But if I can get some Week 5 tags out, I hope that he could start talking to his fellow Oracles about the possibility of the Travelers showing up in their timeline (again)...and how they could help that group. Because I'm planning for his top level to include him facing the possibility of not Dreaming as often, and he will want to at least make sure that all Dreamers will still have their hope and agency even after he ceases to be among their ranks.