Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

[powersthatbe]

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Comments

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

[papacerberus]

Mwahaha and who's will would he know better than his own? (and really, reading his own will from time to time is like refining it, and helps him keep his figurative eyes on what he needs to do)

Excellent on the rest though. Lupa will be very careful with Will reading (and Merging, because he'll be very interested, given his general interest in QC as a whole). He's just likely to get into trouble a completely different way. I am not sorry for the shenanigans that are likely to come of this information.

Re: Misplaced Champion - Usagi

[starshaper]

But the stars are so beautiful, why do the devils come from theeeere? I mean, wow, she'd have been super impressed by their heroes fighting against them and now she can dream of historical times where there'd be no Diabolins coming to them. Everything was fine until the Diabolins attacked!

Hahah, yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted the question! 'Of wishes' it is without contracting all the cute girls for their souls, though she spends a lot of her time daydreaming but that's just a very usagi like thing in general to do!

[loyalrebel]

Look, Sempai, Malik is gonna be a problem child of a gorgon because he's gotta find the answers okay.

But look, he's got all this information for you now! Even if he's getting Weird.

[lunchleader]

Oh, God, please stop getting too Weird.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Yeah, I couldn't explain what I meant really, I know nobody WANTS to be it, but is it considered more normal and useful and part of the journey from champ to oracle than, say, abherent or to be avoided at all costs? Less pitied or avoided, and more to be supported and intentionally included so as to intentionally bring them into Oracle?

[loyalrebel]

Look, you're the one who sent him down this path!!1!!

I mean, some of it might be easily excused as "he's not human" because Gorgon, but. Yeah.

[lunchleader]

Still! He never meant to lose you in the chaos - only inspire you to seek out why there's unusual amounts of chaos...

God, this is going to be a delightful trainwreck

[loyalrebel]

It isn't chaos. :|

....that has probably been a very long ongoing Argument/Debate between them, lbr

[powersthatare]

Yes. Most Champions and Oracles never go Pillar, but Pillaring is a recognized risk of the lifestyle and no more shunned than any other occupational hazard.

[starshaper]

So, I hope you're ready for this crazy dork to be interested in his era, senpai.

[galvanizer]

Considering Asa looks diabolin mostly to start with, yaaaay.

Quick question - is Asa visibly diabolin in QC or would she be using an illusion by accident to hide her true appearance for a while?

[whatspringislike]

She is not visibly Diabolin - the mod-notion was that she'd be wearing a cloak as part of her Eidolon costume that (magically) shrouds her body in shadows, but an illusion is also acceptable.

[galvanizer]

Okay, and how about the Diabolin collective leaking through, will I receive any prompts for what comes out or should I just throw random bits of destructive and tyrannical menace out and about?

[whatspringislike]

Random bits are fine; when we do weekly updates we'll include more information about the ongoing menace.

[scarsolderthanyou]

But it is considered a risk and a hazard, not something natural, the way in later times Adversary is considered natural. That was what I was after :P

Additional questions... how long have the timelines been converging? Long enough for tentative friendships to form, or is it brand new as of the start of the Jaunt? Like, does the council of senpai know each other already coming into the Jaunt, have they shared info, or are they meeting for the first time in the first mingle?

[scarsolderthanyou]

Ask all the questions you like, little one.

[powersthatare]

It became visible to Oracles that Ouroboros would go into retrograde about a week before the first mingle, and occasional communication through the mists might have been possible, but only a few words or a few moments. When the first mingle goes up, it's been about three hours since everyone first met in person.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Last question (for now). How hard/easy would it be to work out the time differences between their worlds? Like, Lupa and Stone are both Spartoi, could Stone just ask "what year is it" and then be able to say "so there's 300 years between us" and hunt down another spartoi from the future timeline and do the same? (If there is one. Might not be :) )

[powersthatare]

Unfortunately, Spartoi, vodyanoi, and elves don't have a unified calendar system between different subcultures. Gorgons, who don't care about the cycle of seasons, likewise would find it hard to track the time. Humans from the same cultures, or Hecatites of any culture, would be the only people who can easily tell the time gap between the Rise & Double Valence generations (the gap between Double Valence and Starquake is small enough that only Spartoi and vodyanoi would have trouble communicating the time gap between tribal groups, and within tribal groups they'd have no problem).

[galvanizer]

Excellent, thank you!

[reallymean]

Would something like a Sanction be considered a chain that could be shattered?

Also, regarding the "in dreams" functionality of Shacklebreaker - outside the Jaunt, does that mean I'd have to find a way to take a lucid dreaming skill for Allura for it to be used, or is there more flexibility once the Jaunt is over, similar to the Archetypal [X] Magic skills being usable while a Traveler's awake?

[scarsolderthanyou]

I was afraid of that :P

One more try before I give up on having that particular info: would the "oracle of age" (as that's Stone's archetype) be able to get a rough estimate of such things, or not so much?

Re: Harbinger of Storms - Malik

[loyalrebel]

Re: the colony

Is it cool to assume that it's a joint attempt between a few of the starfaring species? Reasons why a gorgon would give a damn about storms/droughts/etc.

Re: Harbinger of Storms - Malik

[whatspringislike]

yes!

[galvanizer]

Sorry for the constant stream of questions - am I correct in assuming she has no animal companion/spirit animal/doppelganger or any discernable QC role traits?