Conversation Space: The Ultimax

[powersthatbe]

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

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[breakaleginhalf]

He is like ninety percent sure she just multiverse-Googled that.

"Fair as fair can be, right?" he comments dryly. "'s'not like any of you embody that right now. Or haven't thrown stuff at us before that was 'unpleasant, but not punishment-unpleasant, just kind of a bitch-ass of a world'."

[rosewater_path]

"It won't be a Jaunt," she says. "I mean, yeah, you might wind up in another world that sucks for you, but that's not what I'm talking about. You'll see."

[breakaleginhalf]

His ears prick up sharply. "And no spoilers, of course, 'cos you'll get in trouble." He's used to that concept at least.

Not that he won't try hunting for them in the one way he knows works.

[rosewater_path]

The first idea that comes to mind would be - well, a dungeon, or an odyssey - what they used to call 'walkabout' before it came to mean a side-Jaunt. Arcana have claimed in the past that those aren't intended as punishment, but it's presumably no coincidence that after Travelers rebelled in Belljar, the most vocal rebels all vanished.

[breakaleginhalf]

Well, he sure doesn't like that idea.

He continues, without missing a beat and more than a little wary. "But it says a lot that if it's not a Jaunt, and sure as shit not home, there aren't a lot of options left to stick your misbehaving pieces. Besides putting them in time-out, maybe."