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session:21 [2025/11/17 01:13] – [Quotes] quirkysession:21 [2025/11/18 18:27] (current) – [Trivia] quirky
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 In the Umichooan Embassy, Gaia and Mariette are led to the wounded figure of young Riung, frozen in time in the moment of the wound. Gaia notices the similarities to what Claire did to [[npc:Zach Shpak]] and Mariette agrees, wondering if her sword-wielding self got the idea there. Mariette then unfreezes Riung, allowing the Umichooan Subtle Machine to start healing her. Oi-See says that for this he might owe Gaia a  proportional favor, and unceremoniously dumps the two women back in Zwosta. In the Umichooan Embassy, Gaia and Mariette are led to the wounded figure of young Riung, frozen in time in the moment of the wound. Gaia notices the similarities to what Claire did to [[npc:Zach Shpak]] and Mariette agrees, wondering if her sword-wielding self got the idea there. Mariette then unfreezes Riung, allowing the Umichooan Subtle Machine to start healing her. Oi-See says that for this he might owe Gaia a  proportional favor, and unceremoniously dumps the two women back in Zwosta.
  
-And in the Kurimoto Household, Maelle found themself dreaming of meeting Future Riung in their own living room. Riung tells them that the reason that chronomancers are scared shitless of her is something that won't happen for several centuries, but because of this, the Mariette who panicked and attacked her past self is at risk of being killed by the Umichooans, so she's passing a hint to Maelle so she can help. Also a supernaturally delicious piece of dango. And a bit of a hint about dreamwalking, since Maelle asked.+And in the Kurimoto Household, Maelle found themself dreaming of meeting Future Riung in their own living room. Riung tells them that the reason that chronomancers are scared shitless of her is something that won't happen for several centuries, but because of this, the Mariette who panicked and attacked her past self is at risk of being killed by the Umichooans, so she's passing a hint to Maelle so they can help. Also a supernaturally delicious piece of dango. And a bit of a hint about dreamwalking, since Maelle asked.
  
 Having had a fire lit under them, Maelle scrambles to the hospital to get everyone else (Claire, Gaia, Yumiko, and the Mariette turning the hospital room on its head) on the plan. They have to argue a bit with Gaia, who thinks that the Mariette who attacked Riung had it coming, but Maelle mentions that Riung herself, or at least her future version, doesn't think Mariette deserves this, so they run towards Zwosta Train Station. Having had a fire lit under them, Maelle scrambles to the hospital to get everyone else (Claire, Gaia, Yumiko, and the Mariette turning the hospital room on its head) on the plan. They have to argue a bit with Gaia, who thinks that the Mariette who attacked Riung had it coming, but Maelle mentions that Riung herself, or at least her future version, doesn't think Mariette deserves this, so they run towards Zwosta Train Station.
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   * [[pc:Gaia Dynko]]   * [[pc:Gaia Dynko]]
   * [[pc:Maelle Kurimoto]]   * [[pc:Maelle Kurimoto]]
-  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] +  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] (hospitalized) 
-  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] +  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] (tried to kill Riung) 
-  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] +  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] (tried to heal Riung) 
-  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]]+  * [[pc:Mariette Navia]] (came back home to find everything on fire)
   * [[npc:Amanda]]   * [[npc:Amanda]]
   * [[npc:Yumiko Kurimoto]]   * [[npc:Yumiko Kurimoto]]
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   * **Claire**: Maelle told you about my condition?   * **Claire**: Maelle told you about my condition?
-  * **Yumiko**: Ariyadna did: you let an eight year old see; how did you think it would remain secret?+  * **Yumiko**: Ariyadna did: you let an eight-year-old see; how did you think it would remain secret?
  
   * **Mariette**: What do you mean not human? I'm totally human, doing human things. I even have a job in the town, for fuck's sake   * **Mariette**: What do you mean not human? I'm totally human, doing human things. I even have a job in the town, for fuck's sake
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   * **Claire**: Riung. Would you know why one of you tried?   * **Claire**: Riung. Would you know why one of you tried?
   * //Mariette blinks. Then the bag slips from her grasp and falls to the ground with a "thud" and a soft "clink" as something inside it probably breaks. And then she lets out a very soft but very felt "fuck"//.   * //Mariette blinks. Then the bag slips from her grasp and falls to the ground with a "thud" and a soft "clink" as something inside it probably breaks. And then she lets out a very soft but very felt "fuck"//.
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 +  * **Mariette**: Okay, good, coolio, awesome. We are in an Umichooan flying island, where a Riung is. I'm going there, and not die. Please don't let me die.
 +  * **Gaia**: You're going with me and stay with me because I don't want to another Riung attempt (also I hope you're not on drugs this time).
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 +  * **Oi-See**: Beware, young one, because this is not a human being; it's something else masquerading as one. And it does not have human emotions, merely looks to you as if it does, so you will drop your guard and allow it in.
  
   * **Oi-See**: Human law is made for humans, by humans. Why would something that is not human even care about it? There's no reason for it to obey the law, since there's no feeling of belonging, or wish to actually partake in a society   * **Oi-See**: Human law is made for humans, by humans. Why would something that is not human even care about it? There's no reason for it to obey the law, since there's no feeling of belonging, or wish to actually partake in a society
   * **Gaia**: My squirrel cares (I think, right Amanda?)   * **Gaia**: My squirrel cares (I think, right Amanda?)
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 +  * **Maelle**: You're a friend, after all 
 +  * **Mariette**: yea, but you know. I just shanked someone… Oh my fuck, I just shanked Riung.
 +  * **Maelle**: I mean, I did also tell you that I killed a few people in my drunken ramblings so I think we're even on that front.
 +  * **Mariette**: Even considering all the danger because Riung, the consequences on time might be having us in a very big divergence. I needed to do something, but I don't really know what Riung does, just that it's a huge shadow on time.
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 +  * **Mariette**: That's the thing about things that weight on time. You know that Umichoo broke their timeline, and made a hole?
 +  * **Maelle**: Know about that, yeah.
 +  * **Mariette**: That would not have been a big problem, if it wasn't because it was something that every version of Umichoo was geared to do for centuries. It was not just a tiny bit of an error that happened once by chance, it was the end result of they being Umichoo for a long time. Of they doing whatever they wanted with the timeline, and refusing to stop.
 +  * **Maelle**: So whatever Riung does is just---destined?
 +  * **Mariette**: There's no destiny, but some trends are basically the same: the sun will rise tomorrow, the Rigasian Confederacy will eventually collapse, we will eventually die of old age.
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 +  * **Mariette**: No, no, you can't do this. Need to plug this in this part of the arm. It's designed to have a stronger signal there…
 +  * **Yumiko**: The hell you mean designed?
 +  * **Claire**: Yeah, biesse, what do you mean designed?
 +  * **Mariette**: Why do you think I look human, sweetiepies? we were not born this way; hell, the way my people were born could not even exist in this universe. So to live around here we had to get creative with our shapes, and in this particular solar system the easiest way to live is to actually look like you.
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 +  * **Claire**: Did they gave you instructions when sending you here, a goal to accomplish?
 +  * **Mariette**: No, no. told you. I ran away. that much I know. They can stuff their instructions in whatever they're using in place of an ass
 +  * **Claire**: Good for you, you have my respect for that.
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 +  * **Mariette**: Okay, so, Gaia. I'm going to try to time-un-lock this mess and hope that the… something gets her better? either the Weave or the dude who is trying to kill me by looking angry?
 +  * **Gaia**: What if she bleeds out?
 +  * **Oi-See**: Our medical facilities will not allow someone to do something as mundane as bleeding out.
  
   * **Gaia**: Oh, by the way, I found these potions Somewhere lying around. Do you know what they do maybe?    * **Gaia**: Oh, by the way, I found these potions Somewhere lying around. Do you know what they do maybe? 
   * **Mariette**: Those are the ones from under my counter, in case of someone tries to rob me. Did you rob me of the anti-rob stuff, Gaia?   * **Mariette**: Those are the ones from under my counter, in case of someone tries to rob me. Did you rob me of the anti-rob stuff, Gaia?
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   * **Maelle**: Hey! Guess who I fucking met!   * **Maelle**: Hey! Guess who I fucking met!
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   * **Gaia**: Ooh did she tell you what's going on?   * **Gaia**: Ooh did she tell you what's going on?
  
-  * **Riung**: Silver hunter: you have put an innocent in danger. your compact is REVOKED.+  * **Riung**: Silver Hunter: you have put an innocent in danger. your compact is REVOKED.
 ======Trivia====== ======Trivia======
  
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 Also Ariyadna's current means of talking to people is a very complicated Patois of equal parts Valtshoran, Nihonic, Talosian, and Gotthos. Also Ariyadna's current means of talking to people is a very complicated Patois of equal parts Valtshoran, Nihonic, Talosian, and Gotthos.
  
-Apparently Mariette has worked on a kind of knockout gas that works for almost every kind of living being in heart, one exception being cockroaches.+Apparently Mariette has worked on a kind of knockout gas that works for almost every kind of living being in earth, one exception being cockroaches.
  
 The story that Maelle read to Ariyadna seems to be a bit on the vein of Tolkien's "The Hobbit" but of course Tolkien did never exist in the Rigasian Timeline. The story that Maelle read to Ariyadna seems to be a bit on the vein of Tolkien's "The Hobbit" but of course Tolkien did never exist in the Rigasian Timeline.
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 +Apparently Gaia has decided that she's never inviting Oi-See to her birthday because he's that condescending and racist.
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 +Young Riung is very much in denial about her older self even having talked with Maelle, because apparently that's very much against Umichooan Law, and the penalty is death.
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 +The five versions of Mariette in this session represent the four basic responses to trauma: Fight (tried to kill Riung), Flight (not appearing here because she's gone), Freeze (hiding in the basement), Fawn (tried to cut a deal with the Umichooans) and unaware of the bullshit going on until Claire told her.
  
  
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