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======Session 16======

This session was played on 11/10/2025. [[pc:clark_dubois|Clark]], [[pc:gaia_dynko|Gaia]] and [[pc:maelle_kurimoto|Maelle]] meet a squad of rigasian tank pilots and let me out let me out let me out let me out.

======Plot======

======Cast======

* [[pc:Clark Dubois]]
  * [[pc:Gaia Dynko]]
  * [[pc:Maelle Kurimoto]]
  * [[npc:Amanda]]
  * [[npc:Derek]]
  * [[npc:Mauto]]
  * [[npc:Fulan ibn Fulan]]
  * [[npc:Djama]]
  * [[npc:Jaled]]
  * [[npc:Ariyadna#child|Ariyadna (Child)]]
  * [[npc:Ariyadna#looper|Ariyadna (Looper)]]
  * [[npc:Captain Zomajen]]
  * Djama's Council
  * Malian bowmen
  * Malian spearmen

======Quotes======

* **Fulan**: Heard you shoot a lizard and it exploded?
  * **Gaia**: Yeah.
  * **Fulan**: I have shot a lot of stuff but never got anything that big to explode. Was it the lizard or the bullet?

* **Fulan**: You know, the nice thing about the world is that if you keep looking around you are never bored.

* **Mauto**: Portals are made by bringing two timelines together, but timelines need to warp to do that; if you let them go suddenly, they will keep vibrating for a while and random events will keep happening.

* **Councilwoman**: Are rigasians killing slaves in their mines in droves?
  * **Maelle**: Kind of?
  * **Councilwoman**: Are they taking children and woman from their parents and husbands to "reeducate them"?

* **Fulan**: Welcome to the club of making them try to understand the kind of bullshit Rigasia is. I've been trying for years. I think Djama gets at least part of it at this point, but thinks he can ride the wave to get something out ot it without compromising too much. And well, at this point I kinda agree with him a bit because I have seen the mines.

* **Fulan**: The problem is, in our timeline at least, some centuries from now, Mesogeians will come down here and find that the slave trade is thriving, so they will optimize it  by buying slaves here and sending them to the other side of the ocean. They will make it worse.

* **Ariyadna**: Imagine this: several years ago I had my first talk with older me, and it was kind of terrifying and weird. Today I was the older me, and I was just as terrifying and weird because that's how that talk goes.

* **Gaia**: Isn't [a loop] dumb? Just doing something so it's done? Like, without a real purpose?
  * **Ariyadna**: It is very dumb, but do you know what happens if time goes wonky and the ends don't meet? The Umichooans found the answer: the fucking timeline stops existing. So my choices are either to do the loop or everyone dies.

* **Ariyadna**: One thing I haven't done: I never looked how it ends for you and your fiends. I know what you are going to do, but then you'll be free to do whatever you want. Consider it a gift.

* //You get quite a bit of Baby Ariyadna's daily life that apparently consists on a lot of listening to lectures, and reciting stuff verbatim (and getting a light rap on the knuckles when she gets something wrong).//
  * //Also apparently gift training, where they give her a small heap of sand and salt and she has to separate it. She is never left alone. Ever.//

* //Let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out.//

* **Gaia**: It wants to be free? No idea what it's about but we should take it.
  * **Maelle**: What wants to be free?
  * **Clark**: What? Want to be free? Are you feeling alright?
  * **Gaia**: I talk to squirrels. I can now speaks to tanks too it seems.

* **Zomajen**: Oh, shit, where do I begin? Apparently the Kesizmensisis couldn't actually set a base on our side so instead they started doing backstabby bullshit.  They actually got a deal with a bunch of valtshoran factions from the War, and apparently they are getting Kesizmensisis support.  So it might be the second great war all over again.  Fucking Blackcaps in charge, from what we can hear in the radio.

* **Clark**: By the way, Derek, how are you feeling?
  * **Derek**: I am… better. I believe I will…
  * **Maelle**: Did fucking Derek understand Clark?
  * **Clark**: What the fuck?
  * **Gaia**: He's… better?
  * **Clark**: I understood you?
  * **Derek**: You understood me? I understood you!

* //Clark suddenly discovers that Maelle is a very good fighter. They think they are going to dodge and suddenly they are totally flipped around and immovilized in one move. And then Gaia takes the hat.//
  * **Derek**: (Seeing Clark's new ears) That explains nothing. I have more questions now.

* **Maelle**: (Patting Clark's ears) Feels somewhat like Derek's fur.
  * **Clark**: Actually I'm pretty sure mine's fluffier; Derek's fur is quite rough. Wait, why do I care about that?.

* **Maelle**: Gaia, take his hat off again!
  * **Fulan**: Come on, Maelle; there's this thing named consent. We respect people's bodily autonomy, okay?

* **Clark**: Stop trying to listen to the obviously dangerous voice telling you to go toward Rigasian stuff.
  * **Gaia**: You risked your life to help people that tried to kill us, now you refuse to let me check what's going on with something that wants freedom? it also didn't try to kill us.
  * **Clark**: Well its more that I distrust whatever mental magic bullshit is telling you to do.
  * **Gaia**: What if it can help us? Also it seems that it can't do anything without us anyway so what's wrong with just checking what's all of it about? Also I really want to see the tank.
  * **Clark**: You're not being yourself, there's something wrong with that obsession.
  * **Gaia**: It's not obsession I just want to see what is it all about. I'm sure there's something we can get out of it.

* //Gaia puts on the glove, and as always AMANDA is there, large as the entirety of the land, and her eyes spanning the horizon, but then she sees the SKY it takes her breath away.//
  * //Because now the sky is it's own thing, and it dwarfs everything you see, including AMANDA.//
  * //It is sad, it is scared, it is in pain.//
  * //LET ME OUT.//
  * //LET ME OUT.//
  * //LET ME OUT.//
  * //And then her gaze turns towards the GAT and she sees that there's a fragment of the sky trapped inside it, its voice echoing the bigger whole.//
  * //LET.//
  * //ME.//
  * //OUT.//
======Trivia======

[[pc:Rose]] created this page.

Gaia's player lost track of time and we started the session twenty minutes later.

The scene where Maelle wanted to warn the council about potential depredations from Rigasia, but hit a bit of a brick wall because the medieval understanding of working conditions is a lot worse than a twentieth century one should have been a lot less favorable for the rigasians, because as a spy Maelle should know that the rigasians do a lot more than that… but they tend to keep the worst stuff outside their own state. Or restricted to populations that they consider fair target. Which the Malians would be.

Clark's ability to understand Derek started as a player joke, but it landed so well that it has become a thing.

"Zomajen" is the rigasian variation of the name "Thompson"

And yes, he calls them "Kesizmensisis" because rigasians decided to call them //Homo Kesizmensis//.

On retrospect the second half of the session, after Gaia started to hear "let me out" coming from the rigasian tank might have been a bit creepier/more triggering than expected, and Gaia's player had a hard time handling the end.

Let me out. Let me out. Let me out.

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