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Session 10
This session was played on 30/08/2025. Clark, Gaia and Maelle explore the same timeline in which Ariyadna killed three rigasian convicts, and find her to be surprisingly helpful.
Plot
Cast
- Patrol Leader
- Patrol Soldiers
- Fort Wardens
- Time-Trapped Anagusi Woman
Quotes
- As Maelle wakes up, she notices that she is indeed “in that zone mood”. She can feel the thrumming of the universe. The sound is in the edge of her perception, she can almost hear it.
- Also there's a fucking giant wolf standing over her licking her face.
- Clark: Oh, right; yesterday happened.
- Derek: Ree-gasia slaves then? Caught in the conflagration against their will?
- Gaia: What's Chinflagration?
- Amanda: They mean a big explosion.
- Gaia end sittig with Maelle and Giant Wolf. Also Amanda, who looks a bit scared for Gaia. She ends exhausting her tears in the giant wolf hugpile.
- Gaia: Derek says thanks.
- Derek: Have you granted me a name, little speaker? I never had a speaker name; I will bear this one with pride.
- Clark: So his name is Derek?
- Gaia: It is now.
- Maelle: I would've named them something like Wallace.
- Gaia: Too late.
- Maelle attempts several times to find someone who will play charades with her to build a starting vocabulary of whatever these people actually speak, but most are already kinda jumpy and a lot walk away without making eye contact. In the end Maelle manages to start playing charades with one of the soldiers, who came to see what the fuck was happening.
- Gaia has a more chaotic time because people tend to see her as “borderline kid trying to play” instead of “grown-ass woman with a sword”. People taking her less seriously is both positive and negative. In the end she plays charades with a bunch of younger kids.
- Clark stops and takes a moment to breath deeply. He's thinking about what this means for his future, he's thinking of the words of Riung, he's thinking of the words of Giant Amanda, and he's thinking that this will not stop, that there's nothing that he can do, and that the best way forward is to not think a lot about the consequences, and to learn enough about the power to maybe be able to go back.
- As you look, something pale comes out of the reflection, looks up at the gathered people, and screams.
- Maelle: Is it alright? Maybe it's in pain—
- Gaia: Can I shoot it?
- Clark: Yep, I'm shooting too.
- Maelle: W-what the hell are you doing? It's not attacking!
- Gaia puts on the glove. The entirety of the fort becomes AMANDA; the moon in the sky is one of her eyes, and the reflection in the moat is the other. And between them, you see the pale shape; it's no longer a weird pale shape, it's an anagusi woman writhing in pain, twisted in time, trying to get out to get back to reality.
- AMANDA: OH, LITTLE ONE, THAT ONE IS BEYOND ANY OF YOUR FRIEND'S CAPACITY TO HELP. SHE HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN THE TWISTS OF SPACE AND TIME WHEN THE RIFT WAS FORCED CLOSE. A MERCIFUL DEATH MIGHT BE THE BEST YOU CAN OFFER HER.
- Ariyadna: Okay, what the fuck happened here? Is that an anagusi twisted in time? Holy shit, what are the guys on your side of the sky doing?
- Ariyadna stands for a moment in front of the screaming anagusi woman, then leaps in a very weird way that makes absolutely no sense; it's as if she jumped sideways on time. Then she grabs the screaming woman, and twists.
- Then you all hear the sound. You feel like the entirety of the world sudders, and then there's no more aberration screaming, just a woman holding another shivering woman.
- Ariyadna: That stings like a whore with two jaws!
- Maelle: …what?
- Ariyadna: You know, two jaws. One in each pair of lips.
- Maelle: (in the middle of the biggest gay panic) um… sorry but could you please carry the body? I'm really weak.
- Ariyadna holds out a hand and the body floats out of Maelle's hands.
- Clark: Derek, what's your story? How did you end meeting us?
- Derek: My litter was spawned in preparation for defending Kesizma from the Ree-gasia. We grew and trained and prepared for that; but no training would prepare us for what the Ree-gasia actually are.
- Derek: (interrupting Maelle's attempt to explain how she is an aberration) Ah, she is the only one of you touched by eternity.
- Maelle: Wait, what?
- Derek: for millenia anagusi have lived in their caves, away from regular worlds. This has left in them a mark: the have a longing for the freedom of time beyond time and space beyond space.
- Derek: Anagusi do not live in regular timelines; they abandoned most of them long ago. But they took bits of firmament and folded them into caves, then formed those caves into caravans that they call constellations, and travel between actual timelines where they meet with others.
- Gaia: Zwosta will be covered by the zone too?
- Derek: Home always changes, but it is still home.
Trivia
Rose? What Rose?
Clark is a confirmed to be a magical trans girl. Still cis, though.
Also confirmed that people are still using radium in the rigasian timeline to make glass that glows green in the dark.
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