to: all; a warning

[princessvegas]

Hey, so I'm assuming at least some of y'all found that sparkler thing in your domain? If you haven't already, maybe..... don't touch it? Like at all. Except to bury it or throw it in a trash compactor or something.

Also probably do a quick sweep around your domains and check for anything else weird or out of place or creepy. Or with the Fool arcana. Just a thought.






Selfies might be a bad idea right now too.

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[princessvegas]

[ While she's literally never been a good team player, the truth is that Julie flat out does not know how to navigate this conversation in a way that will both satisfy Shepard and also not make herself feel unsafe. Julie has been in Abraxas since nearly the beginning; she vividly remembers how they were treated back then, the horror with which they'd learned of the Queen's experimentation. The feeling of constantly waiting to be snatched up by the castle guards and hauled back. And, before that, even, she remembers the feeling of always looking over her shoulder — there was no such thing as safe after Captain Trips ravaged her world.

She'd been hoping for people to simply accept the warning at face value, perhaps predicated on the common sense advice that it's deeply suspicious to find shit where it shouldn't be immediately following the appearance of a scary clown. And, in Julie's defense, Shepard is the only one to really dig into it, so she wasn't wrong. ]

I'm not gonna have an answer that makes you happy. This isn't about you. It really isn't.

Think of it as a sign warning you not to press the big red button, no other words. You can press the button or you can not, but the sign won't change itself. It's just a warning.

[earthborn]

[She's been in prison, been hunted, been shot and stabbed and burned and starved. She's lived as a marginalized class, and as a minority, a political underdog and as food for the machine— she's died, and been used as a science experiment, and woken up mid-surgery. All that, the pain, the dehumanization, the years-long tension of being shoved to the side... She can cope with that. Those agonies are old friends. But seeing the wave of a tsunami crest, and knowing what's coming, of watching while it tips and begins to fall, and not being listened to, not being able to know, and act...

Shepard has never been good at minding her own business, and not asking questions even when no one else cares to do so.]

Fine.

[If there's information to know, Shepard has no doubt that she'll find it out, eventually. The only question is, how much it'll cost.]