synopsychic | [open broadcast, during Liminal prompt I]

The ball they're playing with disturbs me.

((wait, how can he see the ball they're playing with? ... If Thorne looks out the window she'll see him on the little planet, standing between the penguins but a long step back, frowning.))

Wait, what kind of ball? Also holy shit, Joscelin, did you teleport yourself to play with penguins?

To explore. I wanted to see if they were an image, or if Liminal Space continued outside the bus.

It's a severed head, though it isn't very realistic.

And also coincidentally, to make penguin friends. Huh, if Casper's onto something with his kidlit theories, I wonder if they're meant to be Mr Popper's Penguins.

Also, it looks like your new buddies are playing what is commonly called... the Mesoamerican Ballgame. With one variation called the Mayan Ballgame and that's the one that was in Popol Vuh, with like the story of the Hero Twins.

Mesoamerica, the Mayans... these are places or nations in the continent south of the United States of America?

This man does not have the skin tone of a Meso-American. He could be a 'white' American, or a D'Angeline, or Alban.

Edited 2020-08-29 06:45 (UTC)

Yeah. Where my ancestors came from. Basically a region that encompasses Mexico and Central America, plus the people who used to rule it a long, long time ago.

And... look, Joscelin, can I borrow your senses for a sec? You don't need to send pictures. I can just piggy-back on your eyes. I want to see if I recognize this dude.

Edited 2020-08-29 06:58 (UTC)

Of course.

Mother-of-fuck!

[There's a thread of hysterical laughter in her voice.]

Okay. Okay, the good news? I recognize the dude. And the whole thing's-- well, a musical reference. From a nonsense song. So that's probably not as ominous as it immediately seems.

[And she'll just think-sing the relevant lines at him.]

Elementary penguins singing hare krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen POE!

... they are singing 'Hare Krishna,' right?

They are making... penguin noises... in a steady rhythm.

Yes, the sounds they are making do resemble 'Hare Krishna, Hare Rama.'

This is really a song? Not the penguins' noises. The... elementary penguins.

It's called 'I Am The Walrus' from the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album and yes, it's really a song. A very, very silly song. And also, I'm fairly certain that the dudes who wrote it were as high as balls when they did.

Look, uh, let me use S.Tech to do the background music thing and I'll stream you the song so you can hear it for yourself.

[And. She will. Joscelin, we're so sorry.]

I don't understand twentieth century music.

But come to think of it, Hyacinthe told me often enough I didn't understand D'Angeline minstrels, either.

... I mean, all the d'Angeline songs I know are... pretty risque. So I can see how, like, a guy who'd spent most of his life as, like, a celibate warrior monk would be all linefacing at them.

There's much D'Angeline music that isn't. Consider your sources.

... I probably should be getting them from people I'm not in bed with, yeah.

Maybe I should bug Alcuin to teach me the clean ones.

If nothing else, most of Thelesis de Mornay's poems have been set to music by one ambitious soul or another.

... okay that's one clean d'Angeline song I know, if not what to sing it to, then. I learned Exile's Lament years ago.

...one of our, hmn, more vulpine companions has made an interesting connection.

'I am He as You are He as You are Me, and We are All Together.'

As someone who lived through Hecatite conformity as a Champion of Miracles... and this breaking my Piece from Questing Country into the Adversary of Shards, before becoming the Oracle of Probability... I would not discount the possibility that we will have to face the spectre of Hecatites enforcing conformity.

Or it could be a boring tale of nightmarish insects, acting in a way insects never do in reality. Someone must explain to the Great Bird of the Galaxy and his hundred and eight million imitators the difference between being of one mind and apiary eusociality.

I mean, as someone who has been a renegade Hecatite philosopher, I can state for a fact that there are plenty of very important people on Hecate who would just love to enforce that if they could—but also that they couldn't to the degree they wanted to, hence the existence of junkworlds.

Maybe this is their big chance.

Travelers have little regard for conquerors. If this is what we face, I've no fear of it.

*God*. Yeah, we might want to see if we can talk to some of the Hecatite dreamers, then. Especially from their main planet. See if anything hinky is going on in their waking world.

Because I really *can* believe that whatever we're being sent to deal with now, it's probably the flip side of what we might have been sent to deal with if we chose Space.

The Arcana, stacking the deck?

Perish the thought.

Ffff I forgot to switch to markdown

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the most private (also pretend she'd been using the right pronouns in her last tag)

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and i will disco you to see if my guess is correct

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MATT HOLY SHIT

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