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[It's very abruptly that Gil's voice breaks through to the main Network, and it doesn't sound good - there's a remarkable fury to it, that very poorly masks his probably much larger panic. It also doesn't seem like he's actually aware that other people can hear him.]

--of a bitch I am going to kill him for this-- fucking - bastard! Gonna snap his other horn off and shove it up his fucking arse--

[If someone doesn't interrupt him then he's going to continue on that vein for the next four minutes - and very nearly four minutes exactly - before he vanishes.

Briefly.

...

It takes about ten minutes for Gil to come back online properly, and even his psychic presence is tense and tired. And when he talks, the earlier overtones of panic have been replaced with a persistent, if lowkey, manic energy buried under a very thick layer of exhaustion.]

Okay. I am. Okay.

Being in a Diabolin brain is fucking unpleasant, everything is very, like- saturated and exaggerated and I am fairly sure I am like. Lowkey a little bit high? It feels weird, it's fucking weird.
We're working on the whole cohabitation thing but Grant is fucking pissed. Which, you know, would be funny if he wasn't the one who kicked me out in the first place and made me take over! So that was fun!

[There's a brief pause to take a deep breath. Metaphorically smooth his fur down.]

So. You guys've been busy! Saw a few people in silver, didn't think we were gonna do that with the whole "confirmed to be an actual cult" thing.

razorblade_empress

( minor injury under the cut )

breakaleginhalf

[Anyone who was talking to Gil before, about five minutes in to their conversation he gets suddenly distracted, and disappears from the network. Not mute, just ignoring it.

About two minutes later, he's shouting. And any Infiltrator Personas that know Ghalib well will hear it too.]

NATION EATERS! In the caves! RUN!!

[After that, there's no response.]

breakaleginhalf

[The voice that chimes in on the network is tired, and aching, and a whole host of other things Gil is very obviously holding back only tenuously.]

Someone needs... can someone go check on Matthew. Please. Liminal Space. He's...

[A long silence.]

...I dunno if he's-- he's not cavosophia. He's not. [It almost sounds more like he's reassuring himself.] But I-- ...Ghalib hurt him.

capital_asset

I don't know why I don't expect these by now... For those who are newer to this, there was an earlier Jaunt that left a number of us with a tendency towards prophetic dreams and/or nightmares. Most often, they concern the Jaunt we're either on or about to be sent on in some way, although not always.

This particular dream featured a demonic frog squatting on a beach. It opened its mouth to let the ocean rush in, which caused the frog to grow progressively larger until all anyone could see was the swollen, stretched out frog. The frog eventually exploded, which in turn sent the ocean waters exploding everywhere, at which point the dream ended.

It's... very mythical, if nothing else.

breakaleginhalf

Okay, so, what even happened on that one?

Besides, like. Everyone getting mad at Fuckface McGee and proving Jean-Paul Sartre right on the whole "hell is other people" thing. Or one of the Princes knowing about Travelling and Arcana now.

[Gil you can't just slide that in there like literally anyone except you and Raidou knows that--]

Oh, actually - don't go busting in on Arcana spaces without knocking first right now, 'cos apparently you're at a very real risk of being turned into flash-frozen helium, according to Magician.

otomechapilot

I'll do the cooking show after the Jaunt, I didn't have time to prepare it, but...

What's this I hear about Tower falling?

breakaleginhalf

Okay, so, uh.

[He sighs.] Let's address the elephant in the room real quick.

Tower's fucking dead. Like, apparently for-reals dead. Which, having had a chat with Magician a little while back, I think that exactly how big of a fucking deal this is cannot be stressed enough. And apparently Travellers did it, and the other Arcana know that.

Which, from what I've heard about that, means we're really fucking lucky not to have Judgement coming down on us all like a one-ton sack of feathers and outrage. They - like, the Arcana in general, not just Judgy - sound like they're only planning on punishing whoever actually did it. But worst case scenario, like-- Moebius Junior or something? Might still happen if people don't come forward or get caught or what the fuck ever.

I'm not down, personally, for selling people out - and seriously I don't have a fucking clue who was this shit-headed - but. Guys. For fuck's sake.

breakaleginhalf

Okay, can we do like- a fucking stocktake of how many fucking Gentry there are? Because I'm pinging as so similar to them But Not that they keep fucking investigating me.

It's hard to tell when half of them don't have standardised bloody faces but so far I know Phillip, Altaïr, Naoya, uh- Q'uila? And goddamn Jules are all the real deal. Whoever runs some coffee shop around campus is another Traveller but I don't know her name.

Also-- fucking Shiro is a goddamn fucking Fetch. Or-- Changeling, or whatever the fuck it's called here I don't care he's not the real Shiro, the real one's on the Other Side.

rustyhonesty

Korra's gone. Feliciano's gone, too. They... they're not here. Korra's bond is silent and Feli isn't answering any of my calls.

I'm so sorry.

[Jean sounds... not well. Or maybe he sounds more emotionless than he would normal. It's the after effect of Trojan weighting on him but also heavy grief. He feels heavy.]

... and I... converted some of you into Trojans which I... apologize. Matt, Naoya, Shiro, Felih and Gil. I was that Trojan, responsible for your viruses. RAA-7 is not to blame, he had no idea what was going on. I don't know where he got the virus himself, but it likely was with him when we arrived.

... if you need to punch me or talk with me, I'm going to have to ask you to wait. I need some time to just... curl up and feel safe. Feel like myself again. I'll talk through the network, sure, but let me just. Pull myself together.

I'm so sorry.

breakaleginhalf

Okay, first of all mad props to Claudia and Jules for getting a cure for the Trojan bullshit sorted. [He'll be getting on grabbing that as soon as he can.]

Secondly, I just got another hot tip from Magician.

"Most mutineers are either extremely close to holding power or extremely distant (and abused by it)."

So I guess we're looking for someone either really high or really low on the Colossus food chain.

breakaleginhalf

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[The voice that comes through, hours after the second attack, extremely abruptly, is heavily tinged with panic; but also nigh incomprehensible at first.

But slowly, Gil's voice comes into focus.]

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just got a ā̭̳̳̯̞͎͑̐͝ a̩͌̓̍͡ a bit tied up.

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breakaleginhalf

--holy shit, that actually worked.

[This is not a voice that checked in at the start of the Jaunt. Someone's just made the trip over from Walkabout.]

Okay, so. Hey guys it's Gil - or, like, I dunno, G1L? I guess? Fucking Tron and shit. Anyway me and Raidou just came over from Walkabout-slash-Finland side-- it's just snow and turning into animals, easy mode - everyone's fine. [not important]

Which is why I came over, because I have some actually useful info. I went and talked to Magician before the Jaunt - it's definitely her versus Empress on this one, for the record - and like, alongside a shitload of cool info on how Synodiporia even works, I know how to get her the win on this one.

There's gonna be a Mutineer at some point - unless it's happened already? Fuck if I know - but whatever they're doing? We need in on that. They're gonna need everyone behind them for this to work for them.

capital_asset

I'm beginning to feel like I'm monopolizing the network, but... two things:

One, I had another prophetic dream last night: The Manticore looming over a puppet theatre, making a skeletal marionette dance on the graves of the Third Reich.

Two, I think I've figured out who we're carrying around with us - or rather, whose soul. Have any of you heard of Koschei the Deathless?

capital_asset

I'm not sure I entirely trust this, but the Arcana seem to have given me a new trick in that I can discern one random non-obvious fact about something or someone. I tried using on the casket, and, well...

Apparently it contains a rabbit spirit. Specifically, an antelope jackrabbit. It seems to be in some kind of magical suspended animation.

breakaleginhalf

This isn't the fucking Jaunt.

[Good thing his French is automatically translated for the Network.]

Are we in a fucking prison? What the actual shit is going on?

breakaleginhalf

So, uh, I think I know a couple of people already, but just a sort of like-- interest check, I guess?

I kinda wanna start a drama club. Like - make a stage so people can fuck around and do plays or musicals and shit. I've been part of them twice back home, once Before and once After [and those have a very clear emphasis in how he says them] so I know how to direct things, if we did wanna do a full production? And I kind of miss theatre stuff, it's been a while for me now.

I dunno. It's a stupid idea but it'd be pretty fun.

breakaleginhalf

Oh my god Jules actually tastes like chicken.

photonicfighter

Excuse me. If everyone who went to Santa Carlita has a moment?

[Dakki pauses briefly to give people a chance to pay attention. That's how this is done, right?]

I've followed up with Tachibana, and it turns out that he put a tracking device on something that belonged to me. It's gone now, but apparently, the agents are now on the lookout for interdimensional aliens, not just ones from other planets.

I should have been more cautious. I'm sorry. Could the other agents confirm if they've planted anything, too, before I go and get everyone shaking themselves down for bugs?

...and that said, now that we're all back to ourselves, I'm very curious... did the 'aliens' pose any actual threat? What was that all even about? I'm not impressed with a government whose first reaction to extraterrestrial life is to panic and try to lock it up. That can't be the entire story, can it?

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breakaleginhalf - someone got up on the wrong side of the bed
razorblade_empress - [cw: blood] Who wants to live forever?
breakaleginhalf - [Week 2] Less than ten minutes after the last post
breakaleginhalf - [Week 2] Late late late evening 321
capital_asset - Ribbit [backdated to the very first day of the cloud liminal]
breakaleginhalf - A totally legit announcement
otomechapilot - we interrupt your regularly scheduled Babish rip-off for this important announcement
breakaleginhalf - About a day into Hockey Crimes Liminal
breakaleginhalf - Is the collective noun of fae a Blessing or a Curse
rustyhonesty - My heart feels heavy
breakaleginhalf - [JAUNT] One more thing (early-ish Week 4)
breakaleginhalf - [JAUNT] About a millicycle after the second attack
breakaleginhalf - [JAUNT] Two files have been downloaded
capital_asset - [walkabout] Duck? Rabbit, Duck? [backdated to the first week of April]
capital_asset - [walkabout] Duck! Rabbit, Duck! [backdated to the end of March]
breakaleginhalf - Walkabout's for suckers
breakaleginhalf - What light through yonder Liminal breaks
breakaleginhalf - CW: Cannibalism
thornsofmalkav - In which Thorne gives a long lecture on liminal science that could have been even longer
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Entries tagged with gil ryanson

someone got up on the wrong side of the bed

[cw: blood] Who wants to live forever?

[Week 2] Less than ten minutes after the last post

[Week 2] Late late late evening 321

Ribbit [backdated to the very first day of the cloud liminal]

A totally legit announcement

we interrupt your regularly scheduled Babish rip-off for this important announcement

About a day into Hockey Crimes Liminal

Is the collective noun of fae a Blessing or a Curse

My heart feels heavy

[JAUNT] One more thing (early-ish Week 4)

[JAUNT] About a millicycle after the second attack

[JAUNT] Two files have been downloaded

[walkabout] Duck? Rabbit, Duck? [backdated to the first week of April]

[walkabout] Duck! Rabbit, Duck! [backdated to the end of March]

Walkabout's for suckers

What light through yonder Liminal breaks

CW: Cannibalism

In which Thorne gives a long lecture on liminal science that could have been even longer

Some Important Follow-Up

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