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Harmonic Resonance Week Three Plotting

Last Week, In Harmonic Resonance...

As more people became Conductors, Travelers faced their own worst nightmares, crawling out of Liminal Space. A journey to Aratta Skyhook in the Waking World discovered ominous connections. And Grant was assigned baby-sitters.

This Week, In Harmonic Resonance...

Ia & Ib.
Cards on the Table. Travelers, Conductors, and other Dreamers meet at Hushabye Meadow to share all the information that’s been uncovered in the last week, and to discuss next steps. There will be one toplevel on the mingle for just dropping exposition, for those who want to read and catch up, and a second toplevel for group discussion.
II.
Opening The Way. Collaborating, Travelers and Dreamers manage to open a stable portal to Aratta Skyhook, enabling any who wish to investigate the Waking World side of things to do so. But fitting in on Aratta may not be easy… contact the mods here for any information or further prompts needed for this investigation.
III.
The Fall of Mount Widdershins. One of Questing Country’s floating islands falls out of the sky - an almost unprecedented ‘natural disaster.’ Dreamers and Travelers struggle with the dream-magic and work to understand and clean up after the calamity.
IV.
Quests. Several different Quests have been mounted, both last week and this week, including a Quest to find Shacklebreaker. Groups of Dreamers Questing together can plan here, and contact the mods here for any information or further prompts they need.
V.
Wild Card. This is the halfway point of the last Jaunt. If you have a creative, off-the-wall idea for tricks, shortcuts, longshots, or other curveballs, plot it here, and contact the mods here for any information or further prompts they need.

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Naoya and Q'uila are heading towards the Lighthouse - I have no idea how long it will take for them to get there (we left it nebulous when in the week they left). But a thread can get set up for them to start actively searching.

A single-digit number of days, relatively brief if they hurry.

Before arriving, the most notable thing they'd see on quest is that portions of the Transformed Lands along their path appear to be shrinking and healing.

What would be the best way to get mod input on stuff they might find - drop a link to a toplevel here?

Yes!

Here you go!

Hey um. Just poking this again? It's been over a week.

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Stable portal idea!

This would work!

Leah is going to become Conditioned - then to get Deedee's head out of her Infiltration, and together they'll seek Shacklebreaker.

She's trying to deliberately trigger a change in herself to become the first Resistor - with all the advantages of being a Conductor, but without being virulent or susceptible to the virulent memeplex. Declarification was suggested as a possible means to this end.

If she succeeds, she'll don crystalline blue armor and rubber gloves and boots, becoming the Resistor of Heart.

The first step of the Quest is in Kingfisher Castle. When Leah arrives, she'll find many of the shifting corridors are shrinking or closing up, making passage through the castle a claustrophobic experience. Of course, there's no accompanying phobia for a Conductor...

Here's the start of her quest!

Note also that with Deedee teaching psychic healing, psychic protection II, and the dissemination of these and infohazard containment protocols across the Conductor Network, they may in fact be changing into defacto Resistors as Leah first described them, though probably not fully until the end of next week if then (as this involves getting informed consent for Psychic Healing.).

Your call whether or not this fundamental change would also result in a change in costume, to reflect her new understanding of the Role!

Edited 2020-09-23 11:33 (UTC)

We'll get you more information for this this evening!

Timetravelling to talk to a Starmover, y/n/pie?

How about going back in time, helping out in a BIG way as part of a Bargain, and deferring paying it forward until... oh... about the time of the Conductor Crisis?

Edited 2020-09-19 11:38 (UTC)

Time-traveling might strand them in the Adversaries era all week, as the Bore is being re-tuned. That's not to say it is impossible.

It would also be possible for someone to find the two Baby Starmovers and their several Harbingers in the present.

Sabetha would like to take advantage of the lovely distraction that is a mountain falling out of the damn sky to attempt to slip Backstage by bridging (she has Liminal Bridge II and Memorial Bridge I, and will be taking Memorial Bridge II this month - unless I completely flubbed my count, she already has the comments for it), and will use her Breath of Freedom skill from the Market of the Vanities Jaunt if needed to bypass the barrier, if the time-gates-slash-Aratta-portal acts as a magical ward.

Could she get through, and if so, what would she find?

Liminal Bridge + Breath of Freedom can get her past the Bore!

In Backstage, she'll find the crystal lattices underlying Questing Country shifting their symmetries - some more orderly, exhibiting three different new patterns of order - and some more chaotic, showing two new disordered patterns.

She'd find clusters of unbound Spirit Companions working to contain and isolate these areas, apparently by singing in choirs and circling around them.

And she'd find that portions of the mountain fell right through into Backstage, right in the middle of one of the three orderly zones.

A few follow-up questions:

1) Is there anything discernible about the situation via her Masks Oracular Archetype?

2) Is there anything discernible about the patterns beyond that there's 3 ordered and 2 disordered?

3) Is there a pattern to how the clusters of Spirit Companions are moving? Are they all singing the same thing? (And if she livestreams it to the Network, is it a song people might recognize?)

4) Would it be possible to reverse-engineer the song(s) to determine how they're containing the affected areas, given she has Siren Song III? Or, for that matter, to develop a Siren Song that would have a similar effect wrt containing dream contamination/modification?

5) So is there a hole leading back to some portion of the Questing Country overworld where that mountain chunk fell in?

1 & 2: You can see behind the 'mask' of the patterns and tell that the chaotic factors are A: the Diabolin dreams & B: the Starmover dreams, and that the Orderly factors are A: the Synthetic dreams, B: the Orthopraxic broadcast within the Synthetic dreams, and C: the influence of the Conductors. Orderly factors A, B, & C are not entirely distinct phenomenon, but are not entirely the same thing, either.

3: not beyond the obvious that they are trying to surround and quarantine these changes. They're all singing the same sort of thing, but it sounds more like a choral warm-up than a song... they're trying to make the new crystalline patterns resonate with the notes they sing. And they're treating all 5 changes the same way.

4: Siren Song III would, in fact, be perfect for this. Essentially, they're trying to bridge the gap between the new patterns and the old pattern by vibrating the crystals into the same shape as the un-quarantined areas. Sabetha could certainly compose a Song of Alignment that attempts to do the same, if she wants.

5: A small hole, but yes. Currently plugged by rather a lot of rubble that's slowly breaking through.

More follow up questions, I'm so sorry.

4b) Would it be theoretically possible to create a Song that would, with a strong enough chorus, change one of the quarantined lattices? And would that theoretically change the factor the pattern represents?

5b) Large enough for a person to get through if the rubble was cleared? And if not, could it be widened into an entrance?

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So, speaking of baby Starmovers... Kanji's on the look for any evidence or clues as to where to start chatting to them again. What might he find by just generally looking/signal-eavesdropping around QC? By talking to Harbingers? By ... anything? Would acquiring tech Waking-side help?

They're findable without tech - the Transformed Lands have, as much as is possible, been shifted into one 'region' of dream, and if he heads off in that region, he can find the Starmovers and their Harbingers. They're attempting to clean up the damage they did, but not the change - just to make their dreamscapes play nicely with the others, and confine them to one continuous region, so that it can be found or avoided like any other set of dreamscapes, not stumbled across or trespassing into existing areas.

Through the Harbingers, they'd be happy to answer any questions they can. They still have trouble seeing as other species do, but they can relay impressions and emotions, at least, if not always plainly.

Would, say, a navigation Persona scan be able to pinpoint the right area for the TLs? And/or general asking around?

Edited 2020-09-22 08:32 (UTC)

Yes to both.

Excellent. Field trip!

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