LUNAR INTERLUDE 5: VIDEO; TAZ SPOILERS?

[journalkeeper]

Hello? This device seems to be for, uh, communication -- so it seemed like it would be best to reach out, uh, on it. I need your help.

[ Lucretia isn't immediately recognizable, unless you know her very well. Her face is less lined, her voice lacks a certain amount of her gravitas, her hair is a bit more blonde than it is stark white, and she's more emotional, more expressive. That, and she looks about thirty years younger, in her early twenties. Luckily, though, she's ready to introduce yourself. ]

My name is Lucretia. I need anybody on this to listen to me, even if it's kinda weird. This is... This is really fucking important.

Has anyone seen a light fall from the sky? Or has anyone heard about a strange light that, or, uh, anything that suddenly turned up that's very powerful?

I don't know if the others are already looking for it, I think we must have gotten separated - but just in case I'm the last one left, I need to find it. I need to find it before the Hunger gets here. Please.

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Video;

[extremeteenbible]

[ The name says Merle Highchurch, but the dwarf on the screen looks young. Maybe about 75, in dwarf years? ]

Haven't seen any sorta light, besides the sun... Sky's a different color here than I'm used to, which is whackadoodle, but... [ he shrugs ] If I see any suspicious lights I'll let ya know!

[journalkeeper]

[ Lucretia has always been a smart cookie and even though she's never used a comm before (from what she can remember) she definitely sees the name and does a double-take. ]

Merle? Merle is that really... you?

[extremeteenbible]

That's my name... I don't know how you know it, though. Don't think we've ever met before.

[journalkeeper]

Well, I mean, you can read the names on these devices but that's not, uh, that's not really the point here. You look -- I mean. Uh. Are you -- are you a cleric of Pan, by any chance?

[extremeteenbible]

[ Please, Lucretia. Merle sucks at using the comm devices when he HAS got memory of being on Earth for month. Don't expect him to know how to use them to their full extent NOW. ]

Pshht! Me? Nah. That's what my dad and them are into.

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

[Jacob is staring. There's just no way.]

Lucretia?

[journalkeeper]

Yes, that's right! Is there - is something wrong?

[darkpants_warmfeeling]

Uh... we've met before. You've never mentioned a light or a hunger before, though.

Let me guess- you don't remember me or any of that, right?

[journalkeeper]

We've... met? That's not -- that's not possible. [ Is he trying to trick her or is something weird going on? She's not sure, but right now she's assuming a misunderstanding. ] I'd have remembered if I'd been to this plane before.

video

[burlyboy]

Lucretia! There you are!

[journalkeeper]

Magnus! [ Oh thank god, something here that's normal. ] It's so good to see you. Do you know where the others are?

[burlyboy]

No, but I'm sure we'll find them soon! Honestly, I was starting to wonder if we got, like, scattered across this world or something. Where are you? I'll come find you!

[journalkeeper]

That's what I thought. It's strange, I don't remember landing here -- [ But they must have, right?

She's already figured out this thing communicates through video, so after a bit of fiddling she manages to show the street she's wandering around on. ]

I'm in Heropa.

[ ...Weird. How does she know that? Maybe she saw a sign or something and forgot. ]

video!

[hellosirs]

Ma'am?!

[ Well, this is certainly disorienting! Angus - an older, broad-shouldered, teenage Angus - stares at Lucretia with wide eyes. What on earth is she talking about? ]

I... I haven't seen anything like that, but I'll certainly keep an eye out?

[journalkeeper]

I'd appreciate that a lot, thank you.

[ She might not remember Angus, but she didn't need to roll a full success to figure out that reaction was... odd, but she did and she pings on it pretty quickly. ]

I don't really think I'm, uh, well I don't look like a "ma'am", do I?

[hellosirs]

... I can't say that you do, Miss. Sorry, it's, uh... force of habit.

[ He grins, a bit sheepishly. Gods, this is bizarre! ]

What's this light that you're looking for?

[journalkeeper]

It's called the Light of Creation.

[ If this were a different kind of rpg those words would be in a different colour so you could tell they're plot important. ]

It looks like this indescribable ball of light that draws people in, and the Hunger needs it to, uh, feed, for lack of a better term.

video.

[surgit]

You're not giving us a lot to go on. Any other signs we should look out for? Just what is the Hunger?

[journalkeeper]

It's a glowing ball of light we call the Light of Creation -- it's... well, it's unmistakable. You see it and you know it's powerful, even if you don't understand it. People are often drawn to it. Including the Hunger, which isn't, uh, really a person as much as it is a collection of entities that consume worlds. If the Hunger gets the Light of Creation, that's -- that's the ballgame. This world won't survive. It's so important that we find it first.

[surgit]

Oh. [ Still pretty ominous, but not what he expected. It almost sounded like she was talking about the Starscourge, but the Hunger's an actual entity, not some kind of an affliction turning people into daemons. ]

And you're looking for it on this world? Not something you were tracking down before you got here?

[journalkeeper]

Oh, uh, yes and... yes. We're -- well, I'm looking for it on this world and I've helped track it down before I got here. It's kind of complicated, and the details aren't important, I just hope you believe me.

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[maevelous]

The hunger? Sounds a touch ominous, darling. Mind explaining what that is?

[journalkeeper]

We call it the Hunger because it devours worlds. The sky turns dark, the colours drain from reality and it sends its -- for lack of a better term, its armies down to ravage the worlds and find the Light of Creation. With its power it can eat planes of existence, adding them to itself, becoming bigger, more powerful. And it won't stop. You can't -- you can't stop it from coming. But if we can find the Light of Creation first, if we can get it away from it it won't be able to consume this reality.

[ She's not really used to being the one to make this spiel, and so she's nervous. But she sounds absolutely certain this is a thing that's true. ]

So, uh, like I said. Really fucking important.

[maevelous]

[ Some people's worlds are insane. ]

I have not seen the Light. And if I do, I will let you know, of course. This doesn't sound like something anyone would wish on this universe. But are you certain it would follow you here? The porter is typically rather strong at keeping the threats from other universes at bay...

Unless those threats are the people, of course.

[journalkeeper]

It always follows. If it's not here yet, it might take a few days but it'll come. But - but what do you mean by "the Porter"? What's that?