XI

[adamantlyardent]

There really was no guarantee that world-altering madness would cease upon the departure of the fate sisters, was there? In fact, perhaps leaving a seat of power open like that can entice other high powers and potent forces to come and see what they can do.

Despite that, it doesn't mean I'm going to ever grow fond of, let alone become used to being battered around by these things. Forces, circumstances, fates, fey...whatever you wish to categorize them as -- I'll just bucket them all in "Things with Greater Influence in the World(s) at Large than Most Mortals." Perhaps that label will satisfy most were I to use it? Not all, naturally.

In any case, who shall begin the mass-accounting of things amiss or askew THIS time around? In a neat list for easy perusal, I'd prefer.

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[dragony]

I haven't seen them on anyone else. Housemates or visitors or on the Network. I can't guarantee it's *everyone*, but it's everyone I've seen.

Yours is gone too, right?

[adamantlyardent]

Yes.
Admittedly, that was the LAST thing I was concerned about in all of this...

[dragony]

It's a pretty small thing, compared to everything else.
The ImPorts of that other world didn't have the tattoos, either. Nobody to swear loyalty to, you know?
It was something I noticed there, and I tried to use that knowledge to find the others who remembered having them.
There weren't terribly many of us, though.

[adamantlyardent]

You're the second person to mention another world. What is this all about?

[dragony]

The last day you remember before that "arrival ceremony" was a month ago, right?
The first week of September?

[adamantlyardent]

That is the last date in my journal, yes.

[dragony]

Yeah.
I think that's the last day anyone reliably remembers "here."
But, while most everyone simply "jumped forward" to October, or forgot the weeks that preceded that, some of us had our consciousnesses brought to a parallel reality.

It sucked, by the way.

[adamantlyardent]

Is this more Feywild stuff? I thought that got resolved in the springtime...

[dragony]

Feywild?

[adamantlyardent]

There was an accident involving a fey-forged staff, set magic to running amok for quite a while, if my notes are right. Some remember, some don't...such is the quirk of that realm.

[dragony]

I'm not the best at sensing magic, so I can't say. One way or the other.
The seeing of other worlds, though... that much has happened before, for sure.

[adamantlyardent]

Is it pointless to ask "to what end" at this stage?

[dragony]

I

[ — should know the answer. She should. She's been on every single one of these trips, in this world and the last. She's lived through all the changes to reality, the rewinds and the skips forward and the changing of the maps, but — ]

couldn't tell you
I'm sure there are answers, but they're not ones I know.
Maybe they're like
visions?

[adamantlyardent]

Visions in the vein of feverish hallucinations, or visions of the prophetic sort?
(I don't actually expect you to know for certain, of course.)