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[whiteLimestone]

Might as well start this thing.

2nd session: Seer of Time

We have one god-tier, the Mage of Mind, and a couple of people have lost their dreamselves. I lost my realself and the Dame of Sand was erased from reality a while back.

I'm in the process of completing my Maturity quests and trying to sort out a sudden glut of prophecies. Mostly the latter right now, since I'm kinda the Seer and that's my job. I'm worried about the Grace of Void, since she's been popping up in some of the prophecies in ways that seem kind of contradictory. We'll see how it goes.

[whiteLimestone]

Welp, the Bard of Mist is acting up again. Something about music in Skaia this time. I don't see any doomed timelines popping up around him, but inaccuracies do happen. At least he isn't yelling "make it stop" over and over like when he and the Heir visited Derse.

Nothing new on the Grace front, though she's still pinging her pendant in Morse code.

[whiteLimestone]

Oh crap, we have a Ringwraith! You know that guy that guard the Dersite battleship docking zone? Zealous Warden, or something like that? Somehow he got the Black Queen's ring and he's on the battlefield wrecking havoc. Suddenly about half of the prophecies make a lot more sense.

It would really, really suck if the Grace of Void went off now.

[whiteLimestone]

Stuff happened. First, just, uh, take this log. Warning for some Rangoon-ness. I don't think copypastas can transmit it, but you never know.

-- aridOcean [AO] began pestering whiteLimestone [WL] at 14:42 --

[14:42] AO: Wh3r3 ar3 you?
[14:42] AO: Hurry up and g3t ov3r h3r3 alr3ady!
[14:42] WL: What are you talking about?
[14:42] AO: Do the S33ry thing and find out.
[14:43] WL: I can't. JI's there, apparently.
[14:43] AO: 3xactly.
[14:43] WL: Oh.
[14:43] WL: Oh no.
[14:43] WL: Don't tell me she finally snapped.
[14:44] AO: Th3r3's a hole in h3r land th3 siz3 of D3rs3, you t3ll me.
[14:44] AO: W3 hav3 UV k33ping h3r qui3t, but he'll run out of ladpluck 3v3ntually.
[14:44] AO: Aft3r which I'm almost c3rtain sh3'll snap again.
[14:44] AO: LD want3d to put h3r down, but w3 got a you t3lling us not to.
[14:45] WL: ...Doomed or timeclone?
[14:45] AO: Doom3d. Sh3 was w3aring that w3ird shirt th3 oth3rs were.
[14:45] WL: Shit
[14:45] WL: I'm on my way. Keep LD under control

Now is where I should probably mention I have a special shirt I alchemized that I am to wear whenever I have to paradox anything. It helps keep the Doomed and normal timeclones separate. But in any case, apparently the Grace of Void finally initiated a cataclysm. Berserk Triggered all over her land and everything.

I was able to talk her down thanks to the time I spent questing with her, but it's kind of insulting that the thing that did it was bringing up her cats. But of course, now we have one land that needs re-terraforming and that little stunt drove her land rep down to zero. Plus she's still unstable and could snap again. I'm officially on watch duty.

Augh I am the worst Seer ever, I swear.

[whiteLimestone]

Well, we took care of the Ringwraith. Apparently ZW is Lawful with a capital L (thanks forumites!) so I scried for any Dersite laws that could help us get the Black Queen's ring back.

You know what? You deserve some more in-depth stuff than general summaries. Here are some artistic representations of how everything went down:

Me: Hey Beat, what laws do I need to know?
Whisperings: You woke me up for this? Ask me a timeline question, bub.
Me: Oh come on! We're screwed if we can't get this thing taken care of!
Whisperings: Maybe if you quest a bit more I'll "forget" to restrict your powers to time stuff.
Me: Auuuugh I don't have the time for that!
Whisperings: ... *facepalm*
Me: ...oh right.

After which I looked through my Land for a quest that felt like it had the Beat all over it, noted it was already done, and jumped back a couple days to complete it. It took way too long to do, let me tell you that.

Me: Can I get my laws now?
Whisperings: Here, have a useless one.
Me: ...
Whisperings: Look, you've been neglecting your Land in favor of that Grace's. I am holding your information hostage until you get your rear in gear.

Rinse and repeat the above a few times until finally I was given a law about royal property recovery procedures. These Dersites sure like their red tape, let me tell you. Unfortunately, it relies on the Queen being alive and capable of accepting it, and she's exiled. Instead the final destination would be the Archagent. That's something we were nowhere near ready to risk, so shanking it had to be for poor ZW. Why couldn't it end in the Royal Vault or something?

Then we had to confront our wayward ship guard.

Heir: By the authority of a Prince of Derse I must remind you of Article blah blah blah of blah. That ring must be turned over to an appropriate authority figure and the proper forms signed. Turn it over to your Prince and I will ensure it makes the trip back in safety.
ZW: Blah blah blah says that I have to turn it over in person and I can't fly without wearing the ring.
Bard: Well, fuck.
Heir: We will escort you to ensure the safety of royal property as per blah blah blah.
Grace: It would be a shame if a wayward projectile damaged it.
Bard: *whispers* Or a wayward Void player.
Grace: *elbows Bard*

Here is what happened after we arrived on Derse.

ZW: The office of blah blah is just around the corner. Your escort is no longer-
Grace and Bard: *stabbity stab stab*
ZW: *DEAD*
Heir: That went surprisingly well. Now what will inevitably go wrong?
HB, CD, and DD: Hey you!
Bard: Well, fuck.
Heir: Run awaaaaay!
Agents: Oh no you don't!
Everyone: *fight*

And now we can't go back to Derse anymore.

[whiteLimestone]

Now that the emergency is done, we're back to land quests and complaining about Denizens. I've been helping our Grace build her land rep back up, but it's slow going. She's been pretty skittish, too. I guess the combination of her berserk trigger and the whole Ringwraith thing has gotten to her.

It doesn't help that Ereshkigal keeps taunting her about it. I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be a very long time before the Grace stops wanting to kill her. If this keeps up I'll have her come to my land for a bit; Antevora may have a nasty laugh but at least she won't push the buttons of our most unstable player.

[whiteLimestone]

Been gone. Stuff happened. Will update later.

EDIT: Okay, now that I have my head together...

The Mage of Mind is dead. I think his Denizen triggered it or something, but he completely flipped his shit and tried to kill the Grace. Nearly succeeded, but I was there. Or rather, a couple of mes were there. All I know for sure is that the Grace and I were doing a Maturity quest, and then suddenly a doomed me appeared out of nowhere and blocked a shot from the Mage.

Of course it was a lethal shot; why wouldn't a doomed timeclone take it lethally?

I tried to talk him down and keep the Grace from snapping again at the same time, the former failed miserably, and another me popped up. Also doomed. I hauled ass away from there with the Grace while the me fought off the Mage.

We took refuge in a nearby dungeon while I tried to sort out what was going on. Man, I just know I'm going to take the blame for not seeing this coming. Seer, you know? Still, I tried to talk the Grace out of snapping and something must have worked because we didn't get anymore doomed mes popping up with pictures of doom and horror for the future.

You can probably tell from that that the second me survived long enough for us to have a talk. You'd think I'd have learned by now not to ask how bad it got.

I spent the past week looping back and forth enough to keep two of me on the Mage's case at all times. I am exhausted. And I killed him. Justly. We're down a god-tier because of me now.

The second doomed me is still alive but probably going to die soon. I just want to have some real, non-dreamself sleep.