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The votes are in, and the choice is overwhelmingly option two:

( selkies. )

When you step through the door you find yourselves in an uncultivated clearing, in a forest. It is afternoon. You can hear a river nearby. The wildlife is not afraid of you, and there are no signs of civilisation. If you travel four days downriver by foot, though, you will reach the sea, and discover you are not alone.

The people you find there will not recognise you at first, but you will recognise yourselves in their gods. You might decide to reveal yourselves to them, or not to. You can work with the shore-settlers to help them expand onto the continent you've found yourself on, or not. You can try to communicate with the people below the water, if you want. Or you can just focus on yourselves, and rebuild, and repopulate. Between the lot of you, you can do all of these things. There's a lot of space.

The wildlife is frequently large and fairly dangerous, but nothing you can't deal with if you're careful. Plenty of it is edible, and so are enough of the plants. There are plenty of both you can learn to cultivate and domesticate, if that's how you roll. This is where we would go into extreme detail about all of this, but, well, this is also where we bring the mod train to a halt. You made this world; you can work out the specifics amongst yourselves.

You also have three alchemiters, with enough grist to last you for a long time, although not forever.

From here you're welcome to use the game communities like a musebox, if you want, and thread anything you want with your characters at a leisurely pace with no mandated plots or activity check or anything – or just move on entirely if you'd prefer. Either way, though, it would be nice if everybody could leave a comment about what their characters are likely to be doing with themselves on this post.

If anybody has any last questions, too, they're welcome.

We got a lot of mixed votes on the last post, so we're going with all three options. This is how it goes down:

After some discussion the conclusion's reached that you need to use what little time you have before Prospit's forces find you. You have enough players who can create illusions that some of you think it might be your best bet to try to sneak back to Skaia undercover, although it would be risky, and there is some dissent.

But! While exploring the Veil to see if there's any more weird technology like the Appearifier up there that could give you a better chance of outfoxing your pursuers some of the players find a still-active communications line to Derse. The surly Dersite general on the other end doesn't want to listen to you, but when the Hapless Derelict, the Dersite who Cassandra rescued from the Battlefield when she reached god tier, vouches for your collective trustworthiness, the general decides to let you make your case, and is eventually convinced that it is worth striking a deal with you.

Derse know they are outmatched, and if they throw everything they have at Prospit they will be annihilated. But they don't want to give up, the general tells you. She knows in her carapace as many of the losing Dersites do that they are not supposed to lose to Prospit. However, she is willing to launch a full scale attack on Prospit's fleet as a distraction, to buy you time to sneak to Skaia – but only if you promise that when you get there, you will combine Skaia's power with Poppy's machine, hack into the Incipisphere, and disable all of Prospit's weaponry.

When questioned as to what Derse will do if they are able to defeat Prospit, the general wearily shrugs her weird shiny ball jointed shoulders. They can't destroy Skaia like they're supposed to now, she says, but she still doesn't want her people to be wiped out.

You don't have much choice but to take advantage of her offer, so all the remaining players cloak your way back to Skaia on a slow, quiet and stressful journey while Derse provides a distraction.

Once you get past the fleets guarding the planet, Skaia itself isn't very heavily guarded. The door to your new universe is right there. There are just a couple of Prospitian guards there who you have to karate chop before they can inform their superiors you've arrived, which shouldn't be too much of a problem for players of your calibre.

You can't just hop through there, though. You need to hold up your end of the bargain with Derse. The Hapless Derelict will be really upset and disappointed with you if you don't.

Besides, some of you want to see if you can use the machine to send people back home.

The good news: You can. Poppy's machine can affect the portals that have opened up around Skaia and allow those of you who would prefer to go home than to a new world get to places other than Poppy's meteor-devasted home planet.

The bad news: Poppy's original system for breaching dimensions was random, so there are no universe coordinates you can use to reach the right ones, but it's possible to implement a system that will cause any portal to match the DNA of a person who enters it to the universe they come from and deposit them in the universe they originated, at the point in time they left. Once used in this fashion the portal is locked to that universe and remains open. That would be great except that, because predestination has been destroyed, only one point in time can be accessed in each universe – and there might not be as many boundaries between some of the characters' origins as they might have thought.

The worse news: Because the portals remain open, the inhabitants of the Incipisphere can follow you. Which is exactly what ME wanted to use Poppy's machine for in the first place – transuniversal conquering. ME can't win against Derse if you disarm them, but if Derse wins, without Skaia to destroy, they'll sure as heck want something else to destroy. And if you disarm both of them they'll eventually rebuild their arsenals and their armies and see what they can find through the universe-pathways you left behind.

And even worse: the carapace NPCs in every session of Sburb have the same DNA. With these portals they could wreak havoc on any iteration of the Incipisphere they pleased and in doing so completely wreck the process of universe creation and doom everything. And that's not even considering any left over denizens. Or even consorts. This session is glitched. Who knows what those guys will do.

The only way for any characters to return to their home dimensions without risking danger to multiple universes is to use Poppy's machine to delete every NPC in the session (that means every NPC, including any you may have with you).

Or, you could choose not to open any portals. NPCs can't get through the door to the new universe, at least not on their own. If you destroy the machine, or take it with you, the Dersites and Prospitians will have no way to leave this session at all.

You have a choice: Give up the chance to return to your homeworlds, or wipe out all life in the Incipisphere.

What do you do?

Please note that while we want to know what your characters want to do as well, this is an OOC choice over an IC one – it would be easy enough for one rogue player to go against the status quo by nabbing Poppy's machine and either destroying it or using it to delete the Dersites and Prospitians. Ultimately it comes down to what you guys want to happen to your characters.

Following the assault by Prospit forces on Cass's planet most players have escaped to the Veil, leaving everybody to mill around retrieving objects from and weeping about their past lives and also trying to work out some kind of plan of action, perhaps; assuming you all had the good sense to cut off the appearifier route that you got there by you've probably thrown ME & co off your trail at least as far as they don't know where in the Veil you are, so you have a bit of time to breathe, especially if the players dealt out a good deal of damage in the battle

HOWEVS

around this time, out a little farther, Derse's moon will swing round to overlap with the tentacley beyond, and the Horrorterrors will take the opportunity to use a Dersite as their clickety clackety keyboard puppet to attempt to communicate with the players, in the hope of some kind of last ditch alliance against Prospit.

Events happening on day three:
- god damn horrorterrors
- sweet, sweet exposition

Just barely managing to escape the battlefield by boat, the players have escaped the Prospitian army - for now. While the combination of talents in their team has enabled this brief reprieve, they are faced with a choice: to head back to their planets at full speed ahead, or to attempt to get to Prospit in an attempt to collect the remaining dreamselves.

Sollux’s code for awakening the dreamselves is complete, and so any resident computer person can get that going. For anyone who chooses to wait, there will be another plot post about the dreamself jail break. For now, please post in this specific thread in this post to give an idea of the atmosphere regarding going or staying. Lingering, of course, is going to put everyone in further danger.

Once they are done with that, though, we will be entering into day one of the final countdown sequence of Jarjammed - a four day war between the players and the armies of Prospit, lead by the Military Estimator - or perhaps the Meticulous Extremist.

The IC : OOC ratio is now going to be 7 OOC days to 1 IC day. So that means the game is going to last the next four weeks and then a little bit.

Events happening on day one:
- The Prospitian armies are heading straight after the players, back to the planetary ring. This will either be at a safe distance behind or right on your tails depending on player’s choices in regards to the dreamers.
- The military seems to have developed much more potent artillery than they’ve boasted previously. Meaning giant laser beams, bullets, and bombs.
- Once they get to the planet ring they are immediately going to start tearing shit up on everyone’s planets. Their weapons are definitely potent enough to scorch earth.
-Players will have to decide where or if they are going to hide. Anywhere is an option - players will have to sort out their survival strategies themselves.

This is going to be all out war. Actions from the Prospitians can mostly be narrated by players without mod intervention for the sake of random combat stuff. Just assume they are on the player’s asses by every means at their disposal.

Questions go in this post.

So, we have reached a crossroad.

It's a few days short of a month until the Horrorterror's presented deadline. Regardless of what your character's personal stance on that is, at least some of the players will be attempting to complete the game on schedule. And that's where things are about to get sort of uncertain.

Because, realistically, all the success that has to be accomplished in order to meet that deadline is more or less in the hands of the players. Meaning the writers. Meaning you. Because while we will be throwing in some complications to make the end of the session as interesting as possible, whether or not these complications are your characters' doing is up to you. Since really, you're the one that decides whether they get their shit done or not, in most cases.

So, in the end, it comes down to which path you find more narratively interesting.

As the deadline ticks down to the end, the choice is yours: do you want your characters to succeed at gathering the resources and finishing the quests required to start a proper Sburb Reckoning? Or would you rather that, in the chaos of the events to come, they will be simply unable to complete things as intended?

We're going to be deciding this by popular opinion. We'll make two subsections below for voting, and then you can post your thoughts/make your appeals beneath that. We'd like to hear from as many people as possible, as well as potential concerns.

But ideally, this is something we'll have decide in about a week, so that we can begin building in that direction.

Thanks guys!

Oh right and I totally forgot to mention this but it's kind of important.

Everyone who had the horrorterror voices lurking in their heads or anything like that will feel them suddenly go quiet about fifteen minutes to a half hour after Sollux's messages end.

=> This means that people dreaming of the horrorterrors will no longer dream of them in any form.
=> Players that had sleeper agent tendencies from horrorterror infections will now be free of those impulses.
=> No one will hear the horrorterrors singing from Derse anymore.

Basically any psychic effects that the horrorterrors have been having over players are no longer active.

Okay guys so as anyone following this memo knows, a number of the session's planets have been destroyed along with the frog breeding planet, the Land of Brass and Frogs.

What I'm taking a moment to tell you is DON'T FREAK OUT. Not yet. Things in the plot will probably be wrapping up tomorrow and the things your character said and did in the memo WILL have an effect on the outcome, just not one that was obvious in the memo.

Hope is not completely lost. But feel free to have your characters think it is for the time being.