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The decision has been almost unanimous to abandon the chance for some players to go back to their homeworlds. Every canon timeline a character in Jarjammed came from has now been permanently altered from the point in time of the earliest departure from it.

And, with Prospit busy dealing with Derse, the players are free to enter the universe they have created.

However, entering the door to the new universe isn't as simple as just stepping through it. You have one last choice to make.

Perhaps this is normal, or perhaps it's because there are an unusually large number of players in this session, but there are three different points in this universe that are viable destinations. The interface is pretty straightforward. The players, on approaching the door, have to select one of three little translucent holographic planets floating in front of it to determine where in the universe the door opens up on.

All the players get to see is the little picture of the planet from space – all they can really make out is, just about, the geography, and how many moons there are. For your benefit, however, we have provided some more in depth descriptions of the planets and their inhabitants, so you can decide where to send your characters.

( PLANETS )

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.

HERE IS A PLOTTING DOCUMENT.

Because, having been holed up in Cassandra's castle, it will be near the end of the second day that the Prospitian forces narrow down where the bulk of the players are hiding. They're going to focus a strike directly at the castle - the outcome of which is likely going to be it getting essentially nuked off of the planet.

Over the day, there has been a lot of damage done to just about everybody's planet. Consorts are probably some combination of hiding or running scared almost universally. If this keeps up for too long, there's a good chance that many of the planets will be demolished all together.

Alinka and Vladik have been launching a guerilla assault against the Prospitian ships which has managed to cause a fair degree of damage back. However, whole confusing the enemy, their hit and run tactics have failed to cause enough concentrated loss to demoralize the opposing army.

This plotting log is going to be the standard "talk about what your character is doing." There is still a portal open to the Veil inside the castle, which is an obvious avenue of escape. Besides that, it is up to you.

There isn't going to be a log put up for this by the mods, since we figure there is only so much explodey battles people will actually want to play out. But if any of you guys want to make one, you may feel free to do so.

CONGRATS EVERYBODY you got the dream selves out of their shiny gold prison cubicles, but unfortunately stopping to do that has given the Prospitians a bit of a head start on catching up with you. The boat the players were using, while not totally shot out of the air, has been damaged by enemy fire enough that the landing was messy and the ship isn't going to get airborne again (characters can be horribly wounded, or just gently wounded, from the pursuit or the landing if they want!). Probably a good idea to hide the wreck as fast as you can, because as Day Two starts to around the Prospitian armada is going to be sweeping the planet circle trying to blast the players out, and something like that is going to be pretty noticeable.

Events happening on day two:
- Before shit starts to seriously hit the fan, Signless will be fucking around with Poppy's machine in combination with the ectobiology equipment in the Veil (via a transportaliser) and discover that using the machine's interdimensional capacities with the appearifier up in there allows scenes from players' timelines to be viewed, and objects (but nothing alive) to be appearified. This will probably continue to be a thing while the serious blowing shit up stuff is going down and into day three, so after the log for that goes up you can get your characters in on it at your leisure, if you desire.
- The Prospitians will be starting their assault by shooting down people's house towers and generally razing places on random planets that look like they might have people hiding out there, so if anyone who's gathering anywhere that's not their own planet has anything – or anyone – they want to save from being destroyed, they might want to use the first half of this week to have characters make last-minute trips to retrieve (or fail to retrieve) possessions, consorts, sprites, etc. (You could just warn consorts. You don't have to put the entire population of your planet into your Sylladex.)
- Later in the day (week) the Prospitians will work out where people are actually hiding for reals and begin a large scale assault on the planet(s) with heaps of monstrous chess clones and bombs and lasers and so on. We'll have up a post and planning document for that later this week but we know everything's been kind of heavy on the fight threads so really we'd just like to get it OOCly hashed out how things will work for that and then pop up a post for anyone who wants to thread out any specific scenes to do so if they wish!

At the moment it's looking like most people are going to be at Cass's castle on the Land of Arches and Bluebells but check the comments to this post for more of an idea of what's going on with that! Please let us know if there are any other locations that a significant cluster of people will be gathered at.

Alright, as promised, here is a post about the Prospitian jail break.

Everyone being revived on Prospit will find themselves in a doorless room just barely tall enough to stand in. There is nothing in said room besides what looks to be an appearifier in the corner, and a very small vent lined up again the ceiling. The walls are reinforced metal, and will take extreme damage to penetrate by force - the kind of force that is probably particularly hard to dish out in quarters that are so small.

Unless players say something especially compelling, odds are any shouting will go unanswered. If they do, there is a slim possibility a Prospitian will nervously communicate with them via some sort of internal speaker system.

Until then, they are alone, and the lighting is dim. Its unclear which direction will actually open out somewhere. Please state in the comments if there is anything you character will attempt and we can go from there.


As for players on the boat, by some supreme luck you have managed to get the ship near enough to Prospit unseen that you have a chance to try to infiltrate. Of course, trouble being, no one at this point has actually managed to figure out where the dungeon's the dreamers are being kept in are. Not for certain, anway.

The Keeper theorized that they would probably still be in the complex being built beneath the Prospitian Palace - but unfortunately that's one of the most heavily guarded places on the planet. The one advantage is that since PS was just so busy trying to murder everyone on the battlefield that many of their forces are no currently on guard.

Describe below what you character plans to do to get inside, and we can go from there. Once either an outside player has managed a way to get inside the dungeon or a captured player has managed to escape their cell, we will start a party style log in Jarjammed Comm for the mass escape.

Any other inquiries can go here also.

HAS JUST GONE LIVE.

In summary:
- Penumbral Sister has used her stolen ring to come and fuck up Black King.
- The gate to the Ultimate Reward opened as the Black King died, because seemingly the specific victor didn't matter.
- However, the Sister and much of her armada was prepared to block the gate and attack the players full force.

The Reckoning has ended, but at the end of the battle the players will be under overwhelming attack. Ultimately, weakened from the start of the King battle and the entirely of the Queen battle, they will be forced to retreat from Skaia for the time being, and will not be able to make it to the gate. However, that doesn't mean they can't make their mark first.

This will be the plotting document for this event. It's a lot more open form because really, anything from attacking to straight up running is acceptable. Just write a paragraph about what your character is going to be doing and other people can chime in. The Penumbral Sister and the armada will be viciously trying to murder as many players as possible, so it's also a good time to get fucked up if that's what you want to do.

Threading can be done in the log posted yonder. Any questions can be posted here.

ALRIGHT THE LOG FOR THE BLACK QUEEN FIGHT IS HERE.

And the OOC planning doc is here.

Go, knock yourselves out. This fight can be planned until the full death of the Queen - twist shit won't happen until they move on to the King.

Also, since there seems to be confusion on this point - this battle is not the last thing happening in Jarjammed! After the Reckoning fights, I estimate there will be about four more weeks of content! So we're looking about one more month, until about the end of July! So really, still within the range of what we've been estimating from the start.

And once we are on the plot tack after this fight things are going to be on a set time trail until endgame, so it will end one way or the other.

Distinct from the regular CR Meme, this is the CR RESOLUTION MEME. Specifically, it's intent is for you to shout out to other players plots that you want resolution or closure for your character during endgame - both interpersonal relationships and other matters of personal character arcs. It can be shout outs to specific players, or requests for support that could be filled more flexibly. ANYTHING GOES.

The point of this post is to help plot the remainder of the game, so there's no unwanted loose ends when things come to a close.

There’s no form for you to use - instead, we’d just like you to use this as an opportunity to explain to your co-players what you need help with resolving, and to tag around and discuss. This is posted on the OOC instead of the spam comm because this is the grand finale - this isn’t about beginning, it’s about endings.

JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, any character whose player hasn't replied to the roll call by the end of this week can be assumed to have been ejected from the Incipisphere. I'll post a list at the weekend!