05-03-2025, 10:05 PM
okay. wow. i just went through the audio file for the 4* card called Shining Traces. this is something else.
as an aside, its definitely established in this one that the protofields the Wanderers are generating are absolutely lethal. I'm terribly wounded after three days of implied fighting for my life, bleeding out when Xavier shows up out of nowhere, picks me up and hauls my nearly unconscious ass to some sort of "abandoned" safe house.
side note: no wonder Zayne worries. i probably don't tell him even half of this stuff.
(begging the question if those kinds of caches are set up everywhere when the coast is clear, for when a field suddenly decends into a random spot, and Hunters either know where they are or know the ways to find one - something like a cairn system of whatever. could be anything from a reinforced house to a simple stash of med kits, i suppose. kind of like smugglers' waystations. i digress, but random tangents are the stuff of life.)
just so we can get the full sense of this thing, please find the larger card picture below.
Let us take a brief moment to notice that he's pulled our hand over his original wound, the one he had when he was sleeping on the field when he was first found. the one where he asked our forgiveness before calling just a shit ton of light out to destroy everything around us -- query: are we a catalyst agent, a magnifier of sorts? is that what our heart+1 does?
(second tangent: if it wasn't for other references of him doing things when we weren't around, i would have the suspicion he only wakes up when we're in need of him)
quasi-sorry, this is a long one but it all seemed important:
He... he came with the Wanderers, didn't he? How would he know that this recreation found in the middle of a shadow field is a reflection of something else so very far away? which would negate the Methuselah theory, unless maybe the deepspace tunnel has shown up in times-before like the Hale-Bopp and he's been kicking around since then, waking up every now and again when we reincarnate in his vicinity :P
i would also have grabbed his hand -- please don't dissipate, Xavier. we're half in love with you already. if only you knew how to shop for yourself.
/keels over from romantic everything. wow. just let me hang into you, here in the middle of all these sudden flowers born of death. you probably smell really GREAT.
no, Xavier, no! i'd rather just stay here with you, now. some other life is wayyyy too far away even if you seem okay with it.
i feel somewhat devastated after this card. no idea why, Xavier's busy being just fine and all.
.. and just for a final d'awww moment:
... i need a fucking cigarette and a plushie after this.
as an aside, its definitely established in this one that the protofields the Wanderers are generating are absolutely lethal. I'm terribly wounded after three days of implied fighting for my life, bleeding out when Xavier shows up out of nowhere, picks me up and hauls my nearly unconscious ass to some sort of "abandoned" safe house.
side note: no wonder Zayne worries. i probably don't tell him even half of this stuff.
(begging the question if those kinds of caches are set up everywhere when the coast is clear, for when a field suddenly decends into a random spot, and Hunters either know where they are or know the ways to find one - something like a cairn system of whatever. could be anything from a reinforced house to a simple stash of med kits, i suppose. kind of like smugglers' waystations. i digress, but random tangents are the stuff of life.)
just so we can get the full sense of this thing, please find the larger card picture below.
Let us take a brief moment to notice that he's pulled our hand over his original wound, the one he had when he was sleeping on the field when he was first found. the one where he asked our forgiveness before calling just a shit ton of light out to destroy everything around us -- query: are we a catalyst agent, a magnifier of sorts? is that what our heart+1 does?
(second tangent: if it wasn't for other references of him doing things when we weren't around, i would have the suspicion he only wakes up when we're in need of him)
quasi-sorry, this is a long one but it all seemed important:
He... he came with the Wanderers, didn't he? How would he know that this recreation found in the middle of a shadow field is a reflection of something else so very far away? which would negate the Methuselah theory, unless maybe the deepspace tunnel has shown up in times-before like the Hale-Bopp and he's been kicking around since then, waking up every now and again when we reincarnate in his vicinity :P
i would also have grabbed his hand -- please don't dissipate, Xavier. we're half in love with you already. if only you knew how to shop for yourself.
/keels over from romantic everything. wow. just let me hang into you, here in the middle of all these sudden flowers born of death. you probably smell really GREAT.
no, Xavier, no! i'd rather just stay here with you, now. some other life is wayyyy too far away even if you seem okay with it.
i feel somewhat devastated after this card. no idea why, Xavier's busy being just fine and all.
.. and just for a final d'awww moment:
... i need a fucking cigarette and a plushie after this.
