⇨ EDEN PT. 2

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 86 - Day 88
Where: Eden
What: The Furies of Eden have been found and have agreed to ally with the carnival to achieve their mutual goals. Meanwhile, tensions in the city only get thicker. How much longer until everyone's cover is blown for good?
Warnings: Increasingly high chances of ritual sacrifices.

FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE↴ Progresses has been made, but obstacles are approaching. As various characters fall under suspicion for their unusual natures the threat of backlash from the community of Honorables and Architects grows imminent. Several carnival members have fled to the Barrens, allying with the Furies of Eden, a rebel group bent on defying Lilith and taking Eden for themselves. Meanwhile, those still in the city are left with the aftermath. Information is still being cycled between the two groups, via various super powers and delivery methods. Sans has been freed from the control of his Architect and has left to find the rebels, but his delivery service is still being used to disperse information. You can assume to have been told about anything on this spreadsheet that's been addressed to the entire mailing list. ► TENSIONS GROW: As the days go on, the attitude of long term residents have only grown more suspicious and hostile. Several members of the new arrivals have gone missing, and it seems as if the locals are starting to suspect these absences are intentional rather than accidental. Some of the most ornery of them will say things that suggest that they think they've run off to join the heretics, but they will be hushed by those near them. However, no immediately violence is being imposed on people from the carnival's entry group. Not that you've seen, anyway. ► SAMYAZA'S INVITATION: Displeased by the atmosphere being created by all this distrust, Samyaza the Hare, Architect of Festivities and Music, has invited all of the remaining new arrivals to an exclusive garden party of hers. Everyone who is still in the city will be invited to attend, along with some choice members of the native population. The actual party will be happening on Day 88. Attendance is strongly recommended by the other Honorables. The nature of this even will depend on what occurs before it, and will be covered in more detail later in the log. The invitations go out on Day 86. ► HERESY UNVEILED: On the evening of Day 86, the city of Eden is alight with controversy - a band of Furies have been found! Hasma of Araqiel (the horse featured in Missing posters last week) has been caught within city borders, along with two Honorables of Eden who had been secretly colluding with her. The three condemned Furies have been bound and chained in cages in a public areas of the city, awaiting trial and punishment. It's a similar tone to criminals being locked in stockades for the civilians to mock, though the initial city mood seems more uncomfortable and nervous than angry. There is a horse, squirrel, and border collie currently imprisoned. ► RINGMASTER'S RETURN: On Day 87, the Ringmaster will be returning from her investigation. Specifically, she'll be arriving at the doorstep of the Furies in the Barrens, and will be entering to visit her associates within. Apparently, she's been spending all this time searching the barrens for entrances into the core of Eden, as well as trying to communicate with the Serpent. Neither have yielded major successes, however. Carnival members at the Furies base can ask interact with her through investigations.

Comments

[stompadour]

Jasper opens her mouth, and then, after a moment, closes her mouth.

"Nobody knows how that even happened," she says. "It was probably some kind of -- trick. Would you fight a Diamond?"

[mirrortide]

"Trick or not, Pink Diamond was still shattered." Lapis says, and almost instantly regrets saying such blasphemous things! It's bad. She's awful? Considering shattering other Gems, even if they're Diamonds.

She's not going to even bother giving a retort to Jasper, because quite frankly, she'd cowed the moment she saw Blue Diamond.

[stompadour]

Yeah, Jasper's eyes widen a little and she draws back.

"Yes," she concedes, "But not by Rose Quartz's natural abilities, there's no way. None of us can do the things the Diamonds can."

eventuall canon fucks over both of them its FINE

[mirrortide]

"It doesn't matter, because whatever she did, she shattered Pink Diamond. It still means that there's a way to shatter Diamonds. It means that they aren't all powerful." It doesn't matter how or why, Jasper! Just the fact it can clearly happen!

[stompadour]

"But they're more powerful than us," Jasper insists. "And more experienced. Smarter. Everything. They don't have to be perfect to be better than us. That's why they're in charge."

[mirrortide]

"Jasper, a single Rose Quartz shattered a Diamond. One that had been made on Earth." Lapis insists, trying, for some reason, to make Jasper understand that maybe they do have a chance against the Diamonds. "They're not as smart or as powerful as they've lead us to believe. Especially when they make mistakes."

[stompadour]

"If it was that easy for her to do it she would have done it before I was even grown," says Jasper. "Stars, if it was that easy we wouldn't still have Diamonds. Obviously it's possible to shatter them, but that doesn't mean they should just -- put pearls in charge instead."

[mirrortide]

"I mean, all she was fighting to do was to keep Earth from being destroyed. Obviously she didn't want to shatter the Diamonds at first. It was obviously a last resort, and look, it worked? And who said anything about putting pearls in charge? Why not... Why can't we all just do what we want to do? As long as it's not hurting anyone else."

[stompadour]

Jasper stares at her. How did... this conversation... end up here...

"Because then nothing would ever get done," she says, clearly perplexed.

[mirrortide]

"What needs to get done?" Destroying more planets for more Gems? It's not like they require resources once made.

[stompadour]

"What--?" Jasper's still just staring, utterly bewildered. "I -- building things. Making new gems. Defending Homeworld. Everything."

[mirrortide]

"But we don't really need to do any of that. We already have a lot of things built. We don't need more Gems either." Especially since they'd... more or less run out of resources to make new Gems, from what Peridot had told her?

[stompadour]

Jasper's brow furrows. "What are you talking about, of course we do."

[mirrortide]

"Why?" Just... as a simple question. "We already have more than enough of what we need, don't we?"

[stompadour]

Jasper just... boggles, as she tries to comprehend this stance.

"No..?"