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[edit] Arcadia

(Not the Victoria one)

"It's been a few years, Overmaze time, since Harry cut a bloody swath through the Numbers who ran the place. Then he got out, out into the worlds, out to who knows which somewhere. The place is a shambles now; he'd be proud. But you don't know about any of that—you don't know what the hell's going on. There's a platform, and you've been sitting on it for a while with a few odd-looking strangers; there's some sort of elaborate machine up ahead with a bunch of . . . yeah, they're little kids, all sort of wired into it with a lot of cables and tubes. Every now and then one of them sings out something in a pure soprano. The words hang in the air, clean and solid as if they mean an awful lot to the one who's saying them, but it's all just nonsense as far as you can make out. Maybe, if you're lucky, one of these strangers knows how to get out of here. But even if so—well, where would you go? What place is there for you, what rest, what satisfaction?"

"Arcadia" was a one-shot based on several stories Matt M. wrote for Ben P.'s [[1]] Livejournal community.

Type: Tabletop, One-Shot

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy/Surreal/Stochastic

System: Bit of dice-rolling; rather a lot of the [Eames House of Cards]

Date: March 13, 2005 (ProCon one-shot)

GM: Matt M.

[edit] Characters

Harry the Runner, a.k.a. "The Puma" (Ben P.)

The scourge of the Overmaze, uneasy in his retirement.

Jennifer Gordon, Lieutenant Cardinal (detached service) (Kristen M.)

Sort of an exorcist, sort of a ninja.

A young man (Caleb W.)

An amnesiac with a blank character sheet. Probably nobody important.

Sir David Rymer (Jamey P.)

The man who resurrected Archon Peter Mayhew (after his assassination in the Manhattan Summer Palace) and lost his son in the process.

The Witchywoman of Calgary Bay (Joey B.)

An old woman, rustically clad, who has lost her demigod.