Songs we sing

[Mirdan]

Gen, I wish I told stories like you do. I also wish you had more time to update this, it's incredibly rich and beautiful.

[ArgentGuy]

I miss this adventure. v_v;

[GenTrigger]

>Scan book, perhaps there is a helpful arcana dwelling within, which may explain its hold over your attention before you gained knowledge of its pages.


That sounds like a sound idea since the book does have that rather intense aura still about it despite it's contents being a let down. Sonnet stalls the inevitable download of trashy literature straight into her head by inspecting a bookmark she noticed to be wedged between a couple of musty (and lusty) pages. Luckily she seems to have found the source of the odd vibes she was getting off the book.

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It seems to be a finely crafted tarot card that somehow was parted from it's deck. These mystical artifacts are constructed by those who pluck their fingers across the threads of fate to listen to the cryptic melodies of the future and in turn give cryptic clues to these messages. You would call them fortune tellers, but anyone who's sought their help would scoff and tell you that they don't do anything close to "telling". These riddle spinners are called gossipers by the folk of this world and are considered the polar opposite of an Orator since an Orator's job is to recount the past in a vivid fashion while a gossiper tells the future in vague jargon. This causes them to be terribly unpopular among many but their craft catches the imaginations many others.

Sonnet just so happens to let her imagination be carried away by the idea of someone being able to glance upon fate. Despite there being millions of cards and variants of those cards, Sonnet's committed a great many to her memory and is well aware of this card and it's meaning. The Gesture is illustrated by a butterfly with a storm gathering about it or in the distance from it, invoking the tales of the butterfly effect, which is a small action that snowballs into something far more significant. It is a card that signifies the power of the small and thus reminds us to have an eye for detail or not to neglect a small chore since it very well may be the vital key to a much greater future. A simple gesture can change the dynamic of a conversation and a single flap of a butterfly's wings can whip up a storm.

Unlike the Arcana she's encountered before, this one seems to be in it's most raw form and is groping about, looking for a vessel. Such an item is rather interesting and will definitely prove useful.

Well it seems that opening the lock box wasn't as much of a waste of time as Sonnet had originally thought.

[Pick Yer Poison]

CLOUD LESBIAN AT 1 O'CLOCK

[Pancakes]

>Eat that card~

[Dragon Fogel]

>Great! Now back to...

...um, what were we doing again?

[Neopie]

Sonnet: Get the Arcanum of the lesbian literature and the bookmarkm

[Sega]

> Sonnet: HoNk.

[Healy]

>Place that card in your inventory (keep it under your hat) until you find a suitable vessel for such a small voice that contains so much power. In the meantime, meet back up with your non-consenter friends and try to figure out where you might go to find the location of your arms. Don't forget to thank Yawn for her...help.

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Welcome back Gen Trigger!

[Yamtaggler]

>Offer it the form of your FIX hat.

[Tam Lin]

Choose the book as its vessel

[Mirdan]

> Give it to your scarf. Check to see if your FIX hat has its own arcana.

[Not The Author]

Yeah, seems like this thing would be better saved for later on. What's The Gesture's properties, anyhow? If we know what it does, we might have a better idea of what to stick it with.

Although I'd kinda like to stick it with the rest of the deck. You're on An Adventure, Soni; it's not implausible you'll run into the otherrrrrrrr...

Ah, how many Arcana are there, anyhow? I know of twenty-one and zero, but yours seem not to be mine.

[Asmodemus]

"Interesting. Personally I despise the notion that the future can be foreseen other than calculating what's most likely from observed actions and trends. To not be in charge of my own fate even if my actions are bound by my needs.. I hate the idea."

[Neopie]

"Oh, and, would you prefer we articulate instead of do this, then do that? Should we speak like Asmodeous there when we tell you to go on lesbain romps? "
Also, can we PLEASE jave you upload Sonnet's most embarrassing moment thing on Devart?

[ArgentGuy]

>Pocket the bookmark for later and move back to the room you came from.

[Daft soul]

Joined just to post here. Read the entire adventure in a day. I will now religiously check this and slowly progress into stalking you :x

or maybe Ill patiently await for more sonnet. either way keep updating

[GenTrigger]

Joined just to post here. Read the entire adventure in a day. I will now religiously check this and slowly progress into stalking you :x

or maybe Ill patiently await for more sonnet. either way keep updating

Oh hey, I've seen you.

[Daft soul]

Joined just to post here. Read the entire adventure in a day. I will now religiously check this and slowly progress into stalking you :x

or maybe Ill patiently await for more sonnet. either way keep updating

Oh hey, I've seen you.

Then it may have been your signature that led me here. I'm rather thankful of that.

[GenTrigger]

>Ah, how many Arcana are there, anyhow? I know of twenty-one and zero, but yours seem not to be mine.


She explains that while a deck only has a certain amount of cards, Gossipers choose from a great many variations of major and minor arcana that are chosen carefully by the creator to be the most help to them and give a clearer picture to the answers they seek. As such, not even she's remembered all the arcana and their meanings.

>What's The Gesture's properties, anyhow? If we know what it does, we might have a better idea of what to stick it with.

The Arcana trapped within this card and what it specifically can do is an enigma right now. She'd suggest maybe using the card's divination meanings that she just described to infer as to what it can do, maybe even the illustration can shed some light on the mystery since it seems to be interpreted differently than the examples she's seen before that had a literal butterfly and not just two hands signing a butterfly. Every Arcana has a different personality after all, maybe the different illustrations reflect that. Despite all the guesswork you and her could do though, the bottom line is that you'll never know for sure before you try it out.

She recalls that Phone told of the importance of the numbers, that when put up against one another the number signified the hierarchy of the Arcana. This means when she inserts the card into a vessel, the resident Arcana will fight and either reject the new one or be kicked out itself depending on which Arcana is more powerful. As a 0, The Gesture is a wild card and might be able to overpower anything it comes up against. That makes things easier, but she notes she should be careful where she places this lively little spirit. While she stores it, she'll just have Jefferey hold her two companions for safe keeping, she'd feel just terrible about kicking their souls out into oblivion (Or wherever Arcana go when they aren't in a vessel).

>Although I'd kinda like to stick it with the rest of the deck. You're on An Adventure, Soni; it's not implausible you'll run into the otherrrrrrrr...

She'd feel as optimistic if...

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... the previous owner wasn't such a ditz with her belongings.

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The book returns to it's previous form. The original appearance was possibly a charade put on by the card, turning the book into something like a sweet, tempting fruit, catching the attention of a passerby so it can be carried off, like a seed, to greater opportunities. Rather characteristic of it, if she does say so herself.

>Place that card in your inventory (keep it under your hat) until you find a suitable vessel for such a small voice that contains so much power.


The card is slipped securely beneath the hat for future use. As she does so, Sonnet realizes too late that her hat might act as a vessel for the Arcana. As the two touch, there's a soft hum that grows slowly till a sharp crack causes the sound to die off again. Considering the Fix hat not reacting further, she can assume that the transfer failed. What sort of Arcana could fend off a 0? Is it even an Arcana? The Fix hat continues being an obscure mystery that offers no answers, only more questions. Sonnet's fondness of it grows.

>In the meantime, meet back up with your non-consenter friends and try to figure out where you might go to find the location of your arms. Don't forget to thank Yawn for her...help.


Yawn can enjoy her reward as her thanks. Sonnet's a bit tired of her antics for the time being, but she does secretly hold a thankfulness for her presence. The pink floaty broad might be a little disconnected, but she does seem to genuinely care about the little Orator in her service.

After rallying the troops (Convincing Jefferey that he doesn't need to cry in the corner any longer), Sonnet learns from her tall friend that the way down is through the final door that's been mysteriously locked. Jefferey checks the door and whatever is bracing it from the other side remains resilient, this might take some gentle negotiation or hard negotiation. Sonnet leaves the decision in your hands.

[Mono99099]

IDE: There's a god in her hat.

[Daft soul]

>link with the door through the keyhole or an imperfection in the wood. ask it why it wont open, and if it is merely locked, ask what it would take to get it to unlock itself.

[Not The Author]

Yeah, you've got a thin little wire coming out of your head. If you have another thin little wire somewhere you can just pick that thing open.

[Pick Yer Poison]

IDE: There's a god in her hat.

Absolute lives in the Fix Hat.

[Healy]

>The hat was part of your chassis, hopefully this means that you yourself cannot be pushed out of your body by an arcana transference. Either that or there's a god in your hat like the other voice said.

>Check to see if you can link up with the door via a crack or hole. If it turns out that you cannot, then we'll know that wood does not support your main ability.

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I put the first thing after a command line just because I wanted Sonnet to hear the theory, even if she never responds to it in any way. I know that I would be paranoid if I could get shoved out of my body by touching a card. >.>;