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ENDGAME: VOTING POST

● ● ● ENDGAME: VOTING POST

As the game approaches its final stretch, it is time for the team to think about what they will do once — if — they reunite all the orbs.

This is what is known to the characters regarding the reunification:

• The orbs have been reunified once before, by Degar, and they granted his wish to undo the deaths of the previous crew.

• Due to insufficient warding around the orbs, they scattered immediately after Degar made his wish.

• Viveca and Degar have been working hard for the duration of this crew’s tenure to fortify the barrier around the orbs, and some of the current crew have helped in its defenses before.

• Nobody knows what will happen once the regrets are undone, but as long as the orbs (or, as they will be, the Orb) remain on the station, they will need to be held inside a barrier as not to scatter again.

· THE VOTE

For endgame, the team can decide on two things, and each character gets one vote to either suggest a solution or +1 one suggestion of their choice. Note that when +1 a suggestion, players are encouraged to expand on that if they so choose.

1 Will they go ahead with undoing their regrets, or not??

2 In either case, what will they do about the orbs?

Keep in mind that characters are not required to vote on either of these, nor are they limited to these two choices. Keep in mind that voting is ICly and OOCly optional, and no character or player will be forced to vote.

Additionally, if you think anything else needs to be addressed, do so here.

Voting will end on JANUARY 2, though there will be yet one more possibility to change a vote after the end of the final mission. The votes placed here will count towards the final endgame log, where the team’s decision regarding what to do will come to fruition.

· THE QUILT

Thank you to those who participated in Degar's quilt-making endeavor. We are thrilled to show you all the final product (with main fabric color choices courtesy of Degar, Viveca, and Nannybot). Please note that — save for the blocks created by the Orbers — the quilt itself is shoddy at best. Oh well! A for effort, right?

Can you guess which block belongs to whom? You can see the fully expanded piece here, along with the full-size versions of each Orber's block and name.

See you in the new year, Orbers!

-- Ximilia Mods

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If you have any questions regarding the voting process, please feel free to ask them here.

Leave your suggestions for what decision, if anything, should be made about the deal to undo their regrets.

Others can then comment around and +1 the suggestion their character would agree with, and provide additional details if needed.

Voting ends January 2, 6PM GMT.

Note that there will be an opportunity to change your vote after the end of the final mission, but the timeframe for that will be shorter.

Edited 2023-12-19 20:35 (UTC)

Not only will Bob decide against undoing his own regret, he will offer remaining on board the Ximilia in order to help with maintaining the orbs and/or fetching them again if it's needed. He personally has nothing he's returning to (or at least does not feel right in returning and endangering the timelines). Basically, if the Ximilia will take him, he's down to stick around....

(Otherwise, just send him back to be a puddle of liquid steel, per his request, lmfao.)

Natasha would also be on this team! Both foregoing her regret and sticking around herself if possible. She doesn't exactly have anything to go back to.

She has noticed that a lot of orbs seem to have ended up on planets from the original crew, which also kind of makes her wonder if undoing their own regrets would make their worlds targets for future orb shenanigans. Considering Viv, Degar and Captain Idris Elba all ended up with orbs on their own worlds, it seems like a real consideration.

TENTATIVELY... PENDING HOW THINGS GO...!

But once Ziggy canon updates before endgame into an adult, she will decide to stay behind and use whatever abilities Wei Wuxian had helped her learn as a cultivator to help with the station/orbs and whatever else may happen in the future. She would also be okay with her regret never being undone, due to circumstances where she realizes that her regret wouldn't actually heal her town.

It's a hard choice, but like Bob and Natasha, she will find her story in Shadyside has ended and her story in Ximilia can continue, if a crew is needed to carry on and monitor everything out there in space.

He probably won't tell anyone but Viv (+maybe close cr), but he's giving up on his regret. He's done every personal goal he's been given (... i haven't updated it in a while) and he's fine giving that Orb Goodwill up to others.

If possible, he'll remain on the Ximilia afterwards regardless.

Wei Wuxian has given up on his regret and would like to stay aboard the Ximilia for however long it'll have him. If possible, he'd contribute his "Orb Juice" (he's completed maybe half of his goals) to any cause where it would be served better, someone else's regret (like Ziggy who gave hers away) or Viveca and Degar if they can use it.

If he's allowed to stay, he wants to split Degar's duties with him and contribute his skills and abilities to containing the orbs.

Dean is team sticking around and foregoing his regret!! Provided his canon update is approved, there's literally NOTHING for him to go back to - so yolo baby.

Yujin isn't going through with undoing his own regret, he doesn't trust the orbs and he wants to go HOME to his family tyvm. However, he has done almost all his personal goals, so if it's doable, he'll be shuffling all his orb energy toward undoing others' regrets. He may not be able to personally do anything about the barrier, but hey, maybe this will ease the burden a little?

Minimus has been here long enough to see how powerful the orbs are, and he's worried what will happen if he does undo his regret, since it only affects him and helps no one else. He doesn't have any magic powers, but he'll help on undoing others' regrets.

Bucky is starting to rethink this whole thing. He hasn't been here very long, and if he can just go home, instead, he would rather do that. He feels like, even if no one's counting on him to return or do anything, he still should go home. It's the right thing to do. He'll gladly share any orb energy he does have ( ??? doubtful much if anything ) with the people he got closest to during his short time here.

Hagakure's regret is simply that she's not stronger; she knows she can accomplish it all on her own, though! So please, take her regret power and use it toward undoing other's regrets -- OR using that energy to keep the orbs locked away, if it's the best way to keep them from leaving again.

Edited 2023-12-20 20:21 (UTC)

Yennefer knows she needs to be home, so she's going to be leaning on that side while also choosing not to undo her regret (because she knows she needs to earn Geralt and Ciri's forgiveness the right way), but if it's possible to try and undo others' in the process, she'll help along those lines.

Ever since learning in like the first half hour of being on the station that fixing his regret caused the creation of a whole new world instead of just fixing his regret (losing his mind) and sending him back home, Sherlock's been struggling with the idea. Ultimately with the new info and that debating, Sherry's giving up fixing his regret and going home.

Uh... hopefully, he still has a home to return to because if 1 to 1 time passes there like on the station... Cthulhu is awake and destroying the world by now. ~~Note to self: never pick this canon point again 8|;;~~ Hopefully, he'll at least have his memories of this place too.

He did do his personal goal, so take whatever power that gives.

Murderbot hasn't been here long enough to really get any personal goal juice, so it would be content to return home without any change to its regret.

Ryunosuke basically decided against undoing his regret like... Pretty much from the moment he got here? And he's got a country-wide legal system to help un-fuck back home, so he'll be bidding the station adieu.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have any personal goal juice to contribute to helping the people who really NEED to undo their regrets get that done, nor does he have any powers to contribute. He IS raring to do whatever he can to help, it just may be kind of limited in practicality.

(I do need to go back through and see if there are any that he may have completed by accident, and also like... Assess if there's any point at which ICly someone could have taken him aside to be like, "you know you can leverage goal power for someone else's benefit and not just your own, right"? Because then he would've started doing his goals, because he would've had a good reason to do so outside of self-interest.)

Finn's aware now that undoing his regret is probably going to get him killed and isn't a great idea, so he's all for not going through with it but helping others take care of theirs somehow.

As an aside, he's also not too happy about going back home and/or forgetting his time here, but he's accepted all that and thinks it's for the best, oof.

sizhui already knows he can live without undoing his regret, so whatever he could offer to help with the orb energy stuff, he wouldn't mind giving it for that and/or using it to help other people undo their regrets

Stephen will be accepting responsibility for his (in)actions and going home without a regret fix. He's been considerably less conscientious about completing his personal goals than some, but any orb juice he has he'll happily donate to the team pot if it's a transferable resource.

Also adding here so I'm not in 70 different places at once but he's team Keep The Memories. What's a little more multiverse madness to remember at this point, he can make the space if it means he gets to remember the people.

Like Murderbot, Booker hasn't been here all that long and hasn't sipped any of the personal goal juice. He may as well return home and carry on with his exile, no changes to his regret.

Ahsoka, Alucard and Noah would be on board with this. Sadly, they don't have personal goal juice to contribute but they would give up their regrets if it meant others didn't suffer for it.

going home because personal responsibility and great powers great burdens etc etc, but alina no longer feels the need to undo a regret that might turn things on its head when she returns home, or lead to terrible situations ala the worlds they've had to visit and help. with that said, she's been here since the beginning and would happily contribute any of that orb regret juice to someone else's regret — or, preferably if they can find a way to make it happen, to containing the orbs from scattering again.

Newt is determined to return home, and undo his regret -- so that the Kaiju and the Precursors are wiped from history and that the people aboard the train mission who had died and the people of his planet are spared from their shittiness. So he'll be hoping to (hesitantly) return home and accomplish his regret fix.

However, he'll also bring up (worriedly) that he doesn't want to forget the Ximilia, if that's still a concern/issue. He'll bring up if there's any way at all that those who wish to could remember their time aboard the Ximilia, especially since orbs have shown back up in Ximilia crews worlds (as Natasha pointed out). It'd be good for them to remember, he thinks.

Also, selfishly, he loves everyone and hates the idea of ever forgetting.

...to wanting to keep memories after going home! yujin will be so sad if he has to forget, orbs are you just gonna make an old man cry like that

Orbs, there is more chaos in them remembering. Don't make them cry and then forget!

Joric finds it essential to undo his regret not just for himself, but to prevent others from being hurt by him. He can't rely on taking medicine all his life for it because he experienced his rage surfacing when he was struck with paranoia and didn't take his pills. He wants to be the way he once was. And he loves his homeland more than anything. Being parted from it for so long has been difficult and he wants to return home with his regret undone.

However, like Newt he would really like to return with memories of his time here. Even if everything else gets erased, he at least wants to hold onto memories of the people themselves. The missions and all the tech on the station can leave his brain as long as he remembers those he cares about.

Ivy didn't go through all this for nothing. She'd be pretty damn salty to go home without undoing her regret.

Yzak's been at this for 2.5 years and after everything else he lost he is not giving up his regret cause it's all he's got that hasn't exploded in his face. AND, you know, here for countless lives of his people that he swore his own life to even before Xim, that dedication hasn't changed. And it goes beyond Xim and the end of the war so he's returning home to continue honoring that oath.

I am not sure if the personal goal orb juice is more meant to go toward regret undoing or orb/barrier stuff. But it's all going in whichever direction. He's done all of his goals here like a good dutiful soldier.

UNLESS orb juice can apply to memory stuff? Since memory stuff has always been very "maybe it'll happen maybe it won't" and he doesn't want to chance a maybe. Because his opinion on that is "my memories are mine, fuck you" so if orb juice can go THERE he'd dump it all over himself.

anakin has never let anything go in his life and he's not about to start now. his regret is minor in the grand scheme of things but he's still fixing it!!

additionally he is also invested in keeping their memories because he's got a chancellor to assassinate now.

Aleksander has managed all of his personal goals (bar one) and he wants to undo his regret - more than anything else.

After all of his sacrifices and all of the fights, he wants to go home to keep his people safe. To undo the Fold and work to find another way to keep the general population from murdering his people.

Miles wants to go back, to undo his regret (he knows he failed last time), but to forget what happened here. He wants to face what happened after undoing his regret with fresh eyes. Honestly, if he could forget back to the point of his regret, he'd choose that. Start over from the beginning.

+1 Sabriel wants her friends back, but she doesn't want to forget her time here either.

Clarke will initially be super conflicted with this choice but given she has been here since the start, she is determined to see her regret undone + going home by the end of it. She doesn't want it all to be for nothing and she feels she owes it to her friends back home to fix things by staying at camp instead of running away which caused a whole new set of problems.

If it is possible to keep their memories, she is all for that too.

at the moment, andy currently wants go home and undo her regret/save quỳnh when all is said and done. she's got a lot of orb juice built up! ~~im working on filling it out shh~~

however, she also would rather not... forget the people here. it's significant enough a factor that it could end up changing her mind, depending on how the next mission goes! if there were a way to hold onto their memories, in combination with not wanting the orbs to get loose again, she could be swayed on use of orb juice. since there's a trend of orbs landing on worlds of former orbers, she'd be worried about them ending up in her own too.

As much as it will hurt to not be able to see the people she's met/loved during her time here, Daisy would not want to forget them.

...late but just in case: vash also wants to go home and undo his regret, and remember if possible.

let's hit the full combo here. Yuri still really wants to fix her regret, but also would much rather stick around the station to help with any potential fallout of undoing regrets than go home.

Leave your suggestions for what should be done about the orbs.

Others can then comment around and +1 the suggestion their character would agree with, and provide additional details if needed.

Voting ends January 2, 6PM GMT.

Note that there will be an opportunity to change your vote after the end of the final mission, but the timeframe for that will be shorter.

Edited 2023-12-19 20:35 (UTC)

Newt doesn't wanna leave the Ximilia with orbs that have an easier time getting out of this magical barrier, so Newton would like to try to enhance the technology using what data he's collected from different worlds, to try and further enhance this barrier. Basically, he would like to strengthen the magic using science to give it a boost of power, or at the very least a secondary support so its not straining so much. :) He has stacks upon stacks of journals with so much data in them from past missions.

The journals contain lots, but what might be more useful in the list: the curing of the orb-based disease on Gyeongje, the device he'd created to prevent immediate pulsefire death on Badrock, his experience with tech on Viveca's planet and the creation of devices that disarm explosive collars, the composition of the lava crab shells that could withstand volcano magma on the Darkest Wild mission, and his hyperfocused work involving dark matter in Mission 13.

Despite being sure of going home, Newt will also want to remain as long as he theoretically can to try and fortify the orbs and keep it on lockdown. Leaving without beefing up the security aboard the station is not in his plans at all.

EDIT 42394: ALSO OF INTEREST, MAYBE, FOR VIVECA AND DEGAR, is the inclusion of drift technology! All this time, Newton has had a drift machine hidden in his room, untouched and unused. If this can be implemented into the strengthening of the barrier, Newt would love to coordinate with Degar and Viveca on this. It's possible it can't be used it at all (aka up to your discretion, your modlinesses), but I wanted to put it on the table since it's never gotten any use. :Db

Edited (omg edits forever im so sorry) 2023-12-21 21:54 (UTC)

Everyone else relevant is more magically inclined and cooler and can probably do NEATER STUFF but I'm gonna toss up my own character's little independent contribution.

Yzak confirmed ICly (read: I asked the mods) that the Charter Magic that he has thanks to Sabriel can be completely removed from him (rather than siphoned like what has been done before). He's been working/training/honing the skill for the past 2+ years so his idea is that after the last mission (since he might need it for that!) he's going to have Degar remove the magic/the sum of all of the strength/ability/etc of it from him completely to put it To Use in the best way possible. Whether that means giving it to Degar directly or putting it into whatever magic/tech the barrier actually IS or hey if more of the team come up with some COOL UNIQUE IDEAS it can go to that.

He won't need the magic back home so why not put it to good use. (esp if it means not giving up his regret! no thank you!)

Sabriel's nt willing to donate all her magic, but she will happily put her expertise to work in reinforcing the barrier spells/consult with Degar about how to improve them.

Stephen will be happy to help ward the shit out the orbs, and would be willing to stick around after everyone who's having their regrets fixed has done that and gone home to make sure that the barrier is holding up! While he won't stay indefinitely, if Degar & Viveca can promise him he'll be dropped back in the same temporal location regardless of an extension of his stay, he'll be willing to stay around and continually help strengthen the barrier/establish additional barriers in collaboration with Degar & anyone else for as long as it takes for everyone to be content that the thing is going to hold.

He'll also offer to remain on omniversal speed-dial for chipping in with orb containment maintenance again in future if the Ximilia is capable of plucking people up without an orb deal once the orbs are reunited. tl;dr, if people want to fix their regrets he'd like to contribute what he can to them being able to do so. It doesn't feel right to him for it to be decided for them at the last hurdle that they can't after everything everyone's been through.

Mentioned above but Wei Wuxian wants to stay behind and split Degar's duties with him, while taking the time to try and create seals or spells that can nullify or destroy the orbs for good. He views that as a long-term project and in the meantime, would simply like to take some of Degar's burden.

Is there something we're missing? Leave your suggestions here!

Voting ends January 2, 6PM GMT.

Note that there will be an opportunity to change your vote after the end of the final mission, but the timeframe for that will be shorter.

This suggestion will come regardless of how things look after the last mission. BUT, there is a great team effort already from those who wish to stay on the Ximilia to further ensure that things on the station stay tended to assuming all goes well.

But, the Orbers are by far not the only ones who know of the Ximilia, the Orb, and the mission they're on much less the importance of it since other worlds got to experience Orb Bullshit first hand. And there have been many NPCs in worlds who were told about the truth of everything. Yzak will simply put it out there that if further help does seem like it could be needed, be it now or in the future, there are options there to reach out to since some others are well aware of what the orbs can do. So maybe there are ways they can lend their aid, too - if they want to, of course. Whether it's coming to help or sending supplies/tech/magic that can be used/combined with other things.

And on the subject of reaching out to others + the above mentioned keeping memories discussion, Yzak would like to know how things are going on the Ximilia if it's possible after they all go home (if they don't bad end and everyone blows up,,). So he'll ask can u smarter people consider working on some sort of communication with the station or at least a way for him/other Orbers to check in and say hi over Zoom (Zoomilia) every once in a while. (i-it's not like he's gonna miss you guys and will worry or anything)

Love this idea! Daisy is very tech savvy so she'd be willing to help make this possible, if it is possible.

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ENDGAME: VOTING POST

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· THE VOTE

· THE QUILT

QUESTIONS

VOTING: THE REGRETS

Team Sticking Around (If Allowed)

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

Team Getting Outta Here Regretless (but take my orb juice)

+1

+1

+1 on going home but not undoing her regret

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+3

+1

Going Home + Undoing Regret... plus memory discussion?

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1

+1 - except memory.

no subject

+1

+1

+1

+1

Sticking around + Undoing Regret

VOTING: THE ORBS

Improve the Tech?

Strengthening the Barrier Magic

+1

+1 to magical barrier reinforcement

If able to stay behind, help Degar maintain barrier

VOTING: ANYTHING ELSE?

Further Help + Future Communication

+1