A few rumors that Pete had heard about distances seeming wonky and some various Outside travelers ending up not quite where they expected had him curious. The timing, after all, was a bit suspect. So he's decided to take a nice, long walk out to the ruins of the old Arcana Embassy, to see what can be seen, if anything ( Read more... )

The Embassy, even though it has only been on the Deck for months, has managed by sheer dint of its height, to be an indelible part of the skyline. Or so it has seemed.

Until today.

Today when the Tower and Magician fought......and the Embassy fell, leaving only a pile of gray rubble and bits of colored glass where once stood a tall edifice of ( Read more... )

At the appointed time, set up during the Spade Ball Asarlai may be found waiting in the shadow of the Embassy for Burke to arrive. He is not wearing a suit, for once, but instead loose, comfortable clothes that are easy to move in.

Just in case.

Whenever you're ready Turis.

The Queen of Spades had handed her a midnight blue envelope with silver lettering the day before, before all the excitement of the revue, and suggested that it might be a wise decision to go over to the embassy and invite the Arcana - formally - to their ball. It had also, she pointed out, been some time since Zoe had called upon their friends - ( Read more... )

He's been so quiet. He's been so well-behaved and kept so close to the walls, the way he'd been told to. Really, for the longest stretch of time, the Tower had been essentially a piece of the landscape. An architectural element ( Read more... )

Delilah had a Task, and the task was this: talk to the Arcana about anything they're willing to talk about. So there she was, armed with a basket of fresh pastries she'd convinced a low Numbered Club to make especially for her, walking across the green and up to the shimmering Arcana castle ( Read more... )

She'd been planning to go back to the embassy in her new official capacity - something she hadn't entirely been thrilled with initially, but hadn't been that surprised at either, in retrospect - but first she needed to wait for her gift for the Arcana (by which she means Christophe, specifically) to arrive and get engraved. Then it had, and almost ( Read more... )

There’s a woman coming up the path from Outside. You’d be hard-pressed to guess in which direction from Outside she came from, not that that anyone has ever bothered to find that out about new arrivals to the Deck. The Deck is for secrets, after all. It tends to be a last resort ( Read more... )

Sophie shoves her fingers through her hair and blinks owlishly at what must be the tenth lexicon she's turned to in her attempt to translate the inscription on the ancient coins Isaac had found. The Faces expected results. So far, she'd let them down ( Read more... )

Addy had made a ton of list for Elani, even taped them to his desk for when she got back. One list of the countries and people representing them, for the booths and who was making them, one for musicians and entertainers to help with the people that were frankly unable to be even remotely entertaining ( Read more... )