Actual setting: circa Neocarnation
Apparent setting: mythical Arthurian Britain, (410 CE)
Story begin with a series of Arthurian vignettes – rebuild tales from Steinbeck?
Told from Arthur’s perspective. Should have Morgaine in each story.
Each story should have the unexpected ending – major characters killed off, or Morgaine wins – but the Arthurian characters are each true to their form, and the story overall follows the Steinbeck path. Characters that are killed off reappear in later stories without anyone remembering they died – the story resets. But with each reset, the tapestry unravels just a bit. A character who died earlier may become despondent, depressed without knowing why, and feel their life was pointless. Arthur is the rallying point for trying to keep people like their old selves – he’s the one who begins to discover the loose threads.
Arthur realizes that Morgaine is controlling the world. She’s using the stone tables – the round one in Camelot, and the pentagonal one in Tintangel (combined in avalon, where the two of them are able to meet) – as the controls for the world. Arthur comes to the tables one day when Morgaine is away from the world (she is often away from the world) and he finds her at the table stiff, lifeless. Once he gets over the shock, he tries to interface with it the way he remember Morgaine doing. He calls it table.
He learns that this is Morgaine’s game, and the overall point of the game is to take control of the Camelot table as well and that he can control Albion from Camelot using the round table – he already does without knowing it. Morgaine’s table is keyed to her voice, and Arthur’s to his. When Arthur returns to his table, he learns that Morgaine is just a teenage girl from the real world, and that he and his kingdom are false intelligences. (How does he use her table when she is gone, since the world stops when she is gone? Doesn’t always unless she resets it – Perhaps that’s how she finds out – she lets it run afterward, to see what he’ll do (he thinks of running her through with his sword) – and when she comes back online and looks at the records, she finds him skulking in her castle. She locks him in her dungeons, and oh, the things she does to him.
Arthur’s world is like the well of souls – it’s an upload portal, but not a singularity like is created from the well of souls.
Morgaine discovers that Arthur has gained direct control of the Camelot table. Does that frighten you? No – I read about that in the walkthrough – there’ve been a bunch of Arthurs that gained some limited self-awareness.
You’re not my sister – you’re a child! In your world, I’m still a woman. Show me your true age – she does, and she’s 14 or so. But here is yours – Arthur is a toddler. So do you need a wet-nurse, or shall we dispense with this game?
Arthur cannot beat her because she cheats – she learns hacks from other people playing the same world.
Merlin is a go-between for Arthur and Morgaine, but he helps Arthur more. As a magician, he tries to divine Morgaine’s details, but of course, he cannot see beyond her character – she is the sister of Arthur, a witch, a fellow Druid, and no more. Arthur tells him he is the most intelligent man in this world, and to apply that – figure this out, and Merlin becomes a bit of a hacker himself.
The final result is that Arthur understands that he cannot win – she will not let them. He thinks about trying to teach her to be good – teach her ethics and the law, but that doesn’t work well. He decides to collapse the world – to commit suicide is a mortal sin, but Adonai is not the king here – this false queen is our evil goddess. She will just rebuild this world again, and you will have to relive all of this, none the wiser to her puppetry. I think not – she will move on to some other pursuit, and we shall have peace. Do we have souls – will they survive? If we do, dearest Genny, you will certainly be at the right hand throne in heaven. For myself, I will throw myself at the feet of my lord and beg for mercy.
He returns Excalibur to the table – it was carved from the stone that was to become the keystone (Part of the keystone is still in the center of the table), and the castle was built around it, so it’s still living stone), and with the assent of his table and Merlin, he closes the door to her.
Morgaine as the Serpent (snake,dragon) lady.
Morgaine as Genny possessed.
