it's a newwww dayyyy.

[crittersheep]

WHO: you! and you! and others too!
WHERE: everywhere all over
WHEN: Day 25, mid-day

[ Well! It's been an eventful day for some so far. Between trips into the mist and innocent handshakes for kitchens, what else could possibly go wrong today?

who knows but the day is still young. so what're y'all doin' today. ]

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[finalbows]

Hm. An nteresting philosophical question.

Is any body, then, but a prison, for the soul?

[wants_the_phd]

[Thinks about it]

I've always thought of the body as more of a slowly-deflating life raft of the soul.

[finalbows]

<sub>[ ugh. makes a face and rubs his solar plexus, for a moment.


turn that around on its head and you have his own exact problem. ]</sub>

[wants_the_phd]

[finite lifespans are such a bitch that way!!]

So I take it you're going to attempt to animate this thing?

[finalbows]

Close.
A Lily is going to attempt to animate this thing.


...They're called Black Mages, for the record. If all goes to plan, they should be able to channel the inhabiting soul's power. Vines, spells, "shinsu"... though nothing purely physiological, for obvious reasons.

[wants_the_phd]

For what purpose?

1/2

[finalbows]

...
...

Oh, you're serious.

2/2

[finalbows]

Sometimes, people expire here in such a way that their bodies are rendered, hm, unavailable for occupation, for at least a significant period of time. The sheep are AN alternative, the-- limbus is another, but I shall present a third...

The round wheel is the one kept upon the axle, yes? And this isn't a trick that's easily replicable by another team.

[wants_the_phd]

...

The hell's a limbus?

Dw ate this notification I'm so mad

[finalbows]

<sub>...


Does anyone ever tell anyone anything, in this flock..........?

[ like you're any better, angie.]</sub>

No worries, it happens!

[wants_the_phd]

[STARES AT HIM LIKE HMM, WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY WOULD THAT BE, SHE WONDERS]

[finalbows]

--what do I look like to you, the user manual? Anyway, I seem to recall you turning down my invitations to knowledge...

<sub>[ that was an invitation to FORBIDDEN MAGIC and you know it.

Despite his grousing, he tells her. ]</sub>

There are these twee little plants, out in the depths of the forest. Their secretions can be primed to grow an organic replica of one's body-- in part, or in full. They perish quickly once prepared, however, and though you can freeze them, I'm not... a terrific believer in the quality of thawed organs. Having one ready as needed is a little tough. THESE... are shelf stable. You can drag them around however you like.

Thus... niche, social ecosystem, us. There's no way for Rose to be as much of an objective impossibility to cross as the soul summoners on Lily, but, I am going to put forth an earnest effort.

[wants_the_phd]

[She can't help not knowing as she is so PITIFUL]

[that said, her eyes slowly widen as the information sinks in and spawn some incredibly exciting implications]

Holy shit...

Tell me more.

[finalbows]

It's mostly secondhand knowledge, as I don't much care for carousing out in the woods. But!

You can't get to the Limbus, without something of a risky trek, as well; enough that there's no one I've seen risk it alone.

_{[ pauses. looks studiously bored. ]}

Ah. But I do know who the firsthand account is... if one desires to go available themselves.

[wants_the_phd]

Really? Who?

me fully awake now giving an f in chat for my typo

[finalbows]

Hmm~.
I can tell you...

But first...
I have one very simple request.

Summon a vine for me, to hold this all in place, while I re-tie some of these knots. _{One loop's much too smaller than the other on most of these.}

[wants_the_phd]

I can just go ask someone else.

[finalbows]

So much for the spirit of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine"... it's one vine.

[wants_the_phd]

I wish I could help! But unfortunately, I can't do magic! I'm just too pitiful!

[finalbows]

Then do something even more minuscule for me, worm, and give a nice little tap to the crystal rose in the barn. The resonance out here is all wrong, and it's obviously what's throwing me off-- do that, and the knowledge is yours.

[wants_the_phd]

If you're trying to trick me into touching the "Rose-power endowing crystal statue", I've already done it. I had to in order to get a key for the door.

But if you want me to go hit it again, I can.

[it would ironically turn her powers OFF, but she doesn't know that.]

Re: No worries, it happens!

[catposting]

[ I TELL YOU THINGS ]

Re: No worries, it happens!

[wants_the_phd]

[That's true. But she's not going to pass up an opportunity to hassle Angie.]

[catposting]

[ walks past, carrying a pile of dirt, calls over without looking ]

I hear those quotation marks.

[ disappears around the corner ]

[finalbows]

_{[ wavy little "buzz off" gesture ]}