Get on the Down With Fish bus

[arrowace]

WHO: Lilybells, House Wardens, Azdaja, others??
WHERE: Lily War Room
WHEN: Day 71 morning

[ After a few different discussion, Lily and Bluebell have invited some allies to discuss a problem and make some plans. They've probably put out like. Berries and water. Mute and Ananke stand at the front of the room, them speaking and him providing large illusions of the presentation. ]

Lights please. Ananke.






This is Eph'meris. It is not my home but . . . where I was most recently before . . . arriving in the Meadow. Next.








This is Meris. Meris was once the primordial . . . sea goddess that formed Eph'meris and its people. Now she is a . . . festering mass of malice, squatting in the astral sea and longing only . . . to drag all life she encounters with her into the abyss. Next.








This is the Merisian Pillar Array, which turns one or several individuals into the "Pillar" of Eph'meris. It allows the bulk of Meris's hatred, necrotic power, and general "evil bullshit" to be visited on . . . that one or several persons rather than . . . reality itself. It also fortifies those individuals' . . . bodies to bear this malice without being destroyed. It also . . . kills them. Next.









This is a small piece of the Merisian Pillar Array, that we are . . . currently calling the "Gate". It's purpose is to . . . ensure that the energy exerted by Meris upon reality is directed at the selected Pillar, but also that . . . some of this energy may be siphoned off to the Merisian power grid. I am told . . . this is "like electricity but worse" but I don't . . . actually know what electricity is. Next.









I believe these diagrams speak for themselves. Next.









Next.








This concludes the . . . background briefing. Everything should be clear now.

Comments

[featherduster]

[ RAISES HIS HAND WEARILY ]

Just to clarify, electricity is fine when it's produced using ethical and sustainable methods.

Souls aren't that, though.

[arrowace]

. . . Okay.

[featherduster]

[ Later, he directs this part to Lilybell + doubly Lethe Specifically, but like, isn't trying to hide it from the room at large. Specifically to avoid having his ass beat later. ]

If someone can help get me through the runes that block Mute's gate, the plan is to modify it as much as I'm able. I'm pretty confident this will use up the last of my power.

It's part of the plan, so don't be alarmed or try to intervene. Charon's going to ferry my soul, after.

[audacity]

[ also raises his hand ]

If she's the primordial sea goddess, is there a current sea god or goddess?

[arrowace]

Several on the mainland by region and race, but . . . I doubt Merisians would submit . . . to other gods willingly.

[heavyliesthecrown]

[He was barely able to drag himself from bed this morning. But, because it pertains to Mute, he did come. He has no idea what he can even hope to contribute to this though, and barely understands how any of it possibly works. He cares, though. So while he says nothing and remains quiet in the back, he is at least listening.]

[arrowace]

[ OK Cres gets hot tea from thermos. Thank you to God’s sleepiest little soldier. ]

[featherduster]

[ RUFFLES HIS HAIR ]

[noarchitact]

Piii pii pii pi pi. [ how come your admiration for frogs has gone down? ]

...that is a lot of death. [ looking at the two pie charts. ] So are we just going to try to siphon some of the hatred and death off her, so she's less like that?

[arrowace]

I think . . . the idea is . . . to adjust it that my body may be . . . fully revitalized.

[featherduster]

I think I can modify their gate so that the burden on them is less, for now.

Dealing with the fish god is a later problem, though, I think.

[poisonista]

[ He's always up early but this invitation is kind of surprising. Still, he goes to see what's going on, standing in the back to observe this all.

That was a lot of information. What is he supposed to do with it. He's not showing any confusion though, just. Huh. ]

I see.

[ ??? ]

[arrowace]

[ Looks at him. Looks at the spell arrays. Looks at him. ]

It’s wizard shit.

[featherduster]

[ LOOKS AT HIM LOOKING AT THE RUNES ]

Can you make any sense of that?

[chasseurdebeaute]

Fufu, Mute-kun has perhaps not been clear on why they have prepared this background briefing, but the purpose is to make use of the knowledge of the people here to see if there are avenues to pursue for improving their situation.

[spinebuddyandme]

Are you sure we can't get the Death percentage down to single digits?

[arrowace]

I’m willing to entertain . . . that possibility. [ thumbs up ]

[endsjustified]

[HE IS MOSTLY JUST SITTING HERE TO BE HERE AND MONITOR THE SITUATION TBH he gave the meaningful input he had to give to Minuet and Mute earlier]

[arrowace]

[ THUMBS UP!! ]

[dadinside]

Got it.

[he absolutely doesn't get it. just tell him where to point his gun.]

[arrowace]

[ thumbs up ]

It is all very straightforward.

[mykidisthebest]

[paying attention and sketching what he can of the Merisian Pillar Array down]

I guess we can work with this.

[arrowace]

Can you?

[abandon_hope]

[ he just STARES at them for a long moment. ]

Who even came up with this?

[arrowace]

Nerds.

[finalbows]

[ pops head in because he's a snoop, there's lots of people, and he has the ostensible excuse of 'checking on belle.'





looks at pillar array powerpoint slide.
immediately visibly winces. ]


Who did that. Undraw that.

[arrowace]

. . . correct.

[secondbornsun]

[ despite the fact that tart is literally never awake in the morning and has literally needed to be dragged to shepherd meetings and has been asleep for like half the recent PSAs and did not even properly make his own plot PSA and made biscuit do it instead because he was too sleepy to do so

tart is here. awake. alive. alert. quiet, because he's got paper out and he's making notes, plural—there are the notes he's taking by hand, but there's also just a pen operating autonomously, come to life and sketching down the diagrams that come up in the illusory powerpoint.

even after mute's done, he's quiet, with little to say except: ]

Puberty rune.

[ a sheet of paper is also floating directly to mute, along with the autonomous pen

also he does not seem to register literally anyone else existing in the room. ]

[arrowace]

[ this they know offhand. They sketch it down on paper and slide it over ]



Final intent goes in . . . the center. The primary work is of Tyr, but the final trigger . . . may be divinity agnostic. That’s the easy part.

[ even unfamiliar it is hell of easy to parse. This is a warding against a specific inaccuracy: to keep a child from looking like an adult when they shouldn’t, to prevent presentation that doesn’t match Truth. It’s just waiting for the correct Truth to be specified. ]

[chasseurdebeaute]

[Here to be a moral support Rubato, though he’s feeling a little somber about some of the revelations that have come on the heels of his and Mute’s experiment]

[arrowace]

[ YEAH WE DONT LOVE THIS BUT just stands near him once presentation is over ]

[wants_the_phd]

[Doesn't know a single flying fuck about any of this, but is never going to turn down an invitation to learn something new. She's chilling on the sidelines but listening to every conversation and observing all the goings on. Neat.]

So this is what you meant when you said your blood was "big cursed".

[arrowace]

Mmhm.

Is this . . . biology?