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

[mykidisthebest]

[holds up a hand]

Wait, back up a bit. Explain the animated corpse part.

[arrowace]

[ holds out their hand for his ]

[mykidisthebest]

[puts his hand in theirs]

[arrowace]

[ brings it up to their pulse. It may seem for a moment that they don’t have one, but they do. It’s just a solid several seconds between each sluggish beat. ]

In a hundred years, I will not . . . look like an adult. I will age but I won’t grow.

[mykidisthebest]

[frowns at the sluggish pulse]

...Mm. I think I saw you bigger, during the child rearing ritual. I did have some idea you'd age slower than others, since you mentioned it before. I didn't realize it was because...

[arrowace]

I didn’t either.

[ shrugs, a little helplessly. Their future self had been shifty about it, their current self oblivious. ]

My comrades are . . . in the same state. It may last centuries and the Academy is not . . . motivated to see otherwise. I— while I’m here, while we have the chance— . . .

[arrowace]

[ ???????? ]

But it doesn’t.

[ WARRIORS! BOND!!! ]

[arrowace]

[ yes ]

. . . thank you.

[arrowace]

[ honestly there may be no fixing Eph’meris. peeps over his shoulder!! ]

[arrowace]

. . . Painkillers?

[noarchitact]

…hm. If it doesn’t it doesn’t. I was just curious, since you seemed to like doing it to Zenith while you were ‘me’.

[featherduster]

That's what I'm assuming too...

[featherduster]

[ Conspicuously voting Team Angie ]

[featherduster]

That's... honestly a more tempered opinion than I expected. Thank you.

[featherduster]

[ god if that were possible it would just fix the entire plot of trigun ]

Nope. It seriously sucks.

[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".

[featherduster]

It'll be a risk no matter what. But I've got a few tricks up my own sleeve, too.

[arrowace]

There’s a . . . loud silence.

[noarchitact]

I think making some kind of plan in case that happens would be good... since I doubt that fish is going to be thrilled about what we're trying to do. Do you think we can snare it somehow? Give you time to get it done so it can't interfere, at least?

[arrowace]

[ tiiiiiips head, trying to fit some mental round block into a square hole ]

I don’t like Zenith . . . the way I like Rubato.

[arrowace]

Mmhm.

Is this . . . biology?

[noarchitact]

[ has to stay his kneejerk reaction of:
good, because he's mine. ]

I didn't think so. I just meant... are you that playful with him? Rubato?

1/2

[wants_the_phd]

I mean. I guess it's interacting with biology, in a sense. Pretty outside of my wheelhouse, though.

[wants_the_phd]

But the good news is that this appears to squarely within the wheelhouses of certain other people, so it worked out, hm?

[mykidisthebest]

[shrugs]

It just makes sense to be comfortable in your own body. If we're doing that for Mute, then we can do that for you at the same time.