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]

I'm obviously not worried about that... I just don't want you in mortal danger if I can help it.

And before you say something like "I was in mortal danger all the time back home," that's even more reason you deserve a damn break.

[audacity]

[ the opening and then closing his mouth in real time as minuet preempts what he was about to say ]

[featherduster]

[audacity]

[ rude tbh ]

I was in mortal danger all the time back home, for the record. And unless I've seriously misunderstood something about this place, I am here too.

So it sounds to me like my choices are "do nothing, and be in danger anyway," or "be in danger, and do something good." That's an easy choice to make.

[featherduster]

[ Sighs heavily in defeat but like. With unspeakable affection for that answer, honestly. ]



I have gotta stop dragging Charon's kids into shit.

[audacity]

Trust me, I never need dragging into trouble.

[featherduster]

You're a good kid.

Even if I can tell you're also a pain in the ass.

[mykidisthebest]

Don't thank me just yet. I have to say something really nice about you to give you a boost, remember?

[secondbornsun]

[ do u think i'm scared of a limp vegetable like u ]

[spinebuddyandme]

I know that, but you've got some say over who gets to be involved, right? It's all kinda happening inside you.

[noarchitact]

...this entire thing is risky, Minuet.

How does Charon plan on getting your soul? [ and how do we know we won't lose it to the void or whatever. ]

[featherduster]

[ --HE DIDNT REMEMBER ]

Oh no.

[featherduster]

Oh... like a gauntlet!

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am sorry. I suppose that I am feeling a little down today, but I do not intend to be Debbie Downer.

[ Ugh. This is about helping Mute.]

Truly, if it will help, I am all too glad to try. Just tell me when or where and I will be on it.

[mykidisthebest]

I do have a question, though. For the "gate" portion of the Merisian Pillar Array, can it be used to travel to and from the astral sea?

[mykidisthebest]

[nods!]

I'm sure you could get one fitted to go as far up as your prosthetic does. Even if the utility is limited due to a lack of interior space, it would work as a piece of armor just like you're used to it being.

[mykidisthebest]

[heheheheh]

I'll think of something sincere, promise. It has to be sincere to work anyways.

[arrowace]

I know . . . less than I would like. She is a dead god, so there is . . . not a coherent "self" like you or I . . . may have. Aspects of her personhood remain . . . desires, grudges, symbols. But of even those I can't . . . say I know much.

[arrowace]

[ thiiiiiiiiiinking ]

Minuet for certain. Either Angel Devil or Tart to . . . understand the theory . . . Cepheus for divine resonance. I suppose . . . another scout or combatant wouldn't be impractical.

[arrowace]

It's intended purpose is . . . regulated transfer of energy and intent. But . . . I can't say for certain.

[spinebuddyandme]

Maybe Fantasia? He can pack a punch from what I've seen.

[arrowace]

I'm not letting . . . Tempo into my mind forest. He has . . . a chain saw.

[spinebuddyandme]

Yeah, that's fair. I forgot they're a package deal.

[noarchitact]

Nothing we might be able to exploit then... [ damn. he had been hoping there would be something, but if this fish is lacking a self, then even trying to hone in on one of the few things mute mentioned might be difficult. ] If Minuet's power is almost at its end, then I'm assuming we're going to attempt something soon, ...do we know when?

[audacity]

Gee, thanks.