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

[arrowace]

Mmhm.

[ THATS WHAT THEY THOUGHT U FUCKIN GODS!!! ]

from eph'meris^ help

[audacity]

[ GODS (DEROGATORY) ]

Can I ask you about the Pillar thing? [ ... ] It's fine if you don't want to talk any more about it, though.

[arrowace]

[ nods ]

My own knowledge is . . . limited, but . . . I will try to answer.

[audacity]

How did that happen to you?

[arrowace]

Mm.


Essentially . . . bait and switch.

[audacity]

Oh, I hate that for you.

[arrowace]

Yes.

[audacity]

Are you sure we can't just kill her? I feel like dead things should still be killable if they're still hanging out beaming death rays.

[arrowace]

Can you stop a whale carcass from stinking by harpooning . . . it again? Death has done all . . . it can to curb her power.

[audacity]

[ quiet a long moment ]

Okay, I see your point.

[arrowace]

Do you know . . . of Kevin’s power?

[audacity]

Which one?

[arrowace]

The relevant ones.

[ DISH, WET BOY ]

[audacity]

His father is Hades, god of the Underworld. He's also one of the more powerful half-bloods I've ever met. I've seen him summon the dead, speak to ghosts, control the dead, send people to the Underworld...he definitely might be able to do something about your dead fish goddess problem.

[arrowace]

Mm. Gods of the Cosmic Wheel do not . . . die as mortal die. They have not flesh to rot, not souls . . . to ferry. They are concepts, and rot as . . . ideas may rot. But . . . perhaps.

[audacity]

I'm not going to pretend to understand [ ... ] any of that, actually.

But he and I are both the children of concepts kind of like Meris and those other gods. The sea. Death and riches. I think it's worth a shot.

[arrowace]

I would . . . be in your debt.

[audacity]

Are you kidding? We take care of each other, just like you said. No debts necessary.

[arrowace]

Then . . . I would appreciate it, deeply.

[audacity]

Happy to help, seriously. I know Kevin feels the same way.

[arrowace]

[ nod nod! ]

He seems sensible.