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

[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.

[finalbows]

[ walking the rest of the way inside. ]

Why would you even-- wouldn't they PUTREFY within--

[ SQUINTING ]

Oh. I see why they wouldn't.

[arrowace]

[ !! ]

You can read it?

[finalbows]

Read is a stretch of a word, referring to the vague blur of some of these details. Is that one an angle? Or a curve?

...Oh, ick. It is a curve.

[arrowace]

Scarab can provide you with . . . high definition schematics.

[finalbows]

[ swanning over there immediately ]

1/2

[spinebuddyandme]

Oh — yeah, hang on.

[ plz hold while Ananke swaps out of the driver's seat. Outwardly, it looks like he has frozen perfectly still for about a second ]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ And he's Scarab's back, peering up at him ]

How many "print outs" do you require?

[featherduster]

[ WHIPS AROUND TO STARE INTENTLY AT HIM ]

[finalbows]

[ small careless wave of acknowledgement as he continues getting a furrow in his brow. the fuck is this. this is spell of fuck your life forever. he'd be taking notes if the power source on the other end didn't need to be hugemongous, and also, maybe even he isn't that petty.

actually, he does have a question, minuet. ]

This isn't some... hackneyed, mist-funneling plan, is it?

[featherduster]

Um. Depends. What do you mean by "mist-funneling"?

[finalbows]

Am I going to wake up one day to clear skies and rolling hills as far as the eye can see and some Bluebell playing Atlas.


[ nobody tell him.
maybe somebody tell him. ]

[featherduster]

I understand the question even less now.

[endsjustified]

[takes a very long drink in the corner]

[finalbows]

[ distinctly TO charon ]

If you all are doing anything more hands-on than theoretical study with this, you need to let me know so I can be on the absolute other side of the pasture. I'm serious. I don't want any of this on me if it spills.

[endsjustified]

Help them translate at least the basic structure first so our chances of containment are significantly improved, if you please.

When I last tackled something like this, it was with two mages with actual ability to read such and significantly more specialization in these matters.

[finalbows]

You not only don't have to ask me to do that, you will be hard pressed to stop me from doing it. This... from what I'm seeing, this could get a very permanent kind of nasty. The only reason I wouldn't want to stand by with a pot lid is... Mn.

[ charon, you damn well know what he is. he's eminently infiltrable. ]

[endsjustified]

[mild]

I could shield you, but who knows how that holds up against a foreign god. But, thank you, for whatever help you can afford.

Are you feeling better?

[secondbornsun]

[ this is the first time in his entire life tart has ever thought that maybe actually angel devil is an interesting person and worth getting to know beyond as an extension of muffin ]

[finalbows]

[ thanks tart he extension-of-my-loved-one's you too ]

[poisonista]

[ Why is he being checked on. ]

[finalbows]

[ ask him to tell you more stories about lilybells ]

[poisonista]

[ Why, are we shipping them? ]

[finalbows]

[ about the trouble they get into on the reg ]