Get on the Down With Fish bus

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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

[secondbornsun]

. . . Why.

[featherduster]

[ Starts a little like

Whoa Tart is HERE ]

Why what? Mess with Mute's gate?

[secondbornsun]

[ he's not even asleep. baffling ]

Like, you got experience in modifyin' gates specifically, or are ya just lookin' for another way t'die?

[featherduster]

I do.

I have one of my own.

[secondbornsun]

[ nods, seemingly accepting of the answer but not done yet ]

And yours 'n theirs are similar enough in structure 'n build that you're confident ya can mess with it?

[featherduster]

Yes. I've already interfaced with it before, though what I could do was limited by the obstruction of the runes.

That's the part I need help with. To clear the way a bit, so to speak.

[secondbornsun]

[ nod ]

Last'a your power?

[ not brought up as like, an argument against it, more just. clarify please and thanks ]

[featherduster]

[ Grimaces a little ]

It's use it for something now, or give it days-to-weeks for this body to give out.

[secondbornsun]

[ gives him a flat, unimpressed look. like, did you think i was asking you about that. do you think i care about how little life you have left. ]

Is it gonna be enough.

[featherduster]

[ ASK MORE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS SO HE CAN TALK SO MUCH LESS ]

For this level of work? Yeah.

[secondbornsun]

We gonna need t'establish a communication method or nah?

[ as in, is it like a physical soul diving kind of thing or is it just like tinkering with a car with the nerds over your shoulder ]

[featherduster]

Anyone who actually enters with me will be able to communicate among themselves.

If we want a link to the outside, though...

[secondbornsun]

Wouldn't be a bad idea. Gotta have someone monitorin' their physical state.

[featherduster]

Is that something you can do?

[secondbornsun]

Ahh? Why me?

[ you brought it up you dummy ]

[featherduster]

[ HOW IS TART SO FUCKING UNHELPFUL EVEN WHILE HE'S BEING MAXIMUM HELPFUL ]

'Cause it can't be me, that's why.

[secondbornsun]

[ cat behavior

makes a wide sweeping gesture to like, the rest of the room. as if to say,

"obviously i am already going to be busy as well, so ask someone who isn't already contributing" ]

[featherduster]

[ this was not a personality hire ]

[secondbornsun]

[ no it was not ]

When you're ferried back—yain't gonna be able to use this ability anymore?

[featherduster]

That won't be a problem.

[secondbornsun]

. . . Why . . .

[featherduster]

Because.

[ SORRY, ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE PARTICULARS OF HIS POWER LEVEL SUDDENLY??? ]

[secondbornsun]

[ no.

he just wanted to know if this was a 'we have one shot to work out every single kink in mute's gate' type of situation or if theoretically they could do like, follow-up checks

but also he's so incredibly and extremely confident in himself and has so incredibly little interest in being long-term involved for this that he's thought about it more and actually he doesn't care. if it turns out this was the former and then something else crops up it's not his problem ]

. . . Okay. Whatever.