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

[audacity]

Well, if that's all.

Like. I'm glad you're making a plan. And if Charon [ and lethe??? ] are involved, I'm willing to trust you guys, just...hard to love a plan that's "I'm gonna die, but don't worry about it."

[featherduster]

This is better than the alternative, just trust me...

[audacity]

I'm trusting you on this. I just don't like it.

[featherduster]

You sound like Lethe...

[audacity]

[ surprises a laugh out of him ]

He's a nice guy, so I'm gonna take that as a compliment.

[featherduster]

Mmmmhm. Among other things.

[audacity]

Remember that I can and will repeat anything you say to him later.

[featherduster]

Tell him he's one of the best men I've ever known and I love him very much, and I will not rest until he gets his own 'happy ending.'

[ hopefully it kills him ]

[audacity]

Anything besides whatever psychological warfare that just was.

[featherduster]

[ LAUGHS OUT LOUD ]

So not 'anything' after all, got it!

[audacity]

Almost anything.