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

[noarchitact]

And…

And that can lead to that kind of thing. [ a wry smile. ]

[arrowace]

[ ???????? ]

But it doesn’t.

[ WARRIORS! BOND!!! ]

[noarchitact]

…hm. If it doesn’t it doesn’t. I was just curious, since you seemed to like doing it to Zenith while you were ‘me’.

[arrowace]

[ tiiiiiips head, trying to fit some mental round block into a square hole ]

I don’t like Zenith . . . the way I like Rubato.

[noarchitact]

[ has to stay his kneejerk reaction of:
good, because he's mine. ]

I didn't think so. I just meant... are you that playful with him? Rubato?

[arrowace]

We play . . . differently. It’s our own game. Mine and his.

[noarchitact]

...heh. I'm not surprised. But good.

[ it seems like each coupling of people here has their own kind of 'game'. ]

But back to the subject at hand... is there anything we need to know about the fish? If Minuet plans on using the last of his power that thing is likely to catch wind...

[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.

[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?