Estella is often the practical head of Anima, and Auraluna's matriarch. Yet even she can become troubled by circumstances beyond her control, and seek to sway the balance of spiritual power in favour of the Good. Of course, if she makes a profit in doing so, then where is the harm in that?

Recently Estella has learned through her telepathic link to her ghost mother, that some very disturbing circumstances are brewing in the Leporidaen Wardens, and she has gone to a cafe in Arbaelf to seek the help of one of the High Elf Queens' students.

He is also a High Elf, known as Ybrect. Yb for short.

While sipping his hazelnut liqueur coffee, Yb greeted Estella, "My lady, how may I be of service?"

"There is a serious problem on the planet where the wardens are deployed. There is a large number of demons and unpleasant spirits. It seams some of the warden spirits are working with the demons now, I can only guess because they think it is simply easier to accept the state of the world than change it, and ...for now... the demons are no threat to the plants."

Yb responds, "My goodness! You have quite a situation. First, are you sure that there are more demons and unpleasant spirits than would normally be expected?" ((yes)) "Well, how much more?" ((Estella wouldn't be certain))

"As for the attitude of the Kodama, that is no surprise. Kodama have one priority only - plantlife. They will do things that they can see benefits plantlife, regardless of its moral implications. To them, morality is based on the life of the plants around them."

Tells him the history of the planet and WHY there are so many nasty spirits. "I can understand why they think this way but evechaly ether the demons will use them to make golem bodies for them, or will start torturing the plants to feed on there and the Kodama's suffering. The Kodama are convened this wouldn't happen because they think if the demons over steep there bounds then a war will start with the angels, but if they have a planet so catered to there needs they could very likely go to war over finishing it. The world is already a breeding ground for there kind, they could turn it into a proverbial factory of demon and foul spirit production."

"We have no idea how to deal with this, we are still learning about spirit matters, and the wrong steps could lead to a Kodama civil war or more Kodama siding with the demons... or worce other species getting scared of the situation and chosing to shut down the wardens... in order to save the planet life and the planet, most the planet life on the planet is tied to the wardens now, to shut them down now kill the planet and leave the Kodama deffenceless agenst the demons."

"Yes, but are you certain that Leporidae has more nasty spirits than elsewhere?"



"How do you know these things?"



"You really don't understand demons at all, I'm afraid. The number of demons which exist is set and unchanging. Foul spirit production may happen, but demons will not multiply."

"As for your concerns that the planet might be Ended, what makes you think that? How is Leporidae a threat to anyone? Those with the power to do as you fear wouldn't be harmed by Leporidae - at least not as far as they could tell. Nothing happening on Leporidae is reaching very far into the physical world. There are no wars. No terrorists. No murders - at least none attributable to supernatural things. Why would anyone attack Leporidae? The Leporidaens are practically afraid of their own shadows. They certainly won't be attacking anyone anytime soon."

"My 'mother' is a spirit now, she visited here a while back. The planet before we arrived was in bad condition." She explains how the history of planet plaied out. "Years and years of planet wide cannibalism and such abuse to there own children the wyld-lands have a massive concentration of dark spirits, and the cities where not much better. We set up the wardens and things started to turn around, a the magic was reducing negative energies and increasing positive ones. But she fought and killed a demon who ran from her before, it turns out when she was beat by a dark spirit it turned her spirital remains into a dark spirit and now there atleast three of them going around teaching rituals to the Leporidae that work in favor of the dark spirits and demons. The deamon said they are working on a ritual of there own and she found that the energies of that warden are amplfing negitive emotions and not working with the spells we set up, lots of things there pointing to the Kodama are working with them. She servayed the whole network of the wardens and found that a large number of the wardens are like this.... around 20~40% are like this. The only way this could happen is if the Kodama are working along and she spoke with the Kodama leading the others in the warden.... and she just denyed everything acting like everything was perfectly normal so ether she's lying or she's not a very good Kodama. Then when talking about what COULD happen if things escalate she took it as a threat and became exstreamly agresive. There is just so much pointing to this....  and I wish I could tell you how unbalanced things are but you would have to go into the wyld-lands for that... and that's prity much suicide for a spirit and we would rather not send people out into that, not only are there Leporidae who stick to there cannibalistic life style and think the wardens are blasphemous deaseas on the land and would kill anyone that comes from them, but I don't want anyone affected by those spirits out there ether.

OOC: This is not true. The spell is still working, it's just that alongside the positive output, some positive is being reverted to negative again using the same spell infrastructure. It would be like if you built a dam to keep tide water out of a beach, but some of the water was being kept on the beach by the dam as well. It isn't supposed to be that way. It isn't due to neglect. Something changed to make it this way, and you've guessed right that it has to do with the dark Stellas.


OOC: This is not true. The spell established a spiritual infrastructure. It exists without anyone contributing to it. The spell infrastructure itself has been corrupted.

Yb responds when Estella finishes, "Wow! Those certainly are intense allegations! However, I see no reason why I couldn't go into the wildlands. I am not a spirit - I have a body - so I will not be consumed by the dark spirits there. I am not a plant, so they won't see me as food. And I am not Leporidaen, so they will see me as a creature to be feared and avoided. As for the effects of the dark spirits, I have protections and skills of my own.

"I think I should clear up some of the terms that you are using though.

Demon: fallen angel
Daemon: spiritual entity of non-living origin - ie a spirit that isn't a ghost
Dark Spirit: Any spirit with an evil alignment
Shadow Creature: A specific species of Dark Spirit which usually doesn't have visible features beyond indiscernible shadows and a shadow body. It is unclear what their origins are. They are not demons, and they are not ghosts (probably), and they are not ordinary daemons either.
Kodama: any spirit created by plantlife whose sole purpose is to benefit plantlife.

"I would sugest bringing back up and checking out a corrupted warden first... they are little but there are a lot of them and the ones still in the badlands are paticuarly nasty sort and likely still would eat you...there is no life out there but there own and what ever they are getting from demons and dark spirits. With out children being tossed into the wildlands anymore it leaves them with a dwindling 'food sorce' yet there numbers persist..."

OOC:
Estella would know these things:
-Wildlings still cannibalize each other, but mostly as follows
  -a Leporidaen from another region who happens to come into their territory
  -injured Wildlings
  -old Wildlings
  -unwanted pregnancies
  -criminals
-they never canibalize the insane or sick
-Wildlings are just as xenophobic as normal Leporidaens and will run away from almost all aliens
-Wildlings eat the Warden food that they are provided with
-Wildlings identify their home region with tattoos, so a stranger could disguise themselves by using a tattoo

IC:

"Would you like me to go with you to inspect a Warden? I can provide you with a disguise to keep your identity hidden. We could even go as Leporidaens."

(ok informs him of this stuff and agree's to go in discise)

Ybrect gives Estella a pair of Groucho glasses. As soon as Estella puts them on, she can see the Spirit realm. "I'll need these back when we're finished," Yb informs her. Together they go to Leporidae. No one recognizes Estella - even by voice. Estella doesn't seem to be wearing any disguise, but it seems the glasses are a disguise. Then Yb explains that the glasses make people see her as something else - something they'd expect to see, but not her original self. Yb puts on the glasses as well, and Estella sees... nothing abnormal - she still looks like she always has - but with funny glasses. "You expect to see me, so that is who you see." She turns her back on Estella, "I'm going to take off my glasses." She takes them off. She turns back around with the glasses off. "I'm still wearing my glasses. You probably expected to see me without my glasses on - if so, then that is what you saw." In fact, the glasses almost phase in until Estella can see them again. It seems that the Spirit vision can be fooled as much as normal vision.

Once they are in the Warden, Estella notices that there are a few more dark spirits than other places, but not overwhelmingly so. More like 5% more than Arbaelf had, and 25% more than Nexus.

You posted this in the wrong place. I fixed it
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:49, Sat 22 Oct 2016.

So Estella is in the Warden and she can even see the Network Spell's structure. It is converting negative, neutral and positive energy. All in all it looks like this:
INPUT
Neg:%40
Pos:%30
Neu:%30

OUTPUT
Neg:%35
Pos:%30
Neu:%35


It should look like this:
INPUT
Neg:%70
Pos:%0
Neu:%30

OUTPUT
Neg:%0
Pos:%30
Neu:%70

She explains this. "It's way off, but the kodama said it was working perfectly."

I didn't explain this part. The AMOUNT of energy being converted is correct. It's just what that energy is being converted TO which is off.

Additionally, if you analyse the numbers, you will see that there is still an overall advantage for positive energy in the spell. It would just take a lot longer.


Ybrect replies, "Can you tell me why the Kodama might say that?

She shakes her head. "The demon was saying though soon things will shift back in there derection again, and they are working on a mass spell of there own. If any kodma is involved it is likely less than it may seam, as most are only now aware that the demon possesed stella's are infact demon possesed, but there not to conserened about it as the results arn't curently that threatenting to planets I'm guessing."

"It is true that, generally speaking, Kodama only care about plants. They won't usually knowingly associate with actual demons, but they may occaisionally have dealings with lesser evil spirits.

"What do you want to do about all of this?"

"I don't know, I was hoping for advice on how to handle it"