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She comments they also thought the steam room cleansing but it's far less severe.
Once she is cleansed
This is the purpose for which the 197 Mystic Shaman have been weaving a fractal ritual. Glitch and Slotter instinctively find themselves walking along the tunnels slowly, chatting about the multiverse. Slotter tells her everything about being a Verser that he can think of, and even though it has his own slant to it, the Black Iron Knife translates enough truth that Glitch is given a fair understanding of how things work - maybe he got a few things wrong, but we'll see. All the while, they are both rubbing what Slotter calls a 'worry stone' which is just a small smooth stone that you rub when thoughts about your worries and troubles come up to feel better.
They are instinctively going to the cavern by the battlescene where the mystic shaman have been and still are. When they enter the cavern with the Shaman, they are taken up in the zeitgeist of the room and join in the ritual. Bone rattles and rat-skin-drums are being played to a 1-2-3 beat. Glitch and Slotter both just barely notice as their hearts sync up with the beat thump thump pause thump thump pause with the loudest thump of the heart beating with the 1st beat, and the pause always with the 3rd beat.
A spiritual image of a dense forest is superimposed over the cavern as they move with the 197 Shaman dancing randomly around in a circle saying, "earth my body" while placing their worry stone in the ground with all of their sorrows as a seed of light and love. They continue by saying "water my lifeblood" as send all their poisons into their saliva or a drop of blood which they spit or dribble to send living water of light into the world. Next they say, "air my spirit-breath" as they exhale all fear and loathing to be transmuted into winds of compassion and wisdom. Finally they say "fire my life-force" as they squeeze their guilt and shame through every form of magic they know to be released as a power-giving wave of warmth from them to existence.
*roll: 22:52, Today: Writer, for the NPC 197 ritual participants, rolled 16313 using 177d200+400, dropping the 40 lowest rolls. cleansing ritual.*
*creation of new skill - Purification - works on anything in some way or another always for good, not always for the stated purpose*
Everyone feels as if they have been in a precious and special place, and feels renewed and revived and overall more optimistic.
After the ritual, Slotter breaks down and cries for a solid hour without responding to anything.
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so she offered to teach him a ritual to help cleanse him... requires a snow steeped mountain
Slotter agrees to the ritual cleansing and then King of Greenstar shows them to the more permanent 'bolt-hole' passageways that connect the stars of each colony, and enable exchange of resources between them.
It was the spiritual connection between the colonies that made them seem so close on the spiritual plane, and that closeness was through the 'bolt-hole' passageway. But this was not the same kind of bolt-hole Glitch was familiar with.
This wasn't a spiritual portal (those were used elsewhere for other purposes more like what Glitch knew) this was a physics portal created by the gravitational fluctuations and yadda yadda yadda travelling a few kilometres of these tunnels allowed Slotter and Glitch to cover what would have taken thousands of kilometres otherwise.
They arrive at Tealstar, and everyone is gawking at Slotter like they've never seen a human before. There are books everywhere, music in the air and art of every sort. Junk from other colonies is being transformed into beauty - Rat beauty, so not appealing to the typically human aesthetic, but marvelous to the eyes/ears/nose/paws of a rat or Ratkin.
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Blinks confused by all this.... Hopefully she would learn more meditating she will meditate at the teal star to recharge her spiritual power and try and make sense of what she is meant to do
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Tealstar will give Shaman the strength of wisdom to communicate clearly
*roll*
Glitch feels a painless phantom fire in her throat. By now, Slotter has recovered his voice and is waiting nearby. He sees her react and says, "You alright?" And before she can respond he says, "Oh, I see, you felt a painless phantom fire in your throat." He didn't use the Black Iron Knife, and Glitch didn't say anything.
*new skill - telepathy*
He speaks into her mind,
I didn't know you knew telepathy! I could've put my Order Knife away awhile ago! He pulls a Black Iron nail out of the handle of the black knife and it becomes an ordinary combat knife. He puts the knife in a specially designed pocket on his armor, and it becomes the best possible camo-pattern for the environment they're in.
*roll & advance level*
Glitch feels herself being led to walk into the spirit world. She stands up and she is in the spirit world completely. A path lights up before her, and a wind and a water spirit come to walk with her. They silently show her along the way and point out a wyrm. The wyrm dies, and thousands of different kinds of rat creatures pour out of the body. All of the remains of the wyrm transmorph into rat things. Another wyrm begins to eat the rat things, and becomes longer with each creature, yet the shape of each creature remains clearly outlined in the body of the wyrm. Glitch sees an image of herself being eaten by a wyrm, and then an image of Slotter cutting off her head. She sees the Grim Reaper approaching but not arriving.
Then a wind of wisdom says to Glitch, "Find a wyrm, and listen to your heart. Trust in the guidance."
Next she is led back to the room with Slotter who is franticaly searching for his disappeared frenemy. Noticing her on the Spiritual plane, he calms down and waits for her return.
The spirits who spoke with her, look at her expectantly,
Do you require more assistance at this time?