You disintegrate under infinite possibility, and as you reform you see Gold and Silver and Bronze standing about taking bets from Greed on just how long you'll survive in this next world. They're betting parts of their memory, which in this case is pieces of peppermint candy....

One piece of peppermint escapes to fall in the long grass and you dive after it...

To wake face down in long grass with the smell of peppermind in your nostrils.

Its hot, nearly ninety-five degrees, but very dry. You feel heavy as if you're wearing a thirty pound backpack or something.

PT

I try to get up and I check myself and the world around me.
I also check within myself to see if the power I got from Humility is still with me or was it removed when her body was distroyed.

The shard of Humility is still there, but its like you're reaching through a curtain of falling molasses to touch it.

You stand up in the waist-high grass and see that you're in a bowl valley in the mountains. About a mile away in the base of the valley is a small lake of perhaps fifteen acres in size. On its right side, and your side is a village of twenty two thatched huts of slightly peculiar proportions.

They seem wider and shorter than they should.

On the hill high to your right is a small stone or clay brick building.

There are trees and bushes scattered among the grasses.

You see some brightly colored people fishing in the shallows of the lake with nets and clubs.

The sky is blue and clear, except for the line of white dots and occasional flashes that runs across it.

PT

I stand up and slowly head towards the brightly colored people fishing.
From the looks of it and how I feel I am assuming this is a high gravity planet I landed on. I will walk to them and say," Hello nice day isn't it?"

The gravity is about 120% of Earth's gravity. Its enough to be noticeable.

You walk down to them, and at first you're thinking...What odd pants and shirts these humans have....and then your perspective shifts.

They're avian humanoids with brightly colored feathers in blotch patterns.

The first one closest to you replies in perfect English.

"Hello nice day isn't it?"

PT

I look at then closer and then reply," Yes could I ask where exactly I am right now, I am a traveler and I am lost?"
I want to get information but I have learned to be a little more careful on how I ask.

"Hello nice day isn't it? Yes could I ask where I am right now, I am a traveller and I am lost?"

"Hello"

"Hello, I...Yes...I...I am...I ask..."

It stops and the others begin to babble the words you have spoken in several dozen different orders.  And hearing them all, you realize they are speaking with your accent, and intonation.

There is a shrill cry, and everyone stops. They all turn and stare fixedly at you.

PT

I look to where the cry came from and then when everyone stares at me, I say,
" I didn't do anything honest."
I pray silently, "Lord please grant me the courage and knowledge to help these people and find my way. In Jesus's name I pray Amen."

"I didn't do anything honest...I am...I didn't..."  They start talking again.

Confused, you pray, and you're struck by an impulse to read the Bible to them.  Even more confused, you do so, beginning at Genesis and skipping around, occasionally explaining things as they babble and listen.

Thirty minutes later one of them speaks to you....

"Please, stop, we understand your words now. Mostly. I am...Redfeather. That is a good simple name like the ones your kind prefers. We are...The People of the Valley, and you are....Daughter of Eve? What is your name? Why have you come to our valley?"

Suddenly you realize they've learned the English language in about thirty-five minutes.

PT

I am amazed they learned it so fast, I stop reading and respond,
" My name is Amanda and I am a traveler of worlds, I have traveled here from a faraway place, but I believe I am here for a purpose, I just don't know what."

"I am Redfeather, and my purpose is to catch enough fish for my wife, and my two daughters and my one son. I also lead my family and keep the hut built, and give some occasional catch to the people on the hill.  However, for pleasure I sing, tell stories at the campfire and slide on mud paths into the lake."

He pauses, and some of the others talk to him.

"One of the others says you could talk to Old Woman Whitehead in her hut." He points a stubby wing at it. "She knows much, and gives good advice. Maybe she can tell you your purpose. Of course...do you like to fish? We need to go back and catch mid-day meal. You are welcome to do as you will, but stay inside the valley."

And with that they, except for Redfeather, start wandering off to the lake.

PT

I smile at Redfeather and say," Thank you and no I am not a good fisherman, I will see Old woman Whitehead, maybe she can help me, also how did you learn to speak my language so fast?"

"We listen, we mimic your words, we feel the relation between them. Then we know. You can't do this? Everyone we know can." He pauses. "Except you, of course."

He takes you to Old Woman Whitehead, and babbles at her at high speed for about three minutes. During this time, you can see why she is called her name.  She's obviously a lot stout, and she has a hard time standing up, and apparently she mostly sits on the stoop of her hut and enjoys the sun.

Her feathers at the top of her  head have turned white.

She turns to you while shooing him off.

"The Daughter of Eve who wishes to know her purpose. Are you warrior, teacher, farmer, shieldmaiden, healer of wounds, fisher, hunter of vermin? Do you come to tell us a message, or show us a new way? Or perhaps you come to learn of us? Do you come to free us from the Ring of Doom, the hair of the goddess?"

PT

I then respond," Old woman Whitehead, I was teacher in my first home, I also follow the one true God and he in his great wisdom has blessed me with special abilities to help people.I do not know why I am here, and what is this Ring of Doom and the hair of the Goddess.

"I do not know this One True God. I do know that Before, there was the Mother on which we stand, and the Daughter was in the sky, and they quarrelled bitterly. And so the Mother sought to slap her child, who was grown, and hit her too hard, and her child shattered into uncounted pieces.  But the glittering fragments of her hair we can see in the sky now."

Old Woman Whitehead points up to the sky where you see the white sparkles very far above.

"And the hair began to punish the Mother, and she was grieved by what she had done, and then my ancestors came to the Mother and pointed out to her what suffering they had for her deed, and the Mother gave them a gift so that they might survive, and then the Mother took herself away and put herself into sleep to forget such evil days. And my ancestors came to this valley, and made it their home, and we have lived her ever since."

PT

I listen intently and some of it is a little hard to comprehend, but I get most of what she is saying. Then I say,"Very interesting story Old Woman Whitehead, I wish  could rescue you from the hair or the ring of doom, but I do not know how, can you possibly point me on the right direction I will help you any way I can."

"Well, we can always use teachers, but if you wish to help protect the village from the hair of the Daughter, then step up that hill to the Ancient House."

She points her arm uphill to a couple thousand square foot adobe house with a thatched roof, and outbuildings.  Its stands alone from the village.

"They are the ones who have brought the gift of the Mother to fruition."

PT

I nod, and smile then head up towards the house.
When I arrive I knock on the door waiting for a response.

The door opens before you hit the door.

"Greetings, Amanda." Says another very old avian. "We've been expecting you."

He steps past you, and five others of his kind trundle on past you as well.  He's looking into the sky.  You see lines of fire plunging earthward. Smoke trails behind them.

He points at one, and the avian next to him nods.

"Yes, Master."

And you realize that the meteor is heading directly toward the Valley. The others are missing the protected bowl.

It gets closer, and larger. Part of your mind is sure its heading right toward you.

And then it starts curving away, and plummets into the hills beyond the Valley.

They count, and at five seconds, there is a mild earthshock.

"Well done, student." The Master pats his student on the shoulder, and turns to you. "I am Master Brokenfeather." He points to one of his feathers in his arm which looks like it nearly broke off and then healed wrong. "You are Amanda the Human. We are the Parakeet People in this Valley. And more specifically these are my students, the guardians of the Valley who with the gift of the Mother protect us from the Hair."

PT

I look amazed, then I say," One of your students redirected the meteorite from hitting this Valley, how did you do that Broken feather?"

"Amanda, raise your arm."

Puzzled, you do.

"Now raise this rock." He points at a baseball sized rock laying a few feet away. You don't succeed if you try.

He looks back at it, and it floats up to his hand.

"It is the same thing. The immaterial mind is directing insensible matter." He sits down with help from his students. "Its pleasant for an old bird to sit in the sun. Amanda, at one time, my people could not do as we do, but the gift of the Mother changed us. In your mind, I see the potential for such as I can do, we can do here at the Ancient House. But it requires strength of mind, and fearlessness, and a small measure of luck."

He doesn't say anything for a long moment, and then you realize he's snoring.

PT

I am about to say something when I notice he begins to snore.
I look at his students and say," Have you been training long in this art?"

The number of years varies, but the lead student speaks up.

"I've been training with Master Brokenfeather for twelve years which is the longest of any of us, although there are a couple retired students in the village who've done it longer than I."

He bows, and gestures you and the others away from Master Brokenfeather so you can talk without interrupting his sleep.

"The Master asks a good question, Amanda the Human. It is a strenous and perilous path to seek mastery of the mind's gifts. Most are not suited to it. Fishing is far easier and more pleasant."

PT

Amanda takes a deep breath and says a silent prayer to God for strength and calmness and says," I would like to try if it will help you and your friends I would like to learn."

The student leader nods, and speaks a fluting command to one of the others who rushes off in a comical waddle that you could best in a jog, but is their sprint.  He comes back with a large sheet of tanned leather.

Its two feet by eighteen inches of intricate three-dimensional Escher-like drawing.  Just looking at it is enough to make your brain hurt. When the student sees the wince, he claps his paw hands together.

"Excellent. I was afraid you might not be affected. This will open your mind, the sleeping areas. It will hurt, but so does any unusused muscle when used. I want you to study this, carry it with you, study it day and night, hold it in your mind in one piece, stretch yourself very hard. Once you're done, I think you will be able to hear minds."

PT

I smile and take the piece of leather and begin to study it once he gives it to me. Then I say to him," Thank you I will study it any chance I can, is there anything else I can do to help you out?"
As I wait for him to answer I stare at the picture and try to open my mind up to it, and as I do I say a silent prayer," Lord open I eyes and mind to these new skills so I can better help you and these people I am in your name lord Jesus Amen."

The student leader looks speculatively at your hands.

"How good are you at building?"

And thus you spend the next several very long days (eighteen hours of sunlight and eighteen hours of dark.) doing repairs to huts.  Your climbing skills are greatly superior to theirs (they tend to fly short distances instead of climbing), and they have a crude mallet shaped to their hand which you find you can use with more force and precision than they can. So you're up on roofs, hammering pegs into wooden shingles, and getting quite a tan.

On your breaks, which are frequent as they do not have the modern notion of 'work-work', you study the scroll. You gradually begin to memorize it, and then to see parts of it in your brain.  You have to balance so many different aspects while not paying too much attention, and  yet at the same time if you pay too little you fall asleep.

And then you hear it, in your head.

*Got a nice, tasty redfish. Mmmm, I'm hungry. Hope my husband kept the fire built up.* As a lady avian of mature years walks past you on her way from the lake to her hut.

1@2 Read Surface Thoughts (Humanoid)

PT

I am caught off guard when I read the female's thoughts.
I am very happy but also tired, I walk to a secluded part of the river remove my clothes and take a much needed cool bath.
As I do I reflect on what has happened and where I might go from here.
I pray," Lord I know I am here to learn and help these people but I do not know how please ehlp me see the light of your greatness and kindness I want to do more for these wonderful people, I pray in Jesus's name Amen."

The story of Moses flickers through your brain. Of how he was trained by the Pharaoh's court, and of how he was toughened by the years as a sheepherder, and finally how he stood before Pharaoh, and demanded on God's behalf for freedom.

These people are locked in to this village, and this life. Beyond the safety of the telekinetic shield they dare not go.

You could try to free them, but it would be perilous and uncertain of success.

PT

I decide to work extremely hard to toughen my recovering body, work hard on my new mental powers and during this I will talk with broken feather about possibly moving the tribe out of the valley.

Over the next week, you finish re-roofing all the huts in the village that need it (Its spot repair, not whole roof repair.), and you spend a lot of time swimming and walking.

You get to know the landscape of the Valley intimately.  Its maybe thirty acres of land with plentiful small wildlife.

You practise Reading Surface Thoughts extensively with the other students. You read their thoughts, and they read yours. This often sets off a conversation as when you find yourself wishing for a Coke, and they ask you what that is.  Brokenfeather tells you that next week they will begin the distraction training. The way he says it sounds ominous.

There is one more time when the students come out and ward the village from meteor fall.

When you talk to Brokenfeather about it, he takes you up to the highest edge of the Valley, and bids you look beyond.  Its a wasteland pocked by craters, and charred by fire.  There are small bits of life, but in the far distance you can see meteors streaking down to hammer the land.

"Only the Valley is safe, and only through our unceasing labors."

Roofing 1@2
@1 Swimming
@2 Bonus to hammering (one from having to use an alien hammer, and one from all the work done).
@1 Read Surface Thoughts

PT

I look at the wasteland beyound the valley, and I say to Brokenfeather,
" Maybe there is a palce where the meteators don't hit, it might be a long journey but you can't sty here sooner or later you wont be able to stop a strike, and then you will all die and I can't and wont let that happen."
While I am on the highest part of the valley I pray,
" Oh Mighty Lord please guide me and show me a safe place for these wonderful people to live safely and without fear, please oh Lord show me the way, I bow to you and will be your next Moses and deliver your people.I pray in jesus's name Amen."
I kneel before The Lord and open my heart to the Lord.

Your viewpoint careens dizzily as you sweep out of your body in vision, and cross the blasted plains in a heartbeat and approach a city of fortified towers. Some towers are shattered and others are merely blast-torn, but in a testimony to their sturdiness, seven still stand.

Then with a soundless clap, you're back in your body, and gasping for breath.

1@1 See Vision (Mag).

PT

I shake my head to regain my senses, take a deep breath and say,
" I have seen a place of mighty towers that will protect you from the falling rocks Broken Feather, I will lead you to this place, it is a long and dangerous journey but I believe you and your tribe should go there BrokenFeather."

"I understand your fear, but you speak of what may be, and in exchange you give us terrible danger now. Can you go to these towers yourself and make certain they are ready for us? I would not move the village without that."

He pauses.

"Human Amanda, you are not ready to go there. You don't have the ability to speak to matter yet. Abide with us a while."

And with that, he starts your distraction training. He has you drag out a fifty pound timber and a shovel. You dig a hole into the hard ground, and drop the timber into the hole.

"Now, you will climb to the top of the ten foot pole, and sit on top, and we will throw things at you, and you will read our minds. Try  not to fall off." Brokenfeather laughs and fingers his own broken feather.

PT

I nod to Brokenfeather about going there first.
Then I begin my training, I do as Brokenfeather asks, but before I go up on the pole I pray," Lord give me the strength and patience and be a good student and help open my mind to this training, I pray in Jesus's name."
I then climb the pole and get ready to defend myself and read their minds.

OOC: That would be a Bonus Skill Learning prayer, and if you have this, I'll give +@1, and if not 1@2 and you have it.

IC:

Your mind is clear, and you scamper up the pole with your new strength and climbing skills.

They start by yelling, and tossing bits of grass. They proceed on to blindfolding you, and tossing small clods of grass and dirt. Other times, they take the blindfold off and throw larger clods and expect you to bat them away with a stick while reading minds.

Its dreadfully difficult.

They are merciless, and you're not sure you can do this. You're starting to get bruises on your chin, and cheekbones.  Especially on your arms as you try to protect yourself.

Its been a week, and you're very tired with nearly every spare moment you're not working on houses, or tying nets having you sitting on the pole high in the sky.

PT

I will push myself to the limit, I was paralized and faught back, I have good upper body strength and toughness because of my years in my wheelchair.
She tries to keep focus, she prays everyday and night for strength and patience during the training.

Every day its a challenge to get up, and you stagger through things until  you realize you have no idea how many weeks you've been here.

And then you wake, and you see your tormentors surrounding you, perched on the nobs that project inward from the walls of your hut.

Brokenfeather bows.

"I must apologize. We sought to break you, to see what strength you had in you. And to make that strength unbreakable. Those of our kind know of this ritual, the Panak Tair, but you didn't."

He bows again.

"You have passed. The day after tommorrow we teach you how to talk to matter. Today, you sleep. Tommorrow you have a vacation."

OOC:
+@1 Arm strength
+@1 Willpower
+@1 Agility
1@6 Balancing on a Perch
1@5 Blocking Thrown Items
+@3 to Read Surface Thoughts.

PT

I raise up with alot of soreness nod to brokenfeather and say,
" Thank you I just keep going my friend I try to never giveup or give in, I will rest and see all of you tomorrow."
When they leave I will kneel on my bed and pray," Lord thank you for giving me the strength and determination to pass this test, I just ask for your guidence and strength  to continue on my Lord, I pray in Jesus's name Amen."

You feel revived after your prayer....revived enough to fall asleep easily.

Many hours later, a bit stiff, and logy you wake to find that the smells of baked fish and noodle root have awakened you. You make the local tea by boiling lake water with some herbs, and join them for dinner.

Tommorrow you have a free day before you begin to learn telekinesis. And you simply have to learn TK in order to survive crossing the wasteland because otherwise any random meteor is going to wipe you out, and you'll be defenseless except for luck.

PT

I try to walk through the stiffness and enjoy my dinner with my new friends.
I will pray before the meal and after we eat I will say," That was very tough training but it has made me a better person, what can any of you tell me of the history of outside the Valley, when did the falling rocks begin to fall?"

They start counting generations as you start eating, and eventually reach eighty-nine.

"In the time of Paknook the Taknikshan, the Mother and the Daughter went to war."

They tell you the same story they've mentioned before.

PT

I listen and then finishe eating and say,"I am going for a swim I will be back."
I then head for a secluded spot by the river remove my clothes and go into the water and try to relax my sore muscles and try to reflect on what has happened to me, as I swim and float in the water I will pray to God.
" Oh Lord clense me and make me worthy to bring these wonderful people to your promised land, please I come to you as your humblre servant, I open myself to your power and glory oh Lord, I pray in Jesus's name Amen."
As I pray I stand up naked in the water raise up my arms to the lord.

You feel a sense, not quite a voice, in your head...

*Reach, like so.*

And you reach inside your head, and suddenly the sun is spinning backwards at an every increasing rate. Frightened, you consider trying to stop it...

*You dream. The current time is unaffected.*

Years, then decades, then centuries flicker past in uncounted number.

And you see the land covered by hovercraft, and the towers are skyscrapers and great factories are filled with busy, competive, and rather vicious Avians.  The primary competition is between Planetary Corp and Lunar Corp.

And Planetary decides to gather its communications lasers into a vast network and turn them into a weapon....

PT
Postcognition 1@2 psi

After the vision I kneel into the water and think to myself, these avians distroyed themselves and these few are the survivors, that I need to lead back to one of the powerful cities before the distruction.
I then stand back up forgetting I am naked and pray,
" Oh Lord these are the survivors of a great war, and they don't know what has happened to their world, Oh great Lord how do I stop the meteors if it is possible, and why have you chosen me for the task oh great Lord, open my mind to their plight and continue to give me strength and mental toughness to complete this task as your humble servant oh mighty Lord, I pray in Jesus's name Amen.

You pray and feel reassurance and calm determination fill you. You know that restoration and rescue of these people is possible. How to do that? No answer is currently given.

You only see the shattered towers again, and then you're back in your body.

PT

+@1 Religious knowlege (which is a general bonus skill when you're attempting to use Holy magic, or miracles and such.)

I raise my head and say,"Thank you my Lord, this has been a incredible and tough experience so far."
I then grab my clothes and head for my hut without anyone seeing her naked body.

You reach the hut, and are about to enter when you hear a voice from inside.

"Leave it there."
Followed by Avian speak from another.
"No speak Human. Its her hut. Its polite to speak Human."
"Oh all right. Its just some of the other students don't like to speak Human."

PT

I am a little upset they are in her hut without her there, and not thinking I walk into my hut holding my clothes, (I am still naked and soaking wet).
I then look at the Avians speaking and say," How can I help you is there something important that you need to be in my hut without me here?"
She seems a little violated she thought her hut was her private space but she seems open to a good reason. I put my hands on my hips and drop my clothes waiting for a good answer.

They both leap back, and squawk in Avian for a bit, and then one finally calms down enough to speak in Human.

"You're hairless. You've shed your fur!"

"Ahem. We brought a seedcake from the house on the hill as a gift for surviving your time of testing." The other says. "Please do not be angry with us. We saw no one in, and did not wish to trek back up hill and downhill."

PT

I relax and look at my naked body and say,"I did not loose my fur this is my natural form, the fur was clothing my race wears because of modesty, but for some reason it doesn't bother me to show you my true self open for you to see."
I calm down take the cake and smile, then I say,
" I am so sorry for snapping at you of course you are always welcome, it has been a rough couple of weeks I appologize my friends."
I place the cake down and say,"Would you like to stay and eat some with me, and do you wish I put my fur back on?"

They're willing for you to keep your 'fur' off, but they do ask you questions you'd find impertinent out of a human. They're fascinated by this whole 'fur' thing, although they tell you that in winter they do wear cloaks of hide and large leaves.

"In late fall, we dive to the lake bottom, and harvest the largest leaves, and then dry them over a fire. They are waxy, and shed water well."

They are quite happy to stay as it seems the seedcake with honey mixed in it is quite a treat. For you, its about the equivalent of baked sunflower seeds with salt and honey.  Its quite hard, but their beaks make short work of their bits which you observe as they easily slice through several seeds at a time when you have to chew through one at a time.

PT

I eat with them taing it easy on the seeds to not damage my teeth, I don't think I can see a dentist around here.
I will keep my 'fur' off unless it gets to cold, I actually feel very comfortable being naked around them, and it seems to open my eyes some as well.
Before they eat she will say a prayer of thanks ,"Lord thank you for this food we are about to eat and nurish us, and I thank you for the great company of good friends, I pray in Jesus's name Amen."

Your furlessness and your prayers to Jesus inspire some comment and questions over the next days as you learn TK. The furlessness is rapidly accepted, and you find it easeful and it doesn't seem to provoke any problems with your prayers.  Perhaps because you're the only Human in this universe, and so laws pertaining to modesty don't really apply.

Unlike a lot of bad SF, there seems to be no sexual tension between you and the Avians. You're both too different. You do find that they lay eggs, and you get the pleasure of being asked if one of the fledglings can be named "Born in the Year of Amanda's Coming."  It sounds a lot better in the Avian.

As the month closes, you find that you can lift stones, chunks of wood, and protesting Avians by this strange new ability to 'talk to matter'.

You've also got a really good tan and you feel generally healthier.

OOC: 1@4 Simple TK; +@1 Stamina.

I train hard and begin to feel very comfortable being furless.
I will tell them of Jesus and my beliefs if they ask and want to know.
I will also pray for all of them every night.
AS I train I will also try to get in much better physical shape, being in the chair for so long she feels like she needs to work even harder.
I will invite some of the avians over and try to cook a human meal for them using what I can find here to try to make it taste good for me and them.
Every night I will go to the river swim, wash up and pray for strength and guidance.

With your further experience being furless, you gain in self-awareness and control, with resulting gains in Charisma and Animal Magnetism +@1 to both.  Your Avian friends notice that you seem more at home.

Your answering of questions about Jesus sweeps the village. They have no traditions of suppressing unpopular viewpoints so other than some minor resentments that are quickly brushed over with kind words, they have to face things dead-on. And they have a very simple and inadequate religion that doesn't cover most of their lives. You bring them a mental revolution and a spiritual one as you feel power in your words and it sweeps the village like wildfire. By the end of the month, they're all Christians.

Although, they don't get a number of human points of view. They think of the cross for a long time, nearly a week, as a roost or perch until you realize they're thinking that the Romans who put Him on the cross were honoring Him.

"They give him a high perch, and label him 'King of Jews', yes?"

Your Strength increases by +@1. And you realize that if you want to keep pushing it you're going to have to start toting weights or something or running the hill.

The Avians eat the food politely, and enjoy the visit, and you can tell they think Humans are very strange indeed.

+@1 Swimming. You can feel your Stamina increasing.

PT

I praise God for sending his message through me to guide these wonderful people.
I begin to get almost fanatic about training, I will make weights and try running in the river and swimming with the weights on. I will run up hills with weights, to push ups, sit ups, and try to take my body to it's full potential.
It feels good, she was in the chair for a long time and doing this felt great and after a while she doesn't even realize she is naked anymore.
I will also keep up my practicing of Telekinesis and mind reading as  train as well. I will set up bible stuby classes, I don't have a bible but I will ask for guidence from God on the night before the meeting ,hopefully God will grant me the knowledge and ability to help the Avians become stronger in their faith.
(OOC- I converted a whole tribe of Avians to Jesus, that is pretty cool, I guess you could call me a missionary then huh.)

You push your training hard. Too hard. After one week, you've pulled a muscle in your upper right shoulder.

The swimming with weights is dangerous you can tell.

The weekly Bible study goes well. And you're finding your understanding of the Bible is growing immensely. Being a teacher, being forced on to leaning directly on Jesus, and just having the odd perspective of the Avians on things is stretching your mind and soul in strange new ways. +@2 Religion.

The Avians ask you if you will pray a blessing on their fish harvest.

OOC: Well actually, of the active Avians on the planet, you've won them all. So, a whole world for Christ....and yes, missionary is a good title for that.

As to the shoulder, well, my brother lifted weights some, and sometimes he got too enthused, and  did such. So...a dice roll...and...yep...problem.

I knew I was working hard, and I over did it. I will rest the shoulder and take it very easy physically.I will work on my mental status, practice my mind reading and Telekinetid skills alot. I will continue the bible study and ty to answer all their questions as well I can, and will pray for answers when I don't know them. Also I will begin to teach them basic math and science and if they pick it up quickly I will continue to teach them more advanced concepts.
I will also ask them about their culture and try to learn as much as possible, on mating rituals, births, burial rituals and try to make the change from their old biliefs to there new ones following God.
Do they 'mate' for life or is it more like 'mate' when you are ready.

After a couple weeks, the arm is back in action, and you start back on your exercise program but a bit more cautiously.

The other things continue apace.

Math, they seem to have a gift for, but with science they fumble it deeply. They have a conception of the universe as a disorderly place without constant rules. Your teachings continue to take hold, and there is great excitement as they figure things out.

They mate for life.

You've been here about four months now, and the weather has hardly seemed to change except to get a bit warmer. Over the next week, the temperature jumps ten degrees.

PT

I start retraining but take it alot more cautious, but still pushing but safer.
I work hard on the science trying to explain everything clear and percise.
As the temp rises I am glad I lost my fur.
As time passes she will try and pray to see when they need to leave for the old city and what God wishes me to do now.

You start work on throwing meteorites off course.  The first time you do it, its like getting smacked in the face by a hard punch. The mass and speed of the meteor fragment is simply shocking. Someone else handles that one, but you build your telekinetic powers and soon you're able to handle one fragment, and then two in a swarm.

Bullet Speed TK 1@2
Heavy TK 1@3
Simple TK 1@5

"When you are able to handle five, then you can travel to the City. I've never seen a swarm larger than five descend on one specific area such as a person walking across the plains might face. I think five would let you be sure you're safe. I know this is being cautious because five is rare, but I want you to be safe." Master Brokenfeather explains.

Your teaching skill improves, and they begin to get science, but its very slow and at times you find yourself impatient with their backwardness.

The temp rises another ten degrees and stabilizes.  Now, it rains for thirty minutes every day, except when meteor showers interrupt things. Its about ninety-five degrees, with fifty percent humidity.  The birds start molting, and they are very irritable.

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As the temperature rises she is really glad for loosing her fur, and I will pray to jesus to help me with my patience as the birds begin to molt.
I will keep it slow until they get a basic normal meaning and idea to science, my experience as a middle school teacher will help, those ages in school can be very frustrating to say the least.
I will practice very hard with the meteors trying to increase my skills every chance  get.

You would have had 2@5 (typical professional) in Teaching (unless you have some awards or such). I'm going to put in a +@1 for New Use because teaching Stone Age Avians is far from 5th grade Americans.  Add in another +@1 because of a month's INTENSE training (once you get into the 2@ levels you have to double the time or the intensity for the same advancement effect.)

So 2@7 Teaching skill plus whatever other bonuses you have had on that.

+@1 Religious
Its hard to find chances with meteors this month although they tell you that midsummer in about four months is pretty spectacular, but early summer not so much.

PT

I will actually begin to organize them into a church, and spend 1 hour on 'Sunday' to reflect on God. I will still do my bible study.
I will also try to introduce 'fun' and playing games to their society as well, working all the time is not good they need to relax and have fun as well.
I still pray every night, and swim every day.
I will also continue my workouts but be much more careful.
I will practice my mind reading and TK as much as I can.
I will wait for the summer to really test my meteor blocking ability.

A week later, you're swimming furless in the lake at night, and you're poking along holding your breath underwater when you feel a shudder in the water. Fearful, certain that logically there can't be a big monster in the lake, you poke your head up.

A catamaran sailboat is floating in the middle of the lake. Its flying a British flag.

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I look around to make sure I am still in the same world, I will then swim up to the sail boat and look around to see if anyone is aboard the boat.

You hear some kicking and slamming on board, and then it suddenly stops. You're in the same world.

You swim over to the boat, and peer on board. You're looking into the face of a young man laying flat on the deck with an Uzi trained unwaveringly between your eyes.  His dark eyes are very cold with restrained fury behind them.

PT

Without thinking I use my Telekinesis and try to rip the uzi from his hand befor ehe can fire it, I will also dodge just in case he gets a chance to fire.

In a state of No Mind, similar to what you use when you're blocking stuff thrown at you on the pillar, you lash out with your mind, and send the Uzi sailing out of his hands to plummet into the lake.

He gasps in shock, and then dives backwards chanting all the while in some strange sibilant language. You feel strange currents forming in the water and see small balls of lightning run up and down the mast of the sailboat. He's on the far side of the low bridge of the boat.

PT
1@1 Fast Draw-TK (this allows you to grab the attack first.)
+@1 to Simple TK (you've not used it in combat before so this is a New Use.)

I leap out of the water and try to climb onto the boat,I look at the man and say,
" Hello I don't mean to hurt you, you just scared me please come out and we can talk."

He looks at you, and you can see the tension in his eyes as he finishes the chant. Water splashes down over you, and then standing at the prow of the right hull is a woman made of water.

"Yes, master, what is your will?"

"I..." He pauses, and looks long at you, taking notice of your lack of clothes, and then he looks into the sky. His hands start shaking. "T-t-take yourself to the lake bottom. B-r-ring back my gun."

"Yes, master."

She does not dive over the edge, but disolves into the water.

You can see he's starting to pant, and while he's keeping a cautious eye on you, you can see his control vanishing, and adrenaline overreaction and fear setting in.

"S-sorry. I was in Dublin harbor fighting the IRA...thought I'd dodged that RPG..."

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I get fully onto the boat and say," You are a verser as well, I have been working hard with these people to help move them to a safer place, My name is Amanda and again I am sorry for the gun, it's that you surprised me and I just reacted."
I was glad to see another human after the amount of time I had been the only human here.
Then I sit on the boat not worried about my lack of'fur' and add,
" I could use help n relocating the birb residents of this world, if you wish to help me, and I will pray for you as well, good sir."

"Sure. No problem. I'll help you. My name is...well, I go by Jefferson Steele." He laughs. "I always liked the show as a kid, and in the last world they encouraged you to take a false name as a spy for His Majesty's Government."

He reaches over his head to move the spar for his sailboat, and you can see the muscles in his arms are well-developed, and unusually shaped.

You can also tell by the way he's looking at you that he's still a bit shaky from adrenaline, but other hormones are starting to comfort him and take precedence in his mind.  He's not hard to read.

PT

I smile and then realize I am naked I then say," Nice to meet you Jefferson.They like it better when I am furless, plus with the hot summer coming it is more comfortable, please come with me to my hut, we will get you some food and you can relax and I will explain things to you."
I stand turn my back to him, with all her working out, her body must be very goodlooking and ripped, I then dive into the water and swim to shore with very good skill.I get out of the water and turn to him on the boat," Aren't you coming Jefferson?"

He dives off the boat, and comes up nearly twenty feet away. From there, he struggles with a breast stroke.

"Got...super-dense muscles added..." Water splashes his face as he almost sinks. "I'm barely buoyant if I inflate my lungs."

Still, he seems tireless, and extremely strong.  He follows you out of the water, and to your hut.

He sits in one of your chairs and it creaks alarmingly.

I have a seat and offer him something to eat and drink, then I say,
" How did you get these dense muscles added, strength of body is good but reflexes and strength of mind is also good as well. Tell me about your self, I have been the only human here for many months."
I sit there still furless.

He tosses you a blanket from your bed.

"I am not going to be able to concentrate with you like that, unless you'd like to take the conversation to another level."

He pops his back, and sits down again.

"I...well...I was in Dublin Harbor, working for His Majest, and more specifically C, another verser, he's got a herd of verser spies. The IRA must have got me. I thought I could trust Deirdre.  Thats the world where I got my Uzi, and some good training on it, and my titanium sword which I can draw without cutting myself, but thats about it, and the sailboat I've been living on."

He bends his neck back and pops it again.

"Fore that I was on this island with Akos, a hermit elementalist magi, he taught me magic, in return for me doing all his work. After a year of that, and noting he was teaching me less and less, I tried to leave. He tried to enslave me with a spell. I jumped off a cliff." Fury dances in his eyes, and you can see that he'd be a bad man to get really angry at you.

"Now my first world, was, of course, Naga World, orange grass, all that...you know it. I made it to the fort, and learned about versing. I saw people do that TK thing you do, but I, um, tried to teleport and...I'm not sure what happened. Second world, I helped these freaky aliens be a star fighter pilot. In return, they attached hyperdense muscles to my bones, and made some other mods to support them. I can bench press a thousand pounds." He is a big guy, tall, and decently muscled, but no way does he look like a man who can do as he says. On the other hand, he seems completely calm about his claim.

"After that, I went to this weird place. All punching bags and stuff. Empty rooms. Saw no one. Ate rats, and watermelons. I eventually got appendicitis I think. I think I killed myself by trying to operate on myself, but by then I was crazy with pain and half out of my mind."

"Next world, I was walking down a street, everyone speaking some gabble-gabble, and I feel a verser, so I go meet him. He's a jerk, and he draws on me with his sword, and kills me. And of course, then its next to Akos and his island."



PT

I listen cover my 'furless' body with the blanket so his hormones don't control him, I never thought I was that good looking naked. I then say,
" It sounds like you have had interesting and exciting adventures, mine where interesting. I first ended up on a mining planet where a robot fixed my legs and I could walk again I use to be confined to a wheel chair. The woman went nuts and tried to kill me, I got her help and then went to a ship and before I could figure out anything there I was brought to another world with alot of versersand we battled demons I met some very good people, I also was given some interesting powers from a angel a part of her Humility."
I pause so a second and then I resume." Together we fought all the vices of evil and after they where stopped I stopped the void and was sent here, where I have learned mind reading and you saw my Telekinesis. This world was once a thriving world then the meteors came and distroyed it. I have been asked by God to bring these people to another land but the trip will be hard and dangerous. You should meet Broken feather as soon as possible and begin your training if you are to travel with us."
I get up put the blanket back on my bed and say," I am sorry if you are uncomfortable seeing me naked but I feel very comfortable this way and it is going to get alot hotter you might want to join me being furless, shall we go see Broken Feather now."
I walk towards the door and head towards Broken Feather's hut.

"So we've both had major surgeries. I'm glad you can walk."

He looks a bit uncomfortable.

"Are you sure you weren't fighting aliens? I mean, demons...sure there's magic, but magic is uh, magic. Wizards and stuff. Its not like I don't believe in God, its just He's too big to notice someone like us. We're arrogant if we think he pays attention to us."

He has a tolerant condescending smile on his face.

He shrugs a bit.

"I like my clothes. Keeps my skin from being scratched, and I'm pretty fair. Burn easily." He does have pale skin and very dark hair. "Besides, I like to sleep on my sailboat. However, you could join me. Its more comfortable than this. I have a refridgerator and a solar panel to power it. I even have some VKT's."

You look blank so he explains.

"Visual Kart Transmissibles. Um, movies. Stick them into a small box and watch them."

When you offer to have him learn psi, he seems enthused.

PT

As we walk to see Broken feather I will smile and say,
"It was magic and they where demons and I gained power from a real Angel, and God listens to everyone he has listened to me many times and aids me all the time."
I stop and say,"Please take my hand and I will show you."
I hold out my hand to him and then I pray,
"Oh great and powerful Lord we pray to you and I want to thank you for all your help and guidence, also my friend here doesn't think you listen to us, I ask you please to show him you listen and care, I pray in Jesus's name Amen."

He holds your hand, and you pray, but you can feel his unbelief like a wall over the sky. He is resisting your prayer, perhaps not consciously, but he's definitely not open to the notion.

Nothing seems to happen, or so he claims although you see a thin sheen of sweat on his face.

"Lets go talk to Brokenfeather. I'm okay with you believing this stuff.  I don't. However, I'd love to learn how to do that TK you do, and whatever else you'd like to teach me...."

That's definitely a pass.

"And in exchange, I'd be glad to teach you how to summon a water elemental...."

PT

I smile and say," We will work on the prayer thing if it wasn't for the Lord I would possibly be really dead now, and I will teach you anythig you want to know, and learning elemental magic would be great."
I smile at him acknowledging his advances, he was the first human male she has seen in a while and her hormones did kick in, they will deal with that later but first he needs to meet broken feather she thought.
I will bring him to Broken feather's hut, I will knock on the hut door and say,
"Broken feather we have a vistor who has come to help us travel to your new city and he wishes to learn how to protect and move meteors."
I will keep smiling at him and give him the look that I am very interested in him as a friend and possible sexual partner.

Brokenfeather is truly startled to see him.

"What is he? Species?"

"I'm Human, sir."

Brokenfeather looks at you with obvious incredulity, and your guest bites his lip trying not to laugh out loud.

"I do believe I like you guys a lot more than the Lekostians. I'm grateful to them, but they're not nearly as much fun."

"Lekostians?" Brokenfeather says.

"Other aliens. Except they talked in concepts, not really in words. No sense of humor."

"I was not joking."

PT

I try hard to keep from laughing and then I say,
" I believe he was sent here for a reason like myself Broken Feather and he wants to learn the mind moving power to help protect us from Meteors when we make our big travel to the new city."

"I would like to help, both because of Amanda, and because, well, that's what I do....I mean, usually. I try to help people out." He shrugs, and again those odd-shaped muscles under his shoulders ripple his skin.

Master Brokenfeather recovers, and nods.

"Very well, I will begin training him tommorrow. Will there be any others showing up..."

Dust stirs on the ground of the hut. A bone pops out of the ground. Another bone follows it. Muscles begin to clad these bones....

PT

Tom slowly appears, and is rather surprised.  He recognizes Amanda and says, "Er....right.  This isn't what I expected, but Hello.  You remember the very short period where we were all recruited to fight in the last world? I've been given a ring that lets me do largely the same thing.  I need help fighting a horrifically evil thing I know very little about, but could use the help if you're able and willing."

I look at Tom and she says," Yes I remember you you helped protect Oak and I in the park as we made our escape, My new friend here needs to train while he does that I guess I can help you , but I must return here to help these people reach their new city, God has asked me to do so."
I still stand there completely naked not even realizing it.
I turn to Broken Feather and I say," Broken Feather I am called to help others, I will be back to do as I promised please train this one and when I return we will find your new home."
I bow my head and pray," Oh Great Lord guide us and help us fight this unknown evil and guide my new friend here and assist in his training and assistance to Broken feather and his wonderful people, I ask for your guidence and strength, I pray in Jesus's name, Amen."

You receive a certainty that your prayer is answsered with a 'yes', and a sudden God-given awareness that you're naked. The rules that did not apply when you were the only human female on a planet of avians are now back in force.

PT

Tom politely, and with rather astonishing skill keeps his eyes right at face level and above the entire time.

He bows to the Threet and says a short greeting in their language, assuming they look remotely like Threet and says, "Know that your own distant kin are helped by this mission as well.  Thank you for allowing her to come."

He says to Amanda, "Let me know when you're ready."

They look like Threet, but primitive, uncyborged, and this one looks old which you've never seen before. The Threet elderly male stares at you in utter shock.

"You have a strange way of speaking. But greetings to you." He nods as he speaks back in Avian.

PT

"In many worlds there are humans.  It stands to reason that in many worlds there are Threet as well.  They have had a troubled past, but they are my staunchest allies in the world I am trying to help.  Well...two worlds back.  It gets complicated."

I feel the Lord's Grace, then I try to cover myself with my hands and run to my hut. I dig out my old clothes and put them on, they feel a little funny but I feel better. Then I head back out and say to Broken Feather,
" I will be back good friend keep learning I will be back soon."
I then turn to Day and say," I am ready to go Tom when you are."

Tom attempts to invoke the magic to return them.