OOC: Here is a placeholder message for JohnA1nut's new thread, GMed by Tadeusz.  :)

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The eight-armed goddess with a necklace of skulls surveys you.  Whether with displeasure or favor, you cannot tell.  You saved one of hers, who had been ready to die.  You ate an ice cream cone that was tie-dyed by Stevie Nicks.  And the Soul Train was playing loud, but you got tossed off by a railroad bull, and landed among stiff, crackly pieces of grass in a field.

And then you smell clean dirt under your noise, and feel relief at getting away from the toxic air of that bizarre world of magic working cyberpunks and megacorporations.  You look up, and the Big Dipper is bright in the sky as is the Moon.

You're in a field, bounded by barbed wire, but heavily laden with growth, and ten feet away is a small tree growing amidst weeds, and pulling something down from that tree is a young deer.  Beyond it, you can see a herd of perhaps ten more deer.  Beyond them seems a thin road of aphalt??

I'm just wearing hospital pants. That bytes. Hope it's not too cold. Scriff my gear. Now I am looking for my armored coat.

What's around me? Where am I? Scriff vectors? Go to scriff vectors.

The temp is in the mid-sixties, and the breeze is just enough to raise the hair on your arms.  Its right on the edge of chill, and pleasant night.

You only track two scriff vectors, that are not far apart.  One seems to be moving widely as you move, while the other is not moving so much, so you go back to try to track the first.  Its your armored coat and such, and its stuck in a tree.

It takes about ten minutes to climb up the scraggly tree in the night, getting a few scratches, and get your stuff.

The other, paradoxically, is easier. You hike two miles down a road that is much cracked, and has large weeds growing out of the cracks until you spot your stuff sitting at an intersection of Bakersfield and 1470 roads.

In the distance you hear a scream more like a howl. It is clearly not coming from a human voice, and it echoes out over the empty woods.

Is my hammer glowing? The aura that lets me know magic works here. Is magic useable?

Gear up. Backpack, toolbelt, 50 revolver, hammer, etc. Try to find civilization. Look for a human settlement.

It glows brightly, and the ground seems to radiate a milder Chaos.  There is Order, but its deep underground in the masses of continental plates and in the sky winds overhead, but even those seem to have been touched by Chaos.

It almost makes you want to stagger, this whole world seems tilted toward Chaos.

You head further down the numbered road, and after a mile come to a burned out car on the side of the road.  Its still night.

Chaos!!!! GOOD!!!!!

Kneel down, try Chaos sight. Not Order sight. Chaos sight. I'm looking around to see what's what and where I am. I think Order sight might be too difficult here, but Chaos sight should be easier.

With Chaos sight...

You pick up lines of Chaotic energy curving over the horizon and dropping out of the sky.

You note the car is missing its bumper.

You sense a great source of Chaos to your left, which you realize is North.

Down deep in the Earth, a long way away, you barely detect the massive flows of Chaos, and to merely touch that superheated magma miles beneath the Earth leaves you shaking, and sweating.

With Chaos sight...

You pick up lines of Chaotic energy curving over the horizon and dropping out of the sky.

You note the car is missing its bumper.

You sense a great source of Chaos to your left, which you realize is North.

Down deep in the Earth, a long way away, you barely detect the massive flows of Chaos, and to merely touch that superheated magma miles beneath the Earth leaves you shaking, and sweating.

Okay, I didn't see anything particularly useful there.

Start walking until I find something I guess.

You pass a burnt out trailer.  Later a pair of burnt out homes.  And you've joined a wider road, four laned, and are passing a gutted Circle C.

There is a five thousand gallon gas tank shaped like a pound of frozen sausage, aka a pig, which is now bent to look like the letter L, and is sitting across the road from its home.  An upside down car is atop the gas station.

Its about an hour before dawn.

Okay, somebody let some Chaos loose around here.

Am I still Sam Jackson?

Wonder if I curried any favor for saving Skull Girl in the last world.... I'm not going to seek that god, but who knows? Maybe it might seek me.

Ever seen The Hunger Games, Catching Fire? Without spoiling it too much, a character redirects a bolt of lightning to cause Mass Destruction. I'm wondering if I could do that. Create something that would channel the world's Chaos into outer space.

Still looking for civilization.

Yes indeed.

Yes, you're still S.J..

Interest yes, favor is more problematic.  The entity does not have a normal human perspective on things.  Remember her servant was all dewey-eyed about the Destroyer.

The general idea seems sound, but the amount of Chaos is huge. Really huge.

You travel on, and dawn comes over the prairie....and the outline of a great metropolis ahead is seen by its shadow...and then the light hits it, reflects, and a stabbing light near blinds you.

But after a minute, it does away, and eyes watering, you can make out about twenty miles away the shining, metallic towers of a major metro.  But you've never heard of one formed of the same material, and all steel.

You can see great Order ahead, and even greater Chaos.

Try the Order teleporting. Last time I did it, it knocked me out for four days. But, how do I expect to get good at it if I don't do it? So, I believe I created an Order channel and added Chaos to it, to make something like a river to flow myself there. Try to land on top of a building. Maybe I'll be safe there for a while if I do pass out.

You gather up Chaos from around you....

And you notice more is coming down, and so you look up, and see a second sun in the sky.  Its small, and orange, and radiating Chaos.

And you establish a differential between one of the steel towers of Order and your buildup of Chaos, with you as the plug between, and the outlines of a tunnel about you.

It seems better, but...

You pour powerinto it, and .....pop. It collapses.  So do you. You wake up three hours later.  Still, you came closer than you had before.

You weren't quite clear where I am. Did I teleport? Where am I exactly?

You did not teleport. It was too hard to hold a stable jump tunnel.  So you passed out where you were.

You wake, and its still the morning.  The skyline looks kinda familar, but it seems to be made of solid steel.