Re: CHAPTER 1: Huoshui Day 3
pre rping out the things huoshui did before bed..... knew there was going to be a lot of back and forth so did it in chat.
3:00 AM
OK, resting you hear people talking about things. It seams the mermaid found the reality bomb the ship had was a fake and they are being taken custity of... you can see a few govermental ships around it and there towing it down to the moons gate. Also it some of the people that work on the station seam rather sure they will be evacuating least part of the station now.
3:04 AM
Huoshui
Glad to hear the whole bomb thing was a fake. Also concerned about evacuating part of the station, people could start panicking. He tries to find out a bit more information on this, maybe asking an official or one of the ones talking about it.
3:10 AM
when more sure they are some where they won't be overhurd one will talk "Well the time between now and the paradoxal event is shifting, there tring to recalabrate but it seams to be sooner now. And with the mess in the docking bay, tention between the vets, and the bomb threat.... they just think it's best to start evcuating and move the acution to Neo New York."
3:12 AM
Huoshui
"All of our efforts have moved the event closer... this is disturbing." "If it will keep people safe then evacuation would be best. I just hope we are not moving the horror over to New New york. Thank you for sharing this with me."
3:15 AM
"well even if we do they are more cappable of handling stuff down there. Personaly, I think it's those infiltrators. I bet they had some sorta plan and if it whent wrong, they would do something else..... and things were going to go wrong no matter what, now they just whent wrong for them sooner"
"or thats just the second stage of there activities"
3:16 AM
Huoshui
"This will make those who don't want the auction to even take place be more vocal. I mean if it is surrounded by so much danger, how can moving it really make things better. This just adds better arguments to not hold it at all."
3:19 AM
"Well unless we pay for the labs supplies ourselves they have to do this, it's how they get all there funding, if we stopped it they would have to shut the lab down."
"If that happened then building would likely be distroied next time it passed through the nebula."
(the building)
3:21 AM
Huoshui
"I see, I am sorry to hear that. Well I hope then that the right people are the ones who win the auction. Then again right is based on opinion."
3:22 AM
"Even if they didn't sell there hunk of metal... people would still be after it where ever it whent"
Huoshui
"Indeed. Sadly such an object will always been desired."
3:24 AM
"Money is the sorce of all evil they say.."
3:27 AM
Huoshui
"Many things have been said to be the source of evil but mankind has proven many times that it needs neither of these things to turn. Mankind and its ideas and believes are the most harmful thing."
3:29 AM
He just shrugs "I'm not a phelosipher"
Huoshui
"Ha, neither am I but you pick things up when you had to hang around a bunch of old monks for most of your life. But don't tell them I said that."
3:31 AM
well when your done talking there, then what?
3:32 AM
Huoshui
seeing as I lost the robes that the temple gave me I should apologise to them. Also I guess some of the members might want to be informed about the elders killer.
3:33 AM
Well they give you a new robe, and the staff is repaired. As for the killer no more than you already learned about her.
Huoshui
They got an alter or place of pray around?
3:35 AM
they have places to pray yes.
Huoshui
I take a moment to pray properly that luxuria's trip to the next stage of the wheel is uneventful and that she has better luck in the next life.
3:36 AM
ok
Huoshui
Also the same for the elder.
ok...going to check on the tattoo?
3:37 AM
Huoshui
which one?
lol the one you wanted
3:39 AM
Huoshui
heh.
Huoshui
Huoshui rises from praying and finds one of the older brothers.
3:40 AM
There are a few so not to hard to find one thats not bussy.
3:42 AM
Huoshui
"Do we have someone of this temple who can assist me in extending my ritual tattoos."
3:43 AM
They say there is and take you to him once he's free.
3:47 AM
Huoshui
"Sifu, I wish to extend my markings. I find myself in more and more dangerous circumstances, and I was unable to help save all in today's conflict. I have caused two people to be lost."
3:48 AM
"are you unable to center yourself with the markings you have now?"
3:52 AM
Huoshui
"These markings are Kaja. They represent healing, restoration and the self. I was unable to focus through them to stop the claws that were throw against my ally. I have always found myself wondering by myself, these marks are of a solitary monk. I am on the next stage of my journey, and it appears that this stage is more violent than I could have ever imagined my journey would be."
3:55 AM
"The marks are ment to help focus your mind and body, give a chanel to guide your chi. They are the most simple of tools. You are moving beyond them now are you not?" He seams conserned, having hurd you trained with more pasive monks.
4:00 AM
Huoshui
"I believe so. My training back on Ganymede and with my mentor, it has all been that of using Do as a focus. I had never truly used Do in such a manner as I have had to recently."
4:01 AM
Huoshui
"I have now fought along side Wizards, knights and those who use this advanced "Science" thing."
4:04 AM
He laughs some "People find many ways to use there energies to change the world around them." He hums some "I would sugest using kedo (i think thats it... a form to practice over and over? *shrug*), making the Do second nature is a better method" he sighs some "unless your looking for some sort of weapon rather than a basic tool"
4:08 AM
Huoshui
"I have little in the way of weapons. Those I have are tokens of allies I have trained with. One of the enemies in front of us today, use something that was very similar to our claws. I am seeking something that I will be able to turn on any of this enemies allies, this stage in my journey will have me facing more of her kind."
4:12 AM
"That is magic that is beyond many of us, It takes grate skill and an enlightened spirit to weave the paterns of the tapestry into such forms.... even then they become a part of who you are, woven into your patern they will shape the way you feel and think"
4:17 AM
Huoshui
"Magic and Chi comes from within. Any power or skill I wield should come from within or you must become one with it. This is why I come to you and not a smith, I understand others paths require tool use but I have always found Do and the power I can draw out from within to be more satisfying and fulfilling. All of my time with the brotherhood I have been told about how I was a brother in a previous life and that I have great potential, my master even came to my home world to take me for training personally. I want to show I am worthy of the time and effort that has been put in to my training, I wish to prove I am worthy."
4:20 AM
"If you wish to bind such paterns to your flesh you should seak a tool that matches your own essence. Take for exsample the Dreamwalkers, when they create tattoo's for spirits to inhabit for there shape shifting markings, they pick animal spirits that most match there nature"
4:22 AM
Huoshui
"I see. I cannot say I understand such matters. How would I find out what would suit my essence? Would I need to seek such a thing out."
4:24 AM
"If you wish to bind with a spirit beast or the like, but if you just wish to find some one with the ability to work mystic paterns into your flesh, then you must think of patterns that will suit you."
4:27 AM
Huoshui
(Can huoshui notice the pending firey? He is one fluid atm)
(pending firey?)
4:28 AM
(oh no not likely with out some intespectiveness)
(and it wouldn't change that you have a fluid essence... it's a taint in your reseneance)
Huoshui
(Well Huoshui is dynamic essence.)
(dynamic fluid resonance)
4:29 AM
(yes essence though is like nature and resonance is like demenor)
(it takes a lot to shift your essence)
Huoshui
(how the heck does one see dynamic essence?)
4:31 AM
(high awarness or prime of 1... and it would just look like your free quintesence ... well being dynamic and flowing through your body)
4:33 AM
Huoshui
"My essence and chi flows through me in a dynamic manner. Flowing and changing. I have often thought of my chi as a flow that I give direction too. Is this the sort of thing you mean."
4:35 AM
"Yes... You essence is always moving and going some where, sothing and like the river. The patern rending tallons are sharp, ridged, and entropic"
Huoshui
"I see such a thing would be counter to my own flow."
4:37 AM
He nods "if it dose not affect you, it is rejected and will not work as it is ment to. Weapons are tools, it is how they are used that makes them weapon. If you seak such a weapon, you should find one that is not at nature a weapon but a tool to use, that can be used as a weapon"
4:42 AM
Huoshui
Thinking upon the previous battle Huoshui forms ideas. Solan, electricity runs through his veins as chi flows through His own. Anja used that same element to enhance Kairos' blade.
The storms that ravaged his homeworld before they were allowed to come out of the bunkers they hid in
4:44 AM
ok so what do you tell him?
Huoshui
" Shǎndiàn, the element of this apparent new age. Would this not fit."
4:45 AM
Huoshui
(Lightning)
4:47 AM
"It depends, but yes it fints the base of your essence. It is a tool, and energy, and with all forms of energy it has manny possablities"
4:51 AM
Huoshui
"It is used to power many things. What does it depend on?"
4:52 AM
"Wich spirit or resonance you use I supose, not all are the same."
Huoshui
"So now it would be a search for a spirit. I am afraid to say I have little experience in this area would you be able to help or is there another I might ask."
4:56 AM
"If your choice is to find a spirit I supose I could help.... I have trianed in the balance of the mind, body, and soul. Knowing such things alow me to bring out things in peoples flesh that is true and pure. I have not reached a point I can bind the spirit, change the mind or bodies of others.... but I could help you in your search and first contact"
Huoshui
"That would be very helpful." Huoshui bows his head
4:59 AM
He nods some "for this to work the best, I must observe your mind, body, and soul. The way it flows, and it's natures, so I can creatue proper foci for you"
Huoshui
"I will assist in anyway I can."
5:01 AM
"just relax and be open to me." He spends some time meditating, and when he is done starts to use some ink of sorts to mark your skin with a brush creating inticrit paterns over your body.
5:03 AM
Huoshui
Huoshui meditates and waits.
5:05 AM
Huoshui
Opening himself to the brother
5:08 AM
Once finished he nods. "Thise markings will help you attune to the spirit realm. I will atempt to find a spirit that will suit your essence. This could take some time as most spirits of such are ether too energedic or to bostfull and loud.... well... not so much, it is hard to explain if you have not studied them. Are you sure you have the time?"
Huoshui
(I think I have time. We were given leave right?)
5:10 AM
(there is a few hours before you normaly go to bed.... but takes to long you would be up late)
Huoshui
"I have the time. I do not believe I have any appointments."
5:11 AM
Well once set to work he prepares a room and meditates there with you and some students. After two hours of meditation though still nothing has changed or happened at all.
5:12 AM
contenue to stay up then?
Huoshui
yes.
5:15 AM
once the spirit realm is brought closer the local harizon weakoned enugh, the first hour after words there is nothing... not giving up though it's almost another two hours before there is a suden brake through. You feel a shift and the world starts to melt away along with the brothers with you. Soon you find yourself setting in the cloudy mountains of the east, like where your sept orginated.
5:17 AM
Huoshui
Huoshui is confused, he had never experienced something like this. He looks around seeing the homeland of his order stretched out before him.
5:18 AM
The coulds bellow start to rise, in every derection they bellow and swell above eachother. They don't seam to be growing dark like it was a storm... but walls of clouds bellow up everywhere around the mountain colapsing in on eachotehr over blocking out the sky.
5:21 AM
Huoshui
Huoshui rises from his meditation position. And watches as the clouds rise in their unusual manner
From the clouds bellow a grate deep and hardly laughter that echos like thunder.
5:23 AM
Huoshui
"I am Huóshui Zuìquán of the Akashic Brotherhood who can I say I have brought amusement to?"
5:26 AM
There is some more laughter a deep voice matching it, like rolling thunder responds "So you have pride little one, in your name if nothing else." the clouds start to pull in on eachother as the form of a masive dragon starts to flow forth, a grate serpent like beast. It's shape slowly shrunk down as the clouds flowed into it untill it coiled around you a few times, it's body stoping once it's a good 3 yards so so thick.
(well 3~5)
5:27 AM
Huoshui
tightly or surrounding me
?
Surrounding.. no where near touching you
Huoshui
heh.
5:30 AM
Huoshui
"Yes I take pride in the name the master gave me. Why would I not, I trained years to earn it. How could one not take pride in this."
5:31 AM
"It is not hard to see through you child. Even most resonently you are conserned about the two lives you could not have saved, you do not share with your brothers the two that you did save"
5:35 AM
Huoshui
"Yes I am glad I was able to save those two. They may continue on their path. But I fear that one or both of the lives lost were directly my fault, if I had not pressured the elder into looking into the matter we discussed he might not have been targeted."
5:36 AM
Huoshui
"Also the lives I saved is not the reason I seeked the brothers help."
5:42 AM
"Not all paths we go down are our choice, and your thoughts are not on them though." He laughs some looking down on you stroking his beard, the clouds of the beard braking apart and reforming. "You seam to think you can just call on the thunder, bring down the sky to use as you see fit?" He smirks some "You are full of worry and your body takes more pride in you than you do" he says poking the primordial marks you where born with. "But you think to comand my brothren, my children?"
(command the power of... i mean)
5:47 AM
Huoshui
"I am of the Chi'n Ta, the Lightning People. The Wu Lung also talk that our nation was born of the dragon. It is true that I do not often express the pride in which I feel for myself and my people but it is in my heart and I seek to show it in my actions."
"And what is it you offer for the power?"
5:49 AM
Huoshui
"I am a monk. I have little to no material things but I would suspect that you are beyond such desires."
5:51 AM
"Then what you bring is all you can offer?"
57 mins ago
Huoshui
"All I have stands before you. I am a Akashic brother, I extend my will on to the world using my Chi. Any and all power at my disposal is used for the further ascension of mankind. I have a dragon nest on my home world, it is but a small waterfall I use to meditate but I would offer the energies it produces to you. If the name we give it fits then I am sure you would have use of it."
(dragons nest is an akashic name for node.)
51 mins ago
He looks more serious as he lowers down, the coils flowing away to allow more iner coils to lower in pace, till he is as close to being level with your face. "Things that are to come grow far worce, things that will happen will shake you being. You are of the river and we are of the wind and storms... ever shifting and never still. Show us you can move on from such things and focus on the now. Show us that you can take pride in what you have done and not focus on what you could have done. When these times pass show us that you can be strong and bost to us what you have done... not lost in the what that could have been."
44 mins ago
Huoshui
"I see. One can not dwell to much on the past. Now and the future is where paths lie. Two paths continue and two paths will begin again. Yes. As we are taught, the wheel. As you say I am of the river, I must adapt my flow to the things of the future what lies ahead."
42 mins ago
"I see the lessons your kind has learned from the spirits and interspection contenue to be passed on." He rises up. "The world has changed and we are less and less remembered. I am not sure will be with this world much longer... soon I shall slumber and likely never wake."
39 mins ago
Huoshui
"All of us are having to adapt. More and more councils of our elders speak of how Do is becoming less and less relevant. It is becoming for difficult to teach people our ways. I myself having come from a remote island on Ganymede, was brought up on the old ways. The old ways need to be remembered, there is always wisdom to be taken from it and given to the next generation."
36 mins ago
"We dragons have sleep in the bodies of men before. If you do as we have said then we shall slumber in yours.... but there are some things you must do for us for the power be bring to you"
35 mins ago
Huoshui
"What would this be?"
31 mins ago
He rises up, much of his body rising up and fadding into clouds once more. "If you accomplish our demandsd then we shall share our name, our heritage, the gratest of our stories so you may share them.... and you shall bare them on your flesh." He looks back and down at something then to you. "Shall you live long enugh for us to fade into a final slumber, then you must bequest your flesh be perserved and treated with the respect that a dragons grave demands" The last part quite loud and bostfull again leaving the echoing rolling thunder of his voice behind.
24 mins ago
Huoshui
"I might last longer than expected dragon. It has been said that the phoenix has laid its mark on me or that my avatar seeks to lengthen my time on this cycle. I have not aged for decades now, I do not know the limit of this but I am older than my form would suggest. I would be glad to share the knowledge of the dragons with all those who would hear it. My journey has already left its mark on my flesh" He looks to the heavy scarring on his hands. "I accept these terms, I will endeavour to no longer live in the past and would gladly hear the stories, heritage and names of your kind."
21 mins ago
"Then seak us out after you have watched the beast of war make it's mark." he fades back into the clouds and you have the sensation rather like passing out but instead of blacking out you find yourself laying in the dark room with your brothren.
20 mins ago
Huoshui
in a daze he still calls out in a futile attempt. "what do you mean a beast of war?" he says in a weary voice. realising where he is he tries to pull himself up.
He looks at you oddly as the studens wash the ink off you with damp rags. "What do you mean?"
17 mins ago
Huoshui
"I met with a Lóng he spoke to me. I fear we have more danger to come. " seek us out after you have watched the beast of war make it's mark." this is what I was told." he looks around the room. "how long have i been out?"
15 mins ago
"Not very long, we know there is danger to come." He sighs some "The beast of war is said to be a face of entropy... but it may not be the same, it could be a name but it could be a discription or a metephor. Spirits do not always give strait answers or even strait questions"
12 mins ago
Huoshui
"Another told me that spirits are circling and swarming around this station. Is this still true."
11 mins ago
"The draw of the stone they dug up from the storm is strong, yes"
7 mins ago
Huoshui
"I am to witness the beast of war leave its mark. Ha, today I have already witnessed two beast leave their mark."
5 mins ago
Huoshui
"Thank you for your help. It has been... most enlightening. I for one will need some rest."
He simply shrugs. "Well perhapse you will know it when you see it?"
3 mins ago
Huoshui
"Indeed. There has been alot of predictions of horrible things."
2 mins ago
"Sleep on it brother. It is late and nothing can be done about something we can not understand or know of. If you like we can try and find anothe spirit in the morning... otherwise you should wait till this one will speak with you again"
Huoshui
"I will sleep on it. There is much to think about." He leaves to take his sleep.