The space between universes is desolate, and void. Space is empty, but the Void doesn't even have space.

And yet, the Void is infinite in dimension. It is 0 dimensional, 3 dimensional, infinite dimensional, -1 dimensional, imaginary dimensional, even spaghetti dinensional and more all at the same time.

It was in this non-place that Azraille found its non-existence.

It's hard to remember to remember anything in a void nothing exists and you shouldn't and very barely do.....  lol

OOC: I'm tired of highlighting spoken word with color. Let's try no colors for awhile.

IC:
Suddenly Az finds itself in a void... Different than the nowhere shi once was/wasn't. Az can think more clearly, and there is an androgynous woman with hir. The woman speaks, "Greetings, Azraille. My name is Theophili. This is very new to me..."

Well being able to think clearly is arbitrary when your mind is torn up, and your greeted with pain of the sorta wounds being blown up and eaten up by the void can cause. Shi pants and looks around and at Theophili squinting hir eyes. "gnnnn what?"

"Apologies. If you'll allow me..." Az can sense that Theophili offers to heal all physical malidies, raising Az to a level of health only an experienced and rested athlete could hope for, and a state of mind that Sherlock would envy (temporary or permanent is yet to be revealed).

"In this world, there are four forms of magic. Spiritual magic. Magus which amplifies spiritual powers. Technology. And Balur which is an entity with power over the physical world. At this time, Balur fights the other three. There may come a time when all four work together. In fact, you posess a power possibly never before seen in this universe. You represent a fifth magic. You are the only reason I cannot say that peace among the magics WILL occur.

"I have been led to summon you. In doing so, a new multiverse has been created. Normally events return to their known course regardless of minor changes, but no more. You are the beat of a butterfly's wing which brings the hurricane.

"One of my favorite writers, known by your personal writer as Scord, writes an experiment, inviting your writer to join in.

"They would call this a breaking of the fourth wall. Nevertheless, such is the nature of my powers that I am aware of their existence and attention to this conversation. I know more about them than they know about either of us.

"I have many gifts to give you, and these are but the first."
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"......."

She rubs the back of hir head as shi just blinks some. Well about the last thing she remembers clearly was a univurse or few being born ... first hand... in her face.... x.x

"That makes less sense than I'm sure you intend... so what your some god like thing but talking about evermore godlike things beyond reality as anyone knows it because your especialy godlike and know more and.... why do I have the feeling I've had conversations like this before.....but if i'm going to put a damper on peace why are you doing this?"
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"As for peace, you misunderstand me. I knew when the peace was going to occur. I no longer know. It may occur in one week, or never at all. Your presence has Changed Things.

"In any case, I brought you here because I was asked to bring you here.

"I am certainly not a god, though I am very powerful. In my universe, there are 6 High Wizards who each have more power over their given field of Magus than anyone else. Mine is the 6th field of Magus which is rarely spoken of, and is continuously hidden. I am the most powerful being of biological origin in my universe. For now.

"I have a gift for you. You may choose to take it or reject it. It is simply this: that you may know the mind of your writer. Do you accept this gift?"

Has some vague recollection of something and ... "um yah I think I have had my fill of 'gifts' and 'blessings' and I dont like the idea of not being able to turn off some other beings thoughts paticuarly if those thoughts might hurt."

Theophili laughs, "I always find it funny when I guess at something that the Writer didn't.

"Before I place you in the world, do you have any questions or requests?"

Oh it's Azraile. ^.^;

"Um.... put me some where nice?"

Theophili giggles, "Of course! You will likely see me again. I am what might be called a Deus Ex Machina. But you will find it impossible to speak of my existence. Probably.

"In any case, I will be placing you in a place known as Stellaland. It is completely safe, and you will be able to leave whenever you choose."

And so Azraile finds hirself in Stellaland.

OOC: I'm adding Stella, Estella, Star Lady and Kantoku

Guesses shi's with the bunnies, as the only other option is the Anaima place and a white void. So what looks like a curvy, tall, human herm with wings, cat ears, and a tail just poofs naked in a field of bunnies?

Whatever form of clothing Azraile would likely imagine hirself in, shi is wearing.

Among the Leporidaens, but they do not fear hir.

Nothing? Some robes?  lol

Shi blinks some rubbing hir eyes looking at the smaller bunnies. "um... where am I?"

Robes.

One of the Leporidaens says, "You are in Stellaland, my dear. This is the heaven that our Lady of the Stars created for us. When we die we come here. The living can visit us and return to their homes, but we pass into a different realm if we leave."

Shi blinks "I'm not dead am I?"

"I don't think so. This is only heaven for Leporidaens like me. Are you from Nexus?"

Shakes hir head. "I don't think so." Shi sits up and looks around. "You said there is living people here?"

"Indeed! Star Lady, if you can hear me now, could you please come?"

OOC: you have control of Star Lady. She would have been aware of Az's entrance (though not how it happened). Do you want to conduct the conversation as both Star Lady and Az? Or shall I write for Star Lady?

(would rather keep my other chars out of it as much as possible, makes things complicated)

(That is to say you can do it as its a difrent univurse but if I start messing around with them in it could figure things that apply derectly to make them in any univurse and the like)

Star Lady appears in their midst. "Hello, newcomer. I don't know you. How did you get in?"

"I am not entirely sure, she was just explaining what this world was."

"Well then," Star Lady says, "is there anything I can do for you?"

Rubs the back of hir neck. "I am not so sure... I guess getting out of here is a good start. Though I'm a little curious why I'm waking up in some one else's heaven and I can't remember how I got here... or much at all..... but I really shouldn't be here should I?"

Az remembers the conversation with Theophili.

Star Lady responds, "You may be here if you wish it. You can neither harm others nor come to be harmed while you are here. But if you wish to leave," and suddenly the two of them are teleported by Star Lady next to the exit Portal, "you may do so by going through this Portal."

OOC: I believe this Portal opens into Auraluna, correct?

(ah ok well not like shi can talk about it like you said, and yes it did.)

Blinks after going through looking the massive station full of portals and ships over in awe.... considers checking out a tavern or the like to listen in on people talking and learn more... then facepalms. "I should have asked for money... or least what they use for money... gezee..."

Az hears Theophili's voice in hir head, If you reach into your pocket, you will always be able to pull out exact change to pay for anything. Unless you'd rather be on your own...

"Ok, that's creepy, your not planning on watching me all the time are you?" Shi looks around as shi walks. "I kinda apreshiate the idea of some one looking out for me all things considered and a little help would be nice, but I can take care of myself... and I don't like the idea of not having privacy."

If you like, I can watch you with a non-sentient copy of myself which will delete any knowledge which you might not like known. It will be able to help you if you want, but will leave you alone. And it will make no judgements about what you do.

Alternatively, I can truly leave you alone, though I will let you know that the most powerful beings in this multiverse would greatly envy you for my interest.

Nevertheless, with regard to you, your freedom is paramount to me, and I will not interfere if you do not desire it.
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Shi sighs...

"Fine you can watch me and stuff but I think I can take care of myself, but I won't pass down something to keep me from living in a refrigerator box till I figure stuff out."

Theophili giggles, and fades from Az's mind.

There is an assortment of taverns, inns, hotels, restaurants, shops and more.

Shi walked along to one of the port towns rather fascinated by the fact this massive port seamed to be made out of the same material and it looked alive... it made hir wonder if it was self aware, so out of curiosity along the way she found one of the thickest support structures leading down from the distant center, and placed hir hand on it... trying to ether sense a mind or soul shi could reach out to and um... say hi?

Partial Success

A nearby golem, which had been lifeless a moment ago, comes to life and approaches Az. "Greetings, traveler. I sensed you trying to communicate, so I am using this vessel to facilitate the process. I am a Kodama, and I stay near this area. What can I do for you?"

Smiles weakly. "Oh, for the most part I was just seeing if this place could talk... seams like it should be able to, unless they are keeping it from reaching such a point."

The Kodama-Golem shrugs apologetically, "To be honest, I'm not that powerful or important a Kodama to know about that, but I could probably find out for you."

((To be honest, I forget. Aren't all the Wardens (including this one) connected to the Mother Tree, and the Mother Tree is the center?))
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(no that was just the reactors and stuff.. the large wardens are there own tree's they just use that core system... so long as one of the cores survives it dose.... though bigger tree needs more cores)

So the Kodama could find out that thee is one, but shi doesn't know at the moment.

"Oh well...  Could you tell me more about this place?"

"Most certainly!

"This is Auraluna. Apparently, it was once a moon which had been the ejected gold core of a planet. The people who colonized the world below had long ago mined it until it was hollow, but kept it in orbit by giving it a living organic plant-like skin. Eventually, a woman named Aflae created a feminine plant-based lifeform named Stella. Stella learned how to make Portals, and one day created the Portal to this place where she met the Scil Phin, and the Comowe. She had already met a different people known as the Starfish Folk.

"Stella and Aflae saw the potential advantages of a place like this and created the plant-based habitat you see all around. I am one of the many Kodama that this tree has produced.

"Aliens from all over the place come here to trade with one another and travel from place to place.

"Aflae is from the world known as The Grolms. The Grolms and a bunch of other worlds are in Oner 0. Nexus is kind of the capital of Oner 0."

"Soooo they found a gaint whiffle ball and built a space station / biggest port town ever in side it..... I guess that makes sense. So any of these ships exploring?"

The golem begins to look very disinterested, "I'm sure there are. I wouldn't really know, I'm more concerned with pollination, flowers, insects and the health of the plants. If you were interested in that, the Comowe or the Humans would be your best options." It points out a Comowe.

"oh, wow.... any plants pollinated from insects across the middle of the station, or do they all go along it's 'surface'?"

The Golem looks excited again, "Oh, both! Some are capable of flight, and they can go right through the center!"

"Ever tried to teach them to use the portals?"

"Oh, insects don't need to be taught. They move about well enough. Sometimes we encourage them to go a certain way."

"So who are these Comowe?"

((Had to research to remind myself))

"They are basically human, but with slightly different bone structure. See? There's one right now!" the golem points out an oddly shaped human floating through Auraluna. "The ones in here are all flesh, and some of them use Magem now, but on their homeworlds they use different technologies, and are called 'cyborgs'. Even though some are being born on even those worlds with Magem abilities. They're usually brought to a Magem planet and raised there."

Shi nods, thinking that seams familar to hir, and goes to ask about exploration to him/her after thanking the golem.

(would be nice to get az mixed up with the others lol wouldn't mind losing the story braking for that unless you have something in mind you really want to do for the story braking)

OOC: Alot of people get confused easily when too many characters are involved in a story. I think they could handle one of your characters (or 2 of it is the Sangwen and Ngelt) but I wouldn't want to get too many of them involved. For instance, I was planning on using Star Lady as an NPC for the scene with her (but if you like, I could tell you what I want her to say and you could edit and post it).

Azraile can do a whole lot of things if shi remains separated from the other world.

But! You could always invite the other players to join your adventure over here. I can add them to group 2, and as long as they understand that this all takes place in a divergent timeline, they could play in both.

IC:
The Comowe woman is very friendly to Az. When Az asks the Comowe woman about exploration, she sends Az to one of the buildings with a sign out front which reads, "Comowe Multiverse Exploratory Commission". A Comowe man sits at the front desk and greets Az, "Greetings! My name is William. How can I help you?"

Shi smiles some "I was hoping I could join a crew."

"Wonderful! We are indeed recruiting. Do you have any particular type of planet you would like to be involved in exploring? Or would you prefer Deep Space exploration aboard one of the Portal Ships we've procured? And do you have a preference for which Oner you explore?"

Shrugs. "I was just thinking... I don't know much about anything, so... I thought why not learn about stuff while learning about things no one knows anything about!" Shi giggles some. "So yah, besides it sounds fun, there any going places no one has ever been?"

"Indeed there are! One is leaving very soon. If you hurry you'll make it."

The man hands Az a card with symbols on it, and gives hir directions to the outer surface of Auraluna.

It dont take a rocket scientist to figure out shi can fly...figuring out how though wasnt as easy as shi thought. But once in the air it seamed more natural and it didnt seam shi even needed hir wings (though they help!). Shi gets going flying faster as shi gets a hang of it and flies the whole way there.

OOC: whichever cliche that would go under, give it a *

IC:
In the floor at the end of the tunnel is a port hole into the spaceship. A Comowe man is stationed at the entrance, and when Az presents her card, she is brought on board.

The spaceship is of Comowe design, with the computers and electronics replaced by their Magem equivilants. Some of the Magem tech is AAFT, some Company SC, some Anima, some Starfish Folk, some Comowe design and various others as well.

Az is shown to a briefing room, with various persons of various species sitting around bored. There is a view screen on one wall, showing an image of the ship from outside. The people in the room all take note with interest when the ship suddenly disembarks from Auraluna. A Portal opens before the ship, and the ship coasts inside. Suddenly the Portal shrinks and then begins to move (the view tracking it). The screen displays the words "minimum speed" but it is moving unbelievably fast through space.

A door opens, and an authoritative Comowe figure enters the room.

She says, "Greetings! Welcome aboard the Starship Terrastar Voyager. I am the Two Eye See here. The captain is on the bridge at the moment.

"Thank you for signing up for this explorative journey. We are pleased to have you join our crew.

"Our mission is to seek out new life, and new civilizations. We are to go boldly into galaxies never before explored.

"When you leave this room, your skills will be assessed, and a position will be assigned. The ship has an artificial intelligence which you can consult at any time for answers to questions.

"In the meantime, do you have any questions for me?"
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Shi shakes hir head. "No, I didnt exspect to leave so soon but I'm happy to be on board."

One of the new crewmembers also speaks up, "Where do we sleep? Also, what was your name?"

"Sorry, I am Commander Diana. You will each have quarters assigned to you."

Another alien raises his hand, "How long will we be gone?"

"That is hard to say, but what we do know is that we can return home very quickly if we need to. Our maximum speed would allow us to cross 4 billion light years in the blink of an eye. Even so, we will not likely be returning for at least 1 year.

...

"If there are no more questions? ... Good. Please report to the holodeck for assessment some time in the next 8 hours. Dismissed."

Everyone begins to get up to leave.
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Well... she heads right on over... why not.

Azraile heads into the hallway. It is a plain corridor.

((It can be frustratingly long to force a player to navigate things like this. But, it might make a difference in the long run. Perhaps not the whole thing, but how would she try to get there? List a few things she would attempt, and what she'd try if they didn't work))

Ask how, check computer, just wonder....

The first person Azraile asks is new like hir, and he doesn't know. But when she says, "Computer," a voice suddenly replies, "Yes, Azraile?" and after she asks where the holodeck is, the computer tells her to follow the blue arrows. Suddenly on the floor in front of Az are blue arrows leading the way.

After following the arrows down the corridor and into an elevator, the elevator stops and the door in front of her says, "Holodeck". The door slides open and reveals a simple black cube of a room with a spherical distortion of space in the center ((a Portal)).

Once inside, the door closes, and the computer tells her, "Please enter the Portal".

Part of her can't help but think that dont quite seam right but dose so.

Shi floats through Portal Space as would normally happen (though I believe this is hir first time). Then she comes out into a blank white space. Suddenly a short feminine figure appears in front of hir:



"Greetings Comowoid. I am your assessment supervisor. In the mission we are undertaking, the skills of our crew members will be tested to the limit. As such it will be important to understand what skills are at our disposal. Do you have any suggestions?"

"Not really and I'm not Comowoid."

"Ah, but you most certainly are, CLOD! Whoops! I apologize about that outburst, I have leftover code from a previous iteration of my personality program CLOD! Oy. Sorry.

"Anyway, you are most certainly Comowoid, as you have digit extension limbs, gravity connectors and even a central sensory bulb containing an olfactory sponge, communication hole, visual input spheres and emotional expression sheet. You have a body structure similar to the Comowe species, and are therefore Comowoid. Though you may be more familiar with the Nexun term, humanoid. Just exactly what is your species, anyway, clod?"
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Ummm..... "I am not realy sure exsactly." Hir DNA is multi strand though so that might confuse it... ancient ancient race so DNA is vastly difrent from modern races descend from them. So in this game would probably be like the DNA of an angels kid. Lol

The program blinks, "Oookay... complete assessment."

Suddenly Azraile is in a strange environment. There are obstacles set up before hir. The green woman appears. "By the way, my name is Peri. You may call on me from anywhere on the ship, not just here. I am one of the available interactive personalities for the ship AI.

"Incase your cloddness has missed the point of this exercise, we want to see your physical prowess. Begin."

OOC: Have you ever seen "American Ninja Warrior" - it is a cross between that and Parkour practice equipment.

Shi's got quite a bit going for hir there, so I think shi would do fairly well in a phsyical thing, though I think aptitude wise probably would show anything involving a high intelligence... or the fact she has empathetic powers and healing powers.

Okay, make rolls for each, and describe what you think would happen in a series of tests. I might make adjustments, but I'd like to see what you write.

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Well shi hadn't changed into a uniform so shi just pulled off hir robe and shifted forms, into a nine foot tall were-tiger with two pairs of wings on hir back, winged horns, four breasts/arms, three tails and some other minor feature changes...  All in all it made the activities rather easy. Balance and jumping was nothing, climbing well hir claws could dig into metal enough to get a grip, segmented tenticals slide from under hir wings to just sorta upside down spider walk hir under any overhang griping... and long jumping she just floats over sticking hir tounge out at Peri.... I mean... shi could fly... made the rest kinda pointless to get past in and of itself... but shi only used it once, and couldn't help make a face over it.

Even for being just off the ass end of a univursal ass kicking shi still could hopefully put on a nice impressive show.

Using:

Shadow of a 'man' (2/2)
 Ex-fighter, Ex-scholar, Ex-lover, Ex-mage, and Ex - whole person

*Kinaari Royal <2/2>  pumping <1/2>

High Succubus Lord - <1/1>

00:10, Today: Azraile rolled 29 using 7d6 ((4,5,6,4,3,6,1)).

OOC:
In general, only a ghost should use multiple cliches for one purpose. Physical people should stick to one cliche at a time. It still might augment the results if you roll for multiple clichés in multiple rolls.

OR

If you do as you did below, I can go by the average of what the rolls would have been, which in this case would be 29 divided by 3 = 10

In either case, your description of what happened is fine.

IC:
Peri observes Az's display, and when finished she nods in approval.  "I certainly did not expect to see shape-shifting. This could be quite useful. When you shape-shift are you able to reduce or increase your mass? How big and how small can you be?"

"For the next test, you will be given a crew of 3 and be presented with a situation."

Suddenly Az was standing on the bridge of a starship with three crewpersons. There were labels printed over things to identify them for hir. The view screen also said, "Mission is the same as stated in the briefing."

Suddenly the view stopped moving.

Engineering/Navigation officer Klinkletter said, "Sir, we have picked up electromagnetic telecomunication signals emenating from a star system 200 light years from here. Instructions?"

Security officer Tosh 3.14 (a clockwork android) responed, "If they've had EM communication for 200 years, there's no telling how advanced their weapons are. Recommend we proceed with caution, sir."

The communications officer, Bradiwine busied herself with the signals.

"I'm not sure.. would have to try."

When the scenario starts she addresses them. "Anything worth notting in them? And what kinda scanning tech could you expect in 200 years? ... could we fly in keeping in the shadow of a planet? er that is to say keeping one between us and them?"

"Uncertain at this time." Bradiwine said.


"That is also uncertain at this time. Tosh is right." Bradiwine said.


Klinkletter answered, "Are you kidding? I could hide us behind and asteroid if I needed. That'll be no problem. As long as they don't have any passive scanners out too far."

Shi thinks and shrugs, "well move us in behind something, and get in close enough to see what they have, odds are we can get close enough to tell some thing before we get close enough for them to notice us, and if not we should have time to get away if they are not so friendly.... if nothing else we can get a lot of data from there transmisions as we fly through them."

Klinkletter complies and they approach from behind the neighboring planet.

Bradiwine reports, "Still no deciphering of their language. Their technology seems to have dropped EM telecommunication about 50 years ago. Nothing more to report."

"Only 50 years of EM comunication... is magem in this oner? That could be a bad sign if they didn't encounter it." If there is magem shi has them keep moving in... if the oner don't have magem in it she has them move in on high alert. They could be at war or they could have wiped each other out, and people left behind could need help. That or some natural disaster could have done much the same.
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Tosh replies, "This is Oner Comowe, so some Magem is present, though not in this galaxy. We are probably introducing some Magem dust, but even that is minimal."

As the ship moves in on high alert, Tosh says, "There! Look at the military ground installations they ha-" suddenly a bright flash fills the screen.

"Where did that come from?" They had the moon/planet between them and the planet, they should have seen anything coming before it saw them.

They had moved out from hiding, and slowly approached while on high alert.

Tosh shouts, "Direct hit! Sheilds holding. It was a laser. Shall I return fire, captain?"

Bradiwine pleas, "But it might have been communication! We can't just vaporize them for nothing!"

"Do you call a laser beam to our ship 'nothing'?! Preparing to fire."
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"The attack any serious threat to us?"  If so has them move back behind a planet, if not don't bother..... ether lets them analys the attack to see if it was a signal and has them try and contact the planet using the same EM frequencies they use to use.

Az hears Peri's voice inside hir head, Hey, clod! I just thought you should know, your actions here matter. There is an Oner where these events are occurring, and you are controlling the captain of the ship. Don't be to much of a clod, clod.

Klinkletter moves the ship behind the other planet.

Tosh says, "Other than the act of war they just perpetrated, no serious threat yet. Our shields can withstand two more direct hits."

Just then, a small undetected satellite orbiting the planet they're behind relays another laser burst from the aliens.

Brandiwine offers, "No discernible communications yet. But I'm not giving up yet."

Shi out right screams back in hir head. WHAT!? STOP THIS, RIGHT NOW!

Even lashes out a little over it.
20:41, Today: Azraile rolled 5 using 1d6 ((5)).

Oh, cloddy clod McClodface. It can't be stopped now. See it through as best as you can.

I'm not controlling some one else. Just sits on the floor. "Your captain is under the control of an alien presence and unfit to command, second in command take over... explanations can wait." I am not taking some one else over or the lives of others when I don't know anything about there situation, there ship, or anything else ... if this is real I hope you are just malfunctioning otherwise I quit. I am not working for anyone that would do this.

You CLOD! That didn't happen. Ugh... When this is over I'll explain everything. For now, suffice it to say the captain is in control of hirself. In a way, you are influencing, but in a way shi is completely controlling hirself. Though, at the moment, shi is freezing from irrational existential panic.

"Captain! Get ahold of yourself! What do we do?" Klinkletter shouted.
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Just sits there and tries to clear her mind.... if what she says is true... if she isn't thinking then she isn't having any influence on the captain.


Kinaari Royal <2/2>   (oh yah last was "protect" <1/1>)
00:19, Today: Azraile rolled 7 using 2d6 ((4,3)).

OOC: what are you trying to do?

Block out all thoughts.... zen mind yah know.....  if her thoughts and actions are influencing the captain then it should mean no thoughts or actions means the captain is free to act on hir own.

GHA! CLOOOD!!

Suddenly Azraile feels Tosh shaking hir, "Captain, there's no time for this!" but in his own panic, Tosh shakes the captain too roughly and it breaks hir neck.

Everything goes black. Then, Az is back where shi was before shi stopped participating in the scene.

You just caused hir death, clod! This won't stop until you finish the scenario! Do you not realize what infinite multiverse means?
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:27, Sun 02 Oct 2016.

"You caused her death by not stooping this when I said to, and technically I just did." (finish that is) Is trying really hard not to be fummingly angry.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:38, Sun 02 Oct 2016.

The captain has a heart attack and dies.

Reset.

I'm not doing this. The scenario isn't finished until you consciously see it through.

Bit of a hot button for hir it seams. "I will not be controlled and I will not control others." shi shifts again roaring out what shi says, and drawing energy from the privet oner (if thats what it is) or if a holodeck shi draws power from the ship, to lash out and tare down the scenario in a near on rage.

Kinaari Royal <2/2> -> <0/2>
02:36, Today: Azraile rolled 24 using 6d6 ((3,6,5,2,4,4)).

Normally using up so much energy would cause Azraile to collapse and feint, but she remains conscious. Otherwise, nothing changes.

Peri appears and is very annoyed, "Alright, clod. You've proven your point. Your the most noble clod to have ever walked the world." She slow claps, "I am sooo impressed by your determination to keep free will for everyone. Bravo, clod.

"But, as, I, told, you, CLOD. The captain has her free will. And AS I TOLD YOU, everything will be explained AFTER you finish this scenario! Stop being a cloddy clod and finish the scenario! I guarantee you will realize that you have not broken any moral value you hold dear. Just do it!"

Shi grabed Peri by the neck with enough force shi would probably normaly be braking the skin some with hir claws. "Let me out of here." Shi wasn't exactly in the mood for this sort of stuff anymore.

Azraile's claws don't touch anything as they just go through Peri.

Peri hangs her head. "If you quit now, without completing the assessment, we'll be forced to pay you for the time you've spent with us, send you back to Auraluna, and blacklist you from any Comowe jobs. Our blacklist is shared with a few other large corporations such as AAFT, Anima, Company SC and others. You won't be able to get a job with any of them.

"Did you hear what I said, or have you stopped listening?

"No one's free will is being compromised. I can't give you the details... wait a minute. There is one way.

"I can't tell you why this is all happening, but I can tell an exact copy of you. I can create a mind-state copy of you inside of a simulation and tell the copy everything. The copy can then talk to you, but also can't tell you why. But the copy could tell you if it is justified and if you should continue or not.

"Would that be acceptable?"

Shi just growls with frustration. "Are you insane, even if I knew what those companies are you think I want to have anything to do with anyone that would force such things on people, what the hell is wrong with you, and you want to copy me just to tell me it's ok? That's insane!?! Hey congratulations you exist now, your reason for existing is to tell yourself we are being reasonable people and then we are going to delete you..... yah makes a whole lot of fucking sense... are you retarded?!?"

OOC
Sorry ^.^;  But it is kinda messed up from her explanations.  I get it though, deck is locking onto realities where her choices happen and showing them.  But the char has a lot of PTSD type stuff related with control issues. She can't remember but it would still be a very very sore spot to be poking around.  Now at this point shi thinks Peri is crazy/malfuctioning or the Comowe are some fucked up people.... so what Peri says is being judged by that bais. ^.^;;

So on one side.... analising would show
good physical codition
shapeshifter
was able to draw energy from oner/ship some how
strange unexsplained anomalies from Echo of the First Word

And bad side...
Some serious problem with slavery of any kind that could jeperdise rationality.
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OOC: Well played!

IC:
"Look, the copy would also have free will. Shi could exist in any simulation shi desired, or if shi preferred shi could be given a new body to her specifications. Then shi could go anywhere and fo anything as a free agent. We would see hir as our responsibility to provide for and give her a pension to ensure shi never wanted for food, clothing, protection or shelter. Shi could be sent through a Portal to a new unexplored Oner and then the Portal could be closed off if shi desired. Or shi could be placed in storage, only to be awoken under circumstances of hir choosing. Shi would only be deleted if shi wanted to be deleted."

Rubs/grabs at the side of hir head. "Thats.... the most irresponsible view of the sanctity of life I've ever hurd are you mad?" granted it's the only one shi's ever hurd but.... Shi was feeling cadged and it wasn't helping her calm down if anything it was making things worse, her stripes where actually starting to glow.... which was middy disturbing likely as the energy from them of course wasn't anything Peri had ever seen before (from what the mage said).

Peri was frustrated beyond words for a moment as her mouth hung open, "What, prey tell, is a good view on the sanctity of life in your cloddy opinion?"

"No keeping some one locked up for one!!"

Peri looks shocked, "Who's locked up?"

It's hir turn to be frustrated beyond words....  Finaly though shi just looks up and glares. "Let, me, out, of, here."

Peri throws up her hands, "Fine! But I was telling the truth. You have to at least see the simulation through. But I do mean see it through. Watch what shi does, without you controlling anything."

While this plays out, she explains, "The multiverse is theoretically infinitely infinite. That means that every possible decision or outcome could occur, even highly unlikely ones such as an entire Oner suddenly turning into mashed potato. Because there are an infinite number of possibilities, we can safely say that anything you do will be done by someone somewhere somewhen. So we use a special device to search through all possible Oners for one that closely matches the qualities we want to test in you, and watch what you do. I told you that you were having a real effect on real people because you needed to treat this as a real situation. The stress needed to be real, and you were too relaxed. Now that you are quitting, I can reveal this. You were only controlling what she was doing in that we were searching for a universe to project that closely resembled the actions you were taking. Now do you believe me that there was no moral issue here?"

The Captain refuses to believe the laser is an assault, as such a race should have more powerful weaponry, and know to use it at random intervals while these laser beams are hitting according to a perfect pattern. Tosh gets angry, but the captain calms him down. Brandiwine eventually determines that the aliens communicate through images and light displays, and that the laser is actually a condensed copy of their language, libraries, movies and other media chosen for first contact should it ever occur.

The technology disrupting effects of Magem are explained, and people from the planet volunteer to go with the spaceship back to the ship's homeworld to learn how to adapt their current technologies to Magem based tech.

The simulation ends, and the Portal out appears.

Tries to coment but thinks better of it and just leaves, if she was given a room goes to it and locks herself in till she can relax and calm down... if not then just finds some part of the ship with no one around.

As soon as shi leaves the Portal, returning to the ship, shi is confronted by two guards waiting for her. While walking with hir to the room shi had been assigned, one of the guards inquires, "So, where's home for you? Where would you like to be dropped off?"

"I don't have one."

"But there must be somewhere you'd like to go. Anywhere?"

u.u

"just... just please leave me alone ok?"

"But... we can't let you stay here. Now that you are dismissed from service with your pension, you can't stay on board the ship for longer than 50 hours. ... I tell you what. Someone will be outside your door at all times or escort you if you go somewhere else. When you know where you want to go, just let them know. Otherwise, I'll be back in 45 hours. No one will bother you until then. Fair enough?"

"Yes just... I don't want to talk to anyone right now." she then will lock herself up for a good 10 hours or so before being ready to talk to anyone again.

She speaks with the captain or who ever they let her see about all this. "I'm sorry about all this, but you really should get some ones permission or speak to them before your going to put some one elses lives into there hands.... not just a, oh by the way you could be killing people in the middle of people being hurt." Shi rubs the back of hir neck. "I clearly have a problem with imprisonment and doing stuff like that to others, I would have done fine if she had just keep her mouth shut... I don't know, I think I could maybe have been a slave and..." she looked ill and acted weird. "oh.. gah... excuse me, nuasius all of a sudden... god.. oh.... um... yah... something bad must have happened I can't remember.... not that there is much I can remember."
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"I understand your concern, but consider the position that we are in. We have to entrust people we barely know with the lives of everyone on board, and in some cases with entire planet wide populations. We cannot risk putting someone in a position of power who might crack under pressure.

"As difficult as that simulation was for you, it showed us that you couldn't handle the stress of the situations you may face aboard this ship. It saved lives.

"Even so, we are the first to acknowledge that people can change, and that past trauma can be difficult to process.

"We have a psychologists who may be able to help you, if you want to be helped. They can find anything that remains in your brain. I have heard rumors that there are those on other planets who use some form of magic and can access memories that don't even remain in the brain.

"In any case, you still have 40 hours before you need to decide where you want to go."

"I didn't ask to be in a position of power. I just don't know of anywhere to be or do anything... So I figure the best place for me is doing new things and going new places. I don't belong anywhere anyone can send me..."

"Hmm... Well, if you would like to stay on, there is one thing you can do. I would have to insist that you attend therapy at least once a day, and you'd have to start off on the lowest tier and work your way up. But you could be assigned to security, sick-bay, engineering, science or support."

security: high chance of joining away team or being involved in action
sick-bay: nurse
engineering: grunt
science: go-pher
support: kitchen & cleaning

"Well I unless your testing found something else I guess security seams the best option, I'm not sure how much help I would be anywhere else."

"Do you agree to the daily therapy session then?"

Shi sighs and nods.

"Excellent. I'd like you to begin your first session as soon as you are ready. Head to the same place you were tested. Your therapist will meet you on the other side."

Shi rubs the back of hir neck, "Is there some where else we could go?"

At first surprised, then, "Oh, I see. Not a fan of that particular fake world. I assure you, it will be a different personality greeting you and in a different environment. But if you would prefer something a little more tangible and old-fashioned, you can make an appointment with the Ship's Therapist in hir office."

Shi nods "I would rather do that."

"Very well. I need to return to my duties now. The AI will guide you to the Therapist's office when you are ready. Make an appointment for today, and report to the Security Team briefing at 0600 tomorrow." She gets up and lets herself out, dismissing the guards as she leaves.

Azraile is free to do as she pleases and go where she wills.

She nods and goes to make the appointment then and rest.

OOC: Want to write out anything for the resting?

Not that I can think of.... though sent you that stuff being that the mage could probably figure that out I am not sure some one else could. *shrugs* or they would think those kinda memories are the kind you should dig up lol

OOC:
huh? you sent what stuff?

the PM

When the time for the appointment comes, Azraile knocks on the door, and a pleasant voice calls out, "Come in!".

Inside the comfortable office, sits the type of person Azraile is most comfortable to be around.

OOC: I need you to describe the look of the therapist. While in the Private Oner, the AI found the image that would be the most appealingly comfortable to Azraile, and the therapist took on this appearance since no one else was as severe a case.

Likely a little tinny bit fluffy for cuddability.... a perfect figure is sexy but a tinny bit of wieght makes them look snuggly! Also probably atractive so probably well endowed, the kitties like big titties. =p    Exstra fluffy in the fur sense, like big tail and the like.. big ears... just adorable snuggable characteristics and sexy ones like nice curvy figure and the like.... so would be very odd to find some one like that. lol

If shi is shifted so az is likely to just be flabbergasted a bit and flushed a lot, very red ears and deeply blushed!  lol   That's NOT what you expect walking into a therapists office....  que uncomfortable behavior due to unprofessional thoughts of snuggling, cuddling, squeezing, and less innocent perverted things.

If shi suspected the doc was a shape shifter that would make things even more complicated. lol  Totaly unsure how to feel about that, deffently worce about inapropreate thoughts. lol

I'm going to leave the image you developed as you named it with a few alterations. The therapist is 1'6" taller than Azraile, and she is dressed comfortably in a way that doesn't emphasize any sexuality. She also appears to be much older than Azraile appears. But now I know how one of Az's crewmates looks. BTW, taller than Az or shorter than Az - which would be more attractive to hir?

The therapist greets Azraile, "Welcome to my office, Azraile. My name is Greg. Would you care to take a seat?"

There are three possible seats (four if you count Greg's lap), a large fluffy beanbag, a wingback armchair, and a folding chair.

Once seated, Greg says, "So, tell me all about yourself."

"Greg?" she let slip out, but shi cut short anything else and bit hir lip sitting down. (taller if looking for comfertablenes, more comferting to be snuggled by some one bigger than smaller) She thought the overly male name was odd for some one obviously not male but keep hir mouth shut. Shi takes a seat in the beanbag as it looks the most comfortable of the three, not taking the fourth into account as an option.

"Um... in all honesty you probably know more about me than I do.... I mean I don't remember much more than a few days and most of those days where.... well there wasn't anything to remember.... at least I think it was days.... none the less I only remember a good 20 hours or so of anything substantial."

She rubs the back of hir neck. "I'm not from anywhere that exsists here from what i'm told though and I'm not going to get any memories in any way other than time so... I just thought, I don't know anything about anything and I don't belong anywhere so why stick around in places people know about ... why not go with people to places where there just as clueless as I am?" looks down hir tail currling into hir lap.

Greg is sitting on the floor. She smiles warmly while she listens to Azraile, and ((only if Az would be okay with it)) when Az says, " clueless as I am?" Greg lovingly cups Az's head in her very large hand and says, "Well I am certainly glad that you chose us." She leans back and says, "I want you to understand my role here, and how I came to look like this. I am a hybrid of the Comowe and the Scil Phin. I am very empathic, and have spent years training to be a therapist. When I discovered that we would be having sessions, I took a walk by your room to get a feel for you. I felt that this form would be the most appropriate to take. We, that is the Comowe, have significant body modification technology, so it was easy to shift my appearance. I was born Neuter, but I felt that I wanted to be female for you. Sort of like the mother you no longer remember. I will be honest with you about my emotions regarding you, and I want you to be honest with me. I will not cross the line of sexuality with you. You are safe here. Nothing you say to me can be used against you in any way - unless you tell me you will hurt someone. Even then, you will only be protected from that possibility in a way that maintains your freedom.

"I know that the Captain told you that you must attend these sessions, but if you feel unhappy with that, I will reccomend to the Captain that we discontinue therapy. I will not keep you here against your will.

"If you feel uncomfortable with something I say or do, please tell me.

"How do you feel about all of this?"

Shi bites at hir lower lip flushing some but seaming a little uncomfertable. "You changed the way you looked to ... that.... Why would you do that?" Shi wasn't sure what to think. "I guess it's all fine."
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Greg smiles, "I'm sorry to make you uncomfortable. Please understand, I am not attached to any particular body image. I have lived for thousands of years, and have experienced life in all kinds of bodies. I have learned to accept myself in each form and others in any form. I enjoy this form tremendously, and will probably stay in it for a few decades. This kind of body modification is only skin deep. I am the same person I always was.

"Now, since you only have about a day of memory, let's explore that at least. If you feel up to it, I'd like you to tell me about your time in the simulation."

"I was doing perfectly fine with that till that VI tired to convince me I was controlling some ones mind and wouldn't let me leave unless i did what she wanted... who thought that makes sence to be programmed in there or is she malfunctioning?"

"Peri was asked to push the limits of the people she tests.

"How did those two things make you feel? Controlling someone else's mind and not being able to leave?"

"Well people should have some idea what there going into.... I don't know, can't really put into words, just it's not right to do something like that and I won't do it.  As for imprisoning me, that made me mad thats prity clear I think."

"Didn't your recruitment officer tell you what to expect?"

"Not really, just It would help figure where to place me."

"Well, I'll have to mention that to someone. The recruitment officer was supposed to tell you more than that. You were never truly trapped. All you needed to do was repeat the word 'stop' three times in a row, and the simulation would have ended. All of our simulations are like that.

"But I have to wonder, you said, 'it's not right to do something like that and I won't do it'. What did you mean? What would you not do?"

"Then your computer program needs updating too to recognize more than a safe word, because I told it to let me out a hell of a lot more than 3 times.... a LOT more." Shi huffs some and grumps. "controlling someone..."

"That must've been very frustrating! Tell me, what did it feel like to be asked to control someone?"

"Yah particularly when there was no way of making her listen to me. It felt like.... um... I don't know.... It wasn't exactly like that anyway... she told me I was like half way through just out of the blue.... it really pissed me off and made me think this was all insaine."

"I see. I don't imagine that you like Peri very much then.

"Did you come to understand what was happening?"

"After like 15 minutes of me screaming at her to let me out she exspained things and let me out."

"If you want to talk about this more, I'll be glad to continue talking about this. But to be honest, I'd like to get to know you better. What things make you happy?"

"I'll have to figure that out I guess"

"Would a hug make you happy?"

She blushes again and shakes hir head. "Thats ok, really"

"Well, I am always here to listen to you. Come back sometime tomorrow." Greg gets up and opens the door for Azraile.

Azraile's next scheduled task is to report to her security commander. She has a few hours before she needs to be there.

Curiously checks out what kinda other people are on the ship.

The design of the ship incorporates a very large central section, where people of all sizes and shapes mingle. This is the social zone, with special task-related areas branching off. There are insectoids, humanoids, molluscoids, fungoids, plantoids and more. Azraile sees a number of people lined up at games around the bar. One looks like a short version of Greg, one looks like the Fantastic Mr. Fox, one looks like a Wookie, one has pink skin and hair, one is 20' tall with 15' long hair, and there are others as well.

Is surprised at the variety and number of the crew and just sits to people watch till its time.

The Fox hits on the buxom young Cat woman with large ears, a curvey figure fluffy black fur. She brushes him off, but he doesn't get the hint and is clearly annoying her. The Wookie-like person is playing darts with a scruffy nerfherder of a humanoid. The intelligent looking woman with pink hair and skin is chatting with various people on plush chairs while sipping a dark liqueur. The long haired giant is slowly dancing to the music. A few fungoids are taking deep breaths from some bowl with fumes wafting up. A Moluscoid is making artistic colored slime track patterns on the ceiling. A Plantoid is staring out of a large viewport, chatting with a few other aliens.

High Succubus Lord - [1/1]
23:47, Today: Azraile rolled 6 using 1d6 ((6)).

Has been feeling and sensing things quite a bit on these energies in people.... tries to feel out a gay/bi man near the fox and impart the very 'enthusiasm' the fox has for the cat, from him onto the other guy... for well the fox.  It was a long shot but for some reason shi just felt she could so this sorta thing... though it was not an easy thing to do with out some sort of arousal and preferably contact... but the fox was already worked up and well... it was worth a try.  Give him a taste of his own medicine.

A man in a military trenchcoat and aviator's hat slaps Mr. Fox on the behind. Mr. Fox is startled and turns to the man, his back to Az. They chat for a second, then Mr. Fox slaps the man's cheek, and immediately leans in and kisses him on the lips. They hold hands and wander off to a private corner, leaving Buxom Fluffy Cat alone and looking bored.

Giggles, well that was unexpected but least he's leaving her alone. Shi heads over to give her some company. "For some one so determined he wasn't very picky was he." shi giggles.

"What? Oh, the Fox? No, I guess not. I'm Liska, by the way, what's your name?" Liska is playing a hologram turn based strategy game which pays out game tokens if you win. "Wanna be my player 2?" In this game, up to 5 players can fight against the computer.
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"Azraile... sure, how do you play?" Lays down and gives it a shot.

Liska shows Az how to play, occasionally accidentally touching hir while pointing something out, and at one point allowing her soft furry chest to brush up against Azraile's hand. The game is designed to allow multiple cooperating players to pay minimal attention to it while they drink and socialize. As such, Liska orders a drink for Azraile. "What's your favorite drink, Azraile?"

"I don't really know, and I probably shouldn't find out, I am suppose to report to security in (however long shi has left). My orientation wasn't very complected and no one told me anything about the testing besides it would figure out what I was suited for.... it didn't go well.... If your going to play nasty and use a safe world you should make sure some one knows that before you start.... "

Azraile has 2 more hours. ((sorry if there may be continuity errors there))

Liska stares in disbelief and then says, "Those incompetents!

"But , hey! You're with security? Me too! I just came from my orientation. This week I have 8 hours of Bridge duty tomorrow, and I'm supposed to do 4-8 hours of physical training 4 out of the next 7 days. Other than that I'm free.

"As for the drinks, I can tell you've never had the drinks in here. There are drinks that can give you their fun effects from the moment you sip them. Effects that, for some drinks last only as long as the drink itself, and for others up to 24 hours later. You can choose drinks that give you hangovers... Some people actually do want that... But I'm going to get a glass of Trusty. Wanna try it? You'll be sober for your meeting," she says seductively.

Shi nodds "Ok sure." flushing some as shi flicks hir tail, consentrates on trying to beat her though!

OOC: It's a cooperative game. That means that she is on the same side as Azraile.

IC:

She signals a bar tender. "I should let you know, Trusty stimulates the production and release of oxytocin - the love hormone. It can strengthen relationships, especially if you drink it with someone you find attractive. Are you sure you'd want that? I'd be happy to drink it with you if you do."

(forgot)

Emphs blushing an awfull lot. "My..." shi chuckles nervusously "You know for some one who was just a hair away from beating off some ones afections not five minutes ago...your coming on awful strong." Thinking she's a lesbian and not compleatly clear of the tech and magic about... "I.. you know... I'm not quite a girl you know?" shi bites at hir lower lip.

Liska looks Az up and down, biting her lower lip, "Honey, where I come from, that makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.

"Besides, Trusty can also help to just strengthen a friendship. Love and lust aren't the same after all."

The drinks arrive, and the bar tender hands one to each, "Here you are, and one for you." He winks at them, "This is one of my favorite drinks to make." He goes back to the bar, and dreamily gazes at the two for a moment before dreamily making someone else's order and flirting with a few new customers.

Azraile just gets a bit uneasy when some one is coming on hard on hir when shi don't nesisarly dislike them ether.... >.>

Is just shy in that sorta situation.

She nods some taking some drinks hoping it will help and at least get them to stop talking about it. She tries to push off it also by playing the game, but those ears blush worse than hir cheeks do and it's hard to hide.

She takes some forward and devastating coordinated strategies. Quick enough to figure out how to use troupes together she ether lays them in wait to devastate a squad as they ome into line if fire or move them in for a combined assault.

(*snickers* for exsample when I encountered http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Gatekeeper_(XCOM_2) as a boss it's escort troups died before they got to anyone, and it only got a single shot off (that missed due to affects placed on it) before it died after a few rounds of intense fire... the other rounds it was stunned/frozen/ect..... for a boss it was totally helpless...^.^)

Azrail's strategy works perfectly. The little simulated troops manage to set up the perfect ambush, and Liska's troops lead the enemy into the trap. The enemy is caught off-guard and obliterated. Together, their score even manages to reach the #46 on the game's scoreboard.

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The two of them talk for hours. Both feel the effects of Trusty building the bonds of friendship and a foundation for more if it is ever desired. Even without the drink there is no doubt that the two would have bonded in the same way.

But the time comes for Azraile to meet her new boss, and Liska has shown signs of being tired and ready for sleep. Liska says, "Walk me back to my room?"

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Shi smiles some some taking her back and giving her a hug an kissing one of her ears. "I better hurry I dont want to be late"

Liska involuntarily purrs slightly at the kiss as she goes into her room.

Azraile arrives at the security briefing with a crowd of others. Someone in the crowd asks why some people had been to an earlier briefing, and someone else responds that Security is divided into two teams to encourage healthy sportsmanship and competition when appropriate.

The Security Commander enters the room, and everyone quiets down. Commander Yar gives a general overview of general duties, then he explains that the nature of a Security Officer's position means that they must be always prepared to jump into action. He suggests that those who do not wish to abstain from prolonged effect drugs receive the Security Pharmaceutic Implant. It is an artificial organ which can manufacture and release a number of drugs which can help Security Personnel, including anti-hangover, thought speeding, reaction improvement, adrenaline and more. Those wishing to have this implant need only report to Medical Bay with their request.

Everyone is expected to perform 8 hours of stationary duty each week either on the Bridge, the Mess, the Portal room, or the Brig. They can divide their 8 hours between different locations.

To facilitate this process, everyone is given a tablet on which they can choose their preferences. Based on this information, the duty schedule is created to give everyone something they'll be happy with.

Additionally, everyone is required to do 4-8 hours of physical training 4 out of every 7 days. Other than that they're free to use their time as they like - assuming no emergencies occur.

What does Azraile prefer?

Hopefully the 8 hours standing in one place divided up through the week. >.< As much as possible... standing in place doing nothing is not one of hir skill sets.

Shi don't want an implant.

OOC Clarification
You can divide the 8 hours, but it isn't stationary work. If you were assigned to the bridge, you'd be like Lt Warf or Tasha Yar from Star Trek. If the Portal room, you'd greet newcomers and make sure they were OK to enter; and log the travels of crewmembers. It's a very functional job in any case.

There is an alternative to the implant - a set of adhesive buttons you can wear and press if you need a certain advantage boosting drug. They can be set to only activate with your fingerprint.

If Az takes no modifications, just be aware that shi may be at a disadvantage against equiv-tech enemies.

Well if they won't give perm stat equipment good enough as that sorta thing she will get the stick on one and look into the long term affects and stuff..... guesses she can get the implant any time.

You are right. She could get the implant at any time.

Once she visits medical for the buttons, she would find out that there are no adverse long-term effects. Psychological dependency may occur, but all of these drugs are designed to help a person function at a higher level. None of them are physiologically addictive, and treatment is available for those who experience psychological addiction. They are meant to be functional and utilitarian.

What do you mean by perm stat equipment? Do you mean items that boost your rolls? If so, that is yet to come. That comes with the training all security personnel are required to do.

Just gets the button.... considering they don't even know what shi is though deffently passes on the implant. XD   But will use the button.

As for the divided work, did you want to schedule any of that time to share the post with Liska?

Would probably best not to.

The rest of the orientation is fairly boring, but easy to understand. Azraile now understands where she will be needed and when. She has a lot of free-time.

OOC:
Which of the following would you like Az to do next?
-Train at the VR gym
   -with Liska
   -or without
-Visit Liska
-More therapy
-skip the middle stuff and move on to excitement and adventure
-something else

If Liska invites hir to the gym, sure shi will go.

After the Orientation finished, Azraille went to her room to sleep. She woke up 7 hours later to the sound of a knocking. Once she opened her eyes, she saw a computer image flash on the wall which said, "Hello there! I'm your computer interface personality." Suddenly a hologram appeared before hir. It said, "Hi there! I'm your computer interface personality. My name is Hal. You have a message from Liska. Would you like to hear it?"

Assuming shi does, it changes into a hologram of Liska who says, "Hey, I hope you don't think I'm being too forward, but would you like to go to the gym with me? I'd love to see some of your moves."

((OOC: since you said shi'd go))

The gym is the holodeck. There are multiple holosuites that people can go to with others or by themselves. One suite is designated the general social gym.

Liska and Azraile enter the general gym. Liska wanted to take Azraile someplace more public so that shi didn't feel any pressure toward more private activities. The gym had areas, and a person could call up any new area they felt like by telling the room what they wanted. Liska went to one of the pre-loaded but unoccupied gym mat areas and invited Az to join her. She said, "Let's spar." and entered a martial arts stance.

"Hal.. that sounds...." shi shook hir head. "Never mind..."

Shi smiles flicking hir tail and snickers. "I think forward was the drinks we had and the like... sparing hardly anything unless you have some alternative motives." shi takes a lose defensive state, not very trained. Even at hir best most of hir skill was self learned.
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The two of them spar for an hour, Liska inviting Az in, and testing her skills. Liska gave Azraile pointers as they went, casually guiding her hands and body into the proper stances. It was intimate and it was challenging. Azraile gained hand-to-hand combat skill from the sparring, though she still had much to learn.

By the time they were finished, not a few people could be caught staring at the breathless aesthetically pleasing pair.

Liska said, "Thank you for an invigorating session."

OOC: Let me know if they are going to develop a relationship. If they do, I'd prefer that it be off-screen for the most part. Liska is willing to go as far as Azraile is willing to go, and she will communicate what she wants clearly after teasing for a bit.

Shi would go about as far as a fuck buddy / lover.

Shi is very affectionate but polygamous, she has a little bit of a subconscious tick agents having kids and dedicated relations... bad experiences.



Shi blushes some "I don't think all of them think we trained in there.... lets wash up and change."
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OOC: are you willing to skip some time to give them opportunity to experience the doldrom of training and starship life? No new sentient species will have been encountered yet. A few encounters with Scil Phin on unexplored planets, but nothing else. Skip, or activate a new species encounter without the training?

OOC skiping some basic trainning would be fine

Azraile and Liska grow close as the days progress. Liska at least clearly falls in love. Neither of them seem interested in marriage or children, so the subject never really comes up. They become well known in their squads for their training program. Azraile introduces a few moves shi apparently doesn't realize shi even knows and which are completely new to the Martial Arts Master AI programs.

Azraile's therapy sessions go well. The therapist is able to reveal interesting things. ((Let me know what the therapist uncovers with Azraile.))

Over the next 6 months, 15 new habitable worlds are discovered and catalogued. Of those, only 2 are ready for colonization without further teraforming, and both had Scil Phin waiting to greet the crew.

Finally on the 199th day of the voyage the 16th planet is discovered. It is a new inhabited planet with signs of advanced technology. Liska's security squad is on call for landing crew duties, while Azraile is on Bridge duty.

The ship approaches an orbital position cautiously. The planet's apparent technological progression is stuck at coal burning steam engine and hydrogen zeppelin. No advanced observational equipment is detected, so the crew next seek out information about the indigenous population. They are a species of giant insectoid slug creatures. They have bodies 15 feet long and a head about 5 feet in diameter.

A Scil Phin is observed wandering the streets unmolested, so it is deemed safe enough to venture the away team. Liska and the others land on the surface and walk as a group into a town. The streets are wide enough for 20 of the creatures to wander shoulder to shoulder, but have numerous large vehicles motoring along them. The wheels of the vehicles are taller than most of the crew. Sticking to the sidewalks, the team's path is soon blocked by a large creature apparently intent on trapping them. One of the crew draws a laser pistol.

The captain looks in Azraile's direction. "Tactical suggestions?"

"Lower the gun and see if it's trying to communicate It's likely just curious or concerned, if they where hostel I think we would already know that." Looking to who ever is in charge of translation. "No sound, what about signals/chemical/body movement?"

As for things uncovered... possible suppressed ptsd (easly tretable though not so much to cure with out knowing what the sorce is), some serious problems about the concept of having children in line with the kind people who have lost multiple kids or had them taken away, and a bit of a mild phobia of blackholes and other (true)void related things even if there only related in her mind.... as blackholes don't have anything to do with non-exsistance derectly anyway.

She's also polemicist by nature, and a bit uneasy about a serious relation (even an open one) rather it's a fear of commitmet or just fear of relations going bad... who knows.... but Liska would have been able to figure that much out dating Azraile. She might have noticed the children thing too even if they don't talk about it. (could be why)

And even though Scil Phin arn't demons they look to much like one for her to be happy about it.


She also has some rather overly violent moves shi would have likely pulled off on a robot/holographic training session... though if the hologram is a little to realistic shi might freak the hell out afterwards.

(shi don't have a darkside anymore but when shi did shi has used some rather.... unsavory movies on people)
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The tactical officer responds to the captain's question, eyeing Azraile oddly ((unavoidable. I wanted your input, so Az over-stepped a bit, but not too much)). "Suggest scan for threat assessment and prepare a shield for potential threat."

The captain tells the ground-crew, "Crewman, lower your weapon. Foreman, scan for threats. Liska, prep the shield. And, Don, try to communicate - see what it responds to."

The creature backs off a bit, once it sees Don approach it. It uses one of its mandibles to indicate itself and then makes a non-sensical vocal sound from a speaker box hanging from its neck.

After a few minutes of talking, Don concludes that the creature wants to look in his head. "Frankly, captain, I can't tell if he wants to scoop out my brains, or hear my beliefs."

The creature manages to say, "I need my-eye-see in head you. Need mouth-speak".

OOC: I'd like to know what your character would do if shi were making the decision. So tell me what shi thinks of this all.

Foreman reports that the creatures appendages could kill a human-basic person, but their enhancements would let them overwhelm it.
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"Could it be It wants to use one of us to talk to us?"

The captain doesn't hear Az, but says, "Clearly this person is just trying to communicate with us. Will anyone volunteer to have their mind read?"

Don replies, "I'd be honoured... Besides, I already have a replacement body ready to take my consciousness if I die." Don offers himself to the insectoid slug.

The creature places its eyestalks on either side of Don's head, and trembles for a few seconds. Then, it says, "Thank you very much, Don. I will forever cherish this first contact between our two peoples. My people communicate verbally, but we also have the ability to experience the entire existence of anyone we probe. Your life is exquisite, Don, and I will keep your secrets as they are also my own."

Don looks a little embarrassed, nods.

The insectoid slug creatures are called Iscim, and value vicarious experience to the extent that their economy is based on sharing experience. They have no currency, but use their flawless memories and experience sharing abilities to create a sort of block-chain experience exchange system. They are eager to trade with the Comowe, and readily accept an outpost since their tech is all Magem compatible.

Az can have shore leave, or the ship can move on. Which would you prefer?

While OOC I know it probably won't help, Azraile takes some shore leave to see if they can dig up any memories likely messing some poor Iscium up with lonelyness of the void and a distinct want to go home and snuggle some one. o.o;

OOC: That was the point of these guys. No one, not them nor the Scil Phin nor anyone else knows how their skill works, only that it seems to work without fail regardless of how damaged the person is as long as more of their cells are sampled than exist elsewhere. In other words, they can read a dead person from their severed hand if that's the most intact piece, but they can't read the person from their severed hand if they're still living elsewhere. This is your chance to tell me as much of Az's backstory as you are willing and/or able. The Iscim will happily keep any secrets from Az about her past that you would like kept from hir, or reveal as much as you like. Their power functionally works by allowing them to experience everything that entity has ever experienced, including up to 1 billion previous lives. They have seemingly limitless memory storage and retrieval. No limits, tell all. You're welcome to control the Iscim who helps Az (absolutely any would willingly volunteer).

Past lives there oddly is only one... one of his soul being created... forged as a key to a lock.... one of many keys.... and while those souls where allowed to be born into the cycle of life and death... Azraile's soul was held away in isolation for eons keep from brith... a very old, but still VERY young soul by the standard of how much it has lived.  When it grew close to time for the lock to be opened the soul was allowed to be born, so it could join the other key-souls.



Azraile acutaly grew up in a rather normal earthlike world, grew up male with no clear powers until some how he summoned upon the powers of Echo of the First Word finding it allowed him to brake seals on himself 'erasing' or re'wright'ing them to free him of them. He never fully understood what it was he was doing and never in his life fully understood the way the Echo of the First Word works but his firt hints on it let him learn mayny things.

His nack for tapping into lay lines and his link with mana letting him become a natural at magic, and his kinaari skills making him a natural fighter. He had a skill few had seen some how linked to an interacting with the Echo of the First Word and his royal blood that let him shift into higher dementional states.... which he couldnt' figure out with out causing himself grate pain and self harm..... but still managed to use safely to shift between realities, and from time to time pull off weird tricks like slowing down time and skipping from one place to another (though not with out hurting himself in the prossess) that he some times used none the less when he or some one else was in grate danager. It however drew attention from a lot of people. Why he was a were-tiger was not something he ever understood... he found this could have just been something passed down through his famely, and just because his famely wasn't were-tigers don't mean it wasn't in his DNA some where. He accepted that.

One a powerful demoness lord. (don't ask me why all demon lords are called lords regardless of gender). She trapped him and imprisoned him for decades torturing him while also seducing him in an odd mix to try and brake him. (part of backstory) Her goal to evechaly turn him into a demoness aswell. She could turn him into a succubus like herself while she became an incubus, use him and his power till she grew strong enough to absorb him and his power and become an omnibus. However nothing was known about his heritage and he was instinctively binding her power. When she finaly tried to turn him no one really understood what happened.... all they knew was az became a herm with demonic traits and the demon lord became human, all of her demonic energies had been bound with-in his body.... and he imprissoned her in her own hell-realm and left. Something that would haunt her in the feature as he would live to regret this action gravelly later. Azraile also thought that the fact shi was a herm now and could shape shift was a result of the demonic taint, and also didn't like it much. Not only was it a bad reminder of what happened but it was embarising... and HE was male not ... that.

The fact he was part angelic and part demonic by manys standards spooked a lot of people, he insisted he wasn't part angelic but he was informed otherwise. Turns out there is an awful lot of prophecies about some one half angel half demon ending the world. An angel offered the pice of armor to help keep the demonic nature in check as no one truely understood what was going on. The armor could only ever cover his arm and could only produice one chain but it did help him bind demons. (and angels it seams though he never did) This lead to a time of him running away from his problems for the most part, going where ever long as it was some where he could distract himself from what happened.

Made a lot of temporary friends, lovers, pets.... had a lot of jobs... traveled to a lot of worlds. He became a skilled elementalist and blacksmith under the teachings of a master. His skills alowed him to learn the masters most hard learned art, how to consentrate energies (paticuarly elemental energies and mana) into crystals and then shape and fordge them into tools, items, armor, and weapons with magical power. For a time he made a living carrying on this craft, though he made sure all that bought such as weapons saw them as tools and would not missuses them.... this made a grate many people mad and saw to it for some one with such a skill he never made the fame or money he should have. (who cares if some one makes amazing weapons if they won't let anyone use them)

(honestly so much happened during this time of play i can hardly remember all of it, one thing i do remember i'm not sure why I let it happen ... guess because i was younger, dumb, and didn't know how to say no this is getting fucked up)

Eventually some one else caught wind of his powers and sought him out to make use of them a race of interdenominational monsters that went from world to world ravaging entire civilizations feeding off there suffering and evechal death, commiting unspeakable acts. They reproduced by planting 'seeds' of sorts into people they 'watered' by forcing them to commit horrible acts. Small ones at first but worce and worce ones as time passed. This time it shattered his mind creating multiple personalities. One of the personalities absorbed the powers and bound the essence of these weird deathless demon gods that stalked worlds to devour. Though instead of becoming her mate it brutally murdered her and used the energy released by her death to imprison in the dying world / universe they where trying to escape by wraping the lay lines that stretched out to other worlds back in on themselves severing the world from others. They could eventually find a way off, or some day some one may find them... but in all likelihood they where still trapped there now and would be for centuries and they likely would never find there way back to his reality.

Az tried to run away even harder from such things on one hand....but became more confertable with being a hermly sex shifter on the other. She made some friends with goddess during this time that helped her with this as there relations become rather sexual in nature.

One was a young celestial she bacame quite involved with.... her celestial form was barren and lifeless, and once they made love on her surface bringing life to her world. It was all well and good till she became pregnant and Azraile learned shi wasn't quite human. No one, let alone hirself, knew shi was Kinaari... nore that Kinaari where created from Sages (hir worlds name for the true-magi, yay I remember what they where called ^.^)... shi was closely enough related to the gods she did impregnate the young primortial celestial, and not only that she was pregnate with a goddess because of it.

His would be goddly wife was sweep away from him shortly after that, her and her celestial from dissapeared from the cosmos. Shi was put under grate scrutiny and was nearly imprisoned because they felt a person with such a rare trait should not be allowed to roam free. It took grate convening from hir lover and her mother to gain hir freedom, but shi was not allowed to see there baby and it was made very clear to hir any child shi ever had would never be hir own, shi would never be alowed to keep a child.

Shi just left her inter universe behind after that.

(next two kinda taken out of order to make more sense of things)

Shi found some very strange worlds. One where she spend many years where many civilizations during different levels of development lived, people in it seaming to chose to live with out advancing in technology and people being ok with it.  Shi learned from the temple demon there much about hirself and controling hir nature and developed a lot as a person while there.

Shi found a world that was Post-scarcity and only things of value was art and information... or rare stuff that couldn't be duplicated.... she had a lot of 'fun' there due to there relaxed moral ideas and had a good deal of influence deal to the art of fleshcrafting and various orgone farms she set up with volunteers letting her drain them of there energies.

Hir past caught up to hir though and much of what happened after that gets a big mixed up as there is some SERIOUSLY POWERFUL bocks preventing people from prying into these parts of her memories... however time in the void kinda wore those away.... and i'm guessing they have ways around such things, so some of the more emotional parts got through. (also like other things it was a long time ago and i don't remember to well)

Hir and a lot of friends got together because one of there friends homeworld was in truble but they where told they had to be swarn to secricy and would probably be gone a really long time.... might not even come back... but it was something that could determine the fate of millions.... but travel to the planet was very hard as it was cut off from the rest of reality and they wouldn't be able to even try and leave till they where done .....yata yata yata.  Shi was good friends with this guy and was running away from hir problems so said yes.

Things get fuzzy from here but seams this world was MASIVE and OLD.... choatic magics where wyld here and there was storms here that send raw choas rippling over the planet. There is a memory of a spell suddently turning into a simi-truck full of TNT being driven by an antrhomorphic pink wambat screaming in horror as it slamed into demon at one point....  lots of weird stuff seams the world was the first world in there univurse though created by gods as a prison for the orginal evil, demonic beings of some sort that where not a part of reality itself, beings of unexistance. Many of the orginal races (including sages) where created there to help build the prison around them and seal it up, and guard over it. The prison was only intended to keep there leader traped though as he could destroy everything if he got free, the lesser demons where not so much to worry about comparitively. However they could slip through the cracks and thats why the Kinaari had the powers they did. The royal famely's power was to maintain the pirson as it was bound into the very laylines of the planet, and the solar system as a whole. Everything on the planet was built around this prison and it's locks.

Azraile was born Kinaari royality and a herm, and while herms where not unhurd of amoung Kinaari there had never been a royal one.... there was a prophicy that when one was born shi would kill the imprisoned demon. So for hir own protection all hir powers where bound and shi was sent far far away. Shi found out about this stuff and that hir father was dead and hir mother was dying due to strainning to keep the prison intact.

It turned out many of the people who came where tricked as they where all keys to the locks the demon needed to escape, but this was also the plan of the gods as they all had there roles to play in there one chance to slay him. They would have to open the lock and enter the prison to fight there way to the planets core to slay him. Save ones who's role was to take to the sky and lead armies in space to fight those who would travel to the system to fight to help release there would be master.

One of the goddess didn't seam to like azrailes surging off responsibilities so she tried to give hir more responsibility by choosing hir as her angel of death, making her that worlds reaper, giving her power over life and death in hir univurses original planet....  not something shi was very gratefull for.

(it was a long long epic campaign)

It turns out azrailes role was that of a weapon... the prophecy said shi was the only thing that could hurt the demon.... and indeed in time the demon lord started slaying and devouring the power of the goddess that once bound the prisson around him till even they could not harm him.

Azraile, as well as nearly all those that fought in this quest where godlike in there power..... but none of them could harm him, every incounter he would kill more and more of hir friends, tairing there souls from there bodies to be used as keys to fully unlock the bounds and tair the planet of her people appart freeing himself.

So shi fount on till the end.... in the end shi saw only one thing to do.... shi tried to bind his power into hirself as hir people could do.... even knowing it would destroy hir. After all shi had been through destroying hirself to save a univurse didn't seam like such a bad deal. But all it did was make him vulnerable to hir creating a feedback loop between them as he devoured bits of hir and shi stole away his esence sealing it in hir.... Shi didn't have the power to do lasting harm to him.

So came the solution... all the keys where there if they failed he would use them to unlock the cage and free himself anyway.... the cage was pointless at this point there was no reason for all that energy to be used to imprison him anymore..... So she taped into the laylines.

ALL THE LAYLINES.

Turned the keys...

And turned all the power in the system through hir body like shi nothing be a lense.

There was a power that let some one use up all the physical, spiritual, and mental energy they wished to dumb into it and turn it into a single directed attack that was tought by a powerful spiritual master.... each use you had to ask pirmition from this master to use it again. Shi had already used it but at this point the retribution for braking the spiritual contract with the being was... kinda pointless. So shi turned all of hir power and all that shi channeled into a single attack while shi spread herself across all dimensions at once. Scattering hir essence into the cosmic void.....

Rather her attack succeed or not (it did) shi don't know.... what became of hir friends... hir people.... or anything is rather lost to time as shi spent eons drifting in the void sacrificing parts of hirself to stay intact......  starting with less savory parts like that nasty evil 'seed'..... that personality.... her role as an angel of death.... some of the fist things to go! Potent stuff too, keep the void at bay for quite some time feeding the nasty bits of hirself off. Bad memories easy to let go one.... power.... lots of power to feed the void.... nothing but a burden. Pointless memories......ocationaly the loneliness of the void itself feed back to it..... good memories....  u.u

Things got desperate until Theo.... welp there's another block new and intact with some one in there looking back glaring going OH NO YOU DON"T! XD

That was quite a bit, summed up to the best of my ability and memory.

Thank you.

Theo appears.

"Excuse me?! Who thinks they know what I'd say?

"Don't worry about it. I'm just going to interject here. WOW! Az, you poor soul. Your narrator finally understands, and respects your previous GM.

Az's emotions are being held in a state of relaxed reflection bathed in love and without fear. "There are some things that need addressed, but I see two futures for you. One in which you enter a realm of wish-fulfilment without love or purpose or change, in which you never succumb to the void. The other in which you find your true purpose and ultimate joy forever. The choice is yours, but it is a hard choice which must be maintained once made. The realms you've seen are not far from this one. There are certain realities that transcend the multiverse, and are available to you for deeper revelation. To begin, using your newfound self-knowledge, tell me what 3 things would most give you enjoyment, satisfaction and which losing would make life unbearable?" She thinks to herself beyond Az's perception, Player, your GM needs the same from you. From here on, this will be a cooperative effort so long as you comply. I'm not at liberty to reveal the reasons yet.

The Iscim is convulsing in an ecstatic seizure, but Az somehow knows that it'll be alright.

"I don't want to some across as rude but think the only thing I would want is to forget some of this stuff again and you to go get out of my life.... I've had enough of people controlling my life" Shi spent far to long imprisoned or manipulated by other people to this point, and had a lot of bad memories. Though shi wasn't quite sure if shi wanted to remember hir child or not. Shi did get to see her as an adult though, but the pain of losing hir was so grate.... maybe shi could just forget how shi lost her and just remember there reunion? o.o

It was probably best for Theo to stick around with Az and watch over hir, but considering Az's history shi wouldn't want any of it.

Personaly OOCLY I would say it's best for Theo to stick around, but Az would not like it. Shi is rejecting both offers and just wants to do what shi wants.
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OOC: Could you give your answer to that question, though? I'd really appreciate it, and it would help me alot. This question: tell me what 3 things would most give you enjoyment, satisfaction and which losing would make life unbearable?

IC:
Theo dissolves as if she were a fading and unimportant dream. When she is gone, Az remembers the loneliness of the void and its infinite hunger. She is able to suppress any other memory, but that memory remains clear and potent, if anything only increasing with time.

The Iscim wakes from its ecstasy and says, "You've had quite the intriguing story. I've never encountered an entity even like you. You may name your reward and I will do anything within my power to grant your request. Anything I am capable of doing except sacrificing myself will be a worthy trade."

Since Az was on the bridge earlier, Az's shore-leave will come to an end in 6 days. Shi was given an invisible patch inside her mouth. The moment she presses on the patch with a desire to return to the ship, a portal will open up and allow her to return. The patch itself also acts as a tugging "this way" sensation to indicate the direction the ship is currently in. She can return early if she wants to go anywhere else.

ooc - Shi would would like:
friends, people close to her to make her not feel so lonely
something to do to keep ocupied...
a chance to help other people

if you get past all the dumb things about hir trying to get away from hir problems..

IC -

"You can help me forget some things... for a start."

Shi didn't want to remember the void, the rest shi's mostly learned to deal with.

"Other than that I don't know, I don't really care. If you feel like you need to give me more than that I'll leave it up to you, but I think I would prefer something I could trade with some one else... Unless, well you know what I know now I guess so maybe you know of something you know that you know I could use or need?"
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"I'd love to help you forget the void - but that is something you must learn to do by embracing the Light. I can't take that memory or sensation from you, and you can't make it lose its power over you, but there is someone who can free you from the void. Right now it has you enslaved, but you will find out how to be free of it. I can't be the one to do that for you, since it has me in its grip as much as you are in its grip. You must find someone who is completely free of the void who is willing to take it from you. Only someone like that can help you forget the void.

"I do know much about you and what I can do for you. Take this advice to heart. There are those who use power to manipulate others, and there are those who use power to help others. The difference is that those who manipulate are acting in their own self-interest and those who help are acting in your interest. Few people act truly self-sacrificially, but even those who benefit from helping you will try to help you as well as they can. Even the most loving and truly humble self-sacrificing person can hurt you when they try to help if their information is wrong. But look at the motives of those who use power over you. Ask yourself: Do they love you or are they using you?

"I tell you this because I've seen your PTSD and how it is harming your current relationships. You must re-learn how to trust.

"Is there anything else you'd like to know? I've never been off-world, but I know of many other worlds I could relate to you. My planet has little else to offer other than more of my own kind."

OOC: I'm not certain if I wasn't communicating clear or if your answer is "no". Could you tell me what 3 things would most give you enjoyment, satisfaction and which losing would make life unbearable? I mean for IRL you the person, not just your character. But that is a personal question so I don't mind if you don't want to answer.

[Private to Narrator: (az is one of my personas so similar stuff)
]
Shi sighs "I don't suppose a more clear answer is possible?" Why do people always want you to figure things out for yourself, "Like where I can find some one with this light?"
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"This comes by way of one of these possible paths:
-study the Benemagus' verimagus tradition
-discover the implications of the nature of reality
-journey into your metaphoric soul represented by your surroundings
-chase the legend of the All-child and the truths behind the creation narratives of various species and cultures
Pursuing any of these options will lead to freedom or death."

Azrailes thoughts on this prity much go...

-study the Benemagus' verimagus tradition
  Magic... I'm good at magic...
-discover the implications of the nature of reality
  Yah... I've seen what happens to people who poke that hornets nest. Ether go stark raving mad or.... well stark raving mad.
-journey into your metaphoric soul represented by your surroundings
  FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NO... done that the derect way, once was enough.
-chase the legend of the All-child and the truths behind the creation narratives of various species and cultures
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g  Sounds to much like an epic grand quest across yata yata yata and shi is not getting caught up into another one of those. Shi already martyred hirself once thank you very much. Shit like that sounds more like something you got to be destined for to see it through anyway, and if thats the case it's not something you go looking for it drags you along kicking and screaming.


Shi bites hir lower lip "Um yah, whats Benemagus exactly and where do they teach it?"
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Dose this guy have balur in him and can he erase memories?

Might be important....

Gain +1 info hazard.
This message was last edited by the player at 09:55, Tue 31 Dec 2019.

I have no idea what you mean by this.

OOC: Technically he can't remove memories yet, but that's also a GM decision and subject to change. Also, he didn't technically tell Az any of her memories. He experienced hir experiences, and he can unblock any blocked memories that shi wants to know, but if shi doesn't want to know, we can assume she doesn't know. Except she still remembers the Void because of a plot device I'll be using later.

IC:
"The Benemagus' verimagus tradition is a specific kind of magic from a specific order of Wizards. Benemagus is the order of Wizards, and verimagus is the field of magic. Verimagus focuses on truth, and is one of the most potent forms of magic as it relies on the nature of reality rather than the user's imagination. It takes many years for most people to learn. I can give you the name of a place you could go to find one."

OOC: If you have a setting preference, let me know.

OOC Infohazard as in information that is a hazard to the person that knows it. Though in this case it only affects some one with subatomic natnites infused through out there brain. Not sure Azraile still has those nanites in hir body anymore being away from the system that suports them, and if they where they likely went dormate. So it would come down to if balur could become cross infected if it was dangerous or if balur incountering the infohazard could some how become infected (the more porbable outcome as a weak isolated sore of balur may incouter the infohazard and then cut itself off completely from the rest of it's kind mutating into a new kind of infected balur) My head is hurting a little to much to go into it now but it's scary enough of a possibility to have a vastly behavior/physical altering self aware nanite-mindvirus get out there that you would want to take measures to stop it if you could even if the chance is low and the infected wouldn't any more likely to be dangerous than any other person... besides there powers. If for no other reason that it was a big scare when there was counter measures built into the system, quarantines in place, and 'vaccines' of sorts.  With NONE of that.... it would run wild and affect almost much anyone it came across who didn't have a rather strong will or wasn't the least bit depressed/hurt.

Long and the short of it though was it infected people that it 'saw' 'see' it and when they connected there was ANY similarity between it's 'state of mind' and something in them. It would then CLING to that and try and form a connection with them to get it to let it into there minds where it would more and more worm it's way in until it transformed there mind. It mostly feed on depression, pain, and self loathing.... and kinda just turned people into these self harming, hyper depressed, gothy little emo fucks that hatted everything about there existance but saw everything as to much of a bother to do much about it much unless they got the opertunity handed to them. But god help it if they got the opertunity to act with out having to seek it out.  They where usaly to 'bothered' to kill themselves or comit anything to violent from some one who ran faster than they did.... but they could be some violent little fucks if they got in the mood, but seldom where..... there where some highly motivated ones..... and those where less sick emo fucks and  horror stories slashers.   Once it was done affecting there minds it affected there boddies to match there new mindset. By there time there blood turned silvery watery stuff they where highly infectious. This substance was just pure nanites and was the infection in it's purest form, the self-ware disease vector.

But it's orgin is an info-hazard that Azraile was exsposed to it, connected with it,
 resisted it's influence not being infected in the end as it couldn't take over.... but it was still up in there rooting around.

IC:
"I could probably use the name of a few places or some one I could contact to help me find teachers where ever I end up, I kinda agreed to finish this year (ooc I think it was a year) with the ship I'm on... I'm not sure where they will be where that time ends up."

OOC: I'll say it was lost in the void as one of the first pieces of hirself that Az would've tossed away. The Iscim has more powerful infohazards that would overpower and devour anything remaining, so it's safe. This multiverse has many similar entities that exist in the realm of spirits, and have their own sort-of eco-system/hierarchy. People's minds act as parts of their bodies which they shape and influence over time for their nefarious purposes. Az was already infected with those from very early on in her life, but then so is everyone else.

IC:
"Some planets would be Domicile (a peaceful farming world), Renga (an established planet of little fame or note), Krig (a planet orbiting the other side of the galactic core's black hole within the event horizon - time flows slowly on that world), and Silibal (a flat planet that fills a bubble universe). The only name I could suggest is Reuel who lives on Domicile. To find him specifically, go to Domicile and ask for him by name. They'll know who you mean.

"I suggest visiting him right away so he can begin teaching. It takes years to learn."

Theo who is somewhere else altogether, says to no one in particular and in a way that no one else could hear anyway, "Some of those lessons are practical enough that a PC can't learn them if the player doesn't also learn them."

OOC ok that works if these creatures just know not to bring back such memories... can sense they are potentialy harmfull. Deffently don't wanna deal with that, as the only cure they ever figured out is a more pleasant and less contagious version of it to override it. Az never was happy that the cure to something thats taking away there free will is something that takes away even more of there free will.

IC: Shi nods "Thanks I'll be sure to seek out one of these worlds when my time with these guys are done." is a kitty of hir word, or would go now.

Though they could skip ahead if nothing much else was planed on the ship.

For now shi will just add meditation to hir daily routine to help clear hir mind of icky thoughts.

Az remembers that there is a Portal room on the ship and shi was told in one of hir on-boarding sessions which the Narrator forgot to mention, that as a crew-member on shore-leave, shi can use the Portal in that room to go anywhere Portals can take you. Shi also has only a few hours less than 6 days of shore-leave remaining.

OOC: I was trying to encourage hir to visit one of those places while on leave since shi has the automatic return Portal in her mouth that she can activate whenever shi needs to return. But if she'd rather do something else with her time, she still has almost 6 days to explore the multiverse on hir own.

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Suddenly Liska's voice comes through Az's comms device, "Hey Az! I just got approved to take some shore leave, and I thought I'd start here! May I join you? Or would you like some alone time? I'll be fine either way."
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While shi's use to consept of intersteler craft and portals of near limitless range, shi's to use to the kind of portals that need to stationary to have that kinda range, so shi just don't think of it. It will probably come to hir, or the slug thing can remind hir being that it has hir memories. If they made it clear to hir should could go anywhere shi wanted on shore leave then never mind and just ingore all that. XD

But if it sounded like to hir that shi had to go to the planet bellow then shi would do that.... if they said shi could go anywhere shi want then shi will head to Domicile.

OOC: I know Az wouldn't normally act this way, but it also makes sense because shi'd be thinking and would easily miss Liska's communication. So don't change this, just go with it.

IC:
Liska says, "Azraile! Are you there? Are you okay?"

Azraile doesn't hear Liska, but shi remembers that the Portal room attendants told hir shi could go anywhere, so shi activates the return Portal and returns to the Portal room.

Liska is waiting in the Portal room, and is shocked to see Az suddenly arrive. She sees Az deep in thought and seeming perhaps a little worried, so she rushes over, "Az, what's wrong?"

EDIT: A Portal to Domicile will open as soon as it is requested.

It's past time to do an advancement roll, so do 2. Roll for each skill you've used so far (1 for each * beside the cliche)
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18:17, Today: Azraile rolled 9 using 2d6 with rolls of 5,4.

18:17, Today: Azraile rolled 6 using 2d6 with rolls of 5,1.  Shadow of a 'man' (2/2)**.


18:18, Today: Azraile rolled 10 using 2d6 with rolls of 5,5.

18:18, Today: Azraile rolled 3 using 2d6 with rolls of 1,2.

18:18, Today: Azraile rolled 7 using 2d6 with rolls of 2,5.

18:18, Today: Azraile rolled 9 using 2d6 with rolls of 6,3.  *Kinaari Royal [2/2]***.

18:19, Today: Azraile rolled 1 using 1d6 with rolls of 1.

18:19, Today: Azraile rolled 4 using 1d6 with rolls of 4.  **High Succubus Lord - [1/1 - 5~8].

probbably did that wrong? IDK I'm going on a lot of missing sleep and I don't remember how to do this.

IC:

Shi gives Liska a cheek nuzzle. "yah... Just they helped me get my memories back and there is a lot to unwrap. But apparently the memories of where I last was is some sorta Info-hazard the creatures of this planet are familiar with and it's just going to get worse till I deal with it. They didn't give me the best of options to do so, one was to find some 'All-Child' they weren't even sure existed kinda people have searched there lives for sorta thing makes me wonder why he even brought it up. Another has me finding a way to the center of my soul through some metaphorical bla bla bla... even if i knew how to do that I've been in my own mind before and it's not pritty place and I don't want to do that again. Paticuarly considering my soul isn't like other peoples souls for more than one reason.... firstly it was heavily altered to be some sorta key thing, and then altered again to weaponize the key and allow me to access it." She pauses thinking what is left of her gauntlent is held together because it is the part bound to hir soul so shi could probably figure something about that if shi had to. "I mean hell" she wiggles the bracelet "part of my soul is in this, not even sure if that makes that impossible to do or easier.... eh..." Shrugs "Then there like... you could just discover the true nature of reality. Um... yah... because that's an easy thing to do, and it's not like everyone who has just don't go totally insane or become some massive recluse hiding away from everyone. Sounds fun.... or you know.. I could learn magic, I'm good at magic.... yah so I'm going to go to Domicile and learn Benemagus. Easy peasy lemon squeasy."

Liska listens intently, then, "WOW! That's sounds messed up. Mind if I join you on the trip to Domicile?"

The Portal to Domicile is ready and waiting for Az when she is.

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Spoiler for what happens once Az goes through: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
Once Az emerges on Domicile, she's met with a beautiful pinkish, bluish and purply starry nebula night sky. A man with a simple oil lantern greets her (and Liska if she is coming along) on arrival. "Greetings, strangers. This is Domicile, and we strictly prohibit the use of any Magem while on our world. To make it easy, we provide these bracelets which will suppress Magem use." He hands them each a bracelet. "Now, how may I help you?"

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"Not at all." Coils hir tail around Liska as shi walks. When shi gets there shi puts on the bracelet. "I never really got a clear explication of what Magem was save that there tech ran on it and it was some kinda magi-tech. I was told to speak with a Reuel?"

"I'm Yeremiyah, call me Yer if you like. Reuel is one of our founders and leaders. He's living on the mountain to the south of here." Yer points. The mountain is just visible as a dark triangle in the distance, its top coincidentally pointing up at one of the 3 moons.

Yer whistles, and firelight streams out of the front door of the nearby farmhouse. A young man pokes his head out, "Yes Appa?"

"Yaimy, these two strangers are here to see Reuel. Will you enable them?"

Yaimy nods, and closes the door. A few moments later he emerges with a backpack and a coat.

While Yaimy is on his way, Yer leads them to a nearby barn. "Magem is very popular to off-worlders. They use it to do work for them, but we value the simple life, here. Most of all, we value the All-Child, but you didn't ask about that. You asked for Reuel, and this is how I can help you with that." He opens the barn doors to reveal unicorns in the stalls. He pulls 3 saddles from the hangers. "Do ya'll have a preference for which unicorn you'd like to ride? Only the brown one is needed to stay here, the rest are available."

The brown unicorn is the 3rd ugliest, and they are definitely definable according to their aesthetic beauty. There is one of nearly every colour one might ask for.

"I'll take that one," Liska answers, pointing at a chubby, fluffy purple unicorn with a blunted long horn.

Yer begins saddling that unicorn. "Her name is Bassa. She will treat you well. She likes people who remind her of herself."

Odd as it may seem, the exact unicorn that Azraile would choose is available.

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The mountain needs to be closer than I described it. It fills a large portion of the field of view, and to point at its top, Yer points nearly 45 degrees upward. It is huge.
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Shi sighs at the all child thing and at the fact it would be easier to fly but apparently there all going along and isn't sure shi could carry them all.... and isn't sure where shi's going up there anyway so... long ride it is. "Well this is going to take a while so might as well tell me what the heck this all child thing is about, I'm guessing I'm going to hear it again."

Since Az doesn't choose a unicorn, Yer chooses Neo Onoma for hir to ride, she is the most beautiful and skilled unicorn. Yaimy chooses the ugliest, Iwin, who also happens to be the fastest and strongest.

Yaimy responds to Az's comment, "It's clear you've never ridden a unicorn, then, fair cat-person. Our journey is long, but our steeds are not slow."

Yaimy says, "Neo Onoma, Iwin, Bassa, if it pleases you to have been chosen for this journey to take these strangers to meet with Reuel, would you follow me?"

The 3 fully saddled unicorns take standing leaps out of their stalls and obediently follow Yaimy into the clearing. Each saddle is sitting strapless on top of the unicorns' backs, balancing without tipping to one side or the other no matter how much weight is put on it. Yaimy helps Liska and then Az into their saddles, then gets in himself. "Stay true to the All-Child, Appa, and make hir reputation great by your deeds."

"And you, son of me. I have spoken." Yer replied ceremoniously. After a respectful moment, Yaimy jumped down, and gave his father a mutually tearful manly hug. Yaimy got back on the horse and turned toward the mountain.

As soon as all the horses were pointing in the same direction, they came alongside each other, and the world blurred.

The mountain remained ahead, not really moving very much, but the landscape around them zoomed by too fast to notice any details. Yet the backs of the horses remained stationary, as if they were standing still. No matter how rapidly the unicorns dipped and jumped from mound to hill, it felt as if they were on level ground the entire time, and momentum seemed to be irrelevant.

Yaimy wondered at the evolution of these creatures and how they came to naturally run through an imaginary temporal-spacial dimension and only phase into this realm of reality when in the exact same position of the run, and excrete all excess momentum into the imaginary-space, thereby giving the rider a momentum-free ride, while creating beautiful fractal patterns on the surrounding flora and fauna of the world through the genetic mutations which naturally occur around such disturbances in imaginary-space. He felt that only a truly beauty-loving creator could've made such a thing. Especially since these creatures were discovered on this planet and it had been unequivocally proven that the planet had remained completely unadulterated by any alien or intelligent organism, including the progenitors of all sapient life in Oner 0 until it was so recently discovered. He marvelled at the idea that this planet was the closest thing to paradise in this Oner, and especially that a nobody who would make no real changes in the world like him had been so utterly blessed to live on this planet his whole life. He was so grateful to the All-Child that this had been the life he was chosen for. He even mused for awhile on his excitement at the idea of meeting the All-Child when he finally died, and how much better that would be than life, yet how much sweeter it would be with long life. His heart swelled for contemplating both possibilities, until he realized how content he was regardless of what happened. While he was thinking all of this, he stuck up conversation with Liska and Az.

"Liska, what are your gods?"

Liska was a little shocked at first, but she listened to her translator say, "what are your gods (idols, loves, joys, meaning of life, greatest fears, etc)" and then she responded, "I'd have to say myself first, but then Az, and then my shipmates. Why do you ask?"

"I love to hear about other people's lives. What is life like on the ship that you sail?"

Liska says, "What would you say, Az?"
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Az was suprized. "Unicorns I've come across don't move like this, they just heal people and are very picky about who ride them." Shi more wonders why such animals just appear if there natural, wonders if it's some form collective conciseness alternating reality... not unreasonable if there are a lot of magic users living on the planet for such effects to only be here. "Not quite what I expected, awful quite and routine living... only found one new intelligent race and the Scil Phin where already there with them. The other planets we found had no life or developing life. (just adding you can ignore if you like) I found an animal I know would make a good pet but they say they would have to do all sorts of tests being how many species there are that it might run into and interact with, and I can't argue with them there as I don't know all the races of this un- er oner? But seams like every time we find a habitable world the Scil Phin are there." Shi rubs the back of hir kneck "Those guys creep me out, I know they are alright and all, but they look just like blue versions of some down right evil race from my oner." Shi wonders if the Scil Phin also descend from beings not of any oner but instead of finding pain in life and reality and hating it with a passion.... they where fascinated with it, and by the time they adapted they grew to love it or least tolerate it.

The mountain is getting closer, and they are certainly ascending in altitude. It seems from this distance that the mountain must be miles high, and potentially have very thin atmosphere. No thinning of the atmosphere has developed yet, though.

Yaimy replies to Azraile, "Sill Fin? I've never heard of them. What are they like?"

Liska describes them, and Yaimy comments, "They sound scary to look at."

Liska says, "Sure, but they're actually a really ancient race. They've been a sentient race for at least 10 million years, and they don't seem to die of old age. They have no known method of space-travel, yet they are found in nearly every habitable world, and many that are inhospitable to comowe-form beings like us. Some people speculate that they lost their technologies that got them from planet to planet, but that doesn't explain how the same individuals have been sighted on many different planets. One in particular who has a unique green hand, has been seen on EVERY world we've ever discovered where Scil Phin were also present. Yet they have no spaceships, and they claim they don't teleport. They are mysterious and exhilarating in my opinion."

Yaimy says, "How about you, Azraile, what are your gods?"

"I guess sharing physical affection and helping people... you still haven't told me about this all-child."

OOC: Oops! My error.

IC:
Yaimy replies, "I'd be happy to talk about Hir.

Before time was created, the All-Three exists. The All-Child dreamed of someone-else-to-love. The All-Parent loved the All-Child with perfect love, and wished to accomplish this desire for the sake of their love for the All-Child. The All-Heart walked on Void, causing disturbances in Void like unicorn trails. The All-Three dreamed of the necessities someone-to-love would require, and sacrificed so that otherness could exist. Light and Dark were created, then Sunset and Sunrise. Ultimately People were created from the lowest materials and the Life of the All-Heart. They were created to be loved by the All-Child and to love Hir in return. But People wanted to choose their own loves, so they rejected the love of the All-Three. But in rejecting the All, they rejected Life itself. To save Hir Creation from Death, the All-Heart placed the All-Child in a single cell. That Cell grew to Adulthood and the All-Child was one of Us. But the only way to save us was to swallow Death hirself. The only way to swallow Death was to allow Hirself to be swallowed by Death. Death choked, and the All-Child returned from death and then ascended to a higher dimension. Now anyone can escape the Void if they want to. We all are like locks with an All-Child shaped keyhole. Whatever we love, we throw into the keyhole, but nothing but the All-Child will fit right. It's like a good marriage. When the two who love each other fit together and seem to be made for one another. Just as the All-Child is a key to our lock, we are keys in the lock of the All-Child. Because Shi is in a higher plane of existence, Shi is 100% with each one of us. Shi is our god, and we love Hir.

Well, that's the All-Child. I love talking about Hir, so feel free to ask any questions.

After any questions Azraile has, the unicorns stop on a rocky outcrop a few miles high. The atmosphere seems fine. The unicorns breathing is slightly heavy, though not alarming. There is a cliff a few feet away down the mountain, and the ledge they are on is wide enough for a mansion, with a steep rocky climb from here. Many trees line the edge of this ledge creating a border all around. The trees are spice, fruit and nut trees of many varieties. A field of wild hemp and medicinal flowers fills the yard. A giant tetrahedral geode sits in the middle of the ledge, with a quite servant beside the geode, and a grinning man sitting crosslegged inside on smooth amethyst crystals. Yaimy gestures and says, "That's Reuel."

When the party approaches him, the man stands and greets them with a bow. The servant comes over to take care of the unicorns.

The man says, "Greetings to you, lovers of people, how may I be of service to you?"

"Great, so he told me I could go find religion....that's even worse than a quest to find some mythical holy child."  Shi didn't sound so pleased at the prospect.


Shi waved at Reuel when they arrived. "Yah kinda blew myself and something nasty into to oblivion and some one fished me out, but apparently being in the void makes you sick and I was told you could teach me magic to help heal myself?"

Yaimy replied, "I'm only talking about the history of this Oner. It is all established fact, and not religion. I don't know what is true of other Oners. We know these things to be as true as existence."


Yaimy goes with the servant to help out.

The grinning man says, "I am just a void-filled pilgrim seeking to be filled myself. Perhaps you seek Reuel? He'll return soon to answer questions. But I might be able to help a little in the meantime. You said being in the Void made you sick. How so? We all have the Void in us. We all seek to fill the void in us, but only uncreated eternally existent things have no void themselves. Everything else has void in it, and you can't fill emptiness with more emptiness. Everything that has a beginning is less than eternal. Even the High Wizards who will not die until the last era of our history, had a beginning. The immortal Queen of Fae was born, and so had a beginning. Even our Oner which existed for many billions of years before our entire race was created had it's own beginning and its end approaches. If a thing has a beginning, it is affected by the void in at least its origin. But the void is non-existence, and non-existence for the living is death. Anything that leads to death is an illness, so we are all infected by the void. The cure is available, but it is only made complete in the death of the body. However, the cure does begin it's work the moment it is taken, and the effects of the void can be mitigated. Some, like Reuel, manage to live most of life apparently unaffected by void."

The servant begins making tea.
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Did everyone on this planet talk like this, shi wondered? "I was in the void but couldn't remember anything, I got my memories back and remebering the void is affecting me .... I can't get the memmory out of my head and the weird slug bug race acted like they had ran into this before and said it's just going to get worce and worce if I don't take care of it."

The servant finishes the tea, and hands cups out to everyone.

The grinning man replies, "Oh I get it! You went into the void, so now it haunts you. You were fortunate to survive. Tell me something, are you as good and perfect as you want to be?"

Liska gasps and Az feels it too. A deep sense of inadequacy and fear wells up inside of them. Suddenly they all see a bright light shining on the clouds from above.

Yaimy excitedly points to the mountaintop and announces, "Oh, you're in for a treat! The Spirit Dragons are rising!"

The mountaintop is still miles above them, and too far to see clearly. But a long thin ribbon of intense light seems to be extruding from the top of the mountain. Upon careful consideration it becomes clear that the ribbon is in fact a giant serpent with 6 wings which is producing its own light. Suddenly a different kind of light shines from within the mountain itself - a light that penetrates everything and makes everything look less opaque. As the penetrating light falls on the world around them, the world comes alive with a myriad of ghostly creatures. Looking up, there are spirit giants with faces the size of small moons, tending to various things on the ground. Everyone's aura is perfectly visible. Liska is clearly amazed and blown away. Spirituality is practically unheard-of in the Comowe culture, so all of this is without a frame of reference for her. Yaimy seems to be shining with a soft white light, like an internal night-light. The grinning man looks younger and his skin has turned the shade of an LED light. The servant is shining like a powerful LED. By the time Az looks back up, the skies are being filled by various bright flying creatures who are busy high above them. One sun-bright dragon lands in their midst. When it was high above them, it was easily 100 times bigger than it currently is.

As they watch the lights in the sky, something begins slowly precipitating from the skies. Some lands on a tree, and some lands in Yaimy's outstretched hand. The tree absorbs the precipitate and its flowers immediately become fruit. Yaimy eats his, and he glows a little more brightly.

Shi apresheated the show, and found it rather relaxing. "Well this world has a vibrant ecology." It was also a good distraction from a question that was hard to answer with anything other than 'I don't know'.

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The sun-bright dragon shines love and acceptance, filling those around it with a sense of satisfaction and peace.

The sun-bright dragon is as tall as a 3 storey building when it lands, but it fills the same field of vision as it gets closer, and shrinks to the height of an elephant. It stops before a tree near Azraile.The sun-bright dragon picks a fruit from the tree and eats it. He shrinks again into the shape of a human child, still as bright at the sun, though not painful to look at. He hands the seeds from the fruit (which are now as bright as the sun) to Azraile, and says "Azraille, my beloved creation, you are gatherer of souls and of the same kind as your namesake. Take this seed, and eat it if you deserve the void. But if not, then you will keep it with you until you finally die."
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Shi blinks in confusion. "I don't think the translator can accurately translate your language, that made no sense. Do you know other languages, or have other means of communication?"

If Az took the seeds, disregard this sentence, but if not then they disappeared from the sun-bright child's hands and Az just KNOWS shi could have them in hir hand the moment shi wanted them there. In either case, the child looks deeply through Azraile's eyes into the depths of hir soul with absolute love and acceptance of hir as the child says, "I am speaking directly to your mind. For the sake of the one my friend, Theophili has called 'GM', the servant who is my friend will explain - ask him and you will receive an answer. Tell Liska that Bo is with me, and that I am The Logic. The time of proving approaches you, Azraile. The void seeks to consume you, but you can chose life instead." The Logic is suddenly holding a piece of paper and a BIC ballpoint pen, he writes a series of numbers and hands them to Azraile. The numbers are 7, 49, 70, 13, 37, 10, 3. The Logic says, "Keep this paper. It will open many doors. When you hear my story, know that I did it for the sake of many, but I would have done it for your sake alone. You cannot know how infinitely I desire your best happiness. If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me." With that, The Logic disappears.

Az turns by instinct and sees the others all looking away from each other, all suddenly turning and looking at one another at the same moment Az does.

Near the unicorns, a shining woman appears in a lightning bolt from above, and she begins taking care of the unicorns. 11 other similar appearances bring as many other people who begin pruning the trees. The branches that are cut off from the trees are gathered into a pile, bundled together and thrown into a firepit and one of the shining dragons lights the pile on fire. One of the pruners cuts a young sapling off at the root and holds it in the fire for a few milliseconds before planting it in a new location.

Yaimy, the grinning man and the servant are all happy-crying. Liska looks as confused as Az, and says, "Did anybody else hear what was said to me?"

Sighs as that didn't clear anything up ether.... guess shi is just supose to hold onto the seed though? Shi looks to Liska. "He said Bo is with him and he's The Logic....what ever that means..."

Liska looks incredibly shocked and her cheeks immediately flush with emotion. She begins to quiver a little and then breaks down into uncontrollable sobs and laughter. She laugh-cries an excuse as she steps back to sort her emotions and regain her composure.

"Azraile," Yaimy says, "You just met the All-Child."

Gives a bit of a smile at her reactions and hugs Liska, petting and giving her a bit of an ear rubbings letting her just sort it out and hug it out. Shi places the seed on hir bracelet and the sliver of angelic armor twists and wraps around it like a gemstone holding onto it so shi won't lose it. Well it was the confusing as fuck and nonsensical type of divine, but not making sense is preferable to other options out there. At least they tend to be helpful.... some what.... some times.... eventually... x.x    Defiantly better than the alternatives though.

The servant said, "I think we all saw the All-Child. Diakan, what did you see?"

The grinning man replied, "All-Parent is who I saw, and Shi appeared to me as a young father. He told me that my journey would soon be over, and that my final test was approaching me. I still feel Him very much with me. I was told that I would leave this planet soon for the last time. What about ou, Yaimy?"

Yaimy replied, "I saw the All-Heart who appeared as a giant heart. I felt my own heart melt into Zirs and Ze told me many short one-liners and said I'd remember them at the right times and tell them to the right people. The first one was what I told Azraile. If I may be so bold, what did you see?" Yaimy gestured to the servant.

The servant answered, "I saw a multidimensional fractal, and realized I was looking at a possibility tree. I followed the branches to the leaves and realized that every path is set and established. I looked closely at the path closest to me me, and I was given a few visions of my immediate future." The servant looks oddly at Azraile, then back to normal, "Then I followed the branches to the trunk and the roots, into the past. I saw that every person is their own tree, yet every person they touch connects to their tree and so all people together are really one large interconnected tree. What affects one of us affects us all. Then I saw that some of the trees were filled with life, and others were filled with void. A tree filled with life was cut down, but it lived on and all of the shadows and sick ichor burned out of it like tar but in a flash. It was more alive afterward than it had ever been. I saw another tree filled with void cut down. The void within it began eating it, but black ichor of sickness welled up and flowed into the void within it so that it was never completely destroyed by the void that was destroying it. It never grew, but I thought I noticed it shrink, though that may have just been a trick of the light. I'm not entirely sure what to make of that vision, but I know it is significant. Azraile, what did you see?"

Rubs the back of hir neck "I saw a dragon turn into a little boy and give me a seed... it was speaking your language that don't translate very well, and what it said translated even worse.... something along the lines of eating the seed and if I desirve the void and otherwise I will keep it with me untill the ned of my days... but the wording was just so confusing. So i'm holding on to the seed till I get a clearer answer there. Also said I gathered souls like my name sake... not sure what that is about and I don't gather souls.... that bull shit job was thrust apon me by a goddess to try and make me stronger and I refused it, besides it was for her world wich is about as far flung from here was you can get and I never reaped any souls besides the ones she controlled me to." shi grumped some..... for a moment she contemplates seeing if shi can draw out that power to make sure it's gone and that being dind't restore it.... but having a flaming rune over here forehead translating as 'death has come...' is not a very hospitable thing to do in company if in fact it is.... so just hopes it is still gone and will check later. "So I told it, it wasn't making much sense through the translator and it spoke into my mind saying it would do this for the sake of it's friend, theo... this mage thats been following me around and some one calld 'GM', and it's servent could be asked to make things clearer later... told me what to tell Liska, and said the time of proving is coming and the void wants to eat me but I can chose life.... which is kinda why I came here, but yah. Then he wrote down some luck-." stops herself from saying lucky numbers as the whole 'what is this a fortune cookie' thought did float through hir head. =p "some numbers it said would help open doors later and said when I hear it's story to know what it did, it would have done for me alone. And if I seek it out with all my heart I will find it.....  but honestly it should know i'm not looking for some relationship with some one i don't know." shi said while holding out the paper with numbers so they could see. Again shi starts to say more but takes a deep breath and just sighs this time. Finds its best not to try and mess with peoples faith despite her problems with goodly beings and generally finding they are just like anyone else just with out moral responsibility keeping them in check. Particularly learned this from when hir celestial lovers planet returned and it had aged several Milena and shi was worshiped as the father-goddess or something like that... You would think telling a near type one civilization your not there goddess would be easy... but no.....

And now shi's flushed and blushing again.... thinking about all those women begging to be breed by the father-goddess.  >.<    There is another thing... trying to tell half a planet 'No don't mean your a bad person.'

(would note why shi says the confusing types are better.... usually that means there seeing so much there thought patterns are hard to translates down to our level and there past the point there own concerns matter anymore usually)

The servant looks closely at the numbers.

Yaimy says, "Fourth post from my last one-liner, you must climb up this sacred mountain, with only one to serve you." Yaimy shrugs, and says, "That first part, I can't make heads or tails out of, but the last part is pretty obvious. I think you're supposed to go up the mountain and take him with you." Yaimy gestures to the servant.

Liska looks frightenned, "I need to think about what you said, Azraile. I'm so sorry," she begins to tear up a little, "I really wish I had the strength to go with you right now."

Diakan who was so prone to grin, wasn't grinning at the moment. His eyes were full of concern as he looked at Liska. "You remind me of my daughter, and I'd be honoured to stay here and look after you."

Yaimy said, "The unicorns can't climb much higher, and I am obliged to return to my father soon. But I will come back with supplies. I should be back here by mid-afternoon tomorrow."

The servant looked at Azraile, "I'll be happy to help you but is that what you want? If so, drink your tea and let's start into our journey."

Shi nods "It's ok, sounds like I'm supose to go with out you anyway... take your time, this place looks rather neat anyway." Shi gives her a hug and a light ear scritching.

Shi looks to the servant "So am I suppose to eat the seed? It sounds like I was just suppose to hang onto it, but the other guy ate his... so not sure if I got the translation right." Shi asks while sitting down for tea.

The servant replies, "Part of my vision was an overview of yours, so I'll be able to give you insights from the perspective of an outside observer. You are supposed to eat the seed ONLY if you believe you deserve the void. It is a test. The question you must decide upon is what that test is testing. Are you being prompted to see yourself in such a way that you would say you deserve the void, or that you do not deserve the void?

"Our entire culture relies heavily on story and metaphor. Life itself is a metaphor and story. Altogether, every sentient life is part of a single interconnected unit. Each story shows us how another cell in this meta-organism that is sentient-life feels, and therefore increases our empathy. Would you like to ask any questions about the All-Child, Parent or Heart?

"One more question, do you know my name?"

"That's what I gathered but the translation wasn't clear....  is it Reuel?"

The servant said, "I am Reuel, friend of All." Once the tea was finished, he said, "We should begin our journey. Go on ahead, follow that path." Reuel pointed to a narrow path that lead through the edge of the trees and up a narrow rocky ascent.

After a few yards up the mountain, Azraile noticed a 1' long spider covered in web and hundreds of tiny spiders. Reuel pointed to the creature and said, "That spider is the mother, and the little ones are consuming her remains. The father of these spiders is ordinarily harmless, but he'll be nearby now, and he will attack anything that attacks his offspring. So try not to step on any of them."

A little further up the mountain, Azraile saw a cougar nursing a deer.

Reuel asks Azraile, "What do you know of how the multiverse was created, according to our Truthtellers?"

Shi is careful not to hurt anything. "Nothing, and I can't say I've hurd many creation stories for the multiverse.... usaly it's just believed each god created there own universe individually from each-other... then again most the gods that have been claimed to such arn't the actual creators of there universe."

The tea began to take effect on Azraile's perception of reality. The nutrients in the tea and the blessing that was placed over it caused Azraile to feel deeper empathy for others, and gave hir the ability to see layers of reality overlapping each other. Shi could see into the Spirit-Realm, and it was a lot like the beginning of the vision shi had earlier. It seemed like everything shi heard was playing out in one of the layers, yet none of this was distracting or debilitating in any way.

"You have hit the nail on the head, so to speak. Nothing anyone says about the creation of any universe or the multiverse can truly match the truth with completion, since the event must be infinitely beyond our scope of imagination to even be possible.

"We are tiny coagulations of a seemingly random assortment of atoms - a spec on our planet which is a spec in the vast intersteller vacuum, a spec in our galaxy, which is a spec in the local cluster, a spec in the visible universe, a spec in our total oner, a spec among a multitude of near-related oners, a spec among close related, a spec among distantly related, a spec among unrelated oners, a spec in the spec of the space between the All-Child's tiniest fold of Hir fingerprint.

"We have no capacity to even remotely comprehend the full truth. But we have metaphors which have been revealed to us by All-Heart. We know that All-Parent loved All-Child with everything in Hir, through All-Heart. All-Parent infinitely and eternally gives Life to All-Child who infinitely and eternally receives that Life, and passes it on to anyone who wants that Life. Life is only possible in and through All-Heart, and relationship is the fundamental reality of all existence. Void is the eternal destruction of all relationship - though it is a purgative burning process.

"Before the creation of an Oner, All-Spirit, All-Parent and All-Child are perfectly content and without any need, filled with satisfaction and love for one another. The All wants to share that relationship of love, and so creates people capable of having a relationship with the transcendent All and for that purpose as well.

"Sometimes the All-Child confronts the Void building inside the heart of one of Hir meta-creatures who live outside of Oners, in the Beyond. This is almost always the void created by pride. Pride causes you to believe that you deserve anything. Usually that you deserve what you have, or what you should have (whether that is more or less). When anything threatens what you believe you should have, you become destructively protective. This causes death and void when it is aimed against Life - the All.

"The All creates a creature to have relationship with, and gives that creature the mantle of power and authority over even the meta-creatures. The one who has the most pride-void in their heart is the first to rebel (out of anger for being placed under the authority of a lesser being), and strikes out in an attempt to kill or maim the All-Parent. The blood of that wound was planned to be shed by the All. The All-Parent knew what would happen, and allowed it to happen. By mixing Life of All with Void, an Oner can be created.

"Our Oner was created when our oldest ancestors decided to choose their own destiny rather than accept the destiny they were given. Out Oner was created by the Spirit of Life hovering over the Void. When a being develops a relationship with the All, Life flows into their being, from All-Parent, through All-Child by way of All-Heart.

"But because our ancestor betrayed Life, our deaths became sure by our instinct to love ourselves and reject the All. We must die due to our nature. Even the 6 High Wizards will all die before the End. But this was unacceptable to the All who loved Hir creation infinitely and unconditionally. To save them from Void, All-Child became one of us, and told us the whole truth in metaphor and stories. The greatest metaphor is Hir life itself."

During that long lecture, Azraile and Reuel climbed further up the narrow path, and they approached a gateway.

Don't seam to suprized by the spirit world, becoming vissable... is cappable of going there, just not at all exsperianced in it, still knows about spirits and the like.

"Sounds familiar... one of my teaches went on about saying something along the lines that the waters of creation fell into the void and where the two touched a great tree grew, and the waters helped that tree grow, and grow and grow. One day that tree will crumble and fall, or may rot away from the inside, or may just burn up... but what ever happens the remains of the tree when it is dead will slowly rot away until the void lays bare again and the waters fall into the void once more and a new tree will grow in it's place identical to the last." Shi happens to roll hir eyes a little "Though the last part seams a little off to me as the implication being time is circular or things just keep repeating themselves, and that seams kinda pointless to me." Shivers some "least that idea isn't as bad as the white-void."  (my wording for the other end of entropy where everything is forced to maintain order to such a degree there is no change)

"I can't speak for other Oners, but that doesn't sound right to me either.

"If I was using that metaphor to describe this Oner, I'd say that the tree is sentient life, and every cell is an individual. Most cells try to take nutrients from their neighbours, but some cells take everything they need from sunlight, air and water. At some point in history, the sun will consume the tree. Cells that were feeding off of others will burn to ashes, while those that ate sunlight will become one with the sun without losing their structure.

"New trees may rise up, but the cycle isn't perfectly repititious. The whole world isn't filled with one variety of tree, and every oak doesn't grow the same way. Even a sapling split in two will create two different trees.

"I spoke in heavy metaphor, but do you understand what I meant? If so, please explain it, because I'm not sure even I know what I meant."
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"Yah, don't be a selfish ass, it's bad for your soul.... can't argue with that."

"Not exactly. That's all true, but it doesn't get to the core of the issue. Let me try something else."

Reuel stops and sits by the side of the path on a stone, grabbing a short stick and using it to draw in the dust in a flat open area. He draws a circle, and says, "The area within this circle is a microcosm of my mind." Suddenly, the dirt in the circle changes - it becomes simpler and less detailed in some ways, even less real.

He places a twig in the center and says, "This twig provides the user with the ability to choose what it loves."

He forms a lump of dirt in the circle into a mound and spits on it to make mud. He says, "This lump of mud is shaped like a homunculus." And suddenly the lump of mud forms itself into the shape of a homunculus, complete with tiny bones, sinews, muscles and finally skin.

He says, "The purpose of this homunculus will be to love me and be my representative within the circle. It will only see me if I stick my head within the borders of this circle. If it fulfills this purpose after 10 minutes, it will live as long as I live. But if it fails to fulfil its purpose, I will allow it to do as it pleases. However, it will only be able to exist within this circle."

He picks up the lifeless form, and breathes on it. It comes to life, and says, "Hello daddy!".

"Hello, Dirtclod. You are my representative, and I love you. I'd like you to form lumps of dirt. I only ask that you don't take that twig, because if you take it, I can't sustain your life."

"I can't wait to do what you want me to do!" the little homunculus replies.

After it forms one lump, Reuel spits on that lump and says, "This is nutrition for Dirtclod." And suddenly the pile of dirt looks like a berry bush filled with fruit.

On the second lump, Reuel uses his stick to create a depression in the middle and then says, "This is a golem for the Spirit of Accusation. I permit Void to enter into this lump." Suddenly Void enters the lump, and the lump forms a tiny golem, but it has black eyes.

The golem walks over to Dirtclod and says, "You know, your creator lied to you. Your life won't end when you take that twig. That twig has the power to make you like your creator and chose your own destiny."

Dirtclod replies, "Well I certainly like the sound of choosing my own destiny." Dirtclod looked at the twig and imagined what it would be like to choose his own destiny. He took the twig in his hand, and suddenly realized that he didn't have to love his creator, but could choose to love himself instead.

Reuel stuck his head back in the circle, "What have you done?"

Dirtclod shouted in fear, "NOTHING! That golem you put in here tricked me into disobeying you.

"You didn't fulfill your purpose. I made you, so you are mine. You listened to someone who hates all life, and disobeyed me. You will live for the remainder of the time I gave you originally, but I can't sustain you beyond that. But I still love you"

The Golem ran to the edge of the circle and stepped over the edge, falling and becoming a pile of mud.

Reuel backed out of the circle. Dirtclod discovered that he could take off a piece of himself and plant it in a pile of dirt . Doing this caused the pile to turn into another homunculus. Reul took the new tiny homunculus out and said, "I am this homunculus," and then breathed on it and placed it back in the circle. It stood up and said, "Dirtclod, your creator loves you. What you did was wrong, but you are loved. Please just be sorry so I can forgive you and you can love your creator again."

Dirclod said, "I did what he wanted me to do! I made a dirtpile, and you try to tell me I'm not good enough!? Also, I made you, and yet you claim to be my creator by telling me you can forgive me. Screw you!" Dirtclod pushed Mini-Reuel out of the circle, causing him to fall and become a pile of mud.

Reuel put the pile back in the circle and said, "I live again." Suddenly the pile reformed into Mini-Reuel and said, "Dirtclod, I still love you. If you apologize and love me, I will forgive you and you will live as part of me."

Reuel said, "Mini-Me is now in my mind again." Suddenly Mini-Reuel disappeared from sight.

Dirtclod fell to the ground and said, "I wish I hadn't pushed my creator out of the circle, or taken that twig to begin with."

10 minutes was up. Dirtclod became a pile of mud. Reuel said, "The area within this circle is no longer a microcosm of my mind."

And the area returned to normal.

Reuel said, "Dirtclod lives on in my memory and in my mind as a subset within my mind. Fortunately he takes up very little space up there. Does that help you understand?"

"I do not think thats how things work, because that implies what ever created everything is rather quite selfish and don't really love us. Just because something don't do what you want it to don't mean you abandon it if you love it, same for if they don't love you back. That's not love. Love is unconditional. "

"I'm not being clear. Let me say it plainly. We are panentheistic. This means that everything that exists, exists within All-Parent and is sustained in its existence by its presence in All-Parent. Yet everything that exists is only an infinitesimally small part of the All. Void is the state of being outside of the All. Since everything that exists is is only within the All, anything outside of the All doesn't exist. It may have shape and definition, but it is only a shadow - a void. We are beings of love. We were created to love, and to be capable of a relationship with All. Fulfilling our full purpose would give us immense and ultimately infinite joy, yet we rejected our purpose and decided what we would prefer to love. By deciding to love things other than the All, we have declared ourselves self-sufficient. We have effectively severed our relationship with the All, and therefore committed existence suicide. Yet as beings of love, we cannot completely get rid of all of our loves. When a sentient being refuses to fulfill its purpose and love the All, it can only do so by eliminating a love. When you truly love the All, you love all. You even love the ones who refuse to love anything but themselves. Yet you cannot prevent them from fulfilling their desires. So if they desire to love no one, then they desire the Void, and they will receive the Void. There are only two directions on the scale of love. Void and All."

"Ah I usually love everything and stuff.... just was a while I had problems with it.... and it's not always to love some people.." shrugs "Considering I've hurd of void beings react to energies and become a part of reality, being 'created' and there essence just kinda scattering across reality....."  not a lie, but not honest, she hurd hirself talking about the hir using Echo of the First Word to do it with high level protect and heal. "I have a theory: this being was lonely so it gave it's love to all the beings of the void and the void it affected became reality and the beings became the souls in it.... with out the love they just go back to being the void beings the use to be, and some one who can love even something that don't exsist but as for something that hates all love and life can bring them back."

"It is a common theory that people start out with, but it misses a fundamental aspect of the All. All is All-Parent, All-Child, and All-Heart. All loves All completely and infinitely. All didn't create out of loneliness - a lack of love. All created out of an over-abundance of love. When you multiply infinity by zero, you get any finite number. We are finite numbers, but the void creates nothing. Void has no shape, no size, no personhood, no life. Void is also the state of the absence of Life and love. When something appears to come out of void, it is in fact a void moving through reality like a wave moves through the ocean. Its presence creates refraction of Light. It is the cracks through which the Light gets in. Therefore void commits suicide by every action."

"So what do you think happens to the void when it's loved by the all through us and becomes a part of reality?"

"Exactly what happened to my homunculus. It lives the life it was created to live, and that reason is given by the All and benefits the plan of the All."

Shrugs and stretches hir wings and back some. "Well I'm not going to love something because it tells me to and says I have to.... but I already kinda love everything so" shi shurgs and myawns some, it's been a long day.

"I can certainly understand that. You are getting tired, and we have two choices. We can camp here for the night and ascend higher tomorrow, or we can return to camp. Either way, your destiny will be fulfilled, whatever that destiny may be. There is no wrong choice in this matter, only the truth of what you would prefer. If you go up the mountain, our journey will be similar to what it has been for a little while longer, but if we go down the mountain, you will soon return to the ship you've been journeying on."

"I can continue on, or we can set up camp, no point in going back unless it's not safe to camp here"

OOC: Feel free to interject with your responses anywhere along the way, I'll retcon any conversation to fill in gaps.

IC:
Reuel waved his hands in a beautiful pattern, and turning a bend in the snow covered path, they stumbled across a well placed stone shelter in the rocks. Reuel spoke these untranslatable words, "Le'ikhothro ho'oh e' jinibani. Ki li'uth ruhoa jibani," and a small tree sprouted and grew a few branches before catching fire. The tree burned in every colour of the rainbow, and warmed the stone shelter with heat and peace, but not too much light to sleep with.

In the morning, Reuel was already preparing breakfast. He had picked a fruit that grew on the evergreens nearby, sliced it open and extracted a giant pine-nut with a fruity substance. The fruity part tasted like pine, eucalyptus and mint. It cleared out the sinuses and made the air seem colder but fresher and somehow more bearable. The nut tasted like a very nutritious enhanced pine-nut.

Reuel said, "Let's start the day with a meditation we do to make ourselves aware of All-Heart. All-Heart is also All-Breath. We breath in the Breath of All. All-Breath gives us life. All-Breath is the life in me. My life is All-Breath even though I have mistreated the Breath in others and myself, All-Breath loves me and remains with me."

After remaining quiet for about half an hour, Reuel began to hum a song. After half an hour of songs and tunes, he lead the way along the path. A minute into their journey, they heard a rumbling noise, but it seemed distant.

(will note I've not had a problems with religious types, just has come up a lot in RP with az)

Shi can't help but sigh a little at the wording as shi's had lots of problems with religious types and gods so stuff like this but tries to hide any disagreement because shi is interested it just sounds so bad to hir, but dose meditate and relax to the singing.

When shi hears the rumble shi tries to listen, twisting hir ears about, trying to tell where it's coming from.

Reuel is sensitive to Azraile's aversion, so after remaining fairly quiet on the journey for awhile, and passing a section where rocks from above recently fell down the mountain and would've hit them if they had left any earlier (the sound of the rumbling from earlier), Reuel asks, "Azraile, I noticed that you felt a little discomfort when I recited the Breath meditation. I wonder what sort of experiences you've had with other people's faiths, and if you have any of your own. Would you mind talking to me about those things?"

If Az is uninterested in discussing those things, he says, "Not to worry, I myself have had some difficulties with religious types, so I can understand why you might be hesitant." And he continues on the path up the mountain.

"It's complicated.... I would rather not talk about it."



"Lets just say I came from a world with a real problem with dogma, and as i came in contact with gods they where not good encounters..... and I had a hard time trying to convince people I wasn't there god."

"That sounds like an aweful experience. I'd love to hear your story in more detail."

Shi sighs. "I sorta seeded life on a planet that whent through some serious time dilation... they saw me as the bide of there goddess and the father of there civilization and threated me as a god(dess) of love and firtility...  not only did everyone there worship me it all involved all the females, hermaphrodites, and even a few males.... stripping themselves and prostrating begging to be impregnated so they could know my love... trying to tell them other wise was near imposable and saying no was well about the same response you I would imagine if the all-child told you that you where the only living thing it didnt love...... it was not a fun time.....thankfully they where a rather advanced civilization and mass global complication was a thing and I set down and had a very long talk..... still think I put millions in therapy though"
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"Wow! That reminds me of the Whale god of the Nymph-folk. Whales are wonderful people, but before they knew how to talk to them, the Nymph-folk of New Ermulja began worshipping them. They had a ritual where the mothers threw their first daughter into the ocean when the whales migrated by their village, believing that the child would turn into a whale after she drowned, and that the whales would then love them and bless the village with fertility. When the tribe was introduced to a whale talker, the tribe of whales and the Nymph-folk both had to go through years of therapy. Religion is dangerous."
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Shi sighs and shakes hir head. "Not like I could ever live up to there image of a god(dess) anyway even if I was the kind of person to take advantage of people like that."

"I've encountered a number of gods in my time. What were the gods you've met like?"

"Like people given to much power than they know what to do with it, mostly."
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"The gods in this world are more like power given personhood than people given power."

OOC: I'll add more later if you'd rather wait on that than respond to this, but your choice.

"That don't always help much in that but I understand."

The two of them enter into a section of the trail that is covered by trees so thick that the sky is no longer visible except in little sparkles of light far above.

Reuel thinks for a moment, then, "Would you like to meet one of them? I can ask one to come here in an avatar. Since they are power with personhood, they don't really have bodies like we do. No one in this Oner could ever mistake a person for a god if they knew what to look for."

"I think I would rather you leave them alone. I would rather stay out of there afares all together."

OOC I thought we changed advancement... if it's still the same can I get a reroll for some of those rolls I made?

Reuel says, "I get that. With the experiences you've had, it would be intimidating to meet one. It would be intimidating for anyone, really. The god of belly lint isn't as intimidating as others, but it still scares people when they think they've got a spider on their belly button.

"There is another way to think about these things. You've seen into the spirit realm, so you know that everything has spirit. Spirit is breath. Breath is life. All things have life in them.

"Consider a single atom. Like all things it has spirit. Considered together with all of its counterparts, it has certain characteristics and behaves a certain way. The hive of all of that atom is the god of that atom, while the atoms themselves are its body.

"But also, when arranged with other types of atoms, it creates molecules. The same can be said of molecules that can be said of atoms. Also it is the same with cells where a hive of cells is the body of a person, animal, fungus or plant. The hive of all human cells everywhere is the body of the god of human cells. In the same way, a hive of humans makes a body of a demon. Interestingly enough, since humans reproduce, the ancestor tends to be the mind of that body. Every human who came from human A makes up the body of human A who becomes a kind of a god after death. But due to the various influences of our minds, we aren't just part of the body of one god, but many. Part of my mind is in the body of the god of anger, part is in the body of the god of Peter (my father), and so on. Some parts of me are shared by multiple different gods. A god is just a spirit, and a spirit is able accumulate or lose power and its body by the influence it has over people or other spirits.

"The way that a spirit influences a person is similar to the way that I influence my cells. The cells still have their own autonomy, but I have some control over the collective. Even so, if one of my cells decides to rebel against me, there is nothing I can do about it. That cell simply stops being part of me.

"As a human - a cell of gods, you belong to the body of whatever gods you act in accordance with.

"What do you think about these things?"

"Sounds about right, I'm use to something similar in the spirit realm of my world. Not that I spent much time there... I didn't get into that much before I got dragged into the whole fight with the Demon God stuff.... and the spirit world there was never separated from the physical world."

"I'd be curious to hear what happened if it wouldn't bother you to tell me."

As Azraile is responding, part of hir floats above it all and a finger taps that part of hir on hir shoulder. Shi is now in two places at once. Shi is aware of what hir body and Reuel are doing, but also aware of what feels like a second body. As shi turns to see who tapped hir on hir shoulder, she sees two people as bright as a sun. One on hir left, one on hir right. The person on hir right speaks first, "You are looking from the view of one who sees spirits, angels and powers. I am the Angel of All, I am innocence and love and life. Those who love the All, even though they are not worthy, are given infinite love by the All. Follow me and live."

The other person speaks, "I am an angel of illumination. I offer you an alternative. You know for yourself what is right and what is wrong. I can teach you to trust that judgement - I can return to you any of your lost powers that you desire. I don't ask you to love me or hate me or even to follow me. I only want you to do what you know is best and follow your own heart to have your life."

The person identifying as the Angel of All responds, "One of us is a liar, though both of us have spoken truths. You must decide for yourself who you want to believe, and who you will follow. Will you follow my lead or be lead by yourself?"
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Well Azraile isnt a being who's spirital and physical form is separate....hir mind can project outside the body but hir soul cant because it is a part of hir body. Hir soul will live on when hir body is destroyed yah... but in the meantime there rather inter woven. It's not only a byproduct of the type of werecrature shi is but the planet shi was born on where everything is like this.  Where the spirit world is separate from the physical shi can physically pass into the spirit world because of this. Even take some physical stuf with hir.....though it's a bit tough the other way around.

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If this still plays out this way Az's bodly likely collapses from the unicorn and curls up in pain, likely throwing up.

Hir spirit is strained and connected to her body by something rather like the whole silver cord thing only bigger, stronger, and trying to pull hir back together.

Not realy felling the curious mood at the moment all she replies is. "I'm already doing both you idiots" rather than clarifying she's following her heart to love people and that's following the angel of all rather shi means to or not and it's doing what the angle of illumination said rather it was what it intended.
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OOC: Very good information for me to know, and I wish I knew earlier. But it doesn't affect the scene, because she's not having an OBE. Hir spirit/soul and body remain connected. This is something more like experiencing two timelines simultaneously, but it's not that either.

IC:

The angel of illumination says, "Exactly! Just keep it up."

The Angel of All says, "I'm asking you to follow me, not just to do what you think I would want you to do." The Angel of All begins moving off to the right before disappearing, and the angel of illumination just disappears.

Az is now completely back with Reuel. There is a split in the path, and Reuel takes the path on the left.

Grunts and hir ears pull back a little as shi stops. "Ok I can't ever get past this.... It's always the same thing...whats the difference between loving everyone because that's who you are... and loving everyone because your doing what some one told you to... it's always like this with all sorts of religions, It's not enough that you do it... you have to do it for them.  Usually because that's how they get dominion over your soul or that's how they feed." Sighs... "If your a part of god then it shouldn't matter if you dedicate yourself to that god so long as you are doing your part.... why do all the religions keep coming back to the same thing... you have to know about there god and devote yourself to that god, ingoring the fact most feed off people devoting themselves to them... it don't make sense why that is a requirement."

Reuel stops with Azraile in a clearing in the wooded mountainside and says, "Simple really. Created life cannot sustain itself and needs to feed to thrive. Most gods - as you said - feed off of people who devote themselves to the god. There is one god who never feeds off of hir devotees - All. By whatever name Shi is called, All is the only god who feeds those who love Hir, without being fed by any other than Hirselves. All-Parent feeds All-Child, and All-Heart is the love between All. Love is the source of nourishment and All is the source of love. All asks for love (not to feed off of that love, after all, can you make infinity bigger by adding anything to it?) but so that those who freely give their love may receive nourishment from All."

Reuel thinks for a moment, "There is a deeper issue here. No one wants to be obliged to a god. It is far more comfortable to just be yourself and be a good person.

"All loves everyone. That means that All is happy when others are happy, and suffers when others suffer. Since All is infinite, that joy and that suffering are both infinite. All hates suffering and death, and always has everyone's best interests at heart. All knows that everyone will have their deepest and truest happiness if they love All, but also that people make mistakes. All is perfectly fair, so if someone hurts another person, the person they have hurt deserves justice. So All has accepted responsibility for every injury committed by everyone so that everyone can be free from justice and free to love without trying to be good- uh oh."

Reuel closes his eyes for a moment, "Something's about to happen that will cause a tremendous amount of suffering for - almost everyone."

Just then, a planet appears in the sky and explodes, disappearing a moment later.

"We're going to have to cut this journey short, I'm afraid... But first, I get the feeling that you have a choice to make."

There are three paths. One leads back the way they came, one leads ahead to the left, and one leads ahead to the right.

"I just have a hard time beliving anyone that loved everyone could not save some one just because they don't know they exist. That don't stop me from loving the All. I just don't see why shi can't save everyone."

After the explosion and stuff.  "What was that?... Whats happened?"
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"All saves everyone who wants to be saved, but many don't want that. As for people who never hear of Hir, no one is judged based on anything more than what they knew. People are only as responsible as they are made aware. That's why animals aren't judged - if you can't have a relationship with All, you aren't expected to.

"Also, I'm not convinced one way or the other, but many believe that everyone will ultimately willingly have a loving relationship with All. I can see how this might happen either way, but I know that it will be the best possible scenario and I'll be completely happy with the Truth."

After explosion, "I don't know. I'll tell you if I'm told. Don't forget to make your choice."

Don't stand well with stuff like this just don't handle it well, shi has serious trust issues after all.... and particularly slavery which to her this is what this sorta thing rings like.... do this... or else, emotional or mental slavery / abuse....  "I already love everything why should I have to declare myself a slave to it?"

If she absolotly can't be saved by the all with out pledging to follow the all then I would like to say hir feelings on this are strong enough for hir to hurt hirself subcociously trying something stupid..... lol

Write [0/0] can't change outside of plot point

trying to dubble pump to

Write [-1/0] can't change outside of plot point

and get 2 dice to roll by taking 1 point of damage to every other cliche... and give hirself the start of a fourth path where she can follow the all and be saved without pledging herself to it.... just by having love in hir heart for everything... even the void.

If that happens her bracelet will likely glow and a phantom outline of a gauntlet will be vesable spirutaly on her left arm as part of her soul shines through... hir body might phase in and out a bit too and shi passes in between physical and spirutal worlds, and maybe other time lines...    (hence the hurting hirself as it's also a 0/0)
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Since I'm not God, I need some clarification.

First off, write is now [1/1], since it was used. As you know, taking any cliche to a negative would mean death or at least losing consciousness. But what is 'write' supposed to do exactly?

Also please explain the gauntlet a little more, and what you mean by loving the void. What is it about void that is being loved here? When Void is referred to as the enemy thing here, I'm pretty sure it is truly unlovable by anything not pure evil. So I think I need to understand more what you mean

A gauntlent is just the way the Echo of the First Word manafests.

is there some way then it can work with out killing hir or knocking hir out?

Echo of the first word lets hir brake or create seals/laws/names/ect... In the basics it protects people by creating seals, and heals people by undoing what harmed them.. making it like it didn't happen...    it can also create and brake seals/laws/names/ect off all sorts....

what i'm basicaly trying to do is get her to subconciously create a new personal law that lets her follow the all and be saved without pledging herself to it.

If she can't do that already... though with that few dice the all would have to be ok with it lol and the all could just ingore it and get rid of it......

shi's just acting out because shi's not taking all this well =p

as for loving the void.... the all dose don't it?

it pulled beings from the void to give them life....

you can love something but not what it dose or it's nature.... it can't help how it was born.... you can still want to save it and help it (just not in doing what it's doing =p.. help it be better).

((This is the effect of Az's Write attempt)): Azraile feints and is immediately awake in the Spirit plane. Reuel is like a washed out watercolor version of himself, and is looking around saying in a muffled voice, "Azraile? Where's you go?" as a woman of fractalizing rainbow flame moves with him in the Spirit plane, dancing and moving out of his way when he makes erratic movements. She intensifies her flame on his ears, and he stops and closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and begins mumbling softly & calmly under his breath.

The flaming woman looks into Az's soul and smiles kindly as she says, "Follow your heart, my child. It will lead you in the wrong path, but I will walk with you and catch you if you fall. I am cheering for team Az! For now, you hardly know me, and as a stranger, I am asking you only to move along the left path instead of where Reuel was headed before you go back to the campsite. There isn't time for me to answer the question you're pondering yet. Time to wake up, sleepyhead!" The firey woman breaths on Az and Az feels a deep sense of peace, wellbeing, love, acceptance and excitement, danger and unending glorious adventure.

Az suddenly awakes/reappears and Reuel opens his eyes then says, "I think you're only being asked to take a single step in a certain direction for now. Any idea why I would've been told that just now?"

Shi gives a long sigh of a person who's given up, seams fate will steam roll you anywhere you end up. "Just lead me the fastest way to where we are going... seams bad things are happening and there isn't time to waste."

Shi really didn't want to do this kinda thing....

Well shi did.... but....

Shi wanted to help people.

But it always seamed to mean hir getting hurt.

Is it wrong to be tired of being the martyr?

Because that always is the path shi finds hirself on...

Her head is fucking SCREAMING go back down the god damned path, her heart says do whats needed.

Both want to deal with this All stuff later though....

((Sorry, I'm unclear about what Az is doing. Is shi turning left or returning to the camp. To be clear, turning left will delay them getting back to the campsite by a little bit. I'll reply ASAP once you reply.))

Fastest way to where they where going (up) left or right.... not back down.

Okay, I want this to be free will, so I'll write both possibilities with one possibility diverging, since I'm not certain which one you meant.

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Spoiler for to the right: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
They were headed to the summit to visit the All-Child and hear Hir story. After taking 7 steps up the trail to the right, All-Child places a hand on Azraile's shoulder from an upper dimension and says, "Azraile, will you come with me so that I may show you an image of my story? We will take our time, but very little time will have passed"

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Spoiler for to the left: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
Azraile went the way shi was being directed, and immediately, the fiery spirit that was dancing with Reuel in the Spirit realm came to stand before Azraile in the physical. Shi said, "Azraile, I offer you my Sword which is my words. I will not enslave you, though I would woo you. I am All-Spirit, your life and love. I love all, especially those closest to the void. They are all precious to me, and my heart breaks for their wellbeing. If you understand how I feel, this Sword will keep you safe. And if not, I will not abandon you." Shi hands Azraile a 9' wooden longsword, and touches the tip, sparking it into a flame that doesn't harm Azraile, but will cut through absolutely anything, physical or spiritual, allowing for certain pre-known consequences in certain circumstances.

If Azraile gets more excited for the Sword than for meeting All-Spirit:

The Sword vanishes from the flaming 3' long hilt with a 6' long crossbar, into a plain small wooden sword handle. All-Spirit says, "I am in the Sword, so I will tell you when the Sword is ready to be used again, but you should ask for it if you feel you may need it. Now it is time to hurry back to camp. You are needed by your employer, and Reuel has need of you in a short time."

If Azraile gets more excited for meeting All-Spirit than for getting the Sword:

All-Spirit says, "I am in the Sword, so I will tell you when the Sword is ready to be used and when to put it away, but you should ask for it if every time you feel you may need My help. Now it is time to hurry back to camp. You are needed by your employer, and Reuel has need of you in a short time."

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Shi's not exsighted any more one way or the other... just unsure what to think. Shi wonders though if the sword works like hir own weapon... able to cut through people and not harm them, but cleanse them.... in general just tries to tell if it feels familiar in hir hand when all burny.... if it is... tries letting the echo of the first word flow over the blade sharing it's form. Maybe it is compatible?

"I will continue to keep an open mind and heart.... but if they are in trouble I should go to them."

Tell me more about Az's own weapon and Echo of the First Word

OOC: I have a feeling that it will feel similar to Echo of the First Word, but I need to know everything you know about (especially the origin of) Echo of the First Word. Frankly, the less you know, the better, because that will allow me more freedom. But I prefer to maintain continuity wherever possible.

Well unless she has anything else to add shi'll head down the mountain post haste..... I'll re-fill you in on details and add more details again later.