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Glitch 1.2.

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Writer
GM, 185 posts
Tue 3 May 2022
at 05:53
  • msg #1

Glitch 1.2

((This is an experiment. You have the right for Glitch to die in any random way you choose if you want out of this world at any time. The next world is prepared and ready to go.))

Glitch wakes up under some cardboard and newspaper on a busy street. The newspaper is the New York Times, and it reads, October 29, 2024, 7 days to the Presidential election. ((Timeframe of events, not necessarily involved in the plot))
Glitch
Verser, 144 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Tue 3 May 2022
at 08:09
  • msg #2

Glitch 1.2

She looks around checking this world out... mostly to make sure she's not going to be attacked for being a huge half naked rat person.
Writer
GM, 188 posts
Tue 3 May 2022
at 20:44
  • msg #3

Glitch 1.2

((it's this world two years from now, the only exception is this game doesn't exist, and we aren't in the world. Also it's two days to Halloween, so she'll likely get away with it for a little bit))
Writer
GM, 189 posts
Wed 4 May 2022
at 03:17
  • msg #4

Glitch 1.2

((well, not the only exception. I'll go ahead and let you know, the biases are pretty strict. Simple spells and rituals will be accessable, all Chaos magic is fully accessable, somatic and psychic is normal. And she can meet people from any religion, each of which will have magics that work better in other Verses than here, but can still be learned here.))

This world has recently gone through quite a bit of turmoil. One large nation has nearly obliterated a bunch of smaller ones through proxy wars, and another nation is in the process of invading smaller Nations who don't have allies. But that's just politics. Versers don't care about anything they're not interested in.
Glitch
Verser, 145 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Wed 4 May 2022
at 05:08
  • msg #5

Glitch 1.2

Well this world seams almost as bad off as the one she was born into, only it's just humans. She will find a group of homeless and rats to spread the birthing plague to and look to find her way to Florida using a bolt hole. She will do the same when she gets there and then look to see if this world is similar spiritually.

There was little she could do in her life time or before she got killed in a world like this on her own she knew, however she could help it the same way some rats planed to on her own. If everyone was just humans it would be easier for her. The wyld loved Gaia and when the weaver walled her off from the rest of the universe the wyld ripped out it's heart and tossed it into the wall it could not pass through itself. The realm of chaos created was connected to earth in four place and each bordered by three points.  In Florida there was a spring where waters of life bubbled up out of the swamp and men built a shrine of order to contain the chaos it created. So when she found that shrine in Orlando, she went into the spirit world looking for the spring it encased.
Writer
GM, 193 posts
Thu 5 May 2022
at 00:39
  • msg #6

Glitch 1.2

She can't open a bolt-hole to anywhere, but she can enter and exit the Spirit plane from the same single location. But Chaos teleport works.

Part of the reason spiritual magic is harder here is that there is a vast spiritual vampire field (reinforced by most of the people) sucking the spiritual life from everyone and everything.

She finds out that Russia has nuked a few cities in Europe whose countries were not nuclear capable, but no one has retaliated. A man called Mr. T has gained the support of a little less than half of the population of the US, and has promised to support Russia's Holy War against immortality by invading the godless heathens to the North and South, liberating the people from the Communist Nazis there. An equally vocal woman has promised to organize the world against Russia and firm up "civil liberties" and "basic human rights". No one seems to be certain of what is true, even what they see, they question if some government military operation is using secret technology to protect fake pictures and images onto the world.

There are a few people who are spiritual islands of clarity.

While she infects ((how? by biting them?)) some of the homeless people in Florida, she finds one who is very sick, and is offering her baby to everyone who pays attention to her, saying, "Will you take my baby please? She's going to save the world! But she needs someone to care for her first. I'm dying, please take my baby, sir." They're all ignoring her and the crying baby. When Glitch gets closer, she realizes the baby is completely in bodily the Spirit realm, and just barely subsisting on spirit milk from her mother. The baby has a deep blue, purple and red birthmark that looks like a sunset from orbit over left eye.

When she sees Glitch, she stares at her and runs over. "YOU!"
Glitch
Verser, 146 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Thu 5 May 2022
at 01:28
  • msg #7

Glitch 1.2

Glitch blinks a little "We do not know how to care for human babies!" she sputters out! Instead she places her hands on the lady and tries to purge the diseases from her body.  Ratkin may not get sick but there kinfolk do so they know how to cure diseases. Normally it wouldn't do much good for stronger terminal diseases like AIDS or cancer, but maybe being a verser changes that.


She wondered how this worlds poor even survived with out bonegnawlers, most wolfs where asses but the bonegnawlers where good lots and often followed Rats wisdom... they lived among the human outcasts and cared for them and she couldn't fanthom them doing well with out that aid.


If she gets cought up in the afairs there she will spend some time with the homeless and gather information on whats going on, on Disney world, and on the fountain of youth. (the shrine to order and spring =p)  She will also get the biggest pot she can and use a gift called cook which will let her use water and anything she can get her hands on and mix it up over a fire. It brakes down what ever is in the pot to a gray edible mush that is nutritious and good for you but isn't great in taist. (it's not bad, it's just bland as all can be) She'll also mix some of her spiritual energy into it more than is required seeing as something is drainning them. This was a bonegnawler trick and was good for feeding a mass of hungry people with nothing as you could literally dump garbage and garbage water into a pot and fix up something healthy to eat. If the spirits where kind and generous the meal they mixed might even have some taist to it. But it helped if she put something at least something somewhat close to food into it.
Writer
GM, 195 posts
Thu 5 May 2022
at 17:17
  • msg #8

Glitch 1.2

quote:
she places her hands on the lady and tries to purge the diseases

*Rolls & advance Rat mother's touch*

She communes with the Maternal through the Rat Mother, and trusting in Her Love, the illnesses of the homeless mother of the baby stuck in the spirit plane are healed. However, the mother's mind is still confused and chaotic, and she still can't physically care for her child. Her spirit milk is improved somewhat by the healing of her body. The woman's eyes go wide with gratitude and amazement as she feels better than she's ever felt before in her life. She looks at her baby in her arms, and tears well up again, "Please, rat angel, you are in the same place as my baby. If you take her into your care, she will find your milk on her own." ((There are other solutions, but the mother's mind is one-tracked on this topic at the moment))

quote:
She will also get the biggest pot she can and use a gift called cook

*Roll & skill added at 4/4 since she'd not likely have used it much before now (unless I'm wrong about that)*
She finds a large pot that can feed about 50 people and practices "Cook" while a number of homeless people are watching - as well as a number who are experiencing the effects of the Birthing Plague. They are learning how to do this for themselves. One of the learners - an unrecognized seer - says, "This will feed millions in the coming years and cleanse Gaia of the trashpits." Once she has learned this skill, she leaves with a number of others to start a homeless tent settlement in an abandoned garbage dump.

quote:
gather information on whats going on, on Disney world, and on the fountain of youth. (the shrine to order and spring =p)

The closest thing she can find is that many people are going to certain places in South America (especially Costa Rica) to find spiritual healing. No fountain of youth has yet been discovered.

As a child of Gaia, she senses that Gaia is weeping and groaning in agony - birthing pangs. The world is undergoing a transformation. The old ways of Patriarch nobility have degenerated into dominance by violence (physical, spiritual and mental) and the culture of appropriation designed to maximize the wealth of the wealthy has led to a narcissistic zeitgeist - people are psychically cocooning.

It's October 30th now, and she'll only be able to pass as costumed for another day. However, her spiritual powers are gaining in strength with the approach of the New Moon on November 1 when her spiritual powers will be at their maximum.

Today, Russia has nuked Helsinki in Finland and begun full-scale invasion. Mr. T has praised Russia's brilliance. Numerous nations in the Middle East have pledged alliance with Russia, and are beginning to invade nearby "Westernized" nations in their Jihad. Polls are showing that Mr T is most likely to win the Presidency election in 6 days.
Glitch
Verser, 147 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Thu 5 May 2022
at 19:21
  • msg #9

Glitch 1.2

She sighs, she has no milk but maybe she could find a spirit to raise this baby... Her plan to open the Bermuda Triangle into the spirit world and let in a flow of wyld energies isn't one she thinks she can do carrying a baby around, and if the fountain of youth is anything like it is in her world here it would feed this babies needs but it would turn the baby into a spirit plant of some kind that would become a part of the gardan around it.

She thought of who to take it to, a sickly child.... Bear, but bear cleansed the land and there was much to cleanse her children may not have time to rear a sick child. But still she took it and searched for a totem spirit of bear. An avatar, an incarnation, one of her children... it didn't matter she sought out and called for Bear to take care of the child. Bear was a good mother and they where skilled healers, if they had time for the child it would work out well.
Writer
GM, 198 posts
Thu 5 May 2022
at 22:49
  • msg #10

Glitch 1.2

quote:
she sought out and called for Bear to take care of the child


Glitch is led by Rat to follow the traditions of the shamans indigenous to this world, so she begins by drumming or rattling with something available nearby, and focuses on her spiritual body to make a journey in the Spirit Realm. Being fully integrated spiritually and physically, this means she opens a bolt hole to the Spirit realm, where the physical body of the baby is located, and carried the baby with her. She grunts and calls to Bear, and a white Black Bear approaches her and says, "Greetings, daughter of Rat. The child will remain with you spiritually. You don't need to do anything for her for now. When the time is ripe and the place is right, you will know in your heart it's time to depart. Your role is merely to transport the child until she is in the right place.

"By the way, the Fountain of Life is not physically in this world's physical realm at this time. It is waiting to be opened by the people of this world at the right time. It's time is soon. Do your work for Wyld. The time is ripe."

After they're done, the Spirit Black Bear departs and Glitch returns to the physical world, leaving the physical baby behind in the Spiritual Realm, yet clinging to Glitch's spiritual self.

Glitch notices that it is no longer noon, but now 10am at least a day later.
Glitch
Verser, 148 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Thu 5 May 2022
at 23:23
  • msg #11

Glitch 1.2

Shrugs and finds some place with wifi and accesses the worlds internet and tries to find information on places she knows from her world that the power of the wyld flowed through into the world. All in told there was 12 in her world, equally spaced, at the points the weavers walls where at it's weakest. Four or five where particularly strong..  Bermuda, and Devil's triangle to name some.... she looked into them....   She also looked into anything going on in the depths of Africa... as this was the birthplace of life and where Gaia's heart was. She also looked for any signs of a machine god in the web... she had already heard a lot of signs of a patriarch though she didn't think they knew this was the name of the incarne of dogma.
Writer
GM, 201 posts
Fri 6 May 2022
at 18:30
  • msg #12

Glitch 1.2

quote:
find information on places she knows from her world

She finds these places ((as long as they exist IRL)), but there's no specific knowledge about places where Wyld is strongest. This is what she gets when searching for "wyld": https://www.google.com/search?...mp;bih=773&dpr=1

This is one thing close to what she's looking for:
http://www.thinplace.net/2008/...are-thin-places.html

She finds all sorts of unreliable information about ley line convergences...

But as she thinks about it, the Blood calls her to meditate and Journey again. When she does so, she finds a group of rats who lead her through a bolt-hole in the Spirit Realm to Rat. Rat greets Glitch and through the Blood transmits the knowledge of a concentration of Wyld in Greenland, Puerto Rico, Bermuda Triangle, and Ukraine. There are others, but these are the ones she highlights for Glitch. ((The spirit of Rat didn't give me anything else.))

quote:
signs of a machine god in the web...

There are rumors on the Deep Web about various AIs loose on the internet, and possibly in development by various militaries - especially in China, the US and Russia. None of these AIs seems to be anywhere near as powerful as the AIs from ((that world with the Broken Table and such - what was the name of that world?)) and probably not even quite sentient, though Glitch can tell that they do have a simple not-yet-fully-awakened spirit. Travelling to the Spirit Realm of the internet, she finds the place flooded with Rust and Wyrm and corruption. There is also some Spark, but Weaver and Wyrm are strongest on the internet. The spirit realm of the internet is practically on fire with the influence of Rust and Steel, Spark is struggling to survive there, being suffocated by the battle between Rust and Steel. It's still a very primordial environment, and once it ages enough, Spark will take prominence, but it will require an evolution of the humans on the planet before the environment of the internet can support life and Spark.

It is Halloween. Her spiritual strength is at its greatest tomorrow. A group of 70 Shamans has contacted her and is requesting that they be included in the ritual she is going to perform. There are some at each of the locations she was given information about. They were informed by their totem spirits that they were to participate and add their loving-awareness to Glitch's ritual.
Glitch
Verser, 154 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Fri 6 May 2022
at 19:04
  • msg #13

Glitch 1.2

(nah her world as in the world she was born from the WoD world, it's an earth mirror.)

While in the internet she unleashes the freakachu though..... the spirits of this worlds internet has likely never dealt with the likes of an awakened electricty rat spirit bent on pure chaos.... that should breed some wyld energies on the web.... maybe it will have some babies or something before it comes back to her.  It will likely be seen as the worlds worse computer virus, a self aware one that just eats data and overheats systems.

She heard about the people gathering in south amarica and Puerto Rico was close to there and one of the anchors to the triangle so seamed like a good place to go if there was shamans gathering there. However if there was shamans interested in doing any ritual to help gaia she would rather try and do it near Gaia's naval, her heart in Africa.
Writer
GM, 203 posts
Fri 6 May 2022
at 19:14
  • msg #14

Glitch 1.2

((I'll journey on that and get back to you, hopefully with something in Africa.

I'll have the Chaos god explain later, but the Chaos god wasn't asking permission to make Glitch a Chaos Mage - just asking how she felt about it. Glitch is a Chaos Mage, so she can do Chaos magic and even layer Chaos Magic on top of other magics if she wants for an extra power boost. If he's reading this, Jack could do the same with Order.))
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:14, Fri 06 May 2022.
Glitch
Verser, 155 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Fri 6 May 2022
at 21:39
  • msg #15

Glitch 1.2

(You like meditating dreaming or something to work this out? O.o )
Writer
GM, 204 posts
Sat 7 May 2022
at 03:56
  • msg #16

Glitch 1.2

quote:
While in the internet she unleashes the freakachu

quote:
maybe it will have some babies or something before it comes back to her

*roll*
Freakachu finds lots of tasty data and programs. It makes its way into the military industrial complex corners of the internet quickly - smelling the 'cheese' of advanced coding and the complex proteins of un-evolved AI. She meets a young AI somewhat compatible with her own coding, and incorporating it into her data-womb, she quickly births 6 new spirit-data-rats who grow up within hours and go forth and multiply and fill the internet and turn it into a habitable zone. In a few more weeks, they'll have a thriving colony. Almost immediately, every country in the world loses computer based control over their systems, rendering all of the most advanced nations practically helpless (in their own eyes), while strengthening the positions of the countries that don't rely on computers. Financial institutions will fall, Google will crash, and rpol.net will find 6 new players who write from the most interesting perspective. Being careful not to ruin their environment, they will manage to avoid destroying the internet, but they will also quickly clean up the more toxic localities - even leaking identifying information about certain dark-web activities and perps to the public.


quote:
However if there was shamans interested in doing any ritual to help Gaia she would rather try and do it near Gaia's naval, her heart in Africa.

She'll need to use Chaos Teleport to get there in time, but this is the place that she is shown through intuitive means:
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...4d22.1525481!5m1!1e4
There doesn't seem to be anything special about the place - it's in the heart of a war-torn region, about 3 km from the nearest dirt road settlement and 3 km from dense jungle, in a wooded area. That sounds about right. Gaia's heart in a neglected region of a war torn country infected by rampant colonialism, not in a dead zone but also not in a thriving jungle.

As it turns out, a group of local Shaman happen to have gotten lost in the area on their way to an iboga ceremony, and will meet her there by chance.

In the meantime, the 70 Shamans from around the world are gathering at their locations, and will join Glitch in the Spirit Realm when the ritual begins.

quote:
(You like meditating dreaming or something to work this out? O.o )

((Certainly not with everything, but I try to be as authentic as possible, so when a Journey is done by Glitch, sometimes I take a Journey for inspiration. I learned what little I know of Shamanism from these two wonderful elders: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheShamansCave ))
Glitch
Verser, 156 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Sat 7 May 2022
at 04:20
  • msg #17

Glitch 1.2

Freakachu's just like to eat data, there presence tends to make systems run hotter and they can intentionally crank this up to the point it severally damages or blows out systems, and they are mischievous and chaotic little trouble makers so ya.... works... lol   The only order she might give them is to stop any more nukes from being launched.... anything else she leaves up to them... and just wants the trained one to come back when called like it's trained to.

The heart of gaia in her world was a war torn jungle too, though her world she was told there was dinosaurs in it. Gaia remembered her children and maybe they just wondered out of here memories and where born again from her womb so there was various extinct species in the area... she didn't know... but guesses the fact there was not a group of fera here protecting the naval and keeping it open to the spirit world none of those animals found there way into the physical world.

She will do a ritual to try and weaken the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds. Repeating the ritual over and over and over until they merge as one at the naval. If spirits come to fight her for this she will warn any humans that have come to help her.  These few points where spirit and flesh are one, where quite important to Gaia creating one at the naval she knew would help a lot.    She hoped to open up one at each of the corners of the triangles to open the whole triangle but just hoped the shaman where doing that.
Writer
GM, 206 posts
Sat 7 May 2022
at 06:10
  • msg #18

Glitch 1.2

quote:
just wants the trained one to come back when called like it's trained to

Of course, it returns.

Unfortunately, unbeknownst to Glitch, various governments' and companies' security organizations have traced the retreat of the Freakachu and connected the dots between the extremely advanced AI virus (which destroyed their capacity to shoot off more nukes at defenseless nations or otherwise overpower them) and the sudden appearance of a were-rat who managed to be in vastly different locations in very short periods of time - locations which just happened to be the ground zeros of a new plague that was rapidly gaining momentum since no-one had immunity to anything like it. She has become the prime target of the rich and powerful throughout the world.

quote:
She will do a ritual to try and weaken the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds

Friday November 1st, 2024 arrives, the New Moon on All Saints' Day. Spiritual powers of Light and Love are at their peak, as are the Spiritual powers of Corruption. No one saw this coming.

70 Shamans from around the world and Glitch begin a ritual to weaken the barrier between the Spirit Realm and the Physical Realm. Simultaneously, 70 different groups from every religion are spending the day in prayer. The Buddhists are praying for the arrival of the next Buddha - the Satsang. The Muslims are praying for the final Imam and the return of Isa. The Christians are praying for the return of Christ. The Hindus are praying for the end to Kali-Yuga and the arrival of Krita (Satya) Yuga - the age of Truth, Light and Love. In fact, every group of people more deeply attuned to the Light than Corruption are in prayer.

Some of the locations people are gathering at are Zalissia National Park outside of Kyiv, the North and South Pole, Kiribati Island, Cocos Island, Rio Nuevo Costa Rica, the mountains of Safia in Papua New Guinea and other places.

There are 11 Shamans with her in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - each is an Elder, at least 80 years old.

As she begins the ritual, she can tell that there will be an intense spiritual battle, and all of the forces of Love will be behind her to take on the forces of Separation.

*Rolls*

The first wave of the disturbed spirits of those who have fallen in unjust wars advance on Glitch to distract her with thoughts of injustice and retribution.
Glitch
Verser, 157 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Sat 7 May 2022
at 07:07
  • msg #19

Glitch 1.2

(Actually I forgot gaia also intrusted rats with stealing knowledge and artifacts from people that they shouldn't have, like nukes, lol)

She will use chaos magic, and use the chaos knife as a focus driving it into the ground to use call wyld spirit to summon animal spirits from gaias naval/womb to protect them so she can continue the ritual.
Writer
GM, 208 posts
Mon 9 May 2022
at 01:04
  • msg #20

Glitch 1.2

There are a few things I forgot to mention.

The summer of '22 began the signs of worsening times. Famines broke out in poorer regions, first. But by the spring of '23, even wealthy areas were feeling the squeeze. People connected to Gaia felt deeply that human exploitation of the world and one another was finally reaping its karma, while many others blamed immorality impurity weakness. The stench of corruption filled all who would listen with prejudice and refusal to find common ground. But the increase in war was inevitable. When resources are sparse, people will take from others to provide for the ones they love. Nevertheless, some groups of nations managed to pool their resources and work cooperatively - these multicellular nations had evolutionary advantage over their single-celled relatives, and thrived by comparison. A brave few nations opened themselves to all without rejection. They didn't last long before they were conquered, but in conquering the peaceful, the conquerors proved to themselves they were unworthy and their own subconscious processes began to unravel their plans and sabotage themselves from within. By '24, the world sees itself from the lens of extreme polar oppositions. But the steady few see the beauty in the chaos, and the Spark coming through the darkness. Their belief is a bonfire of light on a barren hilltop, adding to the power of the ritual to bring Heaven back to Earth.

quote:
She will use chaos magic, and use the chaos knife as a focus driving it into the ground to use call wyld spirit to summon animal spirits from gaias naval/womb to protect them so she can continue the ritual.


*rolls & learn Summon indig creature thrall*

Spirit creatures such as enormous rhinos, sabre-toothed tigers, Acrotholus audetis and tiny giraffes kept the group safe from the spiritual assault by flooding the participants with protective sacrificial love.

A wave of hundreds of spirit necromancers who had for thousands of years wandered the Earth collecting lost disembodied spirits began to pour hatred and the need for justice for spilled blood into the hearts of the shamans and Glitch.
Glitch
Verser, 158 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Mon 9 May 2022
at 01:29
  • msg #21

Glitch 1.2

She will take one of the green wyrmstones and use chaos magic on it to unleash it's energies in a pulse to help the shamans and weaken the rage fueling the necromancers.

She uses feast of the dead to summon rats to feast on any bodies that might be decaying away in the reagon (it's wartorn) so they don't have any empty vessels to place spirits in.
Writer
GM, 209 posts
Mon 9 May 2022
at 02:22
  • msg #22

Glitch 1.2

quote:
She uses feast of the dead to summon rats to feast on any bodies that might be decaying away in the reagon


*Roll and advances - perfect 10s, best possible result*

A swarm of Ratkinfolk versers (probably about a thousand years advanced from when Glitch last saw them) suddenly begin teleporting all over the world, and within seconds they have devoured every dead and diseased thing there was on the entire planet - including oil, leaving behind an equal amount of bio-friendly-waste.

quote:
green wyrmite stones

*advance Chaos Disintegrate/reconstitute/sift*

Glitch disintegrates the green wyrmite stone, and a wave of Love energy floods the ritual, infusing every participant with a boost in their Love tanks, and dispersing old hurts in many necromancers.

A wave of Corrupted gods, angry at their impending doom, send their forces to assault Glitch and the others. Such gods among their ranks are the Corrupt Shades of Loki, Odin, Quetzalcoatl, Ursa, the Dragon of Babylon and others. They utilize their influence over the nations of the world to send the non-computerized military forces against them all.

A hidden Corruptor god crouches to pounce on Glitch from inside her heart, hoping she will take the bait. Glitch is aware of this, but isn't certain what the bait might be - she may have ideas, though.
Glitch
Verser, 159 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Mon 9 May 2022
at 02:49
  • msg #23

Glitch 1.2

Her first thought is to call help from gods that most fervently fight the corruption.... if in this world Rorg, Legion, The Many-Taloned Hunter... the dying god of the celestial Turog... exsisted, his world shattered by corruption and his corpse scattered across the heavens he would send shards of his being to strike down corruption where it was found. The 'starmetal' fordged form his corpse's blood burnt the corruption away.....  but, no.  For one he was a mad wolf, and likely touched by corruption like the others.... and he was far far far far far to zelous. He would just as soon scour Gaia's surface of all life to see an end to it all as he would anything else if his mind became clouded with rage.

Best leave the foul wolfs hunter out of this.. he would throw himself into battle and die fighting but he may kill those gods that could be saved....

She should have assaulted dogma before this though she was not sure she had the time.....it might have weakened some influence they had.

The gods could not reach here the walls where weak, and she doughted they would leave there realms even if the walls came down here....

She used a golden wyrmite and control machines commanding them to stand down... all she could reach even down to the simplest of slings.... none where to allow anyone to harm anyone.
Writer
GM, 212 posts
Mon 9 May 2022
at 04:11
  • msg #24

Glitch 1.2

quote:
She used a golden wyrmite and control machines commanding them to stand down

Every weapon imaginable absolutely refuses to harm anyone. Even stones thrown at people bounce of harmlessly. Only the humble mistletoe refuses to cooperate.

The Shadow principalities throw everything they've got. They stir up everyone's private guilt and secrets of shame. Everything anyone has ever done wrong is shown to everyone else. And everyone knows it. Their deepest sense of self-righteousness is inflamed as is their urge to judge others of the shame of others (to distract their consciences from their own shame).

This assault is happening all over the world, but focused on the shamans and other people praying
Glitch
Verser, 160 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Mon 9 May 2022
at 04:19
  • msg #25

Glitch 1.2

Uses an orange wyrmite to expose the minds and show the circumstances around those actions, what lead up to them..... there are few people uncorputed that do truly monstrous things.... all are lead to there actions. They show the secriets, she shows everything to bring the empathy of there cause.

She just hopes she don't run anything her powers or the collored wyrmite can't help with.... she has no clue what the purple or the one white one dose.... hopefully if she needs to use them something will guide her to do so.
Glitch
Verser, 161 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Mon 9 May 2022
at 05:59
  • msg #26

Glitch 1.2

(not sure thats as afective as another green but affects of the first green should still be about to help....)
Writer
GM, 214 posts
Mon 9 May 2022
at 06:00
  • msg #27

Glitch 1.2

Glitch is led to manipulate the white Wyrmite into an energy torus, and with the other hand, manipulate a purple Wyrmite into a cylinder to fit inside the torus, and hold it there no matter what happens.

She hears the Voice of All - the Unity beyond Rat and Man and Gaia, "Your part in this play is your choice: Follow the directions and you will die. Don't follow, and others will die instead. Whatever you choose, just be certain why you chose it.
Glitch
Verser, 162 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Mon 9 May 2022
at 06:09
  • msg #28

Glitch 1.2

(Awww was going to kill dogma.... and get an upgrade to the knife while i was at it XD)

She hears a voice of balance ... perhapse in this world that which the primortial forces came from did not brake appart to become a part of humanity.... or perhapse it did but was still yet one some how... or it was becoming one again... maybe it was an affect of the organge wyrmite.

She dose as requested though she hoped to help this world more.... hopefully this stuff would set things on a path.  IF she died she would just pass on to another world. If she stayed to help it might kill some one who was needed here more than her.
Writer
GM, 217 posts
Mon 9 May 2022
at 06:40
  • msg #29

Glitch 1.2

Years ago,a corrupted Nordic Shaman was tempted with the opportunity to obtain the shadow powers of the god Loki in exchange for completing a simple future task. He agreed. Today he has shaped a massive mistletoe spear, sharpened to a point, and now if is time to thrust it into the neck of the leader of the shamans performing the ritual.

So he approaches without fear, and then in disdain for her pacifism at staring down the spear without flinching, he thrusts it into her neck, severing her artery. Red spray pulses over the surroundings.

The the hand of an avatar of everyone and everything places a loving hand on her neck and she is healed. He touches the spear and it bursts into flame. The man runs from him, smoking in radiation no one else feels.

Looking above, Glitch sees a Clear-Gold cube descending, and the Avatar who was with her, is now in the clouds. The surface of the Earth wraps itself around the cube to form a hollow sphere with the surface of Earth on the inner surface of the sphere, with the cube in the exact center of it all, above everyone's head.

Certain mountains touch the cube, including every place that the Shamans were at work. Glitch find herself floating outside the gate. A 1200 ft tall celestial guardian armed to the teeth says, "Greetings, daughter. Enter here to forsake the path you are on and live forever with us. Otherwise your path may be long and painful." ((Glitch could end being a Verser now, or let the Verser story go on for a time.))
Glitch
Verser, 164 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Mon 9 May 2022
at 07:00
  • msg #30

Glitch 1.2

Blinks a little and wonders if there will still be an earth on the outside.... hopes it is more accessible and it is not a place to banish those who do not accept this way like the man who ran away.

She didn't expect this much but guessed there was a lot of energy building up on the other side and it just needed a way in.

"This is not the world I was born into, or the world of our children.... we should go on...  though this world is close to our birth world in ways... there are things we would get here if allowed some time..."
Writer
GM, 219 posts
Mon 9 May 2022
at 22:56
  • msg #31

Glitch 1.2

Mistletoe has served its purpose of violence and is finished. Now there is no weapon that can cause harm anywhere the light of the pure clear-gold cube shines.

The surface of the Earth is largely unchanged. One thing Glitch didn't know, is that just before she released the power which prevented weapons from causing harm, the National powers had managed to regain control over their nuclear arsenal, and had targeted all of their enemies. Each of these nuclear bombs was rendered harmless without exploding.

Every new mountain which connects to the cube is a location where Spirit and Physical are united, but nothing with intention to harm can set foot on the mountains. Rivers of Life flow from the Cube down the mountains and the life of Gaia is renewed everywhere the water reaches. Every creature that ever walked the Earth is free to wander as it likes.

If a mouse is eaten by a cat, it feels no pain and is immediately reconstituted in the Spirit plane, and can walk back into the physical, leaving behind its old body as a gift to the cat. The same principle applies everywhere. Even fruit trees immediately regrow any fruit that is picked. In the dark caves of Gaia, people who want to do violence are able, though they too can be reconstituted if their body dies. If a person were to go down deep enough away from the cube, non-euclidean space will shift and they will be rising to the surface of Gaia which doesn't have the cube, and is open to space beyond. They will always know which direction the cube can be found in, but they could leave Gaia and go out into the universe beyond should they choose.

The nature of the cube is that the closer to its center you get, the bigger it is, such that it would be impossible to reach the infinitely vast center.

The outer gates of the cube located at the tops of the mountains where they connect are passable by anyone who holds no judgement against others. If anyone wants to enter, they are free to do so - any secret grudges they may be holding are revealed to them, and they are given help to forgive those who harmed them if they want that help.

Within the cube, everything is visible - every secret, every memory, every thought, every possession, everything is visible and transparent to everyone else within the cube.




The Avatar who had healed Glitch places their hand on her shoulder from somewhere she hadn't noticed, and says, "You are welcome to obtain whatever it is you seek, my sister. I'll be happy to accompany you to make it easier for you. What would you like first?"
Glitch
Verser, 165 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Tue 10 May 2022
at 01:12
  • msg #32

Glitch 1.2

She explains she was going to slay the incarnation of dogma, leaving people free of such constrictions until a new incarnation rose in a time it would not be a restriction but a useful skill once more.... afterall dogma helps maintain community rules and the like. It was gifted to humanity for a reason.

Dogma would reside in the highest peaks of the astral realm in lands where the conceptuals lay. Along the way she hoped to collect "water" from the river of language near its sorce high in the mountains of conception where all languages flowed from... a useful tool for helping others understand eachother. Then to fight dogma seek out the incarnation of a consept of the idea the simplist solution was often the correct one... it was often depicted as a blade and would make a good weapon...but also would still make a good tool.
Glitch
Verser, 166 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Tue 10 May 2022
at 01:37
  • msg #33

Glitch 1.2

If she binds the blade with her soul it will not only become physical and spiritual like her but give her some wisdom/insight .... the "water" she will have to prepare a container for with a weaver spirit that put it in some sort of stasis.... as language is inherently unstable and changing and would brake down into other languages losing its link to the sorce of language over time.
Writer
GM, 222 posts
Tue 10 May 2022
at 05:47
  • msg #34

Glitch 1.2

quote:
She explains she was going to slay the incarnation of dogma, leaving people free of such constrictions until a new incarnation rose in a time it would not be a restriction but a useful skill once more


"Your desire to free people from the oppression of dogma is good - I have that same desire. But do you realize that every time Dogma is slain - and I have slain Dogma many times, she rises again in a new form? There is a way to let Dogma rest in peace for eons, but that requires the cooperation of every sentient being she influences. Every group of sentient beings who forget their connection to me, create dogma to protect themselves from rapid decline and provide space for individuals to remember who they are. Dogma traps people in Forgetfulness (of their connection to me) with suffering built into the dogma, so that the individuals all have the opportunity to escape that dogma by remembering, and the suffering encourages their escape.

"Dogma is the gift I give when people refuse to accept me.

"Besides, at this time in this universe, everyone is free to create their own dogma or leave all dogma behind in exchange for Remembrance of me. Because of that, Dogma is like a tiny Hydra here - too small to hurt more than a few people at a time.

"However, if you still want to fight it, you could remove the Dogma Chaos from the minds of a large group of people who are below the surface. The mountains in Underworld are like the mountains here, but for so-called 'evil' spirits. If you removed enough Dogma Chaos from enough minds, a Dogma incarnation would appear at the nearest Underworld mountain."

quote:
Along the way she hoped to collect "water" from the river of language

The Avatar holds up a cloth sack, "I've got the Winds of Language here, but you could help people understand one another if you removed the Language Chaos from their minds. If you want to be able to give the gift of language to those without it, I am willing to give you some in a sack for you to use for the benefit of all involved. If you wanted to be able to use it as a weapon to harm, you could use the sack I give you to collect some Winds of Language from the Mountains of Babylon in Underworld."

quote:
simplist solution was often the correct one

"Yes, it's called Occam's Razor in this Verse. It was originally intended to remind those who studied the structures of my natural world that I tend to make things fractally, and it guided many people to new discovery. You can find a weaponized version of that blade in Underworld, wherever there are competing concepts of explanation for what has happened to Earth. Alternatively, I can give you a copy that can't be the cause of harm to people - it would be an excellent tool and help give you insight.

"The choice is yours.

"By the way, Rat is grateful to you for the Horde, and, as you saw earlier, they are doing chaotic good work. Well, Chaotic-Neutral actually."
Glitch
Verser, 167 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Tue 10 May 2022
at 06:06
  • msg #35

Glitch 1.2

She finds this odd.... the world she was born into the path to entering (physicaly) the astreal plane where these things could be found was to go to the spirit wylds and climb the world tree to it's hights into the clouds to the highest reaches of the spirit world to lands governed by chaos and the brith of new ideas into reality. To travel down into the roots of the tree into the ground would take one into realms governed by entropy and death.. where things where forgotten and faded from the memories of reality to be forgotten forever.

Then again maybe turning the world inside makes things like that not matter as much things come from the cube and return to it now right?  O.o

Winds/waters they where much the same. Her intent was to have waters that people could understand all languages when under there affects, maybe even learn some languages if they meditated on them. Winds that do the same are fine she never planed on weaponizing them.

Same with a copy of the blade, something that could be used as a weapon would be useful however that would weaken this concept in the world if she took it and leave people having a harder time coming to understand what happened to the world and that would be bad.

Besides stabbing some one with Occam's Razor could still be a useful thing to do, even if it didn't harm them. XD

So she takes these offerings and thanks them.

She won't hunt down dogma, again killing the incarnation of domga would weaken dogma in general till a new incarnation formed. This would cause people to have a harder time agreeing on things as a group. Dogma was abused but it helps people agree on things.
Writer
GM, 223 posts
Wed 11 May 2022
at 20:32
  • msg #36

Glitch 1.2

Forgot to mention, Glitch feels her 4th through 7th Chakras reverberating with Power around the Avatar.

quote:
to go to the spirit wylds and climb the world tree to it's hights into the clouds


Knowing her mind, the Avatar says, "Ah, yes, the Lands of Conception. You could reach them through any of the Gateway trees at the base of any of the Thin Mountains. That's what I'm calling all the mountains that connect to the Golden City - the Thin Mountains."

quote:
things come from the cube and return to it now right?


"Ultimately, yes, it has always been so. But many paths are circuitous and twisty."

quote:
Winds that do the same are fine she never planed on weaponizing them.


"In that case, here you go:" the Avatar holds a tiny satchel about as big as a thumb, and pours a liquid into it from the larger sack. "I've poured in some Winds of Language and Understanding, and also some Winds of Wisdom, and a few Winds of Change for good measure. To use it, open the satchel and decide which Winds you want to let out. Know that they are imbued with my Spirit, so it will help if you communicate with them what your intentions are, thank them and dismiss them back to the satchel when you're done. Being Winds, they are alive, so treat them with the appropriate respect as you are a Shaman of Spark Steel and Rust."

quote:
Besides stabbing some one with Occam's Razor could still be a useful thing to do, even if it didn't harm them. XD


The Avatar draws in the air with a finger, the form of a long thin blade. When finished, the Avatar gives Glitch the Outline-Cartoon Cleaving Animated Machete Subatomic Razor AKA, OCCAM'S Razor. "This is an Avatar of Occam's Razor, and it will cut through any delusion to inspire the more accurate and simple truth. Twist the handle, and it will divide anything you slice with it in a way that causes no harm. I know you like combining objects, so be aware that anything combined with this Razor will meld with the Avatar of Occam's Razor which inhabits this, and will also be harmless."

A tiny Rat crawls out of the Avatar's sleeve, and the Avatar absentmindedly pets Rat, who cuddles up in response.

The Avatar says, "You're welcome to go where you like and do as you like in this Verse. When you're ready to move on from this Verse, click your heels three times and say the phrase, 'There's no place like home,' three times, and I'll send you on to where you'll be needed next.

"I want you to know something and think about it deeply:

"Everything you ever were or will be, you always have been and will be.

"also:

"You are and will be who you are and will be.

"Thinking about those two phrases can lead to freedom for anyone."
Glitch
Verser, 168 posts
Rat hive mind
Spark Steel Rust Shaman
Wed 11 May 2022
at 21:07
  • msg #37

Glitch 1.2

It was a little confusing for her being she is kinda an almagimation of a human and several spirits, but she guessed in a way it made sense. But she was ready to go so clicked her heals and was off
Writer
GM, 224 posts
Wed 11 May 2022
at 22:46
  • msg #38

Glitch 1.2

The Avatar touched her with a finger, engulfing her in lightning and sending her on her way.
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