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

*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.



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.


((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 ))

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.

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.


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.

(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.

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.



*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.

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.

*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.


*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.

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.

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

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.

(not sure thats as afective as another green but affects of the first green should still be about to help....)

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.

(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.

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.))

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..."

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?"

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.

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.

"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."


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."


"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."

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.

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



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."



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



"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."



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."

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

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