Her ears pull back at the sound.  (familar as in? which one of the three? lol)

If she can turn into the partical form and return from it.... or be re-absorbed by another one of herselves she will do that so she can't be collared, and try and see if in that form she can brake down the matter of the collar on Elliot.

She will also seal off spiritual barriors to close the portal faster and to keep them from using there portals again....encase they haven't found a work around for that yet.

It makes using things like boltholes and the like harder too but sealing down spiritual/dimentional space by removing the chaos from it and sheering up the order keeps them from taking off or bring in reinforcements.... and if it's only one on one  (or one on two) maybe she can subdue them.

If she can subdue them maybe she can figure out whats going on. Many fera can learn the gift to tell when people are laying.... rat mothers know how to make there children tell the truth though... and maybe rat can teach her that gift, that look that a mother gives there child that forces them to tell the truth....    all though something like this beeing if it is too affective if made to feel that kind of guilty they might never shut up x.x

She remembers this is the voice of the spider creature from the Bogeymen.


The Cellular Cloud skill is one of Gichi's somatic skills, not directly accessible to Glitch's body - but Glitch could body-morph into a single-cellular organism.


As soon as she tries to do this, she finds that she has no access to her spiritual abilities, and she feels the presence of the collar around her neck as if it had already been there for some time. In fact, the moment she felt her connection to the others dim, she had been collared.

The unnatural shadows fade from around the creature, and the 6' tall spider creature who looks like a cross between Pinhead, a xenomorph and a were-spider, very pleased with itself compels the catatonic Elliot and Glitch to follow it as it walks through a shadow.

Suddenly Glitch is fully aware of her whole self and Gichi again.

*FLASHBACK*
Zombie dragons from outer space are falling from the skies as the planetary sized Gichi and the railgun-creature Glitch obliterate one after the next. The lich Zombie Dragon Mage hops from body to body, causing havoc as he goes, being killed time and again. Just as it appears that the tide of the battle has turned, and there are fewer and fewer of the zombies each successive moment than the last moment, the spider creature appears, filling all of the background of space around them (legs wrapped around) and begins laughing as collars appear around the necks of every last one of them. All of the Zombie Dragons including the mage, all of Glitch, and also Gichi, suddenly and completely lose all of their abilities and find themselves compelled by the spider-creature to step through a shadow.

*Back together*
As they pass through the shadow, all of the Zombie Dragons (except the mage) become lifeless corpses and seem to disappear.

Upon reflection, Glitch realizes that all of them were collared at the exact same moment. ((Not actually true, but that is when the effects of the collar were felt.))

They all find themselves in a shadow-realm. The Zombie Dragon Mage shouts, "What is this?! Who are you, and what do you want with me?!"

The spider-creature calmly explains, "My name is Nalokitha. I am one of the Bogeymen. We are the punishers of those who bring evil to the multiverse. You are my prisoners. In a few moments, my fellow bogeymen will be joining us, and you will all be processed."

The collars compel Glitch to recombine and transform into her regular ratkin form ((for simplicity sake - but also to give you the opportunity to attempt any magic or skill during the transition - it will be a 1d20, natural 20 will succeed, followed by an impeded roll 4x the regular number of dice, keeping the lowest rolls))
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Glitchi tries to use her senses to analize and figure out how the collars work.

If she find a way to disable collars it would be a lot better than just trying to keep escaping it.

But in the mean time she can get the collars off herself through merging together.... the collars arn't bound to her and don't split and re-merge with her shape shifting into multi forms and back. So she will end up with over a hundred collars flying off her or ending up in places that they won't function properly... and if she moves and murges in weird ways she can make sure none of them end up in the right place.

"How have I, or Eliot, or whole planets of people brought evil to your Multiverse. You create environments that breed corruption with your 'punishment'"

*rolls*
The collars smell of technological components and vibrate at frequencies that suggest the presence of electronic parts, but also crystals, an organic component, and an unidentifiable infinitely variable substance - possibly what a cartoon or other magic might smell like. This thought comes from Nimiaom.

The collar is also emitting energy on various frequencies and types. Lightwave, quantum entanglement, telepathic, spiritual, Chaos, Order, Scriff (has an odd smelling? almost unnoticed vector), sonic, magnetic, and more.

There was also the growing smell of Vizrothian horde. Shi suddenly noticed that hir body had decided to nurture the cells in her system against her stated wishes, and at a loss to hir own energy stores. Gichi felt eight eyes focused on hir, and she glanced up.

Nalokitha was grinning at hir, and drooling. She licked her lips and sneered at Gichi. Something in the look said that she had intentionally caused the unwanted growth of those within Gichi. She grew in size and placed a hand on Gichi's side as she said, "You have provided me with another gift! I thought I had captured Glitch, the infamous Gichi (who brought the wrath of the Horde of Vizion down upon the ancient and glorious Pan-Galactic Ichneu Empire), the Elliot thing, and the Zed Dee eM," ZDM "aka Zombie Dragon Mage. Now I discover the illustrious and mysteriously missing Chaos Rats of Vizroth! How marvelous a gift you give to so grateful a mother as I!"



She finds herself just able to morph as randomly and rapidly as she had imagined, but...

They do. All of that. They are bound to her, they split and re-merge with her shape in any form - even cellular (a test-tube-like shape contains the sample). Then Glitch feels her body morphing into ratkin shape and completely re-merging into one. With agony. One of Nalokitha's leg strokes Glitch's neck from below the collar, sending up shivers of discomfort and tickle.


"Dear Glitch, scourge of uncountable galaxies, your actions have brought suffering to numbers even I can't calculate. Precious thing called Elliot, changeling kidnapper of thousands of indigenous Elliots - deadly doppelganger of the innocent. The others aren't your concern, are they, criminal?

"I must admit... I find your assumption that the multiverse belongs to us or that we created any of it, to be... marvelously soothing to my ego. Thank you for worshiping me like a god. It adds nicely to your sins. Have you ever heard of the concept of Hell? That was not our idea, but we liked it. The god of death, destruction and disillusion agreed, so we serve them and we are one.

"There. I gave you your badguy reveal like you wanted. But it was more of an Ozymandias reveal like in Watchman the graphic book version (not the movie version). Here's why: I give you the curse that you cannot reveal any of this knowledge to anyone who doesn't already know it to be true by first-hand experience."

*rolls*

"There, that is done. Oh, and by the way, only you heard that. The rest never heard a word of that explanation I just gave you. Now it is time for us to return home - to the place that you destroyed, once already! But never again!"

At that moment, a Portal from the cybernetic scientist opened beneath them, and they all fell through into the Hellscape - upgraded from before. They all fell through a field of some sort immediately upon entering. When they landed on the sharp rocky ground (Gichi landing on a solid 2-d slab with unyeilding pyramid and diamond shapes protruding at painful angles), the man in the lab coat was there to greet them.

"I wouldn't have settled for these 5 Ee jits. Nalo, did you know there were 13 you could've collected half a galaxy over, and they were all of higher value than these snivelers. Don't worry, I already got them for you while you were falling through that Portal. You're welcome. That's 8 more than you in 8 trillionths the amount of time. You're not so scary."

Nalokitha rakes 3 of her legs across his back and prods him in the ribs, "I'll give you 8 in 5. Are they clear, Mortimer?"

Shifting his focus to Nalokitha, the scientist responds, "Yeah. They're harmless as kittens."

Nalokitha circles a suddenly wing-like leg around the two of them, and they are obstructed from view for the moment.

Everyone finds that they can move about as they like (even morph or split or almost anything else), but the collars remain on their necks. Even most magics seem to work again.

Glitchi and glitch both exsamine the living part of the collars and focus on that as something to look into. Glitchi more examining the life itself... while glitch exsamines it's spirit and living soul.

Everything has a spirit but living things much stronger and more aware ones, hopefuly it's nature is not like that of the bogimen.

"Is this more references to things we have yet to do...  Explain to us though how it is wrong to cause suffering to prevent suffering as you cause suffering for having caused suffering." Don't really expect to talk sense into them (but you can roll for it anyway with her shit rolls XD maybe she will get better) just keeping them distracted and maybe pissing them off so they will less likely notice what she is doing and maybe they will explain more to her whats going on.

She also tries to figure out the scriff vectors in the collar.... as that was likely the organic part. If she can identify the vector as one of them she can likely discount this rote of thought as a workable idea. >.>  Flesh cut off of one of the boggymen isn't likely to be usefull if messed around with.

She can try and figure out whats with the crystals if that line of thought falls appart.

*rolls*
Gichi percieves that the organic component is not like either of the 2 Bogeymen shi's met yet. It all seems to be working together, and all of the collars seem to have the same DNA. Her genetic prediction subconscious algorithms throw up an image of what the entity whose cells are present in the collar may look like:
8' tall, long and thin limbs, indeterminate number of long razor sharp tentacles, black flesh (inside and out), featureless face (no eyes, nose, ears or mouth), and possibly some form of textile fur which grows into a tuxedo shape.

Glitch opens her eyes in the imaginal plane and realizes that the collars are coated in spirit-flesh eyes, and black spirit-flesh tentacles connect them all together and to the universe itself. She is seen, and in being seen, feels her entire self - spirit and flesh - paralyzed with a fear-like substance.

Despite being paralyzed, she finds herself able to speak,

From beneath the wing-leg of Nalokitha, in the midst of obscene noise, Mortimer the scientist answers Glitch, "All to past sins - you have no future. The future doesn't exist. In the infinite possibility of the infinite multiverse every future event is qualitatively 0% likely to occur - therefore there is no future. In other words, since everything is possible, none of it matters here and now. Besides, its your quantum signature which reveals the suffering you've caused. Every life you affect adversely calls out for vengeance on you, and if they can't forgive you, their call for the scales of justice to balance can be exploited. You were instrumental in the creation of the Vizrathian Horde, and the Galaxy Worm. That was enough for you to be one of the juiciest targets in a small corner of the multiverse.

"As for the wrongness or rightness of an action - two wrongs don't make a right, and we have no delusions about which side we fall on. We are on our own side, and we have the best side. Suffering is suffering, and we don't care where it comes from, but you are a convenient target which the multiverse isn't likely to expend too much energy in freeing. You, like everyone else here are nothing more than a battery for us."


For now, she finds nothing useful.

There are many scriff Vectors, including one concentrated vector that matches the collars, also including the Chaos Rats that are emerging from Gichi's skin to be immediately tortured by tiny spiders.

One might benefit from exploring the tortured-flesh landscape.

She has little choice in following right now but will explore if allowed.  Least she knows how these beings fit into things now.

Gichi will try and get a smell of the profeser and this reality more to see if he's got any of this DNA in him... curious if this creature is what makes something a boogie man. Or just something they use.

Glitch tries to get a sense for if what level of being this thing is on.... cautiously not wanting to poke at sleeping gods so to say.  But if it is just something they are using that might help her. Depending how well trained it was.

She will keep exsploring the collar though and distracting them by letting the wiser people in her head talk and letting the nanates make more sense of it till she can get a chance to wonder off and look around and see what is in this reality.

"I saw how the horde became corrupted.... but what has the galaxy worm done. Last I saw of it, it was an agent of entropy keeping the universe in balance. An enemy of yours no dought but not the the universe."   She was also just curious of this. =p

Glitch and the others are free to move around. That same 2-d platform stays with Gichi wherever shi goes, and only lets hir touch fleshy ground when it's all protruding bones and spikes.


Some of the same slinky character's DNA is present in the professor, and also in Nalokitha. Somehow both less and more than what is in the collars.


Scanning the spiritual channels, Glitch comes to realize that this entity is practically god-like. On at least one level, the entire universe is running like a program within the mind of this entity.


"See for yourself. Ask them directly to get the Worm's opinion, then ask their victims - plenty are around, taking their vengeance on the worm by their own hand. Feel free to attack anyone, no one can die here, but they will feel your wrath if you give it to them," his face appears from within the wing, and he winks at Glitch and Elliot.

The moment her mind rested on the Galaxy Worm, she saw it. It was even longer and more segmented than last time. Some segments were being used as containers for noxious substances, and others were being used in unspeakable ways. However, its mental matrix was left intact, and it could communicate from the head segment directly, or telepathically from any segment.

The moment Mortimer suggested she see for herself, a pathway lit itself up in her awareness.

The journey is going to be long. Within the first few steps, a tortured and tormented Elliot rages into view, weilding a baseball bat, and aiming for Elliot.

Well having done what she did to this things home and mind she wasn't getting any help from it. Though now she had some understanding of why it wanted her if it had some predictive nature and knew she would hurt it. It seamed to know fera where more adapt to endure suffering too and just was going to let her witness displays of the suffering of others and the general wrongness of the place. None of it was particularly pleasant and her will would brake evechaly she knew but for now she could just ignore as most of it as she could and focus on trying to find a way to 'fix' things some how. What there was to fix was the problem.

She also opened up to the idea this place could be some function of the universe, rather functioning as it should or not. Looking for signs this was some kinda hell or something corrupting the place ether way. Hells where not uncommon after all... they served as a place to cleanse corruption so where quite full of it and could be confused as corrupt themselves. But the end goal was to remove taint and corruption from souls that could not be removed in ways one could survive through.

Checks to see if the attacking Elliot is infected with this this suffering god. "So what has he done to you and the others?"

Her Choas magic seemed to course a little more powerfully at this thought.


Turning her thoughts to this, Gichi notices that tiny replicas of the spider creature have been slowly building up on the surface of Glitch and steadily increasing their stimulation of pain neurons. She might endure well, but suffering is still suffering, and here, suffering is power.


*rolls*
Here, the flow of corruption is chaotic. There is increase and decrease of corruption, but on the average it seems to be on a steady but slow increase. Wyrm is highly active, but in perfect balance with Wyld and Weaver. Although the increase of Wyld is almost exclusively through the introduction of new victims into this universe.


*rolls*
The attacker has the collar on, and seems to have accepted the charge to attack whomever he likes. He also seems to have given himself over to corruption to some degree or another.

The Elliot Glitch knows drops to the ground in a fetal position and takes the beating as the attacker begins to land blows with the bat.


"I was supposed to be king!"
Everyone catches the memory that is brought up:
Prince Elliot was tired of official business and ceaseless lessons, so he slipped into a pauper's clothes and disappeared for a day into the commoners. He knew they'd be searching for him, so when he found the slightly older Verser Elliot stealing an apple, he had an idea. Verser Elliot would pretend to be Prince Elliot for the day, and then no one would come looking for the prince, and he could have the whole day off.

But the King wasn't good at being a loving father. He was good at ruling. When he saw the sudden change in attitude - the suddenly cooperative Prince - part of him knew he wasn't his son. But a larger part of him didn't care. With this new son, he would have a competent and already wise son to build his legacy.

So when Prince Elliot returned and asked for his clothes back, Verser Elliot called for the guards. The Prince knew the secret passages well, and escaped with nothing but the pauper's clothes on his back and his blood inside his skin.

Verser Elliot complained that they had been compromised and had the Royal Archetect alter all of the access points and doorways into the secret passageways.

The King ignored the true Prince's claims, and sent guardsmen to hunt him down. A few left the King and pledged loyalty to the true Prince. For over a year, Prince Elliot gathered fighting men who would support him. Verser Elliot recognized the threat to the security of his position, and at night, he became invisible, stalked into the Prince's tent and dripped an infectious poison into his ear. Verser Elliot returned to the palace unseen and slept safely in his bed.

The poison infected the Prince's ears, nose and throat, first - feeling like a bad cold. One week later, it settled into his lungs for about 2 more weeks. By the 4th week it had worked its way into his fatty tissues and was causing him sleepless nights and unending agony. In the 9th week, he drowned in his own fluids. The people saw this as the judgement of the gods, and hailed Verser Elliot as the one true Prince.

"At least he seams to feel gilt for what he did, save your own suffering your as much at fault for leading a rebellion instead of living the life you where handed."  though it could be said that was some what his fault to for making himself a target when he could have stayed out of the way. "Though we don't think you seam like the kind to care...."  She looks at the Elliot she knows "How many others have you hurt? Is this why you don't fight them? Only hide?"

Searches her choas magic to try and figure out why it surged....is it using its entropic nature to predict things? Would explain why they are interested in things born of chaos.... fairly hard to form predictive models around them.

While Prince Elliot continues bludgeoning Verser Elliot (even as his body is forced to heal from potentially fatal injury, "Guilt?" Verser Elliot asks, "Why should I feel guilt? I did what I had to do to survive. I always did. You don't know what it's like to live in the body of a child for uncounted thousands of years and in thousands of varied worlds. In most worlds, I was an orphan, otherwise known as an easy target. I only endure this suffering, because sooner or later he'll have no further excuse for hurting me, and I'll have the freedom to return the favor."

As he says this, Glitch feels a strong scriff-vector pull toward a pile of branches nearby. The pull is off, however, it feels more like the strange sensing vector pull from the collars, but stronger. It also gives her the desire to destroy and cause pain. Then she spots the Crow in the nest. It was the same Crow who had eaten her liver and eyes so many times while being held as a prisoner. The pull she feels makes her want to do the same thing to this crow, and she just knows that she has a right to make it feel every bit of pain she felt.

Under ordinary circumstances, Glitch would've easily resisted this urge, but her willpower was weakened. She'd need more than pure willpower to keep herself from taking her revenge.

Inching back in on her perception, Prince Elliot stops beating Verser Elliot, who then answers Glitch's questions, "I don't know how many of my divergents had to be removed. But I don't fight the Boogeymen, because they're too powerful. That's why I hide. Mortimer uses his Portal gun to track down their victims across the multiverse. He's able to feed it any desired destination based on any criteria and it'll open a portal to a universe matching his desired criteria. It's always just a matter of time before he finds me again. I've escaped this place 5 times now, and each time I'm brought back the place is more secure and more impossible to escape." He grabs the bat from Prince Elliot, "The tables have turned, Prince. You've been beating me for too long. Now it's my turn to give you all the pain back you've given to me."

Prince Elliot cries out at the threat and runs away. Verser Elliot drops the bat.


It felt like Choas Truth-sense was detecting a lie or untruth.


Meanwhile, Gichi notices that shi feels plenty of suffering, yet also an undisturbed inner peace radiating from hir Nimiaom awareness. Shi also notices the same strange vector-pull that Glitch is feeling toward the crow, but shi feels it toward the Vizrathians, and it is giving her the suggestion to give them a pox from her inner genetic library so that they could feel the same pain that shi felt in giving them their lives back. But it would be easy for hir to ignore this thought.

Feels some disgust at Elliots response just waiting to hurt him back, maybe he could still be helped but not in a place like this. She did her best to focus on the inner peace feeling, and tries to ingore the Raven and move on past it to follow the feeling of the vectors to try and find the galaxy worm. It wasn't the Raven that had hurt her anyway, it became a Vizrathian. This was an illusion or a different crow from another reality. Hopefully some logic and general carring would help her willpower. That and causing needless pain and suffering was ageist her nature.

Elliot notices the disgust on Glitch's face and raises his hands, "What? All I did was scare him off! If I get back at him like they're trying to make me, all I'll do is give him a reason to come back after me again." ((to be clear, he never hit Prince Elliot with the bat, he just threatened it to get the Prince to run away.))


A memory squeezes into her mind which reveals that this is in fact the same bird that pecked her side open - at a moment after the last time Glitch saw the Crow alive, Mortimer captured it and brought it here.


General caring and avoiding needless pain are common to the natures of almost everyone. This doesn't help enough. She still feels the urge - even though her attempts have stalled the urge.

While Glitch tries to keep herself from beating the crow, Gichi continues to wrestle internally as well. Shi feels the need to justify why shi won't cause the same amount of suffering in the Vizrathians as they caused in hir. Then a memory bursts in - the Vizrathians themselves were given the choice, with the knowledge of what would happen to Gichi as a result, and each of those who were birthed, had chosen to be reborn. Even so, leaning into the peace shi feels, Gichi remembers that the choice to cause pain in another in order to survive is universal to mortal life. Even with this, shi still needs more justification before shi can lay it to rest.

As they continue along the path toward the Galaxy Worm (who is visible as a distinct line along the horizon and into the distance), the Crow inexplicably begins pecking at the feet of Gichi (causing no real damage or pain). Having considered the Worm, Glitch sees teams of surgeons dissecting the Worm's living brain to segment off parts of its inner self from other parts.

Then the Worm looks at Glitch and they are in a shared telepathic space. As a shrouded visage, the Worm says, "Glitch! How are you?"

Glitchi thinks if there is any hope of redeeming the Vizrathians then showing them vengence is not a path to that. She also tries to grow a little something editable for the crow.

Glitch looks to the worm "Why have they brought you here?"

Gichi feels something inside her mind break - something foreign that wasn't part of her. Shi feels tendrils of this mysterious thing trying to reform, but for now hir urge to make the Vizrathians feel pain has abated. However, hir pain increases dramatically, and thoughts from the tendrils suggest that shi will have to feel all of the pain that the Vizrathians have caused hir, and hir people the sask, or else shi must make the Vizrathians feel that pain instead. Additionally, the tendrils suggest that the Vizrathians will still be made to feel pain anyway, even if shi isn't the one to do it.

The Vizrathians stop birthing from hir skin, and those which remain go dormant, shrinking back to a single cell. Shi sings to hir Tree and it produces a fruit which will be good for the crow.

Glitch's urge to harm the crow increases. It might become involuntary, soon.



"You really don't know much about me yet. One thing you don't know is that my mind and my body are not completely connected. My body uses a rudimentary brain, and acts according to its nature, which is to consume. Those I've consumed have had families, and so I've caused tremendous suffering in my time. That's why I'm here. How much do you know about this hellscape?"

"Is it not your bodies nature to consume that which is out of balance?" she is starting to understand it don't nessesarly care if some ones actions are evil or not just that they cause pain, even if the pain is to avoid worse pain in the future. "They feed on suffering and seam to pick those who cause it because the uinvurse will not fight for them as much... and it seams set up to cause more pain and incur age people to cause the pain to each other."

She tries to have her various selves in her mind try and root out the invation in her mindscape and cleanse it to fight this urge.  Glitchi just meditates and dose it hirself.

"Perhaps in the world you first found me, yes. But, once I became one with a Verser (yourself), we became a Verser. Our body couldn't complete its natural aging cycle, and continued living and consuming as it is supposed to at its biological age. This body is the same as a spry young million-year-old, but has lived for hundreds of millions of years."


"Yes. There is more. Every unit of suffering a person causes another incurs a debt of equivalent suffering on the one causing it. Here karma is immediate and enforced. There is a way to break the cycle of karmic debt - that is to pay the debt of pain owed to you by yourself. If a person doesn't take vengeance on someone who hurt them, they have to endure that suffering again themselves until it is completely paid off. Some people, like those in this body, have chosen this way."

Elliott nods.


292 selves scurry around the familiar mindscape. Something is wrong, though. Passages that should lead to one place take detours, everything has too many angles like hyperspace. Something is causing a dimensional incursion in her mindscape - the very fabric of this existence seems off. Just when the selves are starting to see the tendrils of the invader, one of them snatches the weakest of them and pulls it out of Glitch's mindscape and awareness. The little mind is then crushed in the powerful beak of monstrous space, and its scriff vector disappears with it. 291 selves witness this, and remain.

Seeing what happened to Glitch, the Wyrm says, "When my body ate you, you became part of us. When your body died, your mind was ripped out of us. Because we refused to take a mind from you, this place did it itself. This has created a problem for you. You will be given opportunities to take minds from other hives and such here. Whatever you do will incur a debt. Or you could do nothing, and more minds will be ripped from you until the debt is considered paid by this place."

As soon as the Wyrm said it, Glitch knew it was true. She knew exactly what she would need to do to take anywhere between one to 8 minds from the Wyrm. It could even be voluntary. And she felt an urge through the tendrils to do it.

The Wyrm continues, "There's someone who wants to meet you. Her name is Gazelle, and she's living in my head segment."

An old woman, sitting in a cave and knitting a very large blanket, appears in the psychic space. She says, "Oh, it's you! I'll be seeing you, friend. Take courage."

((Chaos mages derive power from Prime numbers. Did I mention that before?))

There where worlds like the hell she spoke of and there are others she has seen creatures warp and twist to feed on. This place reminds her of one she is familar with called the atrocity ... it was once a part of the memories of her world, the mind of a celestial creates many realms and even memories can form whole worlds in and of themselves. However corruption found home in the darker painfull memmories of her children suffering and causing pain and suffering.... and feed, grew, and breed..... those memories where drawn together, clumped into a swelling hive of breeding and pain. Soon the memmories of all the pain and horrors of the world materalized in a realm all there own.... these memories where once served as a means for people to heal.  They could visit these horrors and face them in a safe way and overcome them.....  and it still tries to do this.... but in the prossess it traps people in the horrors till they overcome them or 'die' to them and are released from the realm.  Before they where never so real to do any harm but they can kill now, though people killed in that realm just find themselves outside of it perfectly fine.... the corruptions that has taken it over feeds on them unless they face the horrors and pain... even then for most but the strogest there is little escape but to die... you just deny them a meal.

She thinks this place seams much the same to her a place that was intended to restore some form of karmatic balance likely when people died or there karma was so bad it drew them here..... but now corruption has taken over and has set in a feedback loop to keep people suffering and feeding them forever aswell as taken people the univurse will not miss over than that which is deserved.....

She just didn't know what to do for now she will mediate on it....  She is glad she used a way of clearing the place out that cause little to no suffering though.

As it seams to know how to mess with even her masze sense and her knowlage she speaks with her other selves to see if any agree that they try and fix this place even if it means it will try and pull them appart for doing it...... also tells them not to harm anyone if they are taken from her, if they are driven to cause suffering vent there rage on themselves as it will leave them drained and thinking clearly and causing suffering to yoruself is a net neutral.

To help with this... she tries to shape shift raipdly between her were form and human form and then back again to burn through most of her rage and calm herself.

To the worm she asks "So it don't take into account the suffering prevented or aleaved, only caused.....I wonder if these are part of this places rules always or part of altered rules...... We will see if Glitchi can alter you so that your death bursts forth the stones into the world you leave behind... "   And she will move over and try to do so.  "If we can't we could try and remove your scruff if you wish. Ether will see that you stop consuming what is excess with out returning the balance."


Glitchi will also share the karma stuff with the Vizrathians and the crow, and as many others as she comes across on the way over.... while instructing the Vizrathians on what they did wrong. Telling them how they became consumed with vengefulness when it was only there peruse to keep others in check from exess and disrupting the balance and to restore the balance. To punish them for disrupting the balance in and of itself disrupts the balance and is causing an exess of pain and suffering. This is why shi stoped them.... they are driven with rage but they must temper it with the wisdom they are gifted....  if some one is grievously causing harm to the balance then they can take time to teach them... they may be hated for there actions and there task is grim, but they shouldn't become monsters.... reminds them they have rats blood and while the rage in the blood is strong in them they should seek rats wisdom in the blood too.

..... stuff along those lines ...  lol  i'm tired and not good at giving speech like stuff XD   But she tries to talk some sense into them so if they get free from here they won't go on another cleansing crusade.

She also ask's the wyrm if she can take her other self back. And if permistion is given will try to...

(also possably if not.... if logic follows her debt was payed some having it taken... and she would just undo that taking it back)

She gives Gazelle an odd look. "You are not seeing us now?"

She wonders if any of the wolfs are here, corrupted or otherwise, that she has hurt.... if she needs to suffer some to get this place off her back a little, that would be an easy way... they are so full of rage, it would not be hard to get them to tare her limb from limb, might even be a way out of here worst comes to worst.

*roll*
...

Automatic Chaos truthiness sense tells her this isn't true. Here, causing suffering to yourself is net negative. But...


this helps


((you know her selves better than I do, but any that I would have influence over would agree.))


"If you could see everything I see... even the imbalance I create is part of the greater balance of all things everywhere. But if you feel that it is the best thing, I will submit to your idea. I can see that it won't hurt anything."


Can't be certain with that many individuals, but most of them have turned against the one who spoke with Gichi and he's been relegated to menial roles until he cools off. They like what Glitch says to them, and this place has taught them that actions have consequences - even for those who can leave a universe whenever they want to.


((To be clear, the self Glitch lost was just recently lost to the Slenderman creature whose spiritual tendrils infiltrate all beings in this universe, and who is himself the substance of this hellscape universe. The Wyrm didn't keep any of Glitch's selves.))

The Wyrm is pleased to donate a few minds to Glitch if she would like them, but it doesn't have any of her selves in it at the moment.


((Okay, why not?))
In fact, Gazelle is blind, and didn't notice when Glitch arrived at the Wyrm's head segment (which only just happened as she was in the shared psychic space). There is an unusually strong scriff vector pointing toward her.

Gazelle answers, "Ah! There you are!" She looks just like her psychic image, and she is knitting a HUGE blanket while murmuring over it. "I am your Deus Ex Machina, so to speak," she explains, "so first I'd like to give you a bit of history. Life was never the same after I was raised from death. I had seen things. There was a state worse than this place from which I was saved, but I didn't return alone. I was followed by entities who wanted to finish consuming my spirit. When I sought the help of the man who raised me from death, he sent the evil entities away from me for the rest of my life. Then I died and found myself in another universe. Like yourself, I became what you know as a Verser. The entities found me there, and haunted me from universe to universe for many lives. Finally I was given a gift of Creation Magic, and I was able to bind the entities into their own body - a knitted doll the size of a man. It didn't want a physical body, having known life that could manifest a body at will and discard it as easily, so It tried to destroy itself. But It was alive, and It felt pain in death. And It had scriff. It existed apart from me through many lives in other universes before we met again. By then It had gathered a group of accomplices and created this place within Itself. To punish me for creating It, I was trapped here. But I have forgiven them all. That's why they can't touch me.

"I remain trapped, however, until It can forgive me. But there are ways out. Two ways. This blanket will be involved in either case. One option is to reason with It. It is primarily a creature of intellect, having been nursed on the fears and doubts of intelligent soldiers entering futile wars, among other things. It won't listen to me, but It might listen to Gichi. If you succeed give It this blanket, and tell It to wear the blanket like a cape. Doing so will free everyone from this place and the Boogeymen.

"The other option is to ask a god to intervene. I know one who has already freed people from places like this, and will probably be pleased to help. If you choose that option, all you need to do is unravel or destroy this blanket. Destroying this blanket in any way releases a spell that will send a request to that god for intervention." Gazelle hands the knitted blanket to Gichi.

Only has one real question "What will the blanket do to it if it wares it?"

"I didn't create It as complete. I only gave It a body. Part of any awareness is desire. There is the desire to give and the desire to receive. Its kind - the spirit beings - have rotated the receiving end of the tube of their heart down to consume fear and death, and rotated the giving end up and into their own receiving tube.

 "In other words, they are narcissistic, and have no real two-way connection with others.

 "This blanket provides a hole in their heart to let the light shine in. It won't accept the blanket as part of Itself, unless It forgives me. If it does, I'd appreciate it if you informed It that I'd love to hear It tell me Its name.

 "Once It accepts the blanket, it will be able to empathize with everything connected to it, and feel real love again for the first time in probably quintillions of years ago. That will mean that it will act in the best interest of everyone, which will ultimately include freeing us all.

 "It's nearly an impossible task, but I sense the presence of a spirit in Gichi, capable of the feat."
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"incomplete life waking usaly don't turn out well....  we will try and get them to accept the blanket." And she takes it to Glitchi who seeks out the entity.

As Glitch picks up the blanket, it unfolds into a sheet far larger than expected, and almost too cumbersome to move. As she hands the cloth over to Gichi, it seems to unfold further and grow even larger until it is the size of a cape in Gichi's hand. Gichi feels lead to ascend as high as shi can, so her Tree suit propels hir upward with the cloth. When shi is far above the surface of this hellscape, shi sees an image emerge from the background itself. Something changes in the suit, and suddenly Gichi is accelerating near her ability to tolerate it, and somehow also moving faster than light. The background wraps around to a single disc like light near an event horizon, and in all of that darkness, the image of the being Gazelle referred to as "It" appears before Gichi.

Glitch feels Gichi's scriff vector the whole time.

The creature appears like a man without a face in a business suit, but on closer look, even the not-face is made of cloth.

"Waste not thy breath with futile fuss, We won't forgive that creature."

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In other news, Glitch is free to roam around and try to find anything or anyone in this hellscape. You never know what you might find or learn. ((What would be your top 3 ideal skills/magics or items to find or people to meet?))

"Oh she messed up big time and you have every reason to hate her.... While you where tormenting her and she was looking for a way to trap you I don't think she really though or even meant to trap you as much as she did..... she didn't even bother finishing you. Though I don't exspect you to trust her enough for you to let her finish making you alive we think you should give being alive enough of a chance to let some one help you be fully alive." She takes a seat sighing. "being alive brings so much more than pain, even if it's very constrictive.... and maybe as you are 'finished' we could share some of what we are with you and you would not be so constricted to the form you have... you would not have to feel quite so trapped." So just kinda tries to get it to talk while listening to her elderself hoping she has some insight into this she was a peace keeper and leader among peace keepers so if the old lady was talking about anyone.


(I can't think of much..... I can think of things that wouldn't be hard for her to pick up on though.  Toon stuff considering she has the itchy form, learning to do toon stuff outside of weird spirtual zones with spirit magic and not limited to that form wouldn't be a total stretch..... and magic magic likely starting with techno or lighting based again from her spiritual versions.....   healing magic from the same.....  ACTUALY..... some net/computer/matrix hacker type stuff would be neat short of just talking to the spirits inside the net or machines .... I mean she can go into the internet via spirutal pathways and stuff but she can't do any thing besides her spirit magic or going there and doing things directly or talking to the spirits that live there)