EVENT #12: INVOCATION - COORDINATION POST (PART 2)

[abraxasmods]

Event #12 - COORDINATION ( 2 )

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This post is for coordination while the event is ongoing, to prevent the IC Event Log from being overrun by OOC mod and player communications. The comments section will contain applicable comments and forms for you to reply to as needed.

Use this post to:

◎ Coordinate event plots with the mods
◎ Request a mod dice roll
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◎ Submit noticeable actions
◎ Write rapid IC exchanges

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Comments

[princessvegas]

[ Look, Julie has spent enough time telling stories only to find out the other person had no fucking clue what she was talking about from the start. She explains out of habit now.

Her brow knits. She wouldn't call it a shithole. It had been very shiny and pretty. Just... weird. Extremely weird and abstract. Most of the strange things she's seen in these other places haven't really been good or bad, exactly. Just odd. Like they mean something to someone, but that she can't understand herself.

She nods, the stitch between her eyes deepening. ] Either they're linked like we are, or else they're pullin' so much magic that the Singularity can see 'em too. But I don't know where all of these places are. They ain't here in the Horizon. Maybe like, some other dimension? I mean, other than... this other dimension.

[ Julie sighs heavily. This is all such a mindfuck. ]

Back home, most of the big religions only believed in one God. Some of 'em had more than one, but here, it feels like every little thing has its own god. So, if Nikodaemus is the god of reflections, and they're usin' that to hide, then we would need to find... the opposite of a reflection. Right? What's the opposite of a reflection? A black hole?

[cointosser]

[They may have mercury but those on the Continent have not come to understand the experience of using fish nailed to boards as decorations. To him, that only portrays a sort of foul, permeating stink... and madness.

Jaskier breathes very deliberately, then nods.] Yes, that would be what I think, too. There are plenty of worlds, after all, and my own world has had the convergence of many. If their world is pushing into this one -- perhaps where the wall is thinnest, if it is as such in the Horizon -- those more sensitive to such things can begin to perceive it.

[Or, the more terrifying idea is these gods want someone like Julie to see it. Or the Singularity itself does.

This is so fucking far over his head at the moment, when all of his energy is going towards finding the lost, not thinking about gods. But he wants to dig his fingers into this, as well. Another step closer to understanding anything about this world.]

A black hole? That -- [Wait, Kylo Ren explained this to him once.] That which swallows light? I don't know. Would reality not be the opposite? The thing that the mirror reflects? Though finding a "god of reality" sounds a bit like a madman's errand.

[princessvegas]

[ Then that is Jaskier's loss. Some fish can sing from their mount, buddy! Don't worry, be happy.

She looks at her hands, not seeing them so much as simply fixating on a point. Her voice is staccato, actively working things out even as she speaks. ] Okay, so. The Horizon is in Abraxas, 'cept not really. Right? 'Cause we still wind up back there, so even if they're not exactly the same plane of existence or whatever, they must be linked. If not, we'd wind up other places when we try to go back. So the Horizon and Abraxas -- [ She links her fingers, as if to illustrate the concept of being entwined. ] And we're all linked to the Horizon. That's why, when we do end up in those other places, we eventually get pulled back to here, our own version of it. And the Singularity is linked to everythin'.

[ It feels like she's trying to do algebra in her head, which sucks because she had trouble with algebra when she did it with a calculator in school. She exhales sharply, frustrated and confused. ]

I don't know. I feel like we're on a wild goose chase. Maybe it's just better to hold off on that part 'til everyone's back. We just need to think about this one god. He's -- Maybe reflection isn't the right the part. He's the god of reflections and illusions. And the opposite of an illusion is... clarity, maybe? There could be a god of clarity. Like, a god you'd ask to help you see the truth?

[cointosser]

[Now is not the time to be happy!

As Julie goes through her clockwork machinations, he inputs a "yes" or "right" as she moves along. He's trying just as hard as her to connect all these random bits and bobs that feel as if they should combine into a one singular, working machine. Surely she's about to --

Not lead up to anything in particular.

Jaskier sighs. The master of all seven arts, but alternative planes of existence are rather far out of his understanding, beyond theoreticals... and those mainly surrounded specifics on the Continent, such as the monoliths, or the Convergence.]

Clarity. Yes, actually! Yes. I mean -- not that I know of, but surely that's the sort of thing that has a god. [Well, probably. The Continent also had gods of specifically themed animals, so who fucking knows?] I have mages I know rather well, though they're not in the Free Cities. I can contact them and see if they have heard of something similar. It may not go anywhere, but at this point, I have taken every lead I can find.

wrap?

[princessvegas]

I wish I had more for you to go on, but. [ She trails off and glances at the Singularity. It doesn't seem to know anything else she can use either, which is somewhat disappointing for an all-powerful entity, but Julie has begun to deeply suspect that all-powerful entities are really just as dysfunctional and fumbling as everyone else. Just at a much larger magnitude. ] I'll let you know if we find anythin' else worthwhile.

[ Reaching out, she takes his hand. They're all a mess right now; the absence of their people seems to ring so much more loudly than the presence of those left. It's lonely, even when they're all together. But they are together. ]