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quechianTam said that we were done interviewing for today, and would be back tomorrow, then backed away into nothing. 1827 asked if we would need it further today, and the consensus was no. Jack asked 1827 about whether it needs rest, and it came out that 1827 could translate for much larger numbers, like a whole army, so this level of translating is like rest. Most impressive. 1827 left, and as we were about to start talking about today's interviews, Jack said he was hungry and wanted to get food.
So we all went along to the dining area. Metakesh was there, and the red light was on. We saw some other beings ordering by the window, and it seemed there were a number of deliveries going out as well. Once we'd ordered, we grabbed seats at one end of the large table, and started discussing the interviews. It was pretty clear that we were not taking the offer of the All, the candle person (to be tied off), or the possibility engineer. The three that we might consider for later were visiting the Purifiers, the army, and possibly Zom. Thymelixsen said that he knew that other hims had gotten edgewalkers to help, then abandoned the edgewalkers before the edge. Which was interesting, but I'm still a bit unsure about Zom. I thought that going to the temple of magic, then a trip with the Ult, would be a reasonable way to go, as we learn more about here. Thymelixsen agreed that the temple was a good first choice, and we could stay there until we decided what else to do. He wasn't sure about the Ult, since he thought that they would not be alright with the level of taint we have. He pointed out that there were three possibilities so far for travel: the collective, the Inyus, and the Ult. And the Ult had offered the least. In the end, it sounded like Thymelixsen very much wanted to do more interviews, but I don't want to spend all our time interviewing, either. We agreed we'd have some interviews in the morning, but likely not all day.
Jack said he wanted to go to his temple to pray. The rest of us went up to the room. Thymelixsen started practicing some magic in the foyer, and the rest of us wanted to pray. May turned the lights up in one of the rooms, and Cor turned the lights down in the other. Cor had talked about going to the place of the Timekeepers, but I didn't want to encounter the lake of death again, and that certainly didn't feel like praying, nor like connection to the Healer. Staying here, I focused on the thin thread back to the Healer, wanting not only the connection as usual, but also as a connection to home. I thanked the Healer for helping us so far, and asked for guidance towards an appropriated path to get us all taint-free and home. I also aked whether it would be appropriate to learn Purifier knowledge. I had a vision in reply, where I (actual me, not someone else) was gripping stones on either side of me as I endured great pain. I was holding on to allow whatever was causing the pain in my belly to happen, keeping still. There was a sense of the presence of the Father rising and rising.
Cor said he met a him who hadn't been touched by death. That him was alone in the room, the others having gone out in the city. Their group included Fashrun, but not May. They were new in town that day, and were thinking about joining the army. Cor said that that Cor saw Fashrun as a comrade in arms only, which surprised him. And he met another group that had May, Fashrun, Jack, and me, but their Cor had died under Bo's Point. They said they'd lost Thymelixsen the first day to Zom, and they hadn't gotten him back in the eight days they'd been there. They'd done a time of study with the temple of magic, and gone on a short trip with the largest group of Ults. Interestingly, it sounded like their May wasn't quite Ovahon. And it was difficult for that Fashrun to see our Cor.
May prayed about learning about the greater Mother while staying distant enough to go back home. She had a vision of the temple of magic, with a secret place, stairs going down near a fountain, which had a statue of two girls. May touched their hands and said something that she could remember afterward, and there was a sense that that would start something.
Cor said that since he hadn't managed to pray here in the room, he was going out to the place of the Timekeepers. I didn't want to go out, and ended up curling up with Thymelixsen. Once we'd finished, I started drifting off to sleep, when he suddenly jerked about. I asked him what was going on, and he said he'd gone somewhere, though I thought I would have noticed had he gone.
Thymelixsen said that he had gone somewhere that had a table. Yallow was there, and a couple of others who looked like him. There were cards, though he couldn't recognize anything about them. He played the game, acting based on what he felt the cards' effects in the game might be, and won. After that, Yallow pointed out a large window to the inside. Through the window, Thymelixsen saw a sick child, and an adult sitting with the child, presumably a parent. A healer came by, and apparently the healer was some kind of agent that Yallow had placed there on the inside. Thymelixsen said that he had won some of them at cards, and he could feel it inside, that he was not done changing. Also, he knows who is coming for interviews tomorrow. I'm starting to get a much stranger feeling about Yallow.
Cor returned, and said that he had gone to a cold place (Jack also came back around then). He'd asked at the temple where to pray, and instead of going up to the altar, had moved right, towards an entity on that side of him. Taht entity brought him to a shrine on the tundra of the featureless plains. In the shrine, he thought about some of our options. When he thought about the army, he got the feeling that it would be lonely, but also big and strong, easy to pass through the ghostlands, easy to hod on at the edge, and he could even pull back other selves. When he stepped back from the edge, the extra armor bits fell off. Jack said that if we do go into the army, time runs fast, and we wouldn't be able to have enough time to do stuff in the roots, according to what he had learned at his temple.
Cor said that when he thought of the Ult, it felt warm, and friendly, like with family. Other people came with us to the edge, Ults and others. There was struggle, but we got there.
When he thought of the collective, we didn't go where he wanted to go, staying here, rather than going home. He got stuff, and worked towards that, rather than going to the edge.
When he thought of the Purifiers, he said it was like a dream of being back, but with a sense of something missing, something forgotten that he couldn't remember. He did not want this.
Interestingly, while this lead me towards choosing the Ults, he still thinks the army is a reasonable option.
So we all went along to the dining area. Metakesh was there, and the red light was on. We saw some other beings ordering by the window, and it seemed there were a number of deliveries going out as well. Once we'd ordered, we grabbed seats at one end of the large table, and started discussing the interviews. It was pretty clear that we were not taking the offer of the All, the candle person (to be tied off), or the possibility engineer. The three that we might consider for later were visiting the Purifiers, the army, and possibly Zom. Thymelixsen said that he knew that other hims had gotten edgewalkers to help, then abandoned the edgewalkers before the edge. Which was interesting, but I'm still a bit unsure about Zom. I thought that going to the temple of magic, then a trip with the Ult, would be a reasonable way to go, as we learn more about here. Thymelixsen agreed that the temple was a good first choice, and we could stay there until we decided what else to do. He wasn't sure about the Ult, since he thought that they would not be alright with the level of taint we have. He pointed out that there were three possibilities so far for travel: the collective, the Inyus, and the Ult. And the Ult had offered the least. In the end, it sounded like Thymelixsen very much wanted to do more interviews, but I don't want to spend all our time interviewing, either. We agreed we'd have some interviews in the morning, but likely not all day.
Jack said he wanted to go to his temple to pray. The rest of us went up to the room. Thymelixsen started practicing some magic in the foyer, and the rest of us wanted to pray. May turned the lights up in one of the rooms, and Cor turned the lights down in the other. Cor had talked about going to the place of the Timekeepers, but I didn't want to encounter the lake of death again, and that certainly didn't feel like praying, nor like connection to the Healer. Staying here, I focused on the thin thread back to the Healer, wanting not only the connection as usual, but also as a connection to home. I thanked the Healer for helping us so far, and asked for guidance towards an appropriated path to get us all taint-free and home. I also aked whether it would be appropriate to learn Purifier knowledge. I had a vision in reply, where I (actual me, not someone else) was gripping stones on either side of me as I endured great pain. I was holding on to allow whatever was causing the pain in my belly to happen, keeping still. There was a sense of the presence of the Father rising and rising.
Cor said he met a him who hadn't been touched by death. That him was alone in the room, the others having gone out in the city. Their group included Fashrun, but not May. They were new in town that day, and were thinking about joining the army. Cor said that that Cor saw Fashrun as a comrade in arms only, which surprised him. And he met another group that had May, Fashrun, Jack, and me, but their Cor had died under Bo's Point. They said they'd lost Thymelixsen the first day to Zom, and they hadn't gotten him back in the eight days they'd been there. They'd done a time of study with the temple of magic, and gone on a short trip with the largest group of Ults. Interestingly, it sounded like their May wasn't quite Ovahon. And it was difficult for that Fashrun to see our Cor.
May prayed about learning about the greater Mother while staying distant enough to go back home. She had a vision of the temple of magic, with a secret place, stairs going down near a fountain, which had a statue of two girls. May touched their hands and said something that she could remember afterward, and there was a sense that that would start something.
Cor said that since he hadn't managed to pray here in the room, he was going out to the place of the Timekeepers. I didn't want to go out, and ended up curling up with Thymelixsen. Once we'd finished, I started drifting off to sleep, when he suddenly jerked about. I asked him what was going on, and he said he'd gone somewhere, though I thought I would have noticed had he gone.
Thymelixsen said that he had gone somewhere that had a table. Yallow was there, and a couple of others who looked like him. There were cards, though he couldn't recognize anything about them. He played the game, acting based on what he felt the cards' effects in the game might be, and won. After that, Yallow pointed out a large window to the inside. Through the window, Thymelixsen saw a sick child, and an adult sitting with the child, presumably a parent. A healer came by, and apparently the healer was some kind of agent that Yallow had placed there on the inside. Thymelixsen said that he had won some of them at cards, and he could feel it inside, that he was not done changing. Also, he knows who is coming for interviews tomorrow. I'm starting to get a much stranger feeling about Yallow.
Cor returned, and said that he had gone to a cold place (Jack also came back around then). He'd asked at the temple where to pray, and instead of going up to the altar, had moved right, towards an entity on that side of him. Taht entity brought him to a shrine on the tundra of the featureless plains. In the shrine, he thought about some of our options. When he thought about the army, he got the feeling that it would be lonely, but also big and strong, easy to pass through the ghostlands, easy to hod on at the edge, and he could even pull back other selves. When he stepped back from the edge, the extra armor bits fell off. Jack said that if we do go into the army, time runs fast, and we wouldn't be able to have enough time to do stuff in the roots, according to what he had learned at his temple.
Cor said that when he thought of the Ult, it felt warm, and friendly, like with family. Other people came with us to the edge, Ults and others. There was struggle, but we got there.
When he thought of the collective, we didn't go where he wanted to go, staying here, rather than going home. He got stuff, and worked towards that, rather than going to the edge.
When he thought of the Purifiers, he said it was like a dream of being back, but with a sense of something missing, something forgotten that he couldn't remember. He did not want this.
Interestingly, while this lead me towards choosing the Ults, he still thinks the army is a reasonable option.
