1 Chirreb 4385: Up at Dawn
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delight_in_wtYay Boomsy wrote it's so good to hear from you Boomsy! You had an exciting evening I'm glad nobody got hurt after all that and they liked Don't Go in It's a Tarp! so that's great! My day today wasn't as exciting but a bunch of stuff happened that was interesting (to me anyway) so I'll write about it anyway.
This Morning's Nightmare
One of the windows in the entrance hall of the Temple of Reflections in the Void was showing the spirit realm, where Kijji was looking for his next victim. He snuck through the window and stole into Mask of Infinity's dreams and ate his mind. Then Kijji animated Mask of Infinity's body and fired all of the other priests and acolytes and initiates. Nightbloom came to me to ask me to help her get her job back. I went to the Temple to talk to Mask of Infinity and discovered that Kijji had called dozens of mentavores through the windows and they were eating the minds of supplicants as they arrived. I tried to run away but one of them seized me by the neck and then started munching on my brain.
Spellbinding
Which is when I realized that Purrzhon had decided to wake me up by grabbing me by the scruff.
"Ahhhh! This is why no one else wanted to bunk with you!" I complained as I reached back to swat his nose.
Purrzhon responded by dragging me out of bed and dumping me on the floor as I scrabbled to get my arms and legs underneath me. "And here I am thinking they do not bunk with me because they fear I molest them during the night. The shimmery purple Orren knows no such fear!"
"Of course not that's silly." I fumbled around for pants to put on beneath the long tunic I'd slept in.
"Rrai, maybe she welcomes it if I molest her during the night?"
I turned around to stick my tongue out at him. "No I'm cissy you silly cat."
He gave me a disappointed look that made me roll my eyes. I stumbled to the door, yawning, and knocked at the door of the opposite cabin. "What spells am I binding for who?" I asked Mirhandrax, who was disturbingly awake and alert.
He handed me a black bead with Deflect Corpordor bound to it and asked for Thick Distamce Armor for everyone.
I should explain what bound spells are for all you extra-dimensional people.
The most common spells Primes cast are pattern spells. These are spells you already know the pattern for and so you can cast them without really thinking about it. All you need to do is spend a cley. If you know how to bind spells and you're good enough at the arts involved in your pattern spells and/or at spellbinding, then you can spend two cley to bind one of your pattern spells to an object. Then instead of being cast immediately, the bound spell will go off later based on a simple pre-determined trigger. Like Trust bound Heal the Awful Wound for all of us with a trigger of "When you're incapacitated or dead." The trigger for my Thick Distance Armor is "Here armor here". You want spoken triggers to be memorable but not something you'd say normally so you don't trigger them by accident. Some spells are really only useful bound, like Quick Instant which gives you an extra moment to do something like cast a spell or hit your enemy but if you have to use a second to cast it that doesn't help any. Bound spells don't take any time to cast though they just need to be triggered.
Anyway I bound armor spells for everyone and then used up the rest of my cley on Change Places bindings. Which I then tried to explain the way they worked without accidentally setting one off. Because it's a teleportation spell it's a little more complicated than just saying a trigger phrase. I managed not to set any of them off by mistake but after two mangled attempts at explaning I said, "I'm going back to bed now."
Mirhandrax furrowed his brow. "Now? But the sun is lit. We were going to practice flight."
I gave him by best sad Orren eyes. "But I'm tiiiired and half asleep and I haven't gotten up this early in a week and I'm not sleeping that well because of all the nightmares and we can practice flight later right?"
Mirhandrax folded his arms over his chest and didn't say anything.
I turned to appeal to our employer. "Purrzhon you're not going to dock my pay if go back to bed now are you? Purrzhon?" I peered back through the open door to the other cabin. The Sleeth was already curled up on his bunk and dozing. "I'm going back to bed," I told the others again, and did.
This Morning's Nightmare
One of the windows in the entrance hall of the Temple of Reflections in the Void was showing the spirit realm, where Kijji was looking for his next victim. He snuck through the window and stole into Mask of Infinity's dreams and ate his mind. Then Kijji animated Mask of Infinity's body and fired all of the other priests and acolytes and initiates. Nightbloom came to me to ask me to help her get her job back. I went to the Temple to talk to Mask of Infinity and discovered that Kijji had called dozens of mentavores through the windows and they were eating the minds of supplicants as they arrived. I tried to run away but one of them seized me by the neck and then started munching on my brain.
Spellbinding
Which is when I realized that Purrzhon had decided to wake me up by grabbing me by the scruff.
"Ahhhh! This is why no one else wanted to bunk with you!" I complained as I reached back to swat his nose.
Purrzhon responded by dragging me out of bed and dumping me on the floor as I scrabbled to get my arms and legs underneath me. "And here I am thinking they do not bunk with me because they fear I molest them during the night. The shimmery purple Orren knows no such fear!"
"Of course not that's silly." I fumbled around for pants to put on beneath the long tunic I'd slept in.
"Rrai, maybe she welcomes it if I molest her during the night?"
I turned around to stick my tongue out at him. "No I'm cissy you silly cat."
He gave me a disappointed look that made me roll my eyes. I stumbled to the door, yawning, and knocked at the door of the opposite cabin. "What spells am I binding for who?" I asked Mirhandrax, who was disturbingly awake and alert.
He handed me a black bead with Deflect Corpordor bound to it and asked for Thick Distamce Armor for everyone.
I should explain what bound spells are for all you extra-dimensional people.
The most common spells Primes cast are pattern spells. These are spells you already know the pattern for and so you can cast them without really thinking about it. All you need to do is spend a cley. If you know how to bind spells and you're good enough at the arts involved in your pattern spells and/or at spellbinding, then you can spend two cley to bind one of your pattern spells to an object. Then instead of being cast immediately, the bound spell will go off later based on a simple pre-determined trigger. Like Trust bound Heal the Awful Wound for all of us with a trigger of "When you're incapacitated or dead." The trigger for my Thick Distance Armor is "Here armor here". You want spoken triggers to be memorable but not something you'd say normally so you don't trigger them by accident. Some spells are really only useful bound, like Quick Instant which gives you an extra moment to do something like cast a spell or hit your enemy but if you have to use a second to cast it that doesn't help any. Bound spells don't take any time to cast though they just need to be triggered.
Anyway I bound armor spells for everyone and then used up the rest of my cley on Change Places bindings. Which I then tried to explain the way they worked without accidentally setting one off. Because it's a teleportation spell it's a little more complicated than just saying a trigger phrase. I managed not to set any of them off by mistake but after two mangled attempts at explaning I said, "I'm going back to bed now."
Mirhandrax furrowed his brow. "Now? But the sun is lit. We were going to practice flight."
I gave him by best sad Orren eyes. "But I'm tiiiired and half asleep and I haven't gotten up this early in a week and I'm not sleeping that well because of all the nightmares and we can practice flight later right?"
Mirhandrax folded his arms over his chest and didn't say anything.
I turned to appeal to our employer. "Purrzhon you're not going to dock my pay if go back to bed now are you? Purrzhon?" I peered back through the open door to the other cabin. The Sleeth was already curled up on his bunk and dozing. "I'm going back to bed," I told the others again, and did.
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Date: 2010-08-10 01:09 pm (UTC)and I still feel SOOOO guilty for my part in the nightmare thing. :( :(
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Date: 2010-08-10 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-10 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-10 06:31 pm (UTC)You're an evil evil evil monster!
... you don't actually lay eggs do you?
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Date: 2010-08-10 06:45 pm (UTC)Hmm... the eggs would have be purely mentador-based... more like the idea of an egg, maybe? So as long as you don't imagine an egg implanted in your mind, you're perfectly safe!
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Date: 2010-08-10 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-10 08:58 pm (UTC)Anyway, Purrzhon was the one who was going to provide the flight spell, so if he's asleep, then no one's going to practice. ^_^
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Date: 2010-08-11 12:52 am (UTC)And that's what I thought about Purrzhon if he can sleep so can I!
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Date: 2010-08-11 01:44 am (UTC)Anyway, what I can remember is that it was a female deity and it had a domain somewhat similar to what flokin does (either that means, "spends some time being a celestial body" or maybe "has something to do with creating light", because I am pretty sure that this deity was NOT a fire deity in particular.) What I also remember is that it was a deity from one of three possible cultures: the Etruscans, the Romans, or the Greeks, which had lots of overlap in their cultures in my world's past.
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Date: 2010-08-12 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-12 06:59 pm (UTC)First, I don't know if it was something that is the same as your Flokin, or something pretending to be your Flokin, or something that is kind of similar to your Flokin, like an avatar of him or something. Second, the place I live, we don't know if ANY of our gods are real! That's what happens when you have the ideas of "People need to feel there is a creator and a cause for things to happen, and a need to worship something greater than themselves" competing with "There isn't actually any way to prove that any given god that would do that sort of things exists, or that any gods actually exist with regards to my world"
It's a sad state of affairs, really. The whole religion thing has caused innumerable wars. But hey, the benefit of the world is that my world isn't OVERTLY designed to be "interesting in a world vs the people who live there" way like your world is, so instead of the main species dying horribly from things from unexplored places, we get to instead die horribly from each OTHER.
...On second thought, I'm not sure how much of a benefit that is...
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Date: 2010-08-12 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-12 08:52 pm (UTC)Uh, other than the weapons we have that would be equivalent in power to... uhhh... annihilating a whole branch? Like so that branch can never be used again, like it's cut off at the base or ceases to exist or whatever. We have some weapons that can do the equivalent of that. In fact, 'some' is a misnomer, we have enough of them to do that to every habitable location that we know of. Three times over, I think.
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-14 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-14 01:10 pm (UTC)I probably recommend it rather too highly. Strayway's kathia bills are an order of magnitude more than one might expect
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Actually, Zascalle had been in charge of kathia acquisitions. Now that she is not any longer, they are merely double what one might expect.