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bargeist) wrote in poly_chromatic2013-07-19 11:33 am
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[Funny. There seems to be a very large, very black, rather wolf-like dog on the Network today. He seems to be grinning. He seems even to clear his throat a little. And, when he speaks, it's with the slow, gravelly drawl of some old South Texas cowboy but tinged all over with something...a little more alien.]
Well...since the kid's kindly busy I guess I gotta do this. [His voice modulates a bit, sounds more human--such as it can, coming from the mouth of a dog.]
I tell you I haven't heard that much swearing this side of Samuel L. Jackson flick in a mighty long time. A mighty long time. I think he just sat there for a good fifteen minutes just repeating "fuuuu..." ... ... ... Well, anyway... Seein as there are ladies present, I won't go any further.
Mornin all. Hate to do this to y'all but I've got to be the bearer of bad news. Ain't the first time, won't be the last.
Seems y'all are in a pretty sorry state. And seems all us here got some of it figured out. That's what the kid was swearing about so bad on account of what we got to do. I tell you that kid's gonna get himself a heart attack in a couple of years if he ain't careful. He'll just get all apoplectic on us and that'll be the end of that. You wear out. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took out from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
Well, anyway...
Got to tell you, on top of ever thing else, between all those repairs and the Clock and the earthquakes and you know what all else, now we got this other thing going around. Bet you noticed. Bet the doctors noticed first. They're good people those doctors. [A pause.] Most of them anyway.
Well, seems we got a fix on what it was that brought it all on. Kid's still swearing on account of he knows it's goin to get worse before it gets better. I tell him that's how a fever works but he won't listen to me. You got to break it three times before it'll satay down but he won't listen to me. Well, anyway...
Now I ain't about to use the technical terminology on all y'all because you won't get it. I could sit up here and tell you about transmissions of intangible truths based on the algorithms of Satori but I ain't. Ain't no shame, ain't no crime, ain't no harm in it not to do it.
But I am to tell you the truth. I always believed that you just have to do the best you know how and tell the truth. There's nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you. I guess all that sounds pretty simple today. Even to me. All the more reason to think about it. I might of strayed from all of that some when I was younger but when I got back on that road I pretty much decided not to quit it again and I didn't. I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
So I aim to tell y'all the truth.
What we have here is a big ol problem with magic.
All y'all used to have a little somethin that kept you safe in the City. Kindly like a lucky charm or a magic spell. And that magic kept ever thing happy. It kept ever thing working like it should. It kept all the magic in the City doin like it ought and not drainin down where it ought not to be.
Well that magic ain't there anymore. Or else it ain't workin on all y'all anymore. Or it's got stuck. In any case somethin's gone wrong. And now you don't agree with the City anymore and the City doesn't agree with you. Like the magic off of that spell kindly got pinched off so now all the City's magic is stuck in the wrong place and isn't where it ought to be and it's kindly like when your foot goes to sleep on account of all the blood being pinched out of it. It's like that. Or it's somethin like that. The kid ain't too clear on it and neither am I. It's one of those things you can't articulate. You just have to intuit it. Can't just explain it intellectually. And I don't aim to.
Well, anyway... [And he scratches his ear with his foot.]
The magic ain't working. You don't agree with the City and the City doesn't agree with you. Lots of stuff's gone all wrong but that's all y'all need to know. And now all y'all are ailin and I don't blame you.
So we've been workin out a cure--night and day, workin out a cure. And we got one.
Problem is what with this cure is that it's individualized, you understand. On account of how the magic works. On account of all y'all bein individual people. That's what they told me and that's what I'm tellin you.
So what we got to do is send kindly like a shock wave through the magic to see if that won't shake things loose and get it flowin again. If you ask me it won't but we got to try it. Now what we think is goin to happen is that when that shock wave goes on through then a lot of stuff might get shook loose with it even if the magic won't start right up again. Stuff from down in all y'all's subconscious minds you understand. What with the City actin funny and all y'all actin funny seems kindly like the two things are connected. And doin this might get some ideas goin for what's got to be done.
So we're goin to send that shock wave tonight and see what shakes loose.
Like as not all y'all are goin to get dreams and sights and visions to behold and to be right upfront with you they might not be yours own. I don't mean to alarm you but just so you know it when it happens. If I recollect right dreams and visions and sights to behold didn't kill most prophets--most anyways--and so like as not they won't kill y'all either.
Now what y'all are goin to see may not be too good. It may not even make good sense. But that's how magic and subconscious minds just work. They don't make good sense and they don't aim to. But you might see somethin that you can do that can help someone out.
That's what the cure's about.
On account of how the magic ain't workin right anymore and on account of everyone bein individuals what we think is goin to happen is that we're goin to get a lot of dreams and visions that mean somethin and whatever they mean is somethin important for someone else. We can't tell who's goin to get what dream for who. Now what you got to do is take whatever it is you see and try to make some sense of it. But it's goin to mean somethin to someone and it's goin to mean a helluvalot to them.
Because what this all comes down to is your essence. That's that stuff that makes you yourself and nobody else. And all y'all's essence is tied up in the City on account of this magic that keeps ever thing together and keeps all y'all alive in the City and suchlike. So seein as this essence is all whacked up too what y'all got to do is restore that essence in yourselves. But it ain't a simple job and it ain't a job for one person and we got a lot of sick people around right now. And we're goin to be helpin too but we need you to help us because we don't know who's goin to get what vision.
So what we think y'all are goin to see when we send this shock wave through are visions about someone's essence. It might be your own or it might be someone else's. It might be confusin or it might be helluvadam obvious what it means. But y'all are goin to have to do somethin if you see somethin. You got to do somethin that means somethin to someone else. It's got to resonate with them and when you do that then you can get them better. It's got to have meanin if you take my meanin. It's like a ritual. It's like a rite. It's an essence rite.
You get the idea I reckon. If you don't well like I said I always believed that you just do the best you know how and tell the truth. And that's what I aim to do.
And like I said it might be worse before it gets better. I don't mean to alarm you but just so you know it when it happens.
Well, anyway...[He shakes himself all over.]
You dont know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
[ooc: Let me introduce you to Blackdog. He hangs out/is BFFs with Tristero (and is also NPC'd by me, Caru). A few characters have seen him or met him already. Well, here he is for everyone else, sounding like a wanderer from No Country for Old Men. This is the IC side of the essence rites part of this plot. The Anonymous Movement has determined that something is wrong and the only way to cure this disease is by the restoration of essence. As of tonight, July 19th, characters involved in essence rites can begin receiving visions and dreams and can begin acting on those visions. And it's not too late to join in, if you want to! It's never too late to join in if you want to.]
Well...since the kid's kindly busy I guess I gotta do this. [His voice modulates a bit, sounds more human--such as it can, coming from the mouth of a dog.]
I tell you I haven't heard that much swearing this side of Samuel L. Jackson flick in a mighty long time. A mighty long time. I think he just sat there for a good fifteen minutes just repeating "fuuuu..." ... ... ... Well, anyway... Seein as there are ladies present, I won't go any further.
Mornin all. Hate to do this to y'all but I've got to be the bearer of bad news. Ain't the first time, won't be the last.
Seems y'all are in a pretty sorry state. And seems all us here got some of it figured out. That's what the kid was swearing about so bad on account of what we got to do. I tell you that kid's gonna get himself a heart attack in a couple of years if he ain't careful. He'll just get all apoplectic on us and that'll be the end of that. You wear out. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took out from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
Well, anyway...
Got to tell you, on top of ever thing else, between all those repairs and the Clock and the earthquakes and you know what all else, now we got this other thing going around. Bet you noticed. Bet the doctors noticed first. They're good people those doctors. [A pause.] Most of them anyway.
Well, seems we got a fix on what it was that brought it all on. Kid's still swearing on account of he knows it's goin to get worse before it gets better. I tell him that's how a fever works but he won't listen to me. You got to break it three times before it'll satay down but he won't listen to me. Well, anyway...
Now I ain't about to use the technical terminology on all y'all because you won't get it. I could sit up here and tell you about transmissions of intangible truths based on the algorithms of Satori but I ain't. Ain't no shame, ain't no crime, ain't no harm in it not to do it.
But I am to tell you the truth. I always believed that you just have to do the best you know how and tell the truth. There's nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you. I guess all that sounds pretty simple today. Even to me. All the more reason to think about it. I might of strayed from all of that some when I was younger but when I got back on that road I pretty much decided not to quit it again and I didn't. I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
So I aim to tell y'all the truth.
What we have here is a big ol problem with magic.
All y'all used to have a little somethin that kept you safe in the City. Kindly like a lucky charm or a magic spell. And that magic kept ever thing happy. It kept ever thing working like it should. It kept all the magic in the City doin like it ought and not drainin down where it ought not to be.
Well that magic ain't there anymore. Or else it ain't workin on all y'all anymore. Or it's got stuck. In any case somethin's gone wrong. And now you don't agree with the City anymore and the City doesn't agree with you. Like the magic off of that spell kindly got pinched off so now all the City's magic is stuck in the wrong place and isn't where it ought to be and it's kindly like when your foot goes to sleep on account of all the blood being pinched out of it. It's like that. Or it's somethin like that. The kid ain't too clear on it and neither am I. It's one of those things you can't articulate. You just have to intuit it. Can't just explain it intellectually. And I don't aim to.
Well, anyway... [And he scratches his ear with his foot.]
The magic ain't working. You don't agree with the City and the City doesn't agree with you. Lots of stuff's gone all wrong but that's all y'all need to know. And now all y'all are ailin and I don't blame you.
So we've been workin out a cure--night and day, workin out a cure. And we got one.
Problem is what with this cure is that it's individualized, you understand. On account of how the magic works. On account of all y'all bein individual people. That's what they told me and that's what I'm tellin you.
So what we got to do is send kindly like a shock wave through the magic to see if that won't shake things loose and get it flowin again. If you ask me it won't but we got to try it. Now what we think is goin to happen is that when that shock wave goes on through then a lot of stuff might get shook loose with it even if the magic won't start right up again. Stuff from down in all y'all's subconscious minds you understand. What with the City actin funny and all y'all actin funny seems kindly like the two things are connected. And doin this might get some ideas goin for what's got to be done.
So we're goin to send that shock wave tonight and see what shakes loose.
Like as not all y'all are goin to get dreams and sights and visions to behold and to be right upfront with you they might not be yours own. I don't mean to alarm you but just so you know it when it happens. If I recollect right dreams and visions and sights to behold didn't kill most prophets--most anyways--and so like as not they won't kill y'all either.
Now what y'all are goin to see may not be too good. It may not even make good sense. But that's how magic and subconscious minds just work. They don't make good sense and they don't aim to. But you might see somethin that you can do that can help someone out.
That's what the cure's about.
On account of how the magic ain't workin right anymore and on account of everyone bein individuals what we think is goin to happen is that we're goin to get a lot of dreams and visions that mean somethin and whatever they mean is somethin important for someone else. We can't tell who's goin to get what dream for who. Now what you got to do is take whatever it is you see and try to make some sense of it. But it's goin to mean somethin to someone and it's goin to mean a helluvalot to them.
Because what this all comes down to is your essence. That's that stuff that makes you yourself and nobody else. And all y'all's essence is tied up in the City on account of this magic that keeps ever thing together and keeps all y'all alive in the City and suchlike. So seein as this essence is all whacked up too what y'all got to do is restore that essence in yourselves. But it ain't a simple job and it ain't a job for one person and we got a lot of sick people around right now. And we're goin to be helpin too but we need you to help us because we don't know who's goin to get what vision.
So what we think y'all are goin to see when we send this shock wave through are visions about someone's essence. It might be your own or it might be someone else's. It might be confusin or it might be helluvadam obvious what it means. But y'all are goin to have to do somethin if you see somethin. You got to do somethin that means somethin to someone else. It's got to resonate with them and when you do that then you can get them better. It's got to have meanin if you take my meanin. It's like a ritual. It's like a rite. It's an essence rite.
You get the idea I reckon. If you don't well like I said I always believed that you just do the best you know how and tell the truth. And that's what I aim to do.
And like I said it might be worse before it gets better. I don't mean to alarm you but just so you know it when it happens.
Well, anyway...[He shakes himself all over.]
You dont know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
[ooc: Let me introduce you to Blackdog. He hangs out/is BFFs with Tristero (and is also NPC'd by me, Caru). A few characters have seen him or met him already. Well, here he is for everyone else, sounding like a wanderer from No Country for Old Men. This is the IC side of the essence rites part of this plot. The Anonymous Movement has determined that something is wrong and the only way to cure this disease is by the restoration of essence. As of tonight, July 19th, characters involved in essence rites can begin receiving visions and dreams and can begin acting on those visions. And it's not too late to join in, if you want to! It's never too late to join in if you want to.]
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[Sarcasm here because it is a science lady trying not to bah-humbug all over this nonsense.]
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[ Because he believes in preparing for contingencies. That, and it's too much trouble to separate the relevant wheat from the verbal chaff about algorithms of Satori and other magic foofaraw. ]
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Plague, drought and earthquakes are off the list.
Now I'm waiting for the sky to darken and the sea to turn to blood. Guest appearances by the antichrist and the forces of good and evil should add a little apocalyptic ambience.
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[ooc: Wow, way to go, fingers. That was supposed to be "worse" not "words," but I'm going to run with this as an intentional accident... Yup >>;;]
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Maybe it's because the Dog's speaking from behind a screen instead of face-to-face or maybe it's because he's a little too feverish and confused to react with his previous apprehension, but Naoi doesn't look half as frightened as he did the last time. He raises a hand and points accusingly.]
Hey... bad dog!
Dogs aren't supposed to make video calls.
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