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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 18, 2023 4:21:17 GMT
"Yes, what came before the before? And what about before that? Cody points at the carved bench. "Oroboros. At that point, we're just chasing our tails. Or eating our tails. The Abyss spits things out and swallows them back in again. We're here because something before us refused to be swallowed back into the Abyss." Cody shrugs.
"Religion is a social construct. The rules of engagement and some easy answers to complex questions. It both unites and divides us."
"But the practitioners of the religion have been very good to me and so I wish to pay it forward."
"To my knowledge the Serpent hasn't presented itself in a very long time. How it communicates is beyond me, but I'm sure that if it had something to say we'd all hear it!"
"The Damnedable Unicorn is cruel. It jumped into the Abyss to salvage Dworkin's bauble but neglected to rescue my M-unit." Cody has a bit of a catch in his voice. Anger and sorrow. "No 'Hello' or 'farewell'. May as well be a mule for all that."
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Post by Maeve on Feb 18, 2023 15:01:58 GMT
"A Social construct yes and no. The serpent is real. So is the Unicorn. Is everything that is written? That is the construct."
"Loosing an parent is hard." Meave answers.
"Maybe the Unicorn could not. There was a certain amount of time between Brand and Deidre falling into the Abyss and the Unicorn coming out of the Abyss. It might be that there was nothing alive to be rescued. Or maybe she did. The Abyss is in Flux. Maybe Deidre is no longer here in the Courts."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 19, 2023 5:01:21 GMT
"I believe that if anyone can survive in the Abyss, it's her. She raised me in a Shadow with intergalactic travel through the Flux. There are so many similarities between the Abyss and the Flux that I have to believe that she survives. As soon as I heard M-unit had been pulled into the Abyss and hadn't come back out, I jumped in to search for her. It's certainly different without the protection of a Flux Ship but she is armed and armoured."
"Time doesn't have much meaning in the Abyss. If she is trapped in a pocket of entropy she could be frozen in time. Trapped in a moment. So I have to keep searching."
"Sometimes the Abyss will spit you out into a random Shadow. That might be okay, I guess. With amnesia, like Corwin. Then maybe she'll be found someday..."
Cody pauses a moment and looks wistful.
"In the meantime, I've managed to make a life for myself here in the Courts."
"When I jumped into the Abyss that first time, I wasn't armed and armoured. There are Primal Creatures that saw me as prey. Pit Divers rescued me, barely alive, and deposited me at the Sheltering Coils Mission House where they nursed me back to health and took me in. I was adopted into the Pit-Diving Guild."
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Post by Maeve on Feb 20, 2023 15:22:44 GMT
"Did you never had the wish to return to place of your birth or to Amber." Maeve asks.
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 20, 2023 17:29:20 GMT
Cody nods thoughtfully at the question. "I wish I could be back on Station all the time. Erase all the horrors and go back to the life I knew."
"I also know that when I find M-unit, she will insist that we go to Amber so that I can be indoctrinated into the Court and Family now that I have come of age."
More somberly, "Or, if she is unsound, I will have to bring her to Amber to be rehabilitated."
"Then, maybe I will be able to rejoin my Creche-mates on Station. Except, Station has become a strange place for me. Somewhat unreal."
"I know the difference between the Courts and Shadow. That difference between objective and subjective reality; but this is different. I have had several opportunities to visit Station. It is as though time freezes there when I am away. However long my absence, it is as thought I had not been away at all, or that the absence was brief and not much had happened there while I was gone."
"I can only assume that this is due to M-unit making it this way."
"No one there ever questions her or my absences and never the ways in which I have changed. So, it is a place of Sanctuary but also a little haunting."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 20, 2023 18:12:44 GMT
"So enough about me though. How about you? I see that you are studying Logrus Mastery. Have you spent much time out in Shadows or are you kept close to home?"
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Post by Maeve on Feb 22, 2023 10:57:53 GMT
"I spend much time in shadow. Some of my relative think to much time. I'm a bit restless. I always want to know what is behind the Horizon." Maeve replies.
"There is so much to see in shadow."
"And no relatives to mess up my life." Maeve adds. "From time to time I need a time-off from relatives, usually when they start to make plans for me."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 22, 2023 14:53:29 GMT
Cody nods, "I really haven't caught the wanderlust. I travelled around a bit with M-Unit. Down Green Side to the planets in our system. She was away a lot. As a Flux Ship Pilot and Captain, she would be away on missions. I guess, now, that she was probably out in Shadow, or in Amber. But that didn't matter. Being raised in a Creche, I have multiple Creche-Mates and their Parents. It's a very big blended and extended family that kept me busy with lessons, hobbies and various group activities. The last time I went Green Side with M-Unit, before she took me to Amber, I had built a pair of broom sticks from scraps and spare parts." (chopper motorcycles with stubby swept-back wings and jet thrusters.) "We flew through the skies and camped on the ground. I think that we may have visited different Shadows when we did that. But that was before I knew about Shadows."
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Post by Maeve on Feb 23, 2023 14:00:18 GMT
"This soudn like fun. You should do it again."
"Not only the body needs rest Cody, also the mind the soul need rest. If you want to search continue to search fro your mother then take care about this too."
Maeve suggests.
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 23, 2023 16:39:51 GMT
"Ha... Yes. It's not like I haven't ventured out into Shadow. Just that I don't usually do it on purpose." Cody gives a chuckle. "Sometimes when I am in the Abyss a rift opens up and the Abyss spits me out into a random Shadow. At first, I would get back into the rift as quickly as possible so that I didn't get stranded on that Shadow. Then, I discovered that the rift would stay open for a while before closing or drifting away. So that gave me some time to explore."
"In Seminary I have received tutoring and have learned to open rifts in and out of the Abyss and Shadows. I'm still refining the skills."
"I've been getting pressure to take a sabbatical. To do some exploring and to sharpen my abilities. A lot of trial and error. Probably go to Station."
"Yea, I'd like to do some experimenting out there. See what I can do with my powers."
"So, How are your Logrus studies going?"
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Post by Maeve on Feb 24, 2023 8:05:53 GMT
"I'm just looking up topics of my own interest, I have no haste. Bit by bit. Since I already traversed it I have no pressure." Maeve replies.
"As I said I'm curious about waht was before. Who or what created the Logrus."
"Some books are hard to get." Maeve continues. "Maybe I go to Haaret one day to check if they realy have a Library that hold those text."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 24, 2023 18:11:23 GMT
"I have also been initiated, although I didn't know it at the time. More of a baptism, really. Now I am learning and discovering what I can do with it. And how."
"Who or what created the Logrus? In modern scriptures we're told the Serpent pulled himself out of the Abyss and created the Logrus to anchor himself from being pulled back in and annihilated. Earlier scriptures give this honour to Lilith. And that she then brought forth the Serpent from the Abyss. Together they spawned all others."
"The who, what or when are academic. Even the why. The real curiosity is HOW!?"
"Just to nod your head and wiggle your nose: Then, 'Shabam!' you've created a mind boggling anchor of power."
"That's the deeper, darker secret that we should seek the answer to."
"Heerat?"
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Post by Maeve on Feb 24, 2023 18:26:01 GMT
[OOC Heerat misspelled]
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Post by Maeve on Feb 25, 2023 7:03:48 GMT
"How to create a a Major Powers. A good question. Both Major Powers that give access to walking and manipulation Shadow are under the patronage of a Godlike creature."
"Is the patronage of a Godlike creature a prerequisite?"
"Are there any more creatures like the Unicorn or the Serpent?"
"The Block City of Heerat, I haev heard as rumor that they keep scrolls, books and text in a library, that can no be found in the courts. I never was there is can be just that a rumor."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Feb 25, 2023 19:02:25 GMT
"Hmmm. Yes there does appear to be a ~ahem~ pattern." Cody chuckles.
"Requiring a godlike creature..."
"Makes me wonder about something: I met a girl who was in the company of what she called a Titan. A gigantic Cephalopod she called the Kraken. She said it was very ancient and purported to have once been a human. They aged and evolved into the thing they revered."
"Makes you wonder if the Serpent and the Unicorn were once human and became Titans."
"So the question is whether you have to become a Titan first or if you become one afterwards?"
"That would certainly lend itself to my theory that Lilith became the Unicorn."
Cody returns his thoughts to the library. "This Heerat sounds like the mythical city of Alexandria."
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