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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 18:46:54 GMT
Ovid listens pondering for a time.
He then chuckles, "Yes, yes perhaps. We were cards left shuffled and unplayed in the deck till now. Think how peoples connections with one another and their skills, knowledge and other things are now coming into the game. I know of growing things and of the seasons, of a very wet environment and plants skills not really in high demand in the Amber that was, but in the Amber that is. Dirk knew how to discern and read your map and how we might make use of it. Dio seems to tie peoples dreams together, Maeve is level headed and able to take many pieces of the puzzle and put them together as you say. Princess Lorelei even if she stayed mostly out of things has much to offer in the way of succor and resources like her mirrors. You know the others better than I. I am sure the skills, powers, knowledge and who knows maybe even lineage of them is now needed. I hate to think of us as the reserve royals and yet." He shrugs before taking a drag on his cigar.
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 18:55:31 GMT
" And I'm less grounded then Maeve. Because you need to be able to do both. You need some one who can have the vision to imagine how things can be.....But hopefully the forces returning to Eshanta will have more information. Maybe Hammett will stop playing his cards close to his chest. I also like that Maeve took the leadership to organize people to put cards on the table. We have everything but Knowledge of the big picture for this crisis. The only thing that I chew on in my mind more then that explosion is why Benedict had a negative reaction to me when we Met. I could have just been presumptuous.....and......there is a cultist here in the city. He claims to be the son of Random. And he claims to know me. Could that have been something he was fed to say.....but.....Did Benedict know me? In the empty spaces in my memory...."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 19:07:02 GMT
Ovid nodded.
"I hope they have information too, and hope they bring Princess Katerina here. I have no clue about Benedict having a negative reaction to you. Perhaps your his older brother and you used to put him in head locks all the time in your youth and you just don't remember." Ovid smiled, "I jest, but you never know."
"A cultist son of Random ? That is interesting and odd. Did you get a name, a face ?"
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 19:11:06 GMT
"Matthew.....Fiona said sometimes not all born of the blood are capable of walking the Pattern. They lack something. Some part that means they would die on the pattern. He's on my list of small tasks to try to get done while I'm here."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 19:17:44 GMT
Ovid looks a bit surprised.
"Is that so? I suppose it is a possibility. Though it sounds more like something someone would say to keep someone from it. Perhaps it is something due to a childhood sickness or something. This Mathew is in the camp of enemies or neutral would you say, Brian?"
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 19:21:10 GMT
"I think he is in the camp of the people who want me to purge their enemies.....but.....things are never really lost. All you need is the right piece and then the rest of the picture comes into focus. It could be something big.....Like a Chaosian General in chains. Or it could be something small....that shows you the way to something big." I shrug " But....we will see if we can put the world back right. Then in three of four generations people will wonder why so many Fungus's are in the diet of Amber. And folks will tell out story."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 19:31:24 GMT
"Then some new royals will be dragged in here to save the mushroom Kingdom from something or other." Ovid smirks.
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 19:37:43 GMT
I start to laughing....a lot....."Oh...Oh god." I regain my composure "That Thats a Video Game. I would play when I went to my friend's Houses." I then explain Super Mario Brothers 1 and 2,3, and Donkey Kong to the best of my ability. And the weird Cartoon Show hosted by Captain Lou Albano. "I don't Imagine your youth allowed for such indulgences."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 19:52:31 GMT
"So these plumbers traveled through shadow through pipes ? Hmmm sounds somewhat similar to the tentacles of the Logrus." Ovid rubbed his chin trying to understand a more modern childhood of Brian's with his own much more primal and primitive one.
"And this Princess Peach, she is a shadow of Florimel ?"
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 19:59:03 GMT
"So these plumbers traveled through shadow through pipes ? Hmmm sounds somewhat similar to the tentacles of the Logrus." Ovid rubbed his chin trying to understand a more modern childhood of Brian's with his own much more primal and primitive one. "And this Princess Peach, she is a shadow of Florimel ?"
I describe the Archies and their comic "And I met them in the explosion shadow....so...yeah, their could be a Shadow of Flora as Princess Peach."
I grin "Now. This is is what I grew up in. And was transported to a world that culturally was 2000ish years removed from that experience culturally. Maybe 500 to be generous. Slavery was on Earth a horrible thing we told about our own past. And then I got to experience it. And then we go along the road and I could in fact meet two Plumbers from Brooklyn who saved Flora from a Chaos Lord."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 20:24:15 GMT
"Your youth mingles with your wanderings in shadow, so perhaps this is so. I have seen echoes of my youth played out about me as I have wandered shadow as well. Our subconscious is supposed to have some interplay with things I have been told. It sounds like we could do with some heroes from your youth to help us out perhaps in current troubles." Ovid perhaps did not know the sheer ridiculousness of such a thought or request.
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 20:28:09 GMT
"Your youth mingles with your wanderings in shadow, so perhaps this is so. I have seen echoes of my youth played out about me as I have wandered shadow as well. Our subconscious is supposed to have some interplay with things I have been told. It sounds like we could do with some heroes from your youth to help us out perhaps in current troubles." Ovid perhaps did not know the sheer ridiculousness of such a thought or request. " Well...if we need them certainly." I smile at Ovid. " And I am an echo of a hero who had dallied with with my wife....which is an odder bit of a thing. But unlike 'The Hound' I didn't reject her. I accepted the love of the Goddess."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 21:00:57 GMT
"I am rather glad the heroes of my home are not here. They were powerful and capable. Certainly heroes though they would make much sacrifice after their deeds in celebration. That is something Amber does not need. It seems to have already paid in blood and real blood at that. What do you think of this business of people keeping our organs alive and seperate ? It sounds like the bloody practices of some priests of my time though they obsessed about the heart the most as the seat of blood flow. This sounds different and very disturbing."
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Post by Brian on Mar 5, 2023 21:08:26 GMT
" I am troubled by it And some one would sacrifice Dalt to get that information to US....the people who Dalt viewed as his enemies. Its all sorts of odd to me."
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Post by Ovid on Mar 5, 2023 21:21:49 GMT
"Dio said Dalt died rescuing her. So the information came from her after Sand had healed her. I don't know how much was Dalt's doing and how much was Sand's. It does mean Sand is out there and that she must be a most amazing healer and know far more about how to put together parts of family then any here do, unless someone is keeping that very close to their chest. Sand seems someone worth talking to as she might know who is taking people apart in the first place."
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