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abraxaslogs2023-11-15 08:37 pm
the_keeper) wrote in abraxaslogs2023-11-15 08:37 pm
๐ด๐๐ถ๐ฝ, ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐'๐ ๐ฝ๐พ๐๐ฝ
Who: Sabine
When: November
Where: Thorne, Horizon, Nocwich, Borrel
What: November Catch-All; open & closed
Warnings: None really.
๐๐๐น ๐๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐ท๐ ๐ถ ๐๐พ๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐
๐ต๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐
๐ฎ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐๐พ๐๐๐พ๐๐
๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐๐ถ๐
๐ฉ๐๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐'๐ ๐ท๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐น ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐น
When: November
Where: Thorne, Horizon, Nocwich, Borrel
What: November Catch-All; open & closed
Warnings: None really.
๐ต๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐
๐ฎ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐๐พ๐๐๐พ๐๐
๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐๐ถ๐
๐ฉ๐๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐'๐ ๐ท๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐น ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐น
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He knows that she's not human and more than that, she's something unique. He's never asked. It's impolite. He didn't ask Lucifer either, he was the one who explained angels to him. Istredd can tell sometimes. The power off them is different, he is still made of Chaos energy. ]
Maybe it's not as connected to the dragons as they thought.
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It was almost effortless, channeling the Singularity to help them heal a little. Going by to all of them a few times a day and giving them strength, peace, a little ease to keep fighting and surviving while everyone was gathering the ingredients and making the cure. [ She hadn't said as much before now because he'd long since impressed upon her what should and shouldn't be said in the castle, even inside one of the sound bubbles.
And it'd been an experiment she hadn't known would work when she tried it. ]
It's just not related to this part so far.
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But he shakes his head at her.]
Okay you might have to explain for a normal human awareness. What this part? The rock itself? The Horizon side?
[ It could mean just about anything on her end. If she has a connection to it, and she clearly does, she could be feeling and touching more than he can fathom. It's much safer here than in the castle. Anywhere is safer than there, really. ]
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When I touch it, I get emotions and imagesโa mass of themโlikeโ
[ She cut off, shooting a look back. ]
No tv's where you were, right?
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Rhy's mentioned he gets feelings. No TV, but Wanda's shown me it here.
[ Istredd has seen some of the TV she likes to share and he finds it amusing and interesting. Visually pleasant. Nothing like that could exit in his sphere, at least not for thousands of years probably. Their technology isn't even near the type in this world.]
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Like just tv for a tv show or movie?
You probably didn't see any static, right?
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[ Istredd feels like he would know what she means by static if he's seen it. In the Horizon there's no real need for static as it goes straight to whatever someone wants to see. While he's not very interested in television, and there isn't one in the library, it is something to marvel at.]
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At least not above and beyond Istredd's welcome presence. ]
Nevermind. It's a rush, all slashed together. The images bleed into and out of each other, without crystalizing. Much the same with the emotions that go along with it. They are clearer, but they're the echoes from whatever is all of it.
I was hoping this side of connecting with it would have focused a little more, too. After the trip.
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[ But that isn't a surprise, given the gods and the Singularity are clearly connected. The gods are given as much power and authority in here, from what he remembers of that event. The influence the gods had was absolute during that, both in the real world and in the Horizon. They didn't communicate in words but in their presence and affliction.
He folds his arms in consideration, glancing over the Horizon. He can see his own library from here, the ligthouse, and several other places like Kyle's temple.]
I went to the Singularity physically during the Dimming last year. I plan on doing it again this year. Maybe going there with me will help clarify some things.
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She knew that was earned arrogance tilted by consternation. And that as much as he knew she was different,
he didn't know all that much more than anyone here about all the specifics that went into what she was. ]
What was that like? Going there?
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[ Istredd sighs.]
It doesn't like foreign magic near it so it attacks, it hurts a great deal in the start. But eventually, it let up. And I took other mages with me, so none of us were having a good time.
[ Stephen, Yennefer, and Istredd were all in agony, Kell was in half agony because the other half was maybe protected by Rhy, but it did forgive them after a few minutes and stopped trying to break them. In a way the pain was helpful for Yennefer though, she thought she was cut off from magic forever, and that gave her some hope that it was still all inside of her, unable to be tapped into. Now she has her power back, but at the time it was a life line.
Poor Lucifer, on the other end of that attack not knowing what was going on, their psychic bond was new at the time. Now they have better protections in place.]
And then it felt enormous. Real. Alive. I don't have the bond that you or Rhy do with it, but you can sense it in the presence, how big it is.
[ By big he doesn't mean in size, he means in power. There's a reverence in how he's talking about it now. He wasn't sure whether to treat the Singularity like a monolith or not until then, and his admiration turned into low key worship. He values the Singularity highly.]
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Sabine nodded a little absently. ] It is.
Thisโ [ Sabine lifted her hand to gently tap the top of the structure with one finger before laying it back gently flat. ] โis barely a raindrop of its ocean.
[ Nothing was endlessly. No god. Not even time. But there was more out there. A more direct place to try and reach it. Her mind circled the whole thought and the potential. Whether it would be easier, better, clearer there. If the locality and physicality made a great difference to something woven throughout everything already. ]
How often do people go there?
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[ And Istredd doesn't have the connection she does. For him to have something of a religious experience, without the religion, means that it makes an impression on him. He didn't take it personally that the Singularity attacked, they were on its territory when it was at its weakest. Very reasonable response. He doesn't know if everyone would have as life-changing an experience visiting the Singularity, but he feels like they should.]
We can only go once a year. One day, for a few hours. The Dimming is when the Singularity is at its weakest.
[ Which may explain why it felt so defensive.]
In the past they used to send multiple caskets in to absorb energy, we took one, which was agreed upon at the peace conference. The Singularity didn't seem to mind.
[ Istredd thinks if it did, they would definitely know about it. It was not being subtle!]
This year I'm hoping to do a scientific study of my own. I want to test the ground around the Singularity and in the crater for magical residue and see if it's different from the rest of the land.
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Why? What happens when you go at other times?
[ She supposed she could see the logic in it. The potential for exponential resonance, even if she wasn't sure whether she thought that could make the greatest of differences in this situation. It wasn't as though one spot resonated like a magnet that one had to go, and go, and go toward without stopping. The Rift had drawn beings from every which way: linear, corporeal, and not.
The inverse was true here. People being summoned.
Supposedly by mages, but Sabine didn't believe that as much anymore. ]
How hard would it be for me to get there?
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[ Istredd is trying to remember exactly he was told about how the first visit went so it makes sense. Since he's never witnessed it, it's all second-hand.]
Soon after the first Summoning, Thorne took everyone to a camp and then had them teleport into the crater against their will, to see what would happen.
[ So nice of them!]
They were stuck in the Horizon for the first time with no memory of themselves or that they even needed to get out. I don't know exactly how they ended up coming back to themselves, outside of perhaps the Singularity allowing them to. That is why we offer training to get in and out of the Horizon right away, because it's easy to get stuck otherwise.
[ That sort of mindset remained at Thorne long after the majority of them were gone. There are a few dangers in the Horizon, one being being stuck, and it has happened to other people who eventually got out. Possibly the same way they did that time, with the Singularity's help. Since Istredd hasn't experienced it himself, he doesn't know for sure how it all felt. More a Geralt question.]
During the Dimming, it's easy to go there. We got a portal and went directly. Otherwise you'll just end up stuck in the Horizon.