odd little alucine

[affodell]

It's never previously occurred to Cayra to put a door across an alucine boundary, but now that she's encountered it in practice it makes sense. It makes it visually obvious and it lets you lock it if you want. This door wasn't locked, and it looked like it led to a public bathroom, not a bar, from the signage, so she's still confused. Still, it's a good idea. She twists open the glass vial pendant around her neck and bends her head to the little blue lily inside to make a note of it; as an afterthought she tries to send it off to her antheomancer-chatcircle, anything to have a decent conversation, but it doesn't go. Her flower doesn't look wilting, but she can put it back in the garden and get a fresher one for the vial later. At least her personal files look okay. She closes up the vial again, giving the flower a touch of antheomancy for its health, and finds a bathroom inside the bar that dominates this little alucine.

And then she emerges into the bar. It doesn't seem to be staffed. Or stocked. Why wasn't it locked?

Hello, anybody here?

with Flynn (ErinFlight)

with Harry (andaisq)

Due to some icon rearrangement errors, some of Flynn's tags appear with an incorrect icon. The correct face for this thread is Rosario Dawson's.

Comments

[midst_of_threads]

'NO'
"Why?" Flynn asks, "Why did you change me?"
'We brought you close'

[affodell]

"I'm here too and I - think I'm the same. Why her?"

[midst_of_threads]

'You are not a conduit'
'You have never woven with us'
'Your magic shields you from the influence of our presence'

[affodell]

"Why is she a conduit, why is she a weaver?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Her dimension is within reach and she was bright enough to weave us'

[affodell]

"Bright enough. What does that mean?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Most minds can not shape us'
'When we reach for them they go out'
'Some bright ones are too ordered and we slip through'

[affodell]

"Go out? Too ordered?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Stop existing'
'The ordered minds can not comprehend us'
'If we reach for them our presence is not felt'

[affodell]

"Stop existing? They die, or you just - can't see them anymore?"

[midst_of_threads]

"People at home sometimes die for no reason, they'll fall over while working or stop breathing in the night."

[affodell]

"And now we know why. The threads keep poking them even though they know it doesn't work."

[midst_of_threads]

'We do not always know if a mind is bright enough'

[affodell]

"And even when you find someone bright enough you drive them insane."

[midst_of_threads]

'When we draw them close to us they become like us'
'We do not understand why this brings you grief'

[affodell]

"Do you want to understand?" inquires Cayra softly.

[midst_of_threads]

'Yes'
'Flynn hurts and she is becoming part of us'
'We feel her pain but can not see the reason for it'

[affodell]

"If you don't see why it would bother someone to change like that, why don't you change?" dares Cayra.

[midst_of_threads]

'How?'

[affodell]

"I don't know how your magic works, but I could give Flynn my speakflower, and she could read about how people are, when you haven't been poking them. Or maybe there's a way for her to share her memories with you so you could learn how she used to be, before."

[midst_of_threads]

Flynn gasps and closes her eyes.
The threads live through her memories.
'We see what is missing from us'
'In her home one things leads to another and this can be understood'
'Here all is static but her home changes when she does not act so there is benefit in waiting'
'In her home there are others with minds who can be understood'

[affodell]

That sounds promising. "You could adopt a more personlike mentality," Cayra suggests. "With the understanding of causality and the outside world and other minds."

[midst_of_threads]

'We cannot'
'This is what we are'
'Our understanding'
'Of our own existence'
'Of purpose and desire'
'Comes only from others'
'We can not keep these things on our own or change ourselves to better understand them'

[affodell]

"But you can make things with personalities. Nice personalities. The room is nice. The portals are downright cute. Where did you get that?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Flynn'