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]

'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'

[affodell]

"And now Flynn has less of her original personality. Can you put it back how it used to be?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Without her we will lose ourselves'
'This is most aware we have ever been'

[affodell]

"And you can't use her as a self-awareness proxy if she isn't like you?"

[midst_of_threads]

'We did not think of that'
'We can'
'She is already close'
'We do not need to draw her closer'

Flynn's empathy, self-control, and rationality return in a sudden rush.
"Oh! Oh!" Flynn says and then starts laughing in overwhelmed delight.

[affodell]

"You okay?"

[midst_of_threads]

"Yes! I'm me again. Completely I think."
'We are sorry we hurt you. We did not understand what we were taking.'
Flynn's eyes widen, "Do you understand now?"
'We do'
'You are showing us'

[affodell]

"Are you okay to go on being the threads' personing prosthesis?"

[midst_of_threads]

"If I keep helping you, can you release the other weavers?"


'Yes'


"Definitely then!"

[affodell]

"While she's doing that," Cayra asks the threads, "can she also - exist in the regular world as opposed to this weird placelike-thing? And can she go on doing magic?"

[midst_of_threads]

'Flynn must remain here'
'But she can exist outside as well'
'It is not difficult'
'We will show her how'
'She is now our only conduit'
'We want her to use us to create'

[affodell]

"Okay. Great. And she's all persony so she will make nice things and not monsters, presumably."

[midst_of_threads]

"Well, I don't know, I really want to make that evil stepstool."

[affodell]

"You could make one that runs around and growls and trees cats. Just don't make it bite."

[midst_of_threads]

"I am definitely making adorably evil stepstool. But don't worry, no dangerous monsters. Actually, now that I don't have to worry about losing my mind, I can do a lot of good with weaving."

[affodell]

"Yeah. And you can go home."

[midst_of_threads]

"I'll need to convince them I'm not about to go insane, but yes, yes I can. The threads showed me how to exist in two places at once, do you want to go home?"