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***Katya…. I was hurt, mad and livid and ready to go and beyond and Dad pulled me back from wanting to fix everything, learn and do and become everything and he sat my ass down with Sel-Mom and made us both mental health herb tea.


He calms me down as time her passes differently depending on your POV. It’s a god realm and more it’s like there’s layers of depth of being here and who you experience.


The first this I do or he has me do is to tell him and mom where and how I grew up and trained.


He is really big on who I am and what made me and my people as well and things with them and he really brings that more into focus again instead of things with Mom and Roman and all the other stuff.


I can only do what I can do.


I have oaths and people, people I gave hope to and my time and more to…he helps school me in that.


It helps but gods…I see Sel-Mom’s look as he teaches and train and we have all these talks.


Like that’s him, that’s the guy, my guy, home… kinda that whole Rhea and Tyler vibe but they’re them.


And there’s a lot to share.


Otherverse is a subdimension made by The Runelord race of Rune. They left taking whole cities and nations and resources and uprooted int tens of thousands of floating islands in Other Space.


Everyone in there was either a Runian, a Rune lord or a commoner, serf, slave or a summoned contract as well as several kinds of golem types by golemancy required resources so it fell by the wayside.


I grew up an orphan that was naturally smart enough at an early age to get out before I was killed, sold, trafficked or pimped.


I grew up a dockyards thief and rat earning enough in my squat and saving enough to get my ass to the Republic of Darokin space a democratic monarchy that had enough magic and military might to offset the Therans.


Swayne’s empire was basically a colony cloud that travelled and ate other nations if it could.


They were one of the safe places that seeded sane.


And taught commoners magic.


That’s a big deal home, when magic was power and currency.


Runelords could summon and that included resources but each casting takes a lot of power. In a lot of realms in Otherverse it was at least a ticket to the middle classes. 


I enrolled in their navy and trained as a ships captain for a small republic tug and patrol boat getting good enough marks and to graduate a minor officer.


A few years later and I meet Mom and Greyhawk and everything fell apart.


Sideways and crashing into Rune itself.


We make some lists, first is to train to handle myself or to start which has changed as I’ve been finding out just who and what I am.


There’s lots of stuff as Dad’s prepping to leave and join us and passing everything off to the people here.


Some things we use temples for like The Highfather’s temple lets Dad use a TDC styled training hall only it’s divine warriors so I spend days getting beat up and bounced around by Sylvan heavenly mercs and war spirits and well that whole Valhalla sort of dead and it’s the Highfathers temple so I do end up screaming my head off and losing my temper and raging and then after a few wins of lightweights that couldn’t handle my natural powers… I’d run into someone who’s stands me on my head.


I’ve dad’s body mostly, reflexes, strength potential, endurance, senses, all the brotherhood stuff meets the mystical in Mom with advanced psionics and decent fire magic.


Dad trains me like him and Uncle Mark? And how they all developed their powers over the years.


“You know you’re not human, but you don’t know that you’re brotherhood, or your mothers side, you know you have power but you don’t know your powers… this’ll show you more.”


That the bits of seriously looking into things with staff help at S7. They were dealing with mom but they have all the med and scan and metagenic research stuff so I have some of that as study stuff.


Which helps as like Mom I’m a Telepath first and strongest, seconded by pyrokinetics and reading, the reading edges the pyro because of my brotherhood lineage and how my senses play into observing the world.


And I’ve branch abilities that I’ve started with him and others in the city as he trades things away, gives some things to others but gathers resources for going back to Palladium and my people plus him, Sel-Mom and my own outfitting.


And it’s not just Highfathers temple but others as well that agree and I learn what they do, cultural things, faith things, “Racial” things that I didn’t get home as we’re survivors and after that long with regular humans the diversity is there and not.


Plus dad wants me to no be like just his little training animal.


So there’s things like Satyr parkour where you are running and doing parkour with fae satyrs and fawns through the city and off of things in the city including some stunt and racing popular parkour spots.


Swimming at several temple pools and places to learn for one and I train with other kids my age that died…all sorts of trainees and squires and souls my age or like the sylvan equivalent and lives go on here and the dangerous training is all volunteers and very much that vs demons and other things.


I get better handle on my fire both as psi based and as fire magic as Sel-mom and dad take me around to some of the craft places and gods as well as smithing gods and baking.


I’m not opposed to actually learning how to make things but also how to use my powers in crafts and doing things that aren’t combat and weirdness.


I do take the time to visit Lashghan and Vixen and learn about sensing tricksters and charming demons and things like the succubus and incubus stuff that happened.


It was likely a month but it was a Sylvan month under Dad and mom so by the time we leave for Millenia Island it felt like three for me and we gate through with the help of a crossroads fae that Dad knows and we came through with a train of four hoverbarges mostly of food, supplies and household goods for everyone and I’m actually glad to be back and stopping.








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***Wylder…Before we started training Crossroads went home, Whyteclaw able to divine it with blood magic and the temple being outside space time it’s kind of a basic location given we know where they are.


He’s been here a few months of waiting for time to sync to meet his Dad but things happened there and he was still intending on coming back here to help and train some more.


As it was he is better physically, between the exercise and his meditation and actually taking the time to focus his willpower on recoverings as he meditates helped, Whyteclaws food alchemy is useful.


Kid is definitely Sempai’s grandson, not going to Rynn’s and all the time in the Holy City and the Divine Holy City is telling he will do little prayers on things or over things and invoke a little associated power but it’s cultural too like religious sayings or expressions, crossing oneself.


I like him too because he gets along with Kai of Aera.


She shows him around the planet more than others and they talk and train but he has that Tyler vibe as well so I’m not jealous he’s kind of like a friend or cousin/brother.


And he’s learning the planet’s landscape, plants and herbs as he was here and part of it is him building up his own gear and things. Some he gets from us, Bazz sets him up with some flexi things and some glassteel flexi and Lasek weapons and gear like d-pouches and bags.


He made and prepped a bunch of things to trade and sell and some baskets and he left for Sylvania on paddle boat? He does something and there was fog and he paddled off our bay and to the Lake?


***Bailey-C/ Crossroads….


Time went really slow and at the same time not…Thirty six hour days and I was only used to being able to interact with anyone for three hours a day. So yeah I have some PTSD on that and sleeping and all that so I stay up more than I should.


It helps in learning.


I learned about things from Aunt Lane but I kind of learn about myself sort of and the other versions of me or I’m another version of them and it reminds me of some of the comic things that Aunt Cindy would talk about, she’s literally a comic cleric heer lore is that big…and nerdy.


I still have holes and we all do, Whyteclaw and others have memories from different versions of their older selves from the Eternalverse.


He kept returning, being reborn over there.


What I do have is a really good grip on me.


Kinda important when there’s variants.


But I’m up so I use the computers and the coms as much as time differences allow on home and I read up on current events and people and things I wouldn’t before like the political sections and other things in media.


If I’m going to do the thing… then studying up on things like that will help.


I download books as well, poli sci, history, art and music things that I’m interested in and I have enough personal energy for some replication so I start a “Vinyl” collection and hardcover books. 


I trade off with Bazz for enchanted works I do for d-items.


Now by enchanted works I mean charms.


I pull on lake/lifestream/mana enough for a “Drop” I use that like ink to make symbols and Sylvan runes and Kanji in an object I’m making and using Sage magic use all that to infuse intent and skill into something.


So like Sage magic is me pulling free clerical magic… yeah that exists, regular people have power affecting expectations of mystical religions.


So I pull on blessings of Illmaren the sylvan god of crafts and Ishanti the women's version to put as much magic as I put Eternal faith in something.


So like I made Bazz wood working tools with blessed steel and wood and then enchanted with the intent and skill I use when working with Sempai and Dad or with like holy city building volunteers… but that becomes an external focus for doing that for him and it.


Yeah it’s my thing out of the others I guess.


And it does take time and if I don’t make the thing it’s less effective too so it has it’s limits…but I’m sort of a Talismonger.


Doing the “Drop” stuff makes it possible and definitely has me studying more with the writing especially Kanji as I’ve seen Sempai and the other older monks make and use spell tapers.


So I’m looking into that.


And Bazz and others are willing to trade for charmed and  buffed items and creations.


I get D-enchanted items out of it and the food and support and training which is a lot. I mean the plan is to come back with the training going on and set up supplies and things more than what I have.


What I have is what I made or trade in field gear and moving around luggage. I have a D-steamer trunk that’s got  my personal effects and all that but back at Wylder and Kai’s I’d have access to things there.

Which still is my plan as it stands, because it’d be nice to come to Aeran with resources.


But my Travel chest has clothes, book, records and those sorts of take with me on the move things and my instruments, I have a large backpack and a field satchel but mostly I stick with a battle jacket with d-pockets and a utility belt.


Other stuff I’m cliche on the wrist sleeve with the needles, but I make a blessed large scale acupuncture set of needles. My bracelets and some other jewelry and charms.


I do make some gifts while I’m here and I replicate some mostly clothes for Aunt Lane since I’ve seen her and know the sizes more or less but I kind go by feel and vibes in picking her things out and not just ranger clothes but things I think she’d wear or buy while undercover.


And I get her a really good knife, a throwing knife, a skinning knife roll and I make her a bow…with dried and cured stonewood…Trollwood as it’s the kind that hardens as it cures instead of kilns.


Seed pearls little ones charge with one specific thing: aim, accuracy, speed, power all buffed the bow charmed as well as the silk woven line and I offset it with charged prayer of hunt gods and druids and polished with starhoney wax.


Two of whiteclaw’s pearls fit in flexi sockets for the bow ends, again enchanted like the others.


And I think of her using it, us talking, but all my archery lessons, seeing Kailynn and others and mom and sempai and I try to put all those feelings and my own combat experiences fighting with a bow in it.


For her specifically, it should be the strongest for her.


I make her arrows of old willow for it’s ties to the air element and Alloy hunting arrows but the arrowheads are fitted with bones from the claws of a golden eagle to fit the arrows and I pull as much of the bird’s strike/claw force in as I can and the fletching of Falcon and Hummingbird feathers for increased arrow speeds and trick shots.


It’s work it took hours each and the enchanting, power and energy use but worth it for her and for the experience.


And Buckskin boots with as much power and speed of the Buck Elk stag I took for them and I started the ask for the spirit’s help right at hunt ritual.


Then, it’s a paddle boats and packing up and then I say my goodbyes and paddle out focussing on The Lake because you can leave there… it takes more power and then…then if you focus on the Lake it will pull you back.


I am getting looks as I paddle to shore.




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If we’re this far then you know who I was in New Haven.


Well a lot of things happened that took me from being married with kids to being here on Ryan’s Earth.


The Sylvan’s getting hit, had us hit too.


Oh yeah, not enough to get Sylvania attacked but bad assholes in the embassy paid merc teams and assassins to hit us in whole teams. They knew who were were through progress.


Summoned monsters unlike anything we have ever seen just showed up literally brought there by magic and we’re talking Kaiju or Godzilla sized creatures that hit New Haven at the same time as we were hit on Sylvania in what we thought was peacetime.


Okay and because if you know I’ll cut to what people ask most.


What happened to Sasha.


Aerin’s sister did.


Not the monsters or the usual assholes we’d tangle with but Ketsuya Naga the daughter of Sasha’s ex and raised in not just the yakuza gang part of the family but the Yakuza elders estate places of The Shadow clan.


She wasn’t on our radar either until she hand-picked a small army to hit us offworlders as we were in the middle of a summoning attack.


She killed her after dozens of mercs died and when she died and I found out I killed her, then, the entire railway hub yard and a more going off like a bomb.


Aerin went to Earth after revenge but with Joey and Sam to try and talk her down.


I was cut a deal because I was still needed vs the Monsters and did three years in House arrest before the attacks here stopped as Jenna and Kailynn had to go to Sylvania.


Needing a new start, Aerin Gone, Bailey in a coma and stasis in some ancient temple under the Tree slowing healing from Cursed blades we’ve never encountered before.


I couldn’t stay at the Holy City defending it, my issues and my kid in danger. I could hurt and kill too many people and there’s been no change for years and years.


So Karley invited me to join her Rifter AA’s.


Trying to do the job and help those in need in this world.


I fly so Lazlo while okay and interesting is too busy for me in a lot of ways and instead I moved to the Scar.


Yes Scarborough.


I found a twelfth floor apartment in a mega crete ruined tower and there’s just the next floors and walls over me. I’m a contractor amongst other stuff so I cleaned it good and primed and painted in the one floor I’m claiming. Then I spray seal it for moisture and then just filler and carpentry adding in old school windows, doors, hardwood flooring and I run hot water heat with a water heater and mini-boiler genny I build with a couple of laser lances and Ryan’s help.


I live close to the Lazlo area so d-bees, refugee camps and Burbs before the city and The Scar is sort of the same but there’s like a central block of city left where I’m at for about eight by eight blocks and nothing standing over twelve floors like mine the rest in Burbs and camps.


It sounds bleak and it sort of is. Up here we have the Xixtics but there’s also several bad winters. The minion war stalled out here because Calgary rift was destroyed but russian demons have crossed the ice in those bad years and that’s added to thongs here in the North along with things with the Coalition.


And that’s trouble from the south as Tolkeen was win and lose and Quebec bloodied them but they took Kingsdale and these Kingdoms and free baronies and such that sprung up all down the appalachians fell to the CS with militarily as there was this whole juicer civil war that happened there or economically as it just made sense for them to fold, take CS help, defense, industry.


And well the CS is being the CS with a ground swell of the best of humanity.


Yes, heavy sarcasm.


 I’m a bit of a loner when not doing things with the team. I like fixing things here and tinkering and messing around with my music but just taking my time not just at my place but making my area first a little better.


More livable.


Kind offsets the rest of me.


Which I’m also learning to temper more.


Living with myself as myself too. Sasha and I hooked up early for me and we got intensely serious fast.


I love Aerin but her and Sasha came with a lot.


We all do.


But yeah alone and by myself for awhile at least.


……………………


I had the oddest dream.


Not a dream, day dream.


I planned on and did vibro tool a megacrete parking lot area into ground and earth and that’ll be topsoil and even sod or lawn easier to camp on.


Every time I closed my eyes there was this woman, elven but not, sunbleached like crazy and scarred up, like roadrash, like a woman with a bad ex or ex’s or tortured.


She looks like a gladiator that wiped out on her bike.


But there was something there.


Something….deep woods but a lazy warm false summer day, coloured leaves highlighting her in hunting buckskins in woods that are lush even in fall colours, the way the sunshine hits here with dust motes.


I actually end up painting that down at the street level.








 



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Close... close enough...


And I push the emotion through the ground to her.


~Keep Kat safe...~


~Tell her... all of them... I love them...~


Yep...


Can almost hear them now, the "oh god what is she going to do now?!" exasperation...


I lift my head.


Actually look at Bailey.


And I can't help but give him this... cocky, I'm fucked up half-grin...


With that 'spark' that went to Bailey there was this 'go, find him' with it.


Find him, Whyteclaw.


Much of a dick he was, he'd help him...


And a flicker, an echo in the Guardian Force... to her Bailey, her Jason, even to Grey and even fucking Nate, despite "Sel" with him because while Sel loved him, she did too because they were the same person and she was always those softer sides and... the kids... all the kids... even Roman who is Daneseed, Alana, Damien, Brian, Kat... A whisper of her voice...


~Tell them... I love them...~


Even now with everything... she did... and that's why she hurt so much...


But maybe this time she could save people, instead of let them die...


****


So I’ve died a few times in my life and the last attempt really stuck. We we in The Holy City and we had faced some of these Forsaken forces these insane true believers who “Forsaken” the republic in the Sylvan civil war.


On the outside .


Really it being a mage war and a class war it let these dark cultist leaders but really powerful mages and more in service to the Old One’s and were immortals that snuck away to rebuild after their side lost where they came with the Exodus.


All I knew at the time was these guys were hooked to evil and trying to kill my family and I fought off five of eight bloodelven bladedancers that were sent after me.


Other ambushes were happening the same day.


When Zane hit us his followers hit a lot of us.


I have been killed before and brought back but Haley Highwood healed me here again and because of their cursed blades she was barely able to hold me together and had some sort of guidance to place me in the temple.


After that it was isolation and hurt and fear and pain and darkness until I overcame it with Semapi’s lessons and my other meditation teachers and Tao this shaman I learned with for a summer helping out and I meditated and master my fear and then began to imagine things like cooking or dojos and just sort of imagined and re-lived and examined all sorts of moments in my life until I think my inner strength got to where I could spirit walk and found The Cross Realm.


The Sylvan gods are of the city and the tree so they don’t have a plane so there is this sort of shared tree created divine realm that pulls on all things of all those versions and places.


Only some stay here, most people go on to their places in their rivers in their realities… this was Godrealm central.


No I’m not there any longer.


When she looked at me…


Hopeful, hurt, wistful sad and the smile….


Set against me first seeing her, hair messy, still out of sorts, tires and skinny and needing a shower and a lot of TLC and complete trainwreck of a woman.


There was this….


And my heart slowed and I re-live that moment a lot.


She passed something to me, showed me things and places and people.


And woke me up.


Yeah like the song too.


It took me hours to go from awake to rolling over then from that to drag myself to the waters and instead of up to the city I swim down deeper and deeper until I pass into the Lake and focus my spirit and have it wash me on shore by this place.


There’s a woman a lot like Keth but a lot better off scraping hides.


It’s a lot cooler here.


“Excuse me… I’m looking for Bailey.”


(Sel)... the smell of the water changed and otters left but hung around curious and this young looking version of Bailey at like 14 with drastically long hair in scrub pants like a patient and covered in gold leaf scars in a few of the blows that usually kill him and a couple others.


Bare chested, barefooted and shimmering with hints of fresh Guardian force.


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(Kero) He can’t gate or jump there but Kin’s pictures in his head of the area he wants to go is new to you. In the 3G’s and the Bushi federation are the Oni race worlds and while ruled by them like most galactic societies it’s full of many kinds of people.


It’s old and the streets are ancient and worn and at the same time additions and repairs have happened with magic and tech and in between and all sorts of “Asian” beings are here.


And it’s not safe either, typical of Kinsano it’s a rough neighbourhood with what looks like Japanese bred ogres but free from the splugorth but magic tatted up like yakuza, grasshopper humanoids, chameleon lizard men types, all sorts of things but bots… on the border between Bushi space and The Machine people under the Kreeghor there are machine people but also lots of other free mechanicals and borgs as well.  


And yet still all steeped in traditions and there are temples and buddhas of varying races and martial temples as well.


The city is on a massive plateau that is surrounded by mountains and as well as being ancient it is a mining, smelting, forging city and spaceport.


Air’s thin so cooler and scrubber towers filter out the smog but there’s a very dirty starport meets asian street market smells.


“Su-lan has changed a lot there was a lot less criminals here, less organized ones and more temples and just starports.”


He’s nimble in that used to crowds way and his robes give him some respect just built in and you feel so much here, strong lines for a desert planet, the gangs and other criminals, tech ,magic is in the markets and plain tech or even advanced stuff and you can feel, smell dark magic here as well not much divine but something demon/deevil minion war sort of power underscent.


He heads to this very Temple urban temple so a walled compound but inside is a martial school and temple. Very much like Astran old and like the old Chinese school pavilions.


Many races, ages, even kids, bald shaved and in yellow a lot like Shaolin, in class areas learning katas and moves or weapon skills you can see sword, spear and staff groups and two monks are hard sparring using chi arts to create light and heat and are doing Ashani looking things Ashani aren’t trained for.


There are greeters there but several older/stronger monks looked your way before Kinsano’s.


“This is the Radiant Fist Temple.”


“This is where we based and re-supplied.”







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I’m grateful and in awe as much as things as this place as in the World, on a moon in this place with elves and more and a great dragon turtle.



And with Dunn really changed and then there was Roman.


And the demon…demons… and the whole load that uncovered.


Which I knew nothing about until we met and we were both… oh…who, what now.


We both sort of glanced off each other definitely noticing, I had no idea of things going that bad for him and Dunn and the monsters that were living in my basements.


I wasn’t raised to hit this level of things, or failing….yes, there’s a lot out of my control… but I’m ruler, it was on them and now me.


And then my own issues and going through Mystical Inheritance or rather still going through it.


The spell is like a familiar that has the pre-recorded things that were gifted to it or placed within it.


So I can hear from them, my ancestors and such involved in the working I now carry.


I’m noticing this being here on L’honei.


Home of Rune I don’t think we’re much more North than here and with our new humidity and weather I can learn some things here hopefully.


Building styles, how they do things for the weather and magic Kiera uses she shows me her water sigils and the moisture and dehumidifier ones which we’ll need.


Lilae joins us and Jordan and Kiriyani and Yunni? Kiri is a local that does sea magic but magic not a Druid and Yunni is a Shaman but a trained Diviner mage a locator specialist and the locals and the Great Dragon are insisting we stay for a feast.


We mostly exchanged enough that we designed a Libram that converts Runian Wizardry notes to Aeran Southern, and Sylvan’s use Dragonese as their magician magic was learned in Rynn’s era from D-beings and even offworld slave casters.


We learned hard sciences more the same way off of knowledge we recovered from the early Splugorth scouts it expanded us in science.


We’re still very behind but we have chemistry and physics.


The guys are offered to go fishing and diving while we prepare the village and food.


No, not everyone divided, some stayed with the cattle but others rested. I did both two trips out to these reef schools and spearfishing breeds. 


Their hunt leaders show us in holos and we snorkel and swim, learn better and to use spears, spearguns and paddle in with the catches. I started barely swim trained, never done any of this of been in salt water with life and waves and tides, I’ve never paddled before and 


I join the feast prep groups to learn the clothes, how they make food and process raw goods and some of the catches are special for dishes or have meaning tribally and I can’t take it all in but I learn things faster as my inheritance has gifted memories of family and staff that come out as I’m doing it if people left it there in the spell.


Some things are learning their ways like palm weaving for mats or baskets and things given our new home will be used.


And we talk and there’s magic used here and there that we share like cantrips we all use and some I pick up like Summoning Salt.


More like gathered it like a clothing spell but Kiri just pulls Salt from the Air and home is now seaside.


I can also pull it from water now and no it’s not warlock scale but enough work and power I can help people even trade the salt.


Kiera has Kiri around us and Jordan and I since we can now learn and he’s Coastal too so things he’s picking up he can use there. None of us are warlock strength in this except Kiriyani and Kiera. Jordan and I could pull an ounce or so per casting from the sea, people tied to this like a warlock pull pounds. Kiera really puts her concentration into an attempt and pulled close to eighty pounds.


I’m half drunk in a good way, light juices, coconut water, fruit purees in with Sylvan rum have us all having fun but also they know how to do this stretched out in a Sylvan 36 hour day.


It’s kind of freeing not being the Princess right now and watching myself and other things and just dressed down, almost scanty in how small or thin some things are.


Fishing or set up there’s always singers, music in drums, pets, kids.


No one looks if I sway a little or sop up booze eating something with my fingers or trying things for others.


I did not expect Kiera to offer me her people’s offer to have her clansmen come to Davion Isle and teach there but me as well. Her elders want to talk about some of my Runian enchanting and my inheritance spell.


The Great Dragon Turtle asked to see me then and they don’t have this ritual here and if Inheritance magic can be passed to his L’honei then he would see me trained and given aid.


More importantly… a Sea waygate from off of Clan held beaches giving me a Sylvan port and trade point.


Aera and this trip first but… wow.


Bazz… Bailey Azuranti is here and creating conjured electronics, this flexi is science made by magic and he teaches me as well interest in my Rune knowledge but just offering help as an Azuranti and his mother who is a Reefmaster/Pearlmaster and does his Mystara’s ocean magic and we talked a bit and I learn flexi and how and why it works and I’ve worked harder spells.


Flexis are like clothing spells only knit patterns to made plastic like crystal. Crystal likes to grow if you feed it, and combining that with power generation crystals which means memory is enchantable.


It was very cool to see him make recharging lights and light strings and inlay on some totem carvings and posts so they shimmer at night.


That’s volume, density, a ton of control and mastery, and more as he can create glassteel this way and make glassteel lasek weapons which have a laser edge like fiberoptic crystal.


I’m not there but I can make flexis and light them so I make lanterns like the kyu ones that glow.


And flexi “henna” of my runes and I decorate myself with sunlight shimmering runes and sigils. Deftness and swiftness on my hands and feet and fire and food and soul and other runes that bend the magic to those things in my hands as I dance, learn, help cook.


(She has magic that she tanned not burned and she soaked in the high magic here like a sponge it actually infusing into her body like magic races and she tomboy’d up to fish and swim but the locals dressed her in that skimpy L’honei breast banding and bikini bottoms and she is not sylvan but also enhanced and she is tall, leggy, ample generous curves and not afraid to work with the guys.


After they crimped her hair and she grew it out with a potion even longer and they dressed her hair in L’honei styles and light local jewelery crafted by locals as presents and sandals along with this petal silk sundress in L’honei print style that is red with golden orchids and her flexi runes shimmer sunshine on her skin.


All her family’s elder women, men, servants their way, their pull with people alive and felt by almost everyone that interacts with her and her eager, soft, kindness.)








 


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The thing is here Wilder must have the TDC cranked cause we’re not getting messages and pages and we’re alone. Good thing we brought our share of the supplies so we have things to do, we’re on Sylvan time for training and we have time to decompress.


Realizing this I start my ferments.


Wilder has them too and a barn with the whole thing designed for it. His are a lot more basic than mine.


Several batches of Kimchi, some with seaweeds and wild herbs, but a lot of his garden things to use up. Zucchini and thin slice root veg and squash add in nicely and turnip with daikon radish and squash with the cabbage and korean pepper paste turns out excellent as their sweetness blends the spice and they’re very good with duck or pork on rice.


I get his biggest pots and make batches of stock on slow, cooked down as fussy as Kailynn, but I eternally push the flavours to release and I make toasted soybean, fried miso kissed homemade soy sauce with a phari probiotic that helps the ferment despite the salt.


I do fish sauces but small batches based off crab, shrimp, and a sweet smoked salmon batch that I ferment in the same way as fish sauce.


Good bread dough batches.


I get that Japanese Hokkaido milk in through the controls and make butter, fast cheeses like ricotta, cottage cheese, fresh mozzarella, and using magic to reduce the water content makes things creamier and I make really decent yogurt given I can take the time.


And it sounds like a lot but it’s mostly done up the batches and let it age and ferment.


Nate does similar for hot sauce and a chili base and beer, ale, wines off the fruits and berries around and pickles.


He does a lot of this with Sel who does chowder getting really picky in fine tuning her version, baked beans, but a lot of baking. Not like hobby baking, her being obsessive about baking, getting things down, she took two weeks to get her fried doughnuts the way she wanted.


She could summon Charlie with those.


She even invented a chestnut dough churro that she can sell at any version of Sylvania and a lot of regular cities.


Though a cart with her chowder over a fresh steaming biscuit would sell in a to go cup real fast too.


And writing, my link, Nate’s detail and recall she can remember all the recipes she learned, seen family make even when she was little or the slave when we focus.


And yes lots of lovemaking and we are together or pair off, usually it’s a vibe from what we’re doing or at or listening to. And well it’s still as deep and intense but we’re settling into each other, knowing our bodies, sounds, feelings….foreplay and exploring each other’s more common now but it’s more like sex is a good climbing foothold or handhold to better. So we do more than just sex.


Sleep, tanning, beachcombing, surfing, fishing, campfires whenever we want them, diving, paddle boarding, Nate and Sel set up an airstrip on the “Ski hill” and using kits built hang gliders first, then ultralights.


And we get hover bikes going since we like those ourselves and with the CS Skybikes we modify to look less skully we have bikes we can fly through the sequoia trees.


And just to be clear we’re talking months as the seasons change and this place in fall.


Eternal Evergreens pull more pigment and make more oils as winter comes and it insulates them but they get deeper darker green to pull more sun…they look amazing and smell even better.


Someone planted winter/cold thriving plants as much as the food forest.


Not me though, Bailey/Tyger was here but someone else did the work in design? One of the first Kai and Tygers kids maybe.


As it gets colder Nate goes after select smells good and grills well with firewood kinds and he sets up his weapons shop and gun shop using Wilder’s tools and Oceanveiws.


And I started some woodworking and crafting with a few surfboards that started with nice designs and traction engravings in a L’honei style mixed with Aeran holy lander imagery, filled with solar recharging flexi so the engravings glow blue at night.


And a few hand drums and tub drums and a couple of guitars.


Wilder has plenty plus there are instruments here in Oceanview and we use them but I wanted to make a could of bluewood stained guitars so a couple of acoustics and electric but I use the colour to engrave it in this denim like country look, antler turning pegs and dials but most everything else is gold fitted except for the strings.


Sel does the leatherwork for the case and it’s a present for Nate. She added in hunting and fishing and tanning and because of Sel we have buckskins she made for all three of us mixed with modern liners and fittings like real use all the time clothes, and furs, we have furred blankets and the fluff and feathers in pillows and cushions.


The three of us harvested a bluewood fall with the hoverbikes and started cutting slices for fast tables for the incoming people and we set up a few slices in the forest and other places like deer stands or landing platforms for the bikes.


And lumber for later but we learn how to break down a tree that size and that’ll be for teaching.


We’ve a list of easy teaching things we want to train like building shelters and basic homes, earth, stone, clay bricks, straw and clay cob homes, deck, outhouse, plumbing basics, wiring basics, logging and milling as we will make all their lumber and firewood and more.


Wilder has plans on giving them the things they build and firewood the can cut and glean.


It’s not a bad idea they’ll have training, experience, goods they own even if basic and a shelter they can use on their lands as a camp or even a home as they build better.


And there will be others teaching other things.


Nate plans out a run and areas in several areas so runs in Bluewood, Pineview, The Holy Mountains here.


Nate and I started cutting wood in the North slope forests near Haven in Mainstream. We do this for timber and lumber that’s Spruces, pines and loads of hardwoods we put together for our cover lot. We’ll bring in lumber made, and some tree length and stud piles and pulp for the CS mills and firewood we’ll sell by truckloads to the locals.


The three of us camped and had fires and it was further north so snow some nights and Nate and I cut for two weeks and Sel hunted as we’re up in mountain slopes and she skinned and made things and hunted and cooked, smoked and preserved and even made jerky with herbs and berries, but more often cheats like her own bbq sauces.


But coming in to camp her working and a stew has been simmering since she started dressing the kills. There's blood cakes with mushroom dice in blood, salt, pepper and an egg yolk then steamed, organs in sausages or in organ stir fried dirty rice.


Her human and Canadian comes out as she cooks in this Maritimer meet Native meets Cajun and Newfie.


In fact we did some hunting of our own near the end of it and using magic I took stumps with us and we settled in as Winter started and we just chilled, made things because it’s a 36 hour day and we don’t drive each other crazy but also to have things for us and our place and gifts but also things to sell on Rifts earth, crafts and homemade goods sell decently but selling them is a great cover.






















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(April Summers.)


They were talked about before you seen them three brothers hauled off the eternal ships, that were close knit and not talkative and kept escaping the quarters they were given and found in places they shouldn’t be, shouldn’t have access to.


This time they stole hoversleds and enough racer birds to leave town and had stole and packed for the trip.


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***Michael… I had looked into her when I had met the family and to see who Jason was I suspected Earth linked angles like Tharsis or Avenging Angels they’re that primal earth strength and durability types.


Which would explain Jason’s might and then Brighton research gave me enough rare few descriptions and portraits and they I had people look around.


Allyah (A-lee-ah) of Zaeon was summoned to Palladium by the cursed creature Simon Brighton, and into marriage to free her bound sister.


Aurora of Zaeon is the grandmother.


Zaeon is the home heavenly sub plane and creation of the Angel Azazel


Azazel’s damned daughter. 


Hawke and others were not pleased at the reveal.


No he’s not Luce, or Satan or Satalus.


Azazel fallen angel out of Luce’s host, and a duke of hell like Abbadon.


Azazel Lord of the Djinn in some versions.


Zaeon was made before his fall and it was during the creation war, or the Chaos wars for us it was a war vs all of creation.


We were not expecting the place to be as populated as it is as we’re pulled to the arrival gates.


Hard angels with full armor and footlances at guard.


The walls still carried scars from the old wars left as reminders as are the bones of dragons and demons and other things. Many angels but many other worldly beings here from places I don’t know.


Or Rabdos.


Floating cities and islands like an astral connected Skywood with human and very temple based architecture, Greco-Roman, lots of lines and art deco.


And flying castles and fleets of airships and a Golden tech ship made like a mechanoid sphere in scale but ornate like religious orb but starbase sized and with a dozen escort starships…soft whites make most of the background for the gold and mother of pearl like designs.


We’re watched on approach but no one stops us.





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I hurt, I hurt and I burned and Bailey had been pulled there. And I had used the relic to send them there and I was going to play heroine but it went sideways with the Trolls and then the rest happened as the damned Cytorakkians started up with Megan and her bitch creature from the Lifestream.


Yes my main targets, Bailey was a bonus, Lyr fucked it us by rallying people.


But I tried to kill the eternal thing.


It’s a wonder they don’t recognize he’s a bard but the kind on the battlefield like a Skald… storyteller, tavern speaker, standard bearer.


If he was alive in the Army of light he’d be one of those with the flags.


Add in the two channeler metas.


And the mages and guardians.


Worse was jumping back to the new Bailey… awake, aware, with her but not but it’s enough that they’re friends and I missed the battle with aliens?


Tarlok hit us? How?


I couldn’t get more info than anyone else who’s a guest and the rumours of it being Bailey and the Memphis people’s enemies.


No this was something different.


Even without opening myself to being felt or potentially felt I could feel tech magic and taint and something else Eternal but…


I leave.


I don’t sign out as a guest but out on the away list and have it as errands. And I do go out and do some visible busy work before getting foraging gear from the Kingsrangers and end my daylight hours looking for herbs and with my training I know if they’re close.


And I create a spiderhole out in the middle of nowhere by summoning an earth spirit to make the cave. I built a transport pattern there.


Then go back.


Once I’m accounted for in my quarters I set my alarms and answer safeguards, put up my magical works do not disturb. Set some actual brews to start and then jump to my pattern.


Out of palace range and patrols I jump to Ashendar’s City Sanctum.


Oh yes, he built a city he and some minions he poached from others as the Forsaken tended to use up minions and betray them once done. That whole killing the subcontractors thing. Ashendar collected the discarded. Rebuilt lives and powers.


Dark sided to be sure, but such is life.


Our creatures move out of my way, most get back to work and I head inside where they cannot go.


They are behind the barrier.


Kill a Forsaken and they return to their Old one behind the barrier. It’s even stronger now but I am in his sanctuary, and I have his blood running through me.


I use the blood amber he made.


Fire up the power circles and….use the summons as a commune to…


~Father…I concede, I need your counsel. I thought that I could steal a march and learn things that would make me able to unbind him, but things have changed and there are powers at play I don’t understand.~


He’s not asleep, none of the truly strong Forsaken souls are, the real failures are digested in their dreams or remade in their chaos and trapped in there.


Accepting my failure is submission and I do and in our link he starts teaching me training, me fusing with me as he re-kanjis my code to pull his and it’s revelation after revelation as he tears me down, looks at all of the things in my life but things around me and I start to see the moves and plays holes filled in by his lore as I start understanding what the other powers can do and cast.


Ashendar.


Kyu looking…looking but in truth he is half high elven and half Valrukar or Dragon keeper. Not like Deathserpent but they are the Chaos touched elves that were descended from the same species as The Druid and Crone.


A sort of distant cousin to Everlasting.


Once masters of the Oni race.


When he’s inside I see things, feel everything change as he…agrees with Gwen Summerhall and he even mentally referred to her as the Starmother.


I can never get him back.


I can never go back, and certain beings only exist as that version of themselves once.


I rage.


I rage and blinding white hot super nova and point singularity burn it all and go full Imperium Keth over it.


And Mourning more, and having a nervous breakdown until I feel him inside my spark again, inside my soul and I just let him until it goes numb and blank.


…………………………


………………………….


…………………………..


Her encounters with things she wasn’t prepared for broke my “Daughter” and she had shown me so much of the other side that it was easy enough to commune, then teach her and as I did I “hacked” her mind and while I couldn’t leave, leave the barrier I instead integrated into her mind.


Growing inside of her on this side all by her own power and hand.


So when she broke we stayed put in Thornhome in the TDC function and what started as me was what put her mind, our mind back together but I’m more me than her.


Though my daughter has so many things going for her that she seems to have missed out on as much as her mother Kachina did.


Yes He’s still in there, my caster, I’m more like a clone he wrote into his child.


But I’m very much still me him in a lot of ways.


The Sylvan’s in this reality haven’t cleaned out The Darklands or even the Hammer and she’s taken advantage of this by re-opening resources such as this.


Thornhome is a secret base, a lost lordship of land with old overgrown roses that are green magic touched and ages old large enough to be trees and hedges and other presentations and orchards as well as old vineyards.


I stole it from Bane.


It’s old and barely touched now, but below it’s a kobold crafted series of tunnels and caves and mines that leads down to a small underground township…well dark race supplied war base of anti-crown forces.


She gathered forces to work and train here, a start but as I look through her notes it was more to infiltrate other forsaken and dark forces more than her having an attack unit.


It’ll do.


There’s a lot to do and to learn.


Summerhall…Something had her spooked.


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“Grey.”


I’m called that based on my hair but also my cloak.


Sylvan ranger grey as a cloak including it’d power to help you blend as needed.it colour and tone shifts.


But with my eyes and my grey hair that I made go grey naturally or eternally so my blonde is greyed out.


Well I’m still going with that and people might think a lot of things about me and Sel and Rai right now and the truth is there was a lot of shock getting him back, and processing that well, like really sitting and processing that had us hunkered down.


Not that it’s a problem.


My ship is a Spadrone model 18 and that’s a spade shaped as their design style wedge ship and mine is old with a fusion TFL drive and drop ramps for a cargo hangar in back and garage in front plus five floors and decks with things in my ship like a good kitchen, greenhouse nook with a flexi set up in the aquarium tanks that are part of the hydroponics.  Lots of fresh herbs, regrowing greens and other plants like cherry tomatoes and other things that I can grow in this little decoratie space that we can just eat off of easily.


Wood flooring in plats of the ship, a gym, a med bay, garage, dojo, cargo, armory, 10 bedrooms for crew if needed, storage and I have a music room and a library room, ship office and a nice master bedroom and observation deck and a general living quarters room.


My ship is out in the boonies as a lot call it and it’s technically called Greenside beach and it’s a long strip mall of hangars that are built along this mass transit train system and cargo system and it is a mini mall full of businesses but this place is busy even here.


Centre is the main place, Phaseworld is the planet created by the Prometheans.  I rent a long term hangar and landing bay which is the landing pad and itself is walled and has a driveway in and out of it.


So in the hangar, on my side of the fence I spent a few thousand credits and bought some storage pods/cargo boxes for storage units and I built a set of raised bed gardens here with some chickens.


Most long term people here turn their hangars to yards.

It’s called greenside out here because on the land side of the hangar strip is planned farmland and it’s tech built and serviced fields and tiers of fields all planted in nice neat styles and with wind, ad the irrigation feeds the run off which turns water wheel power as it is used and the farm roads all just drives through green.


On the other side is the ocean here and it’s like tourist nice but safe and still beaches so some business but still pretty natural.


Outside of pulling jobs, the cooking and other things I do in Center pays the bills and then some.


We were just getting adjusted.


We were just getting to going out and well getting things we needed he needs.


It’s weird.


Her Bailey, Imperium guy is in here, part of me but not all of him and at the same time she’s his and not and Rai’s and it’s still all of that.


Which we’re trying not to get flipped out by because…we’re both tired.


And we’re still us enough that it’s enough?


They left a message as we got back.






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***Jason… Keth went her own way and was not in a good place and I was still recovering so I couldn’t really go after her and then there’s Bailey-Tyger of Otherverse.


I was not expecting him and I to be good with each other but his life in the Thraxian arenas and dealing with artificers and Summoners and all sorts of things in a universe/World made as a sub dimension of flying islands.


Well he was surprisingly okay with learning about us and past lives and his lives then and now. For him it explains a lot of things he just knew or had talent in. 


And he’s a decent medic, Paramedic or close to it with Arena and street medicine he’s also has some Spirit force abilities and while he didn’t know Chi skills a lot he did know some and in that was Chi massage and Reiki.


Which he used on me with led to us getting intimate without me shifting. Which being Tatiana in my other life prepared me for but at the same time it was very deju-vu and different.


He’s not like my modern Bailey, He is like Crescent Isle Palladium Bailey but at the same time different.


I’ve been busy too.


Okay the AA’s here and Alex and Lane showed with Scar and Keth/Kai and we found refugees.


And they brought back a lot of slaves from a shithole in Demonstar and then they came here to Sanctuary.


Which is mostly woods and places like Jenna’s fathers gov labs.


Which has been getting fixed up with magic and Everlasting and Sylvan powers now and contact and given the Forsaken attack here and the demon dog things and other incoming things they did repairs and used magic in those with Dorian and them calling smaller elementals and spirits and they started to ward the place down and expanding things into the rest of the offices and lab stuff. It was a big facility and we needed rooms for places to stay as well as expanding and getting organized.


The New and very different Core here has made changes or something like Dreamer Chris is like Daystar but this version dreamed of his past life as his eternal self and that’s been getting stronger and stronger with Lane.


Saber and Alex have been quietly in each other’s company and she was set up with a serious shop and smithy from Victory and She has started forging weapons and armor.


I have my order put in on things made in exchange I got a job teaching Elven and some lore I know but also Janissary Military training with her and Chris and Bailey, Alex and others and that and my other styles I’ve learned I teach.


I took the job because I’m still hurt and drained and while some powers work some are gone.


My Immortality is still there but my strength is reduced and I can invoke bursts of power but just bursts and my healing factor is working but really minimal.


Bailey has quietly settled in and he spends time training but also with Chris and Sempai after hearing of others and Sasha as well but mostly for gear and weapons or sparring and training.


But right now we just got ID and he’s been exploring the city as he helps run errands and helps Sempai and the underground railroad.


He’s not my Bailey but he is.


He’s part of mine, him and “Grey” Bailey’s match to Keth types usually and from the little I’ve been able to piece together Bailey gets remade more than made and his creator re-uses older versions of him that died as his spark just re-kindles itself.


And he was part of mine.


Twice, I’m sure this is also Crescent Island Bailey.


And life’s been taking time. Assisting the prisoners, teaching but I also needed clothes and everything else for just living all over again and for him but living as Tatiana and Jason is different.


I don’t know if it’s magic or powers or trauma or time but I’m not really pulled towards being Tatiana.


And it’s been a long time since I’ve given any thought to existing as me again.


Jason Brighton.


 ***Bailey “Arena” they call me and that works. 


It has to really, I was raised and a gladiator slave then was made free but it was still the life and trade I knew.


They told me of other versions and of past lives and version of me and I’d be crazy to ignore it and at the same time I just draw blanks on most things.


I am learning though.


I’m good at learning which helps but there is tech to learn, languages and numbers and a lot of that does come back sort of or at least quickly enough it feels like progress.


I end up helping Kinsano a lot as he works with slaves and refugees outside of the laws and I’m not really legal myself at first.


Jason helped with that getting our ID’s through the Ark Angels and I helped out as best I could on several trips and missions as well as food runs and supplies for people.


And helping the one’s from the slaver colony and then the Everlasting and the ship and Eternals and all those refugees and getting them settled which we do and the Ark Angels get involved as well as the sylvans who are fresh here still.


As much as we don’t shy away from who and what we were I’m still me and I still tend to wander and look towards the street scene and the street fighting scene.


And well I’ve found a few streams of revenue in taking care of some drug dealers or at their labs or with trafficing houses.


As long as I’m careful in not leaving credible evidence of myself and avoid being recorded I’m pleased with my “2nd Job.”


Jason.


Unexpected, I was using Spirit to treat him and I was helping him recover when it felt…hot and intense and actually deja-vu as they call it.


Not him but him, there was this I’ve never been her with him but I know them.


Even if I don’t… it was familiar enough that I ventured a kiss on the neck as I worked and the rest just happened and we’ve settled sort of.


I was not expecting to not just Top.


I wasn’t expecting it to just feel way more normal than I expected but at the same time it feels new and like I’ve never had this.

I do wonder about Keth/Phoenix the older one.


The younger one we sort of know each other, there’s the things that people say and we have trained together a few times in the gym here.


The Gym I spend a lot of time at, it’s easy and clear and we have things I never could dream of working out and training and then there’s the other things like the sauna and the steamroom and the pool.


Training is with Sempai but also the Dad’s and others and I had enough to get me really into Boxing and MMA as well as KickBoxing and I’m taking Tae Kwon do in the city and swords with The Keyoga’s is Samurai and Knight blade in Everlasting, Dayspring and Sylvan.


I’m still trying to find myself and my place.


Keth/Kai I’m starting to get to know in training too and we’re both kind of aware of the stories and legends. And we’ll watch things like videos together in the common room, or try things with our powers and my “Eternal” powers help me with learning but context too but help me learn things like Shenraku.

Plus there's Brandon.




 


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