not8mihalis8boy: Speaking of which
firelight mystic: yeah?
not8mihalis8boy: You find yourself in a vast
desert
firelight mystic: oh boy.
firelight mystic: I look around for a moment.
firelight mystic: try and see if anything is unusual or out
of place
not8mihalis8boy: It looks like Egypt
not8mihalis8boy: All the way down to the
pyramids over therer
not8mihalis8boy: there
firelight mystic: "Goddess........"
not8mihalis8boy: You feel empty and alone,
without anyone around
not8mihalis8boy: No Goddess, no necklace, no
nothing
firelight mystic: I curse for a moment, then figure
standing around doing nothing won't help me at all.
firelight mystic: I start walking towards the pyramids,
but keep my senses up, just incase.
not8mihalis8boy: "Foul language solves
nothing"
firelight mystic: "What?!? Who's there?"
not8mihalis8boy: Turning around, you see
Buddha
firelight mystic: *blink*
firelight mystic: *blink*
firelight mystic: "Um....I'm sorry."
firelight mystic: "Can you explain to me what's going
on please? I'm confused."
firelight mystic: "Sir."
not8mihalis8boy: You're in the Egyptian desert.
not8mihalis8boy: You're a lot more polite than
the other one
firelight mystic: The other one?
firelight mystic: "Someone else came through here?
Can you tell me who it was, please?"
not8mihalis8boy: All will be clear in time
not8mihalis8boy: Oh, by the way....everyone is
being slaughtered back in New York
firelight mystic: "WHAT?!?! I've got to help them!
What--how? Who's slaughtering them! Can you get me
back there?! I mean, you're Buddha! Can't you like,
teleport me back or something?"
not8mihalis8boy: Your friends, relatives, even
your uncle.
not8mihalis8boy: You have the power.
not8mihalis8boy: But you cannot use it.
not8mihalis8boy: Do you know why?
firelight mystic: Because my necklace is gone.....
firelight mystic: da--dangit.
not8mihalis8boy: No.
not8mihalis8boy: Because you are alone.
not8mihalis8boy: Even surrounded by people,
you are alone.
not8mihalis8boy: You want to go back to New
York? Very well.
firelight mystic: Wait!
not8mihalis8boy: And with that, you find
yourself in the back of a black sedan,
screeching through New York
firelight mystic: huh?!?!
not8mihalis8boy: (you're not done yet)
not8mihalis8boy: (But you're now simultaneous
with the game)
not8mihalis8boy: (Just respond here, not there)
not8mihalis8boy: What do you do?
firelight mystic: I ask everyone what's the hell's going
on.
not8mihalis8boy: You can hear a horrible
storm, magical in nature
not8mihalis8boy: No one replies
firelight mystic: What the hell?!?!
firelight mystic: will one of you say something!?!
not8mihalis8boy: No one replies
not8mihalis8boy: You hear chanting, but
muted, as if it was through a thick wall
firelight mystic: I listen closely to try and make out the
words
not8mihalis8boy: Sounds like "Ia, Ia" repeated
over and over again
firelight mystic: great
not8mihalis8boy: And weird, unearthly flutes,
completely out of discord
firelight mystic: "Buddha, if you can here me, this isn't
funny! I f you're around, I'd really like your help!"
firelight mystic: "or somebody's.........."
not8mihalis8boy: I'm here
not8mihalis8boy: Looking over, he's right next
to you
not8mihalis8boy: Do you know why they can't
hear you?
firelight mystic: "Why?"
firelight mystic: "What's wrong?"
not8mihalis8boy: That is something that YOU
must figure out.
firelight mystic: I don't even know where to begin!
not8mihalis8boy: Try
not8mihalis8boy: Try hard
firelight mystic: Alright.
not8mihalis8boy: (BTW, you are noticing the
guy with the Twinkie)
firelight mystic: (TWINKIE?!?!?!?!?!)
firelight mystic: (ohh......)
not8mihalis8boy: (Read the game)
firelight mystic: (nevermind)
firelight mystic: Wait---what's that guy doing here?
not8mihalis8boy: Slaughtering your friends.
firelight mystic: I've got to stop him.
firelight mystic: But--I can't use my powers!
not8mihalis8boy: In order to do that, you must
figure out why you are here.
firelight mystic: Here as in the Sedan, or here as in,
why am I alive?
not8mihalis8boy: As in, why are you here, and
not there, where your friends are
not8mihalis8boy: Do you know what this is?
not8mihalis8boy: (You've experienced
something like this 3 times before)
firelight mystic: (really?)
firelight mystic: If I'm right, I'm in a Seeking.......
firelight mystic: but what am I Seeking?
firelight mystic: myself?
not8mihalis8boy: Always
not8mihalis8boy: What are we, but a reflection
of the soul?
firelight mystic: so, I should be trying to communicate
with my soul?
not8mihalis8boy: Ask yourself questions, not
me.
not8mihalis8boy: I am merely Buddha, He of
Infinite Wisdom.
firelight mystic: "Why am I here, instead of with my
friends?
not8mihalis8boy: You are asking me again.
not8mihalis8boy: Ask yourself.
firelight mystic: *to self* Why am I here?
not8mihalis8boy: You're still asking me.
firelight mystic: but *how* do I talk to myself?
firelight mystic: or my soul, or whatever?
not8mihalis8boy: How did you get through
previous Seekings?
firelight mystic: by following my instincts, and trusting
in myself and my thoughts.
not8mihalis8boy: Well then.
not8mihalis8boy: Quit asking me how.
not8mihalis8boy: When you can ask yourself
why.
firelight mystic: I asked to come here to help my
friends, but I can't help them if I can't communicate with
them.
firelight mystic: I'm here period because maybe I've
been digging myself into some sort of....rut
firelight mystic: I think
not8mihalis8boy: Good.
firelight mystic: I can't help them unless I can
communicate with them, which I can't do physically.
not8mihalis8boy: Why can't you communicate
with them?
firelight mystic: because something's preventing me
from getting through to them.
firelight mystic: I don't know if it's an outside force, or
me myself
not8mihalis8boy: Figure it out.
firelight mystic: This would be easier if I could use my
magick. But I can't without my necklace.
firelight mystic: Or maybe the message is I don't need
the necklace to be effective........
not8mihalis8boy: No it wouldn't.
not8mihalis8boy: (he snaps his fingers)
firelight mystic: oh
not8mihalis8boy: There. You have your magic.
Now what are you going to do with it?
not8mihalis8boy: Looking down, you see a
glowing replicant of your necklace
firelight mystic: but maybe that's my problem in the
first place--I've been relying on it too much.
not8mihalis8boy: No.
firelight mystic: I'm going to try something different.
not8mihalis8boy: That is merely a part of the
problem
firelight mystic: And the rest is what I'm supposed to
figure out.....
not8mihalis8boy: He waves his hand, and the
necklace disappears.
firelight mystic: wait---this magick storm?
not8mihalis8boy: you must figure out all.
not8mihalis8boy: No, not the storm.
not8mihalis8boy: Your problems are INTERNAL.
firelight mystic: hmmmmmmmm..............
not8mihalis8boy: Like your soul, and your mind.
not8mihalis8boy: I am here to teach you
restraint.
firelight mystic: restraint?
not8mihalis8boy: Restraint.
firelight mystic: what--of my emotions?
firelight mystic: using my magick?
not8mihalis8boy: He pulls out a twinkie. "Do
you recognize this?"
firelight mystic: Yeah. That weird guy had it.
not8mihalis8boy: No. This is a different Twinkie.
firelight mystic: ( i examine the twinkie. Try to see if
there's anything funny about it)
not8mihalis8boy: That was his Twinkie. This is
your Twinkie.
not8mihalis8boy: That is your soul.
not8mihalis8boy: You nearly drop it, you're so
startled by that exclamation.
firelight mystic: my soul?!?!
not8mihalis8boy: (statement, not exclamation)
firelight mystic: (kay)
not8mihalis8boy: Yes. You are the Twinkie.
firelight mystic: I. Am. The. Twinkie.
firelight mystic: great. I'm pseudo-food.
not8mihalis8boy: No. The meaner is deeper
than that.
firelight mystic: What's so special about a Twinkie?!
not8mihalis8boy: Nyarlathotep is an
unsaveable Twinkie. You, I hope, are not.
firelight mystic: What's wrong with the Twinkie? It's
not poisnous or anything.
firelight mystic: is it?
firelight mystic: wait--maybe I'm jumping ahead of
myself.
not8mihalis8boy: No. But that is not what a
soul should be.
firelight mystic: It should be....wholesome?
not8mihalis8boy: NO.
not8mihalis8boy: Well, yes.
firelight mystic: Wait--you're Wisdom. What should a
soul be?
not8mihalis8boy: But that is not the problem.
firelight mystic: what's the problem?
not8mihalis8boy: A soul should be BIGGER, as
well.
not8mihalis8boy: But yes, it should be more
wholesome.
firelight mystic: Are you saying I'm limiting myself?
not8mihalis8boy: Yes.
not8mihalis8boy: By being a Twinkie
firelight mystic: I could be more than a twinkie....
not8mihalis8boy: The Twinkie is the most
powerful food known to man, but it is small,
boring, and artificial.
firelight mystic: So I should explore the unknown,
break the mold?
not8mihalis8boy: (Alicia, you've never
hallucinated, have you?)
firelight mystic: (nope.)
firelight mystic: so, i could be like, a goddess or
something?
not8mihalis8boy: (damn....hmm...hang on, I
gotta figure out what a soul looks like)
firelight mystic: (oh.....)
not8mihalis8boy: NO! That is the path of the
Twinkie. So you can be human.
firelight mystic: A soul shouldn't be something so
commonplace as Twinkie?
firelight mystic: It should be exotic, unique?
firelight mystic: Anything and everything?
not8mihalis8boy: Yes, that's part of it.
not8mihalis8boy: You will notice that I am not
pulling out an example.
not8mihalis8boy: Here.
not8mihalis8boy: He pulls out two more
Twinkies.
firelight mystic: what's so special about those
Twinkies?
not8mihalis8boy: These are the souls of your
cousin and uncle.
firelight mystic: They're the same thing.
firelight mystic: Twinkies.
firelight mystic: How can their soul be the same thing
if they're so different?
not8mihalis8boy: Your friend Allison was also a
Twinkie, until an hour ago.
not8mihalis8boy: They are both Twinkies.
firelight mystic: Alli?
not8mihalis8boy: Yes.
firelight mystic: she was here?
firelight mystic: oh well.
not8mihalis8boy: Yes and no.
not8mihalis8boy: The Twinkie is a metaphor,
you see.
firelight mystic: A metaphor for what?
not8mihalis8boy: A metaphor for something
incredibly powerful, yet never happy, very
small, and completely artificial.
not8mihalis8boy: No matter how many Twinkies
you eat, you will never find them fulfilling.
firelight mystic: I don't wanna be a Twinkie.
not8mihalis8boy: You will only get a lot of
energy.
not8mihalis8boy: Good.
not8mihalis8boy: Why?
firelight mystic: What good is all the power in the
world if it gets you nothing save dissapointment with
yourself?
firelight mystic: And artificiality stinks.
firelight mystic: I'd rather be *me*
firelight mystic: and individual.
not8mihalis8boy: Who are you?
firelight mystic: I am Traci.
not8mihalis8boy: Who is Traci?
firelight mystic: I'm a unique individual.
firelight mystic: Apparently someone who's been
completely idiotic lately and screwed herself up.
firelight mystic: arrogant, perhaps.
not8mihalis8boy: Yes.
firelight mystic: so I've got to fix the problem.
not8mihalis8boy: Yes.
not8mihalis8boy: How?
firelight mystic: Maybe start by stop trying to rely so
much on my powers?
not8mihalis8boy: Good start. But the problem
is deeper than magic.
firelight mystic: Stop believing I can solve any
problem on my own.
not8mihalis8boy: Tell me: what were you like
before you were awake?
not8mihalis8boy: Do you remember?
not8mihalis8boy: Was it like....this?
not8mihalis8boy: And with that you wake up
not8mihalis8boy: Roll 1d10, tell me what you
get, and you can now spend xp on anything
but spheres.
not8mihalis8boy: What did you roll?
firelight mystic: 7
