to: all; a warning

[princessvegas]

Hey, so I'm assuming at least some of y'all found that sparkler thing in your domain? If you haven't already, maybe..... don't touch it? Like at all. Except to bury it or throw it in a trash compactor or something.

Also probably do a quick sweep around your domains and check for anything else weird or out of place or creepy. Or with the Fool arcana. Just a thought.






Selfies might be a bad idea right now too.

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[thoughts]

it is my sign but i don't have a domain. does that mean i'll be okay?

[princessvegas]

Well, then you didn't get one of the sparklers, probably. Or if you did, I don't know where it would be. Why don't you have a domain? Has no one brought you to the Horizon? Are you new? Where are you?

[thoughts]

i've been in thorne for 118 days. istredd has taken me a couple of times but it's hard to get there. i'm not very good at meditating. it's too loud.

[princessvegas]

My head is loud too.

[ Now, thanks to the Singularity itself. When she first got here, Julie was dragged out of death itself, from the chaos of New Vegas, from nearly a year of struggling to survive as humanity's few remaining dregs slowly self-destructed. She was thrown in the dungeon, escaped on horseback still in rags. Drowning in what she couldn't recognize as the immense atmospheric magic of Abraxas, after a life in which no such thing existed. But the Horizon was the only place in the universe that made any sense to her, even when she couldn't remember anything — so she quickly trained herself to make the whole world go away so she could live there as much as possible. ]

Is there any music you like? Like the kind that just sort of swallows you up when you hear it?

[thoughts]

[ it's nice, having people here that get it without her having to explain. the freedom to build a world different from the one around you has a certain appeal to someone that's used to being held in a cage. it's frustrating that she can't get there yet. ]

i don't really know. haven't listened to music in a long time. i used to like ballet when i was younger. gotta find your feet and follow the flow of the music.

[princessvegas]

Don't they have music over there? I thought Jaskier was teaching Mat how to play...

Anyway. Do you remember what it felt like to follow the flow? When you stopped thinking and your body just took over? It's like that. When you close your eyes, remember the feeling of not thinking about it. And any time anything does come into your mind, you just say NO and tell it go away. You don't need to listen to that thing. Your body already knows the steps on its own. Muscle memory. All that you need to hear is the music.

You can do it with the meditation too. Follow the flow, turn all the rest of your mind off. All you have to do is breathe and hear and let yourself get carried away. Sometimes I imagine floating down a lazy river on my back. I don't have to swim or worry where I am, I can just float.

[thoughts]

it makes sense in theory, but it was easier back then. my eyes were closed and the world was quieter. i can't turn it off now. they cut the wires. the speakers are giving feedback and the audience is on the stage. istredd and yennefer are trying to help but i can't make everyone else stop thinking.

[princessvegas]

[ Quickly, Julie locks her thoughts as the names come through her vision. Her goal is not to let her personal feelings translate through this method of communication. ]

Do you always hear everything everyone thinks?

[thoughts]

[ a few minutes pass before she responds. no one has outright told her not to tell people this but she's tried not to let the abraxas authorities find out. other summoned should be okay, right? ]

not everything and not everyone. but yes.

[princessvegas]

[ Little does she know, she is talking to Abraxas's resident queen of "not telling people things because the natives might find out". ]

And you can't turn it off?


I would never, ever suggest this normally, but maybe ask if you can sit in the dungeon? It's warded against all magic, but... it can even make people's normal powers stop. Like the ones that are a part of them. Maybe it can make it quiet for you, just to practice.

If you do, take someone you trust, to protect you down there. Don't trust the guards or any other natives.

[thoughts]

not the best field trip to go on

[ the way she might look at it as a seventeen year old girl that thought she was going to an academy for gifted children. now she's studying magic in another universe, far away from anyone that knew her, with no one controlling what she can do with her day. ]

i don't trust them. i won't go back in the cage. when i got here, i was wearing blinders. for just a few days, everything was silent, and i

[ was foolish enough to hope it would last. it is her sign, after all. ]

i can't do that again. i want to see the horizon but i'll look for a different path.

[princessvegas]

[ Mm, well, Julie's given her the extent of her ideas. In fact, she's offered more than she usually ever bothers, and frankly, she doesn't feel much motivation to help people who aren't willing to go to extremes to change their circumstances. To save herself the first time, Julie walked across whole states. The second time, she allowed someone to enter her very mind and attempt the fix.

She can't solve problems for someone who won't sit in a dungeon for an hour to test theories. It must not be that dire of a situation. ]

Well, good luck with that. See you around if you ever figure it out.

[thoughts]

i'll work hard and do my best. thank you for the notes and the warning.


谢谢