Hey. Sorry about my… whatever you want to call it, back there. Pretty embarrassing for someone who’s supposed to have model eidesis. Though I guess they don’t call it the Truth That Burns for nothing, and thoughtstorms happen in Samudra anyway. We saw that fact all too well.
Now that I’m past the initial shock of it, I just want to know more. What’s it like to be an Angel?
No worries, figured it was bound to hit at least one of you hard, and was why I wanted to do it after we we’d be clear of Samudra for a bit of time. And with a bit of a break to digest it.
Anyway it’s not… usually too much different from just being a person with a particular strong sense of will/drive. Things here are a bit Weird. Though if we’re talking more long term, like in my case… I guess you could think it it as being close to a traveling performer in an acting troupe? Or, uh, a fugitive on the run or spy I guess would also be an apt comparison. You travel a lot, you become someone new in each place you visit, and never stay overly long before packing up and moving again.
That sounds exciting, but maybe a little lonely, too. Is there anyone you miss being, or anyone from a story you used to be in that you wish you could talk to again? I don’t know how much of this is me or how much this is my Angel talking, if there’s even really a difference, but I think I’d miss Caion in any world.
It’s not all bad, really. That’s why I used the troupe comparison initially - there’s a group of us that travel around together, who are a bit more meta aware of some of the oddness of reality - which we refer to as the Caravan. Not that you’re likely to meet her, but if you do don’t tell her I said this - but I’d probably miss Evelyn the most if she wasn’t with us. We joined up with the Caravan at around the same time though so I’ve never had much reason to miss her.
(ps I didn’t look at the message itself either way, but I don’t think NIP can see the contents of the BBS? Not 100% but that’s what my gut’s telling me.)
Good to know about NIP. Figured it was worth a shot, and there’s nothing there I can’t say elsewhere. NIP’s most likely a function of the story rather than an Angel, then?
The Caravan sounds nice, I like that name for it. It’s good to be able to keep some people close long-term. Is your world much like ours?
Definitely.
And yeah, it probably would kind of suck without them.
My original world was… much different. A large central city - Queenstown will probably be the closest comparison, since it’s way bigger than any Almachadta settlements - surrounding on all sides by endless grassland expanses. But as we explored it we’d fine objects of importance, or sentimental value, or things we just decided we Super Cool, and could infuse them with a type of power I don’t have an easy way of explaining, and then use those to create entire new - not even places, but regions - next door to Oberon (the name of the city).
We didn’t have gnosis either, and instead eight different types of spirits could be evoked to perform magic. Sometimes innately, sometimes directly, sometimes something in between. No Rite preventing random acts of violence either, or separate planes.
Opening new regions… does that power have anything to do with your ability to open KGPs in this story? I’ve been curious, what exactly goes into a KGP as opposed to a Strange Path?
I’m gunna be honest: I do not actually understand a lot of things I do on a fundamental level, and tend to work largely based on intuition and instinct, especially because my strongest elemental affinity was also the most, uh, hard to explain I suppose.
I don’t know if they’re strictly related, the KGP could just be a Really Good Portal in some technical sense. But I was thinking about the tools used to open new regions when I made the initial one, and going through the same motions to perform the ritual to do so when I formed it. So… if I had to guess, it probably is. And I suspect that’s why we arrive in the ziggurat in the void, rather than directly connecting to another target plane (which is, i’ve given to understand, how the Gates Tasna et el uses work) / that the other five of you are technically capable of forming them as well, once we’ve made contact with a gate out of the world to borrow the coordinate from.