Patron Saints/Cho Namhwa Log04

From Greenthings

10:13 Greenling Namhwa finds Mary's door.
10:13 Namhwa taps lightly. "Mary? We're about to head over to the theater and I thought you might like to come along," he says in High Realm.
10:15 Greenling You hear cursing in Seatongue.
10:15 Greenling Muffled.
10:15 Namhwa "Hello?" he says again in High Realm with another tap on the door.
10:16 Greenling "GAH!" Crash.
10:16 Greenling That was a male voice.
10:16 Namhwa tries the door and shoves on it.
10:16 Namhwa (Were there any male guests in Mary's room?)
10:17 Greenling (not last you know.)
10:17 Namhwa "Are you okay?!"
10:17 Greenling You shove it open, and see Rudy in what looks like a torn purple burial garment.
10:17 Namhwa :O
10:17 Greenling "...Oh for the love of fuck."
10:17 Namhwa stands there shocked.
10:17 Namhwa "IMPOSTOR!"
10:17 Greenling "Get in here and shut the fucking door, asshole!"
10:18 Greenling "What?"
10:18 Namhwa slams the door shut.
10:18 Greenling "Impostor of-"
10:18 Greenling (inside or outside?)
10:18 Namhwa "I don't know who you think you are, but this time you're not getting away."
10:18 Namhwa (inside)
10:18 Greenling He crosses his arms and stares at you.
10:18 Greenling "Fine."
10:18 Namhwa "First the Priest, now Rudy?"
10:19 Greenling "...What? What does Rudy have to do with this?"
10:19 Namhwa "I don't know!" he exclaims. "Why are you impersonating him?!"
10:19 Namhwa gesticulates.
10:20 Greenling The guy's mouth drops open, waves a hand around, stares at you a little, then just looks confused.
10:20 Greenling He looks up... then down... the back at you.
10:20 Greenling "Okay, this must be a quirk."
10:20 Greenling "You can see me?"
10:21 Namhwa :O
10:21 Namhwa "Yeah. You can see me, right? And Sunny?"
10:21 Namhwa gestures to Sunny.
10:22 Greenling "...Danaa'd's slimy tits. At least this means I'm not biting the spiders."
10:22 Greenling "Sit down, lemme get you a drink, this is gonna take a while."
10:22 Namhwa "You know the spiders?" Namhwa asks in awe, wondering if they're the same ones that he encountered. He sits at the little table in the corner and studies the Rudy-man carefully.
10:23 Greenling He looks at you like you're the crazy one, and takes off his garments.
10:24 Greenling (...the burial ones.)
10:24 Greenling (he has pants.)
10:24 Greenling Now that you look closer, he's... well he does look like Rudy, but he's got longer hair, and you're pretty sure Rudy doesn't have that many tattooes.
10:24 Namhwa (Sure, sure. Naked bodies aren't anything weird to someone who studied cadavers anyway)
10:24 Namhwa frowns.
10:24 Greenling (hehe.)
10:24 Namhwa "Sorry for the mistake... But where's Mary?"
10:25 Greenling "Right." He sits down and claps his hands together, looking firmly at you. "Mary doesn't exist."
10:26 Greenling "Well. Okay, technically she does sometimes."
10:26 Namhwa "What?"
10:26 Greenling "Look, it's magic, okay? What was that about the spiders?"
10:27 Greenling "I was totally not expecting to have to explain this shit to you yet."
10:27 Namhwa "The spiders, who wear in the great void? I met one. He, it, whatever fussed at me for touching its web."
10:27 Namhwa looks up to remember.
10:28 Greenling "Great void. Uh. Yeah, doesn't ring a bell, but that could mean a lot of things."
10:29 Namhwa "Well, it was like this huge textile mill that I once saw on the Blessed Isle, except it was manned by, well, at least one spider that got -very- angry and said that I messed everything up by touching threads. Have you ever been anywhere like that?"
10:30 Greenling He thinks for a moment. "And where did you, like, encounter this?"
10:30 Namhwa "Sorry if I'm rambling. What's this about Mary not existing? She was with us all.... Well, it was an extraordinarily vivid dream in a sequence. I've been having a lot of them lately."
10:31 Namhwa looks suspiciously at the man.
10:33 Greenling He taps his chin. "That web thing, yeah. I've been there. Everyone has."
10:33 Namhwa "Really?"
10:34 Namhwa stands up. "Where's that drink? This is all quite a shock."
10:34 Greenling "Yeah. It's the backbone of the world, pretty much. Giant artifact in Yu-Shan."
10:34 Greenling He drags a bottle of something bitter out of his bag and tosses it underhand at Namhwa.
10:35 Namhwa reaches out reflexively to catch it with both hands.
10:35 Greenling "Don't have too much of that if you want to wake up before noon tomorrow."
10:35 Namhwa "Wow... Backbone of the world? Where's Yu-Shan?"
10:35 Namhwa nods and pops open the bottle to take a few swallows.
10:36 Greenling "Uh, Yu-Shan, Heaven. Where the Celestial gods live?"
10:36 Namhwa (Oh, dear, he's started drinking)
10:36 Namhwa "So the Celestial gods are real?!"
10:36 Greenling "..."
10:36 Greenling "Wow."
10:37 Namhwa takes another two swallows and passes the bottle back. "What? It's not like they give a damn about us the way the City Mothers and Fathers do."
10:37 Greenling "Shit, I should've read your file better before throwing myself at this mission. That dork..." He facepalms.
10:37 Greenling "One of them gives a damn about you."
10:37 Namhwa "My file?!"
10:37 Namhwa "Really?"
10:37 Namhwa wishes he had the bottle back.
10:37 Greenling He grins. His grin is rather disturbing.
10:38 Greenling "Hehe. Yeah. That's why I was surprised when I saw you."
10:38 Namhwa "I think that might've been what the irritable arachnid was talking about." Cho glances back, wondering how much interaction this guy gets with normal people.
10:38 Greenling "When you went missing for ten months Heaven was worried."
10:38 Namhwa "What was so surprising?"
10:38 Namhwa "Missing? From Heaven?"
10:38 Namhwa "I mean, are you a Celestial god?"
10:38 Greenling "From our sight."
10:39 Greenling "Hah. No."
10:39 Greenling "But I serve one."
10:39 Namhwa looks faintly excited.
10:39 Greenling "...Five. But mostly the one."
10:39 Namhwa "Really? I served Grandmother Bright. What's it like? Why do you keep files on people?"
10:39 Greenling "And technically everything else in a sort of morally-duty-like way.
10:39 Namhwa gestures for the bottle back if the man's not going to drink any more.
10:40 Greenling "But..." handwave.
10:40 Greenling He hasn't taken any.
10:40 Namhwa "But?"
10:40 Greenling "Okay, look. This is the important part."
10:41 Namhwa "Okay."
10:41 Namhwa sits back down.
10:41 Greenling "You and Rudy and the rest of them, something weird's going on. You're not woven into that web, and that usually only happens to things like ghosts and demons and raksha."
10:41 Greenling "And this is A: Probably Bad, B: Weird, C: Really problematic for you especially."
10:42 Namhwa tries to keep up.
10:42 Namhwa "So what did I do wrong? What I can I do to fix this?"
10:43 Greenling "Since your being... well..." He switches briefly to Old Realm, which actually has tenses for this sort of thing. "You were going to be going-to-be one of what I am, and now you are and aren't."
10:43 Greenling "And you should be because you're kind of needed."
10:43 Namhwa :O
10:43 Greenling "We don't know why."
10:44 Greenling "That's... officially why I'm following you around in disguise."
10:44 Namhwa "Which part don't you know?"
10:44 Greenling "Why you're outside of Fate."
10:44 Namhwa frowns.
10:44 Namhwa "This sounds atrocious."
10:44 Greenling "We just know it happened about ten months ago."
10:44 Namhwa "I have been outside of fate for TEN MONTHS?!"
10:44 Namhwa "This is lunacy."
10:45 Greenling "Yeah."
10:45 Namhwa takes another sip from the bottle.
10:45 Greenling "About the time you went into the region around Gold's Glittering Pass."
10:45 Namhwa leans forward onto his hand.
10:45 Namhwa "And we met The Provider."
10:45 Greenling "The who?"
10:45 Greenling He narrows his eyes.
10:45 Namhwa looks at the man with a bit of shock.
10:46 Namhwa "The Provider. We stopped at an Earth Aspected Manse, I believe, and met The Provider."
10:46 Namhwa "He was the guardian of the manse, apparently."
10:46 Namhwa "White Crow set him free."
10:47 Greenling He snorts a bit. Sunny goes over and licks his hand.
10:47 Greenling "...Your dog, here."
10:47 Namhwa looks affectionately at Sunny.
10:47 Namhwa "Yes. You're... Mary, right? You said you had a black dog."
10:48 Greenling He stares at her. "Your dog's like that too, except we can't find her at all."
10:48 Namhwa :<
10:48 Greenling "Heh. You can call me Thrall when I'm not faking it."
10:48 Namhwa "Okay, Thrall. Thank you. Like what? Like me?"
10:49 Greenling "You seem to be really attached to her, but there's no record of her existence, no place she touches your thread."
10:50 Greenling "There's your wife, your family, that chick you screwed, the river dragon that attacked your boat that one time, but no golden dog."
10:51 Greenling "So, uh, 'scuse me if I'm a little curious." He's still looking at Sunny. Sunny just wags her tail and looks confused.
10:51 Namhwa looks embarrassed and disturbed.
10:51 Namhwa "She was a gift from my parents."
10:52 Namhwa "Well, I suppose she's not really property. She and I... we look out for each other. She's the only one who cares about me anymore, and can see past my mistakes. It helps that she's a good listener."
10:56 Namhwa reaches over and strokes Sunny affectionately, right around her spine where she's a little ticklish.
10:58 Greenling Sunny does the footthumpy thing.
10:58 Greenling "Heh."
10:58 Namhwa smiles.
10:59 Greenling "So, uh."
10:59 Greenling "You're not gonna mention this, right?"
10:59 Namhwa "Yeah. What can I do to help? Absolutely not! I'm... well, I am now a very discrete man."
11:00 Namhwa takes another sip from the bottle.
11:00 Namhwa (Manipulation 1, Temperance 2... The only saving grace is Socialize and Willpower)
11:00 Greenling "Heh. That's good."
11:00 Greenling "Tell me about where you were, what you did..."
11:01 Greenling "Half the reason I'm here is to fix what you're breaking. The other half is to keep you alive.
11:01 Namhwa "Okay...So, we entered the manse's... Hearthroom, I think it's called. There we met what appeared to be a small boy, but was wise beyond his years. He spoke in Old Realm."
11:02 Greenling He nods.
11:02 Namhwa "He promised not to eat us, so long as we were in Creation. He said he liked me in particular, and called himself only The Provider."
11:02 Namhwa "Let's see, what else."
11:03 Namhwa "Sunny was particularly afraid of him, which is extremely unusual."
11:04 Greenling "...He actually *said* 'eat'?"
11:05 Namhwa "Yes.
11:05 Namhwa "Well... Full protection."
11:05 Greenling Snort.
11:05 Greenling "Huh?"
11:05 Namhwa clarifies. "He said we had his full protection at the manse, and he promised never to eat any of us so long as we were in Creation."
11:06 Namhwa "He also remarked that I had full access to his library and knowledge, and that I would make a strong opponent one day. It was all very puzzling, but I wasn't about to pass up an offer like that."
11:06 Greenling (technically he said *you* had his full protection. though Namhwa may remember differently. :3)
11:06 Greenling "Strong opponent. Huh."
11:07 Greenling "So he knew what you were going to be."
11:07 Greenling "Yeah, sounds like a demon. A strange one."
11:07 Namhwa (That parsing escaped me! XD)
11:07 Greenling He flinches slightly and rubs his eyes.
11:08 Greenling (what parsing?)
11:08 Namhwa (Me with full protection, not everyone)
11:08 Namhwa "We suspected as much. He said he was..."
11:09 Namhwa "Under the Green Sun."
11:09 Greenling (ah.)
11:09 Greenling "...Greeeat."
11:10 Greenling "I don't know that guy having any little boys offhand, but I haven't exactly memorized them all yet."
11:10 Namhwa "The Provider?"
11:11 Greenling "The Green Sun."
11:11 Namhwa "Oh."
11:11 Greenling "...Was there anything else you needed at the moment?"
11:11 Namhwa shakes his head.
11:12 Namhwa "I don't think so. This is all rather mind-blowing."
11:12 Greenling "Okay. My boss needs me at the library, so that's where I'll be for the time being."
11:12 Namhwa "Okay. I'll make up some excuse for you."
11:12 Namhwa "If anyone asks, I mean."
11:12 Namhwa stands up, a little unstable.
11:12 Greenling "Thanks. If you die, or let Rudy die, while I'm gone, I'll find a way to make you reincarnate as a seaslug, got it?"
11:12 Namhwa "Are you kidding? I'm a doctor!"
11:13 Namhwa "How long are you expecting to be?"
11:13 Greenling "Yeah, and you'd make the smartest goddamn seaslug in Creation... probably an hour or two."
11:13 Namhwa :D
11:14 Namhwa "Okay, great. I expect we'll be down at the theater."
11:14 Greenling "You do that. 'Ware the Abyssal."
11:14 Namhwa "Can I find you there if an emergency... Emerges? What abyss-el?"
11:15 Greenling "Heh. Just if you see a guy with a black hole on his head, try to stay away."
11:15 Namhwa nods seriously.
11:15 Namhwa "Of course."
11:16 Greenling "Right." He stands up and extends his hand. "Cho Namhwa. Good to meet you for real, you seem like you'll make a decent co-worker, yada yada, I'm sorry you seem to be straight."
11:17 Namhwa smirks.
11:17 Namhwa "It's been a pleasure, Thrall."
11:17 Namhwa stands and shakes Thrall's hand.
11:17 Greenling "Like hell it has," he smirks back at you.