Patron Saints/Cho Namhwa Log03

From Greenthings

04:25 Greenling Namhwa falls asleep.
04:26 Greenling Sunny is at his feet, dogsnoring.
04:27 Namhwa stretches and rolls to lay on his side.
04:28 Greenling As you slowly wind down until full unconsciousness, that feeling of being seperated from the world around you becomes clearer. It's been in the back of your mind since you came out of that Manse, perhap noticable, perhaps not.
04:29 Greenling You slip down into an empty void.
04:30 Namhwa (How strange!)
04:31 Greenling You do sense your companions around you- Peyt, Crow, Rudy, Zhubin, Sunny- and a bit fainter and further away, Little Tyrant, the camels, and Rei.
04:31 Greenling You seem to be standing. Those and yourself are your only markers.
04:32 Namhwa , unharmed by his detachment as of yet, lets go of whatever is anchoring him.
04:32 Namhwa (hopefully he doesn't go mad :-s)
04:32 Greenling It seems to be something inside you, tied into you.
04:33 Greenling When you focus on it, you realize- it's freaking out a little, not being attached to anything but you and these others.
04:33 Namhwa walks around to inspect the Sleepers. What's different? Why am I the only one awake?
04:34 Greenling Who do you inspect first?
04:34 Greenling Or in what order, roughly?
04:35 Namhwa Clockwise, starting from the left.
04:35 Namhwa That could be Rudeth, or someone else.
04:36 Greenling Rudy. Rudy... is off somewhere inside himself. He seems to have something kinda like that, but it's asleep, and so he's asleep, too.
04:36 Greenling Peyt, Zhubin, and Crow... can't tell.
04:37 Greenling The animals and Rei just seem to be inherently faint.
04:37 Greenling And Sunny...
04:37 Namhwa This can't be right...
04:37 Greenling There's something vaguely wrong with her.
04:37 Namhwa quickly goes to kneel by Sunny.
04:38 Namhwa "Are you okay, girl?"
04:38 Greenling Whatever it is happened a long time ago, but she's seperated now, just like you are. And something else you get the feeling you could know, but you don't.
04:38 Greenling Zzzz.
04:39 Namhwa runs his hands through Sunny's fur, along her jaw and ears, searching for anything wrong.
04:39 Namhwa (If I can burn willpower on something to do with Sunny, then I will)
04:39 Greenling Sunny yawwwns...
04:39 Greenling And you're someplace else.
04:40 Namhwa looks up, surveying what used to be the empty void.
04:40 Greenling You're sitting in what seems to be an incredibly fancy carriage with several people.
04:40 Namhwa looks around, a bit disturbed.
04:41 Greenling You look like that guy you looked like before- and there's that other guy you remember- a young man, maybe 15, wearing moonsilver- and a blonde woman.
04:42 Namhwa just opens his mouth in a small "o" of surprise.
04:42 Greenling The latter is looking at you expectantly.
04:42 Greenling "You done yet?"
04:43 Namhwa "Of course," Namhwa responds confidently, then recedes behind the social mask that he's built up over the years when someone surprises him. WTF?
04:45 Namhwa observes the blonde woman carefully, trying to catch snippets of details as he turns his head toward her window.
04:47 Greenling She laughs.
04:48 Namhwa continues looking out the window, unsure if it's at him or with him.
04:48 Greenling She's pretty, Northern...
04:49 Greenling The young man looks at you. "So what's this thing we're gonna be talking to like?"
04:49 Namhwa arranges an indulgent smile then turns his face back to hers.
04:50 Namhwa "Indulge me, please, with what your expectations are," he replies to the young man.
04:50 Greenling She seems confident, and very familiar for no reason you can put your finger on.
04:51 Greenling He frowns. "Always with the leading questions."
04:52 Greenling "I *expect* we're gonna go find this thing and it's not gonna explain anything to us and we're gonna have to kill it, but I trust Glass, so I guess I have to trust you people."
04:52 Namhwa smiles as though self-righteously pleased. "Well, there's no sense in you knowing anything if I'll always be there for you."
04:53 Greenling The boy squints at you for a minute.
04:53 Greenling "Are you flirting with me?"
04:53 Namhwa "I'm sure it will listen to reason. Everything has principals and values, you see," Namhwa says, finally gaining enough of a toehold to spout some BS. "Once you can empathize with a being's values, you can communicate with it effectively and... No!" Namhwa replies in a rush.
04:53 Greenling The woman snerks. The man next to him facepalms.
04:54 Namhwa "I was being sarcastic, young man," he replies a bit shakily.
04:54 Greenling The woman pats you on the shoulder.
04:55 Namhwa looks back toward the woman. What the hell is going on?
04:55 Namhwa ponders the itch and detachment, and tries to bring it forth. Perhaps some alien presence is inhabiting or "riding" him.
04:55 Greenling "What my awkward fellow here is trying to say is, if you can anticipate your opponent well enough, you can make them do anything. Even make a raksha spit up info on something a demon said."
04:56 Namhwa nods.
04:56 Greenling "Just-" You bring forth that detachment, and things seem to fuzz around you. "-we're trustin-"
04:57 Namhwa tries to concentrate on pushing the presence to the surface and discover its nature. He tries to keep his face impassive, but it's difficult.
04:57 Greenling The black void seems to overlay your vision, and between the two, a million dead fragments of long metal threads...
04:58 Namhwa (Huh)
04:58 Namhwa peers at the threads.
04:59 Greenling They twitch when you look at them. Far in the distance, new ones gleam. Behind you... you hear crunching.
04:59 Namhwa turns to look behind him, away from the void.
05:02 Greenling There is a giant... thing. A machine of some sort, vast and powerful, sucking up these bits.
05:02 Greenling The rest of your vision sputters and dies.
05:02 Namhwa turns to look back the gleaming threads... Too late.
05:03 Greenling You see another giant spider look at you with its beady eyes. Its jaws click, and it moves towards you.
05:03 Namhwa readies himself for the spider.
05:03 Namhwa "Stay back!" he warns in Old Realm.
05:04 Greenling It's spinning some vile green substance out of its backside. It clicks angrily at you in what sounds vaguely like a language, but not one you know.
05:04 Greenling It continues moving towards you.
05:04 Namhwa sets his stance in grim determination. "What do you want?" he asks in High Realm.
05:04 Namhwa (Oh, dear)
05:05 Greenling It click-clicks.
05:06 Greenling Click click, pause. Click click. "You are a flaw," in Old Realm.
05:06 Namhwa waits until it's just out of arm's reach...
05:06 Greenling "Hold still."
05:06 Namhwa "No!"
05:06 Greenling It moves closer.
05:06 Namhwa side-steps quickly and throws a jab at it's eyes with his right hand.
05:07 Namhwa "You broken piece of artifice are mistaken. I'm just... not in the right place," he says in Old Realm, keeping his distance.
05:08 Greenling CLICKclickclickclick!
05:08 Greenling It barely dodges your jab.
05:08 Greenling Hisssssssss.
05:08 Namhwa steps back, fists up, and looks for an escape.
05:08 Greenling You have what looks like an entire three-dimensional landscape.
05:09 Namhwa considers his options for a moment, then tells the creature, "I'll just leave, then..."
05:10 Greenling It starts to lunge at you.
05:10 Greenling It seems much slower than you, though, as it has to climb around the threads and you can ignore them.
05:11 Namhwa throws his hands out to catch a thread, swing around it in a motion to fling himself past and above the spider.
05:11 Greenling You grab a thread and tug on it, flinging yourself thus.
05:11 Greenling It squeals. "You're going to have to fix that!"
05:12 Namhwa "What do you mean, flaw?" Namhwa asks as he flies past. He grabs another thread, then uses it to propel himself behind the creature so he can try to ride it.
05:13 Namhwa focuses on the spider. What's it made out of? What Direction is it from?
05:14 Greenling It's a huge brown spider made out of... it looks like it's made of whatever normal spiders are made of. You've never seen one quite this big, though, or shaped like this, or that spins threads made out of... whatever that is.
05:15 Greenling You land behind it.
05:15 Greenling "Fix it! You hooligan! I will not answer to you acting like this!"
05:15 Greenling ...The threads you've tugged on do seem to have moved somewhat.
05:16 Namhwa "Oh, so you're ready to be civil now? I'll fix it, if you'll show me how." Namhwa backs up quickly from the spider.
05:16 Greenling "I was being civil before! You are flawed!"
05:17 Greenling "..." It glares angrily.
05:17 Greenling "You have no idea what you are doing, do you. You should not be here."
05:17 Greenling It clicks its mandibles pensively.
05:17 Namhwa "What do you mean, flawed? I've always been like this, and no one's had a problem with it before." Namhwa side-steps around a few threads, and tries to tweak one above him back to where he thinks it should be.
05:17 Greenling "Gah! Not there! No!"
05:18 Namhwa eeks and tugs it back to where it wa.
05:18 Namhwa *was
05:18 Greenling "Gahh! Stop that!:
05:18 Greenling "You're doing it wrong!"
05:18 Namhwa lets go and looks a bit ashamed.
05:18 Greenling It skitters over to the thread and starts doing things to it.
05:18 Greenling It looks up at you.
05:18 Greenling . . . ...
05:18 Namhwa "Well, I'm sorry for messing up your web.
05:18 Namhwa "
05:18 Namhwa watches pensively, then returns the spider's look.
05:19 Greenling You didn't know a spider was capable of looking anywhere near that surprised.
05:19 Greenling "What did you just say?"
05:19 Namhwa "I said I apologize for disturbing your work. I never meant to be here in the first place, and since my presence has caused you so much distress, I'd like to make amends in whatever way you deem most fair."
05:20 Namhwa looks sorry, too.
05:20 Greenling It stares at you for a moment, as if wondering if there's some kind of catch.
05:20 Greenling "Huh."
05:20 Namhwa "Obviously my web-craft isn't nearly on par with yours, Master Weaver, but I'm a healer renowned along the Southern Threshold." Which is true, to an extent.
05:21 Namhwa looks up at the web and thinks.
05:21 Greenling "Right, whatever. Look. You obviously can't fix it right now. You don't even know how badly you screwed up or why you're here."
05:21 Namhwa nods.
05:21 Namhwa "Absolutely right, Master Weaver."
05:22 Namhwa "Sorry about swinging at you earlier, by the way. You must admit that you can look quite frightening," he says with a light tone and a wink.
05:22 Greenling "So, I'm going to make my life easier by fixing that. And then you owe me a small favor."
05:23 Namhwa frowns.
05:23 Greenling "Hey, you'll appreciate it! You've been dicking around for so long they're about to give up on you."
05:23 Greenling You had no idea Old Realm even used that expression.
05:23 Namhwa looks shocked!
05:24 Namhwa "Give up on me? Who? What I have I been dickering about doing?"
05:24 Namhwa doesn't quite repeat the expression properly.
05:24 Greenling "I think they'll get annoyed at me if I tell you. Stupid meddling Exalts..."
05:24 Namhwa peers.
05:25 Greenling "Just keep that humility. That's the favor. And I'll use what you've just fucked up to make things quicker so they don't decide to play around in your life too much. Okay?"
05:25 Namhwa bows deeply.
05:25 Namhwa "As you wish, Master Weaver. Your aide will abide wherever you wish him to wait."
05:25 Greenling The spider also bows. "And don't go meddling around with the threads without Essence ever again. This is going to take *ages*."
05:26 Namhwa is completely confused, but nods humbly.
05:26 Greenling "Now stand still. I'm going to send you back to your body."
05:26 Namhwa "What could threads have to do with Essence...?" he asks idly.
05:26 Greenling It walks over to you and slowly extends one of its front legs.
05:26 Namhwa holds himself still.
05:26 Greenling Then, it pokes you in the chest lightly.
05:27 Greenling You wake up. It's morning.