Guess who came to visit? Nicodemus comes by.
Monday, 26 May 2014 20:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
littlesilvertipThere comes a point where you’ve re-read the same stuff so many times that it’s not going to make any more sense to you. My efforts to find anywhere nearer by, and sufficiently powerful to be of interest, have fallen flat. And I haven’t convinced any mountain goats spirits to let me kill one in the realm (Not that I’ve found a lot of them). Not a lot done in the last few weeks.
On the positive side, I’ve got to spend a lot of time writing, and the even more just doing wolf stuff. It feels good. It feels right. I get too caught up in the ape nonsense sometimes. Feeling the natural rhythms of the grandmother is important to me.
I got a visit from a Chimera, asking if my offer for Tail-Eater to come by was still valid. I was a bit surprised he was going to come to our territory, doubly so since Samantha lived here, but I invited him over. I cleaned some clothes, and steam bathed before he arrived, so I wouldn’t smell so bad to human noses (what do they know, anyhow?), and I’d just finished drying and making sure Unfinished Business was far away when he came huffing and puffing his way into the valley. He might be a Jedi-Mage, but he’s not as physically fit as one!
Still, he seemed to like it up here. Appreciate the natural beauty, and the harshness of the land. He’d never seen the land before, which surprised me. I thought he would have scried the area in advance, but apparently his code of honour prevents him from doing so. He also said something about seeing people naked, if he wanted to… maybe I wasn’t as crazy as I thought… To get him off his feet for a while (he was sweating like pig), I brought him inside and made some tea. He was pretty impressed by the craftmanship we put into it, especially Hummingbird’s stonework. He was so impressed he wanted to examine it magically, which I let him. Interest effect he worked, there…
I told him how Hummingbird was one of our Incan brothers, and how my tribe came from lots of places, but I don’t know how interested he was in that. The more we talked, the more it seemed like he hadn’t come to ask about my tribe per se. He hadn’t read the book I suggested he should read (he said he had something else to read?), so he wouldn’t have been prepared anyhow. We did talk about the names of places, and so on. Instead of being worried about Unfinished Business, he seemed more worried about my sister. She probably wouldn’t have been very happy to see him there, but he was my guest, and it’s no less her territory than it is mine.
He started asking me about Karuvar, the tiger, after I told him how I got the book (more later). Very pointed questions about what I felt about him, and what I knew about the tiger people. I told him what I knew about the tiger people, and their honour, and once he started asking about whether someone invited to a tiger-house would be safe, it was pretty clear this was more than idle interest. I told him that as a mage, it would be a substantial risk for him, because it’d be impossible to know how a Khan would react. If he were a ratkin, or a lizard-person? No question. But for mages, it’s impossible to guess.
The weird thing is that Tail-Eater was invited to Karuvar’s home… and yet he didn’t know Tail-Eater was a mage. I pushed him on that point, and it slowly came out that he has a talisman that lets him change shapes into a cougar. Very interesting! Unfortunately, he doesn’t know how it works, and his Life magic is too weak to formulate a good guess. He seemed very defensive about it. I’m not sure why. Maybe he thinks I’m going to steal it or something? That’s unfortunate, if it’s true… I wouldn’t want to be a cougar anyhow. Tiger? Sure. Cougar? Uninteresting. I offered to summon a cougar so he could learn more about how to be one, but I’m not sure if he’s interested or not. I’ll revisit this soon. I think I’d like to make a trade with him, for some translation help that I’m not sure he’d be willing to…
I /could/ always hire a spirit to help me. Sapphire would know someone, I think…
He had to get back in time to have sex with Fire-Dancer, but he stayed long enough for me to show him around the lake, point out the bison, some of the buildings we made, and a few other things. I think he liked it up here. He’s definitely got a bit of charm to him, when he’s not winded.
The book. I bartered gnosis to his helper spirit in exchange for him repairing the book so I could finish it. Once he left, I sat down with it in a nice, quiet place where I could read uninterrupted. Tail-Eater suggested that the book might not have had an editor, but I’m now convinced the writer just wasn’t entirely sane. The central theme, if it can be said to have one, is that the universe is a conscious being, and as observation set reality, and we’re observers, we can choose how to make our observations, in order to influence reality.
Is the universe a conscious being? The earth is. The moon is. The sun is. But the space between them? The tapestry? I think not. I see no spirits, or anything, corresponding to them. But… the triat are conscious beings. Maybe this is what does looking in this man’s world? The weaver definitely can effect the empty space between things, making the gauntlet thicker in it. The horned serpent can chew things up, reducing them to nothing. And the wyld can make something spring into that nothing from nothing.
Can we influence reality? Change things on the tapestry in a widespread way? I think so. I can feel it when I make ripples in the tapestry using my powers. But what about the stuff this guru talks of? I don’t see a clear way to get to work things so I can shape what I get. I had to avoid slamming the book when I finished my first reading of it, because how much of a dead end it was. I feel no more close to understanding how mages work their will, or myself harnessing powers than before I read all this gibbering stupidity.
Sleep. Sleep is what I need. It’ll make me less upset.
On the positive side, I’ve got to spend a lot of time writing, and the even more just doing wolf stuff. It feels good. It feels right. I get too caught up in the ape nonsense sometimes. Feeling the natural rhythms of the grandmother is important to me.
I got a visit from a Chimera, asking if my offer for Tail-Eater to come by was still valid. I was a bit surprised he was going to come to our territory, doubly so since Samantha lived here, but I invited him over. I cleaned some clothes, and steam bathed before he arrived, so I wouldn’t smell so bad to human noses (what do they know, anyhow?), and I’d just finished drying and making sure Unfinished Business was far away when he came huffing and puffing his way into the valley. He might be a Jedi-Mage, but he’s not as physically fit as one!
Still, he seemed to like it up here. Appreciate the natural beauty, and the harshness of the land. He’d never seen the land before, which surprised me. I thought he would have scried the area in advance, but apparently his code of honour prevents him from doing so. He also said something about seeing people naked, if he wanted to… maybe I wasn’t as crazy as I thought… To get him off his feet for a while (he was sweating like pig), I brought him inside and made some tea. He was pretty impressed by the craftmanship we put into it, especially Hummingbird’s stonework. He was so impressed he wanted to examine it magically, which I let him. Interest effect he worked, there…
I told him how Hummingbird was one of our Incan brothers, and how my tribe came from lots of places, but I don’t know how interested he was in that. The more we talked, the more it seemed like he hadn’t come to ask about my tribe per se. He hadn’t read the book I suggested he should read (he said he had something else to read?), so he wouldn’t have been prepared anyhow. We did talk about the names of places, and so on. Instead of being worried about Unfinished Business, he seemed more worried about my sister. She probably wouldn’t have been very happy to see him there, but he was my guest, and it’s no less her territory than it is mine.
He started asking me about Karuvar, the tiger, after I told him how I got the book (more later). Very pointed questions about what I felt about him, and what I knew about the tiger people. I told him what I knew about the tiger people, and their honour, and once he started asking about whether someone invited to a tiger-house would be safe, it was pretty clear this was more than idle interest. I told him that as a mage, it would be a substantial risk for him, because it’d be impossible to know how a Khan would react. If he were a ratkin, or a lizard-person? No question. But for mages, it’s impossible to guess.
The weird thing is that Tail-Eater was invited to Karuvar’s home… and yet he didn’t know Tail-Eater was a mage. I pushed him on that point, and it slowly came out that he has a talisman that lets him change shapes into a cougar. Very interesting! Unfortunately, he doesn’t know how it works, and his Life magic is too weak to formulate a good guess. He seemed very defensive about it. I’m not sure why. Maybe he thinks I’m going to steal it or something? That’s unfortunate, if it’s true… I wouldn’t want to be a cougar anyhow. Tiger? Sure. Cougar? Uninteresting. I offered to summon a cougar so he could learn more about how to be one, but I’m not sure if he’s interested or not. I’ll revisit this soon. I think I’d like to make a trade with him, for some translation help that I’m not sure he’d be willing to…
I /could/ always hire a spirit to help me. Sapphire would know someone, I think…
He had to get back in time to have sex with Fire-Dancer, but he stayed long enough for me to show him around the lake, point out the bison, some of the buildings we made, and a few other things. I think he liked it up here. He’s definitely got a bit of charm to him, when he’s not winded.
The book. I bartered gnosis to his helper spirit in exchange for him repairing the book so I could finish it. Once he left, I sat down with it in a nice, quiet place where I could read uninterrupted. Tail-Eater suggested that the book might not have had an editor, but I’m now convinced the writer just wasn’t entirely sane. The central theme, if it can be said to have one, is that the universe is a conscious being, and as observation set reality, and we’re observers, we can choose how to make our observations, in order to influence reality.
Is the universe a conscious being? The earth is. The moon is. The sun is. But the space between them? The tapestry? I think not. I see no spirits, or anything, corresponding to them. But… the triat are conscious beings. Maybe this is what does looking in this man’s world? The weaver definitely can effect the empty space between things, making the gauntlet thicker in it. The horned serpent can chew things up, reducing them to nothing. And the wyld can make something spring into that nothing from nothing.
Can we influence reality? Change things on the tapestry in a widespread way? I think so. I can feel it when I make ripples in the tapestry using my powers. But what about the stuff this guru talks of? I don’t see a clear way to get to work things so I can shape what I get. I had to avoid slamming the book when I finished my first reading of it, because how much of a dead end it was. I feel no more close to understanding how mages work their will, or myself harnessing powers than before I read all this gibbering stupidity.
Sleep. Sleep is what I need. It’ll make me less upset.
