Silvertip sends the day in panicked desperation..
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littlesilvertipIt’s a grimoire. Earth Whisperer had a grimoire buried all this time, and didn’t even realize it. I can’t blame him, I guess. He doesn’t have background to appreciate what it is. Hell, I barely do. It’s full of discussions of bodily processes, and how their function can be improved, harmed, and so on. It’s got a primer on terminology. It’s got reference material. This is some poor Verbena’s personal book, likely used in his learning process. This could be big. This could be huge. This could be the thing that that helps me be back with Nova again. I can’t be back with her unless I’m a man again. This is the first glimmer of anything useful I’ve seen in ages. But Earth Whisperer offered it to the totem as chiminage. Sapphire is going to take it and disappear it to… wherever it is that spirits keep their things like this. I’m never going to see it again.
Except… except Earth Whisperer offered the totem ‘a mage thing.’ Nothing specific. As long as I give Sapphire something of equal value of what he thought he offered her (and the value of what she accepted), she won’t mind. He offers her ‘a hundred dollars’ of Chiminage, she gets ‘a hundred dollars’ of chiminage. Right? She still gets good chiminage. I get my manparts back, finish marrying Nova, have a ton of kids with a great bloodline, and get to raise them as good Yuk.
Just a few steps between here and there
First plan was to get Tail-Eater to duplicate the book. No time to wait for spirits to deliver messages or any of that stuff. I ran there in person, and howled for him. He was outside and seemed… annoyed. I didn’t give him advanced notice, yeah, but didn’t he tell me to howl, and he’d shoot a gun in the air if it was okay? I wasn’t being as polite as I wanted, but I didn’t think following his instructions would make me rude… Something to remember for the future.
I explained the general details - Earth Whisperer, a dead mage, and a buried grimoire. And, something I was about to lose to Sapphire, by the end of the night. He was concerned it belonged to a mage he knew, and I told him I didn’t know; Tail-Eater seemed satisfied it wasn’t his friend’s handwriting, though. He agreed to copy it, and started to pull out parts to do it. Everything was great until he started telling me he’d let me borrow the copy. Wait, what? No, not what I was asking, I said. I wanted to make a copy to give to the spirit. I wanted to keep the book, fix myself, start seeing Nova again.
Not going to work, Tail-Eater said. He wasn’t going to turn over a book like this to me, so I could harm other mages in the future. I didn’t point out that I hadn’t harmed any mages, good types or bad times, but I wanted to. But I could see his worry. For a moment, I was worried he’d claim the book for his own, but he didn’t. I get his position, though. To him, I’m a violent monster, and part of a race of violent monsters. Thanks, wyrmcomers, for the impergium. Now no apes trust us. I told him I didn’t hold it against him. Even the book is associated with killing. Maybe one day I can get him to trust me more, so he sees Uktena are not like the whites.
But today, that left me in a really bad problem. What to do about Sapphire. I didn’t want this… this first hope I’ve had in half a year slip away. That left me with one good plan: buy the ray gun off of Memory, and give that instead. I wanted to buy it anyhow, but I wanted to buy it to keep it. Now I need to buy it to give it away. Tail-Eater and I talked a bit more, but to be honest, I didn’t really hear him. I started thinking about what I could offer Memory today. He offered me a ride to the scab, and I accepted. Questing Stone helped me find her fast enough.
When I went in, I think I made a big mistake. I went in, and I told her I wanted to buy the ray gun. And I told her I’d give her a great deal. She wanted to know why; I told her it was to give to a Spirit. She quickly started poking around, wondering what we had offered the spirit before. I laid out what we had to offer her, and she poked around more. It didn’t help I was distracted, talking to my packmates over our empathic link about what we could give her. Jewels, wyrm artifacts, the fixed up book on energies, the large amount of tass I had left over… Earth Whisperer even asked if there was something he could steal that she’d want. I offered for him to steal things for her.
I made a mistake. I told her why. Why I wanted it. She demanded a massive price. Tons of information. Hell, I’m surprised she didn’t ask for my fetish, while she was at it (Maybe she would have, if she knew I had it.) I told her that she was asking for a lot. She started trying to up sell me, telling me that the ray gun wasn’t even that interesting, and that she had something better. Earth Whisperer suggested I make it more clear what this meant to me, so I did: I poured myself out. I told her how being with Nova again would mean so much to me, how much being with her would be important.
She became more mercenary. ‘Not this time’ and ‘Where’s that good deal you offered?’ She was ready to take advantage of me.
She can rot in erebus.
I got her to agree to just the mage mandala. I would have willingly given her more, including a chunk of the gems that Earth Whisperer offered up, but at that point, I wasn’t negotiating with a friend. It was business. I couldn’t wait to get out, and breath some outside air. How could she do that? After I forgave her. Tail-Eater saw something was wrong, but I told him I didn’t want to talk about it. I think I didn’t cry. I probably didn’t.
Fucking Ravens.
Heading back to go turn the ray gun over, I ran into a ruckus near the Burial Mounds. I went on over to check it out, and there was that muscle brain Get from years back. The one who couldn’t remember anything. She was doing some rite of some sort to honour the dead, She didn’t recognize me (I hate going through this), and she didn’t quite entirely believe me. I had to show her, hey, look, I’m definitely female! Notice the female parts? Geeze, Get. Eventually, she got the point.
She started going on about an old wound she got across the ocean. I knew she had bad memory, but apparently she has some sort of battle scar that’s slowly swallowing her mind, and she asked for help with it. I told her that I heard of things like that before (infectious ideas, spirit possession, diseases from birth, alcohol poisoning…), but I needed more details. She told of how she fought a corrupted bear on a hunt, that sniffed out her using mind-speak (an interesting power; Black Bear?). It used a power that tore through her mind, and killed the others. She went on with more and more details, and suddenly I was thinking… what the hell am I doing? I have so many things to do. Asshole Ravens to deal with, my body to restore, chiminage to finish, studies to conduct, I need to learn more about being a female, if I’m stuck this way, and I have a haunting to investigate, and… all this, and I’m a warrior! Not even a Medicine Worker!
I told her that. I told her I had too much going on to save some stupid Get of Fenris from something that her own tribe’s Medicine Workers gave up on anyhow. I have too much to do. I don’t even have time for myself, now. Researching this problem would take weeks, at a minimum. Then she started going ‘oh, I didn’t ask you to do anything.’ Fenrir. Ugh. But she did it in such an unsubmissive manner. In a way that just… pissed me off. I stared her down, and I stared her down until she submitted. I asserted my dominance over her, and made sure she damn well knew I was dominant to her, and then I left to the east.
Sapphire. Sapphire was, as always, lurking not too far off. I dedicated the ray gun, and took it over. It took some explanation - She was still getting chiminage, just not what Earth Whisperer had originally offered, because Earth Whisperer didn’t realize I needed it. Here was something of equal value to what Earth Whisperer offered. I threw in some gnosis, just to keep her happy. Eventually, she accepted the logic, but told me I needed to whisper some of the more interesting things from the book to her, later. There went the ray gun, off to wherever it is that Spirits keep chiminages. Uktena’s realm? Probably. I lugged myself back here to the realm, exhausted, to try to begin reading through this book in detail for the secretes to changing my sex again, but I fell asleep after a bit. Instead of dreaming of flux, I dreamt of greedy Ravens.
Except… except Earth Whisperer offered the totem ‘a mage thing.’ Nothing specific. As long as I give Sapphire something of equal value of what he thought he offered her (and the value of what she accepted), she won’t mind. He offers her ‘a hundred dollars’ of Chiminage, she gets ‘a hundred dollars’ of chiminage. Right? She still gets good chiminage. I get my manparts back, finish marrying Nova, have a ton of kids with a great bloodline, and get to raise them as good Yuk.
Just a few steps between here and there
First plan was to get Tail-Eater to duplicate the book. No time to wait for spirits to deliver messages or any of that stuff. I ran there in person, and howled for him. He was outside and seemed… annoyed. I didn’t give him advanced notice, yeah, but didn’t he tell me to howl, and he’d shoot a gun in the air if it was okay? I wasn’t being as polite as I wanted, but I didn’t think following his instructions would make me rude… Something to remember for the future.
I explained the general details - Earth Whisperer, a dead mage, and a buried grimoire. And, something I was about to lose to Sapphire, by the end of the night. He was concerned it belonged to a mage he knew, and I told him I didn’t know; Tail-Eater seemed satisfied it wasn’t his friend’s handwriting, though. He agreed to copy it, and started to pull out parts to do it. Everything was great until he started telling me he’d let me borrow the copy. Wait, what? No, not what I was asking, I said. I wanted to make a copy to give to the spirit. I wanted to keep the book, fix myself, start seeing Nova again.
Not going to work, Tail-Eater said. He wasn’t going to turn over a book like this to me, so I could harm other mages in the future. I didn’t point out that I hadn’t harmed any mages, good types or bad times, but I wanted to. But I could see his worry. For a moment, I was worried he’d claim the book for his own, but he didn’t. I get his position, though. To him, I’m a violent monster, and part of a race of violent monsters. Thanks, wyrmcomers, for the impergium. Now no apes trust us. I told him I didn’t hold it against him. Even the book is associated with killing. Maybe one day I can get him to trust me more, so he sees Uktena are not like the whites.
But today, that left me in a really bad problem. What to do about Sapphire. I didn’t want this… this first hope I’ve had in half a year slip away. That left me with one good plan: buy the ray gun off of Memory, and give that instead. I wanted to buy it anyhow, but I wanted to buy it to keep it. Now I need to buy it to give it away. Tail-Eater and I talked a bit more, but to be honest, I didn’t really hear him. I started thinking about what I could offer Memory today. He offered me a ride to the scab, and I accepted. Questing Stone helped me find her fast enough.
When I went in, I think I made a big mistake. I went in, and I told her I wanted to buy the ray gun. And I told her I’d give her a great deal. She wanted to know why; I told her it was to give to a Spirit. She quickly started poking around, wondering what we had offered the spirit before. I laid out what we had to offer her, and she poked around more. It didn’t help I was distracted, talking to my packmates over our empathic link about what we could give her. Jewels, wyrm artifacts, the fixed up book on energies, the large amount of tass I had left over… Earth Whisperer even asked if there was something he could steal that she’d want. I offered for him to steal things for her.
I made a mistake. I told her why. Why I wanted it. She demanded a massive price. Tons of information. Hell, I’m surprised she didn’t ask for my fetish, while she was at it (Maybe she would have, if she knew I had it.) I told her that she was asking for a lot. She started trying to up sell me, telling me that the ray gun wasn’t even that interesting, and that she had something better. Earth Whisperer suggested I make it more clear what this meant to me, so I did: I poured myself out. I told her how being with Nova again would mean so much to me, how much being with her would be important.
She became more mercenary. ‘Not this time’ and ‘Where’s that good deal you offered?’ She was ready to take advantage of me.
She can rot in erebus.
I got her to agree to just the mage mandala. I would have willingly given her more, including a chunk of the gems that Earth Whisperer offered up, but at that point, I wasn’t negotiating with a friend. It was business. I couldn’t wait to get out, and breath some outside air. How could she do that? After I forgave her. Tail-Eater saw something was wrong, but I told him I didn’t want to talk about it. I think I didn’t cry. I probably didn’t.
Fucking Ravens.
Heading back to go turn the ray gun over, I ran into a ruckus near the Burial Mounds. I went on over to check it out, and there was that muscle brain Get from years back. The one who couldn’t remember anything. She was doing some rite of some sort to honour the dead, She didn’t recognize me (I hate going through this), and she didn’t quite entirely believe me. I had to show her, hey, look, I’m definitely female! Notice the female parts? Geeze, Get. Eventually, she got the point.
She started going on about an old wound she got across the ocean. I knew she had bad memory, but apparently she has some sort of battle scar that’s slowly swallowing her mind, and she asked for help with it. I told her that I heard of things like that before (infectious ideas, spirit possession, diseases from birth, alcohol poisoning…), but I needed more details. She told of how she fought a corrupted bear on a hunt, that sniffed out her using mind-speak (an interesting power; Black Bear?). It used a power that tore through her mind, and killed the others. She went on with more and more details, and suddenly I was thinking… what the hell am I doing? I have so many things to do. Asshole Ravens to deal with, my body to restore, chiminage to finish, studies to conduct, I need to learn more about being a female, if I’m stuck this way, and I have a haunting to investigate, and… all this, and I’m a warrior! Not even a Medicine Worker!
I told her that. I told her I had too much going on to save some stupid Get of Fenris from something that her own tribe’s Medicine Workers gave up on anyhow. I have too much to do. I don’t even have time for myself, now. Researching this problem would take weeks, at a minimum. Then she started going ‘oh, I didn’t ask you to do anything.’ Fenrir. Ugh. But she did it in such an unsubmissive manner. In a way that just… pissed me off. I stared her down, and I stared her down until she submitted. I asserted my dominance over her, and made sure she damn well knew I was dominant to her, and then I left to the east.
Sapphire. Sapphire was, as always, lurking not too far off. I dedicated the ray gun, and took it over. It took some explanation - She was still getting chiminage, just not what Earth Whisperer had originally offered, because Earth Whisperer didn’t realize I needed it. Here was something of equal value to what Earth Whisperer offered. I threw in some gnosis, just to keep her happy. Eventually, she accepted the logic, but told me I needed to whisper some of the more interesting things from the book to her, later. There went the ray gun, off to wherever it is that Spirits keep chiminages. Uktena’s realm? Probably. I lugged myself back here to the realm, exhausted, to try to begin reading through this book in detail for the secretes to changing my sex again, but I fell asleep after a bit. Instead of dreaming of flux, I dreamt of greedy Ravens.
