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[Malaul]

damn your good

[LMNO]

::graciously bows::



aw shucks, ma'am, it ain't nuthin of much value...



[/humility]





[Edit:  If I ever do finish this thing, I'd like to print the whole thing up, I mean, the whole thread, side comments and all.  It would be an interesting new approach to storytelling.  SOrt of like, the marginalia is already written into the story.]

[Horab Fibslager]

well i havent; read it yet, btu i'm sure it sucks.

[LMNO]

well i havent; read it yet, btu i'm sure it sucks.

[Blade Runner]
THAT'S THE SPIRIT!
[/Blade Runner]

[Horab Fibslager]

well i havent; read it yet, btu i'm sure it sucks.

[Blade Runner]
THAT'S THE SPIRIT!
[/Blade Runner]

it's my job as ego anti inflationary technician.

you sorry excuse for a writer, i bet you aren;t even an alcoholic. here'sa bottle fo scotch, don't come back until it's gone and you've bought 4 more jsut liek it.

[LMNO]

Not an alcoholic?





LMNO
-Probably an alcoholic.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

I loved the mirror thingy, but I confess when you started talking about east and north and some other stuff, I got confused, but that's me.  I'll have to go read it again.  It was really good, I can't wait until you actually get to....DOOM....

[LMNO]

Exposition comes tomorrow.

After we deal with the brood.


Or maybe before, I dunno.

[gnimbley]

Or after the brood deals with you.

[Bella]

Or after the brood deals with you.

My thoughts, exactly.

[Malgrin]

A step in one direction was a step in all directions; progress was impossible. Progress was just another illusion. Nothing was True.

I think I shall live there for awhile.

Thank you for letting me know that you'd posted more...  I'm ready for the next installment.  Please?  Now?    

[Mangrove]

At last, my esorteic occult training has a purpose ...







 

there's a purpose? <mangrove eyes his occult library>...shit....<runs off in a panic>

[LMNO]

,ÄúThey,Äôre here!,Äù

,ÄúAre they toys?,Äù

,ÄúFood?,Äù

,ÄúBoth!,ÄùThe rabbits surrounded us, noses twitching, shifting ever closer in the blackness.  But it wasn,Äôt dark, there was just,Ķ nothing there.  Except the rabbits, and Erin,Äôs hand in mine.

,ÄúHi kids.  How are things?,Äù

,ÄúIt talks!  How do you think it tastes?,Äù

I coughed.  ,ÄúHey now, let,Äôs not be hasty here.  So, what, have you taken over Choronzon,Äôs job or something?,Äù

,ÄúThe squirrel ate him.  We,Äôre just here because we want to be.,Äù

,ÄúLet,Äôs play with him!,Äù

,ÄúNow, now,Ķ,Äù  I held up the carrots Malaul had given me.  ,ÄúI have a treat.,Äù

,ÄúOooh!  Carrots!,Äù

,ÄúShut up, silly.  There,Äôs no way there are enough for all of us.,Äù

,ÄúYeah, tough guy.  This isn,Äôt the Open Bar.  You can,Äôt just make more appear out of thin air.,Äù  The rabbits moved closer.  In parallel, Erin also moved closer, and I could feel her warm body press against me, trembling slightly.

,ÄúOh, these aren,Äôt for you.,Äù  Angry muttering filled the non-air.  ,ÄúThese are for your mother.  Any idea where she is?,Äù

The brood settled down quickly.

,ÄúMom?  It wants Mom?,Äù

,ÄúSilly food-toys.,Äù

,ÄúGo get her!,Äù

One lone bunny scampered off into the void.  The rest of the brood sat back on their haunches, and waited.

Erin said, ,ÄúL, what in fuck,Äôs sake is going on here?  What was,Ķ all that back there?  The words, the mirrors, the books,Ķ,Äù  Her face looked distressed.  You could tell the hysteria was only one more weirdness away.  I better settle her down before fluffy gets here, I thought.

,ÄúOk, you know how I said that we were going to have to more or less give up the Quantum theories in order to see the Oracle?  Well, that,Äôs because they usually like to hang out in the Void.  That,Äôs where we are now.,Äù

,ÄúIt certainly is aptly named.,Äù

,ÄúWell, the Void doesn,Äôt really exist in the Quantum Idea.  It,Äôs more of a symbol, a meta-archetype.,Äù

,ÄúYou mean like, the complete absence of anything.  If there,Äôs nothing, there can,Äôt be any thing that behaves in a quantum manner.,Äù

,ÄúWell, no.  The Void is here.  Absolute Nothingness is still a few paths away.  You can almost see where it all begins, the three levels of Nothingness,Ķ Wait.  I,Äôm getting ahead of myself.  For now, think of it this way. The Tajikistani Interpretation of Quantum Theory posits the Void, but so far, no one,Äôs been able to actually come up with any working equations.  So the best way to get here is the Old Fashioned way:  We just climbed the double helix ladder of Tarot and Kaballah.,Äù

,ÄúExcuse me?,Äù

,ÄúOne of the places where the Void has been thoroughly explored and defined is in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.  Now,Äôs not the time for metaphysics, but some say it lies between the Archetype World and the Mystical world.  However, considering the Tree itself is a metaphor itself, and also filled with archetypes, this gets a bit tricky.  Let,Äôs just say that the Void is sort of like the space between a beam of light and a prism.  Everything above the prism is a singular, unified event, and everything below the prism has the illusion of differences.  Anyway, at the bottom of the Tree, things sort of collapse together again to create the Universe we move about it.  Apparently, Hoshiko pointed us to an opening into the base of the Tree, and we had to move up it, using the symbols of the Tree, and the symbols of the Tarot to move in between.,Äù

,Äú,ĶI thought you said it wasn,Äôt the time for metaphysics.,Äù

,ÄúHey, you asked, right?,Äù

,ÄúRight now, I just want to know what,Äôs up with all the rabbits.,Äù

,ÄúYou,Äôve heard of a Pookah?,Äù

,Äú,ĶIrish trickster sprit, right?,Äù

,ÄúYou bet.  Well, this one,Äôs name is fluffy, and she has a lot of kids.,Äù

,ÄúBut what is she, uh, they doing here?,Äù

,ÄúWhatever she wants, I suppose.,Äù

Then, from out of the not-darkness, there was a sound, that grew with each passing second.  That,Äôs her, I thought.  The unmistakable sound of fluffy.





,Äúpphhhhhhffffffffffftttttttt!,Äù

[agent compassion]

             

[LMNO]

You didn't think there was too much exposition there, did you?