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#odyssey

October 21st, 2021
earldebuke 9:13am
"Oh you poor thing. Phobias are nasty"
rae 9:15am
Can you help?
earldebuke 9:18am
"Yes, or I can help you help yourself. It won't be easy"
earldebuke 9:18am
Rikki watches her, looks to the gguys "Uhm... is wisdom found in comas?"
earldebuke 9:23am
"Patience, Rikki" Zane says "what ever is going on... it's up to her and the magic now. Mountain Frank always said you work with magic, not against it, and it'll go further"
rae 10:00am
Piper sits, staring off at nothing as she has an internal conversation. Her unseelie side is strong this time of year...

😈 Why work at it at all? If this magic pool can just fix it, then fix it. Or don't... there are other fish in the sea that are less work, aren't there? Or maybe you can just stay at that camp where Rikki was. A little bit of freedom in exchange for a free ride for life? Maybe you can even convince Jonas to stay...

😇 Maybe there are other fish, but none of them are FISHIE. Maybe it is effort, but aren't they worth it? Aren't YOU worth fixing so you can live your life unafraid?

To the voice of Wisdom: What is the difference between the two?
rae 10:11am
Meaning, helping her, or helping her help herself...
earldebuke 10:12am
"Well, I can help you remember a specific past life, you know the one, should help you with single Liam, you know which one... OR, I can put you through some ordeals, a journey, to help you overcome your phobia of ALL Liam sidhe. The latter seems harder, but, think on this, right now, you end up doing a LOT of work and risking lot of what is yours because of that fear... you tell yourself staying is hard work, but how much effort is cast aside when you bale on all you gain hoping you can start over or avoid what scares you? Either way , your choice"
rae 10:22am
A pang of fear, different than the gripping phobia. I dragged my friend, my lover, my fam, all along on this quest already... how long have we been traveling? A few days, a lifetime? Would they come with me on another journey? Or would I go onward alone? She wonders.
earldebuke 10:23am
"I didn't mean it as a threat, merely that the 'easy way out' often has hardships"
rae 10:25am
Another journey? I can't ask them to go onward. They've come so far already.

Her expression flickers worriedly.
earldebuke 10:28am
"Oh, I see tthe misundertanding. It's an inner journey"
earldebuke 10:31am
"Kind of like a vision quest?"
earldebuke 10:48am
"remember, when you piss me out, the wisdom is gone. So I'd say it won't acttually take long either way, though i may feel like it"
earldebuke 11:04am
While Piper is lost in a mental conversation, RIkki markers a mustache on the satyress' upper lip
earldebuke 12:28pm
"Rikki" Jonas growls
earldebuke 12:28pm
"It's for luck" And indeed, a bit of glamour flows
rae 12:59pm
She swallows. What if I'm not strong enough? Will it break me?
earldebuke 1:03pm
"Only you can discover that. If it helps? I think you're stronger than you know" a pause "Also, you have a mustache. That has to count for something"
rae 1:08pm
"What?!" She says aloud, but then squints and settles back into herself. Focus. You have a time limit.

...let's do it.
earldebuke 1:21pm
Her name is Judy Lee, and she has dreams of being a star. You feed her dreams of fame some, sure, but more, you feed her dreams of love of music, you coax, you guide. It's like gardening, watching her go from seed to blooming flower, though some would say fruit tree is the more apt metaphor, but you ddon't do it for the fruits alone, you honestly consider her friend. She's fun, full of pep
earldebuke 1:21pm
And she hopes so hard to leave something beautiful in this world
earldebuke 1:27pm
She's not just your dreamer. She's your friend. So when you find believe in herself destroyed, and she ttells you "I'd never make it, Accounting is more.. practical... safer" you can see how much joy she's never going to know, and you can see the world just got cheated of a new song. Even if you can help her find herself after the ravaging, that particular song is lost. She'll associate it with bad memories
earldebuke 1:28pm
You strap the Silver oak hilted sabre to your side
earldebuke 1:36pm
And Piper shares a life with a Liam, knows what it is to get to know and cherish mortals, only to see them used and discarded, perhaps never to heal right
rae 1:45pm
She squirms uncomfortably, getting a first hand look, perhaps too close, at the sort of mortal she had a hand in harming. But she doesn't look away.
earldebuke 1:51pm
This is her... the Liam's passion, her cause and core. Mortals aren't perfect, but they're crucial . waving their abuse off as 'they'll snap back' is the same sort of self excuse used by companies regarding climate change.
earldebuke 1:51pm
Or so it feels in this new vision.
rae 2:00pm
She knows this, whether she wants to admit it. In her conscious thoughts, when she isn't focused on anger at her own treatment - that one Liam is not all Liam. She KNOWS that. But knowing is one thing, that doesn't touch the phobia, more than dislike, more than anger, a deep-rooted terror that goes deeper into her psyche, a primal, guttural, animal instinct.
earldebuke 2:07pm
And it shifts... a blow to her belly and she rolls over in pain. The sword far from finger. She'd only asked for haven. It turns out, the answer was 'No'. The Balor lord snorts "You're oathbroken, the Escheat barely APPLIES to you, Liam." She squirms as the balor lord looks amused by his thane's brutal treatment of her. She's helpless, powerless. All she can do is endure, and hope she'll be let go to lick her wounds.
earldebuke 2:19pm
Power is relative, who is in charge, like wise
rae 2:25pm
She winces, at the pain, and more so, at the realization.
rae 2:28pm
It's not wrong to be hurt, to focus on her own pain, her own suffering. But has she really been so blind as to ignore that others hurt, too?
earldebuke 2:31pm
Another image, a motley of ravager commoners, far worse than the ones she used to run with, see the Liam in their area. They don't know the Liam is just visiting a friend. They don't know she has no clue that ravaginnn is going on but that doesn't stop them from deciding "We put her in the hospital, we can keep feasting for a while. nobody is interfering with OUR Freedom"
earldebuke 2:33pm
Perhaps there's a reason the house is on something of a war stance? Maybe they're scared too?
rae 2:34pm
But... they... they're not the victims here. Right?! .......right?
earldebuke 2:36pm
It's a struggle, wisdom, real wisdom, can't normally be forced, but this does let her.. try to empathize
earldebuke 2:44pm
Yet, the Liam did nothing wrong, and got jumped because of a bias of others, and selfish greed... de personalizing her. So , not ALL Liams are victims maybe? but some are... just like everyone else. And they have their own fears they master
rae 2:47pm
Everyone is fighting their own battles. It's trite, it's overplayed, it's over stated.. but does that make it any less true?
earldebuke 2:48pm
And she's never got to see what they do....
earldebuke 2:49pm
She's an old woman, dying alone in the hospital bed. It'll all be over soon
earldebuke 2:50pm
But it would be nice to have company besides Nurses that just check the charts
rae 2:50pm
A very different fear, and beyond that, loneliness. To be alone, at this, the very end...
rae 2:50pm
Somehow worse than what is to come.
earldebuke 2:53pm
And a man appears, he touches the IV, and a glow filters thrhouh it, lighting her up, body and soul , and she RECOGNIZES him... Angel Man... she met him when he was a kid
earldebuke 2:56pm
Then again when she was a teenager and encouraged her fight her depression with painting
earldebuke 3:05pm
Sometime in her twenties she tried to seduce her angel. It was empowering to watch him sweat even if he explained he didnn' want to take advantage. She supposed that as good looking as he is, it could have been seen that way. But then, her angel did introduce her to her future husband.
rae 3:07pm
THAT is a little surprising. Sidhe in power take what they want. It is known. But surely they can't all be Saints?
earldebuke 3:11pm
Oh, she learned her angel was hardly flawless. Sometimes he tried so hard to be whimsical and clever he got a bit annoying, she remembered telling him one day "That's not a halo , angel, that's a hook to take you off stage, the crowd's not laughing" to his credit he pouted then chuckled taking it well
rae 3:18pm
Annoying aside, she knows they’re not all angel…