Comic 1123 - Talk to Pierce
Posted on 17th Nov 2018, 10:22 PM
in Like a Bullet from Behind
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Caius grabs the bag full of tools, medical supplies, and other miscellaneous items--including some of your blood, just in case--and they head out.
You make your way to Bunker D, where you find Pierce in the hallway. You update him on the overall situation, and tell him the power should be back up in Ilworth soon... after that, everyone stuck here can move out to there.
"That is good news," he says with a nod. "While I've been enjoying the chance to get away from it all, and do some thinking... I do suspect the others are beginning to go a hair stir crazy."
You also explain the... well, as succinctly as you can, you explain what it is that you need to do, and what you're going to be facing. You tell Pierce that you need any advice you can get on becoming stronger, in a spiritual sense.
He nods solemnly, staring out at the flowers. "I believe you have conviction. That is good. That is... key. You must know what you want, or you will not reach it. Knowing who you are is important as well, however. ...A man can be many things. A fighter, a father, a writer, but who is he when he meets eyes with a demon? Who is he then, at that moment? If he does not know, the demon may decide for him, and a moment can mean a great deal. Many rituals invoke the power of someone, some god or force, in specific... and this often provides comfort to a caster. Stability. Presence of mind. When the moment comes, you are not a father, or a writer, but an agent of something greater. It brings confidence.
...That is not a luxury I would suspect you can afford, given the nature of things. You have no god to invoke but yourself. To be of two minds is a vulnerability that strange forces can exploit."
He smiles. Poorly, but he does, a stiff and wry grin.
"...But then you, yourself, ARE strange forces. You face Nil... but it is not just Nil, not this time. He will be Arvin Carpenter, as well. Two minds. Which will he be in the moment he meets eyes with you? They may have allied to some nefarious end... but they are not one. They are not the same. When you face them, you must want... greater than they want. You must know who you are, more than they know what they are. You are not some paltry occult hobbyist tugging on the coattails of a god. Remember this.
You are a god. Nil in Arvin Carpenter's body is no more dangerous than the First Womb in Mine Ametsuchi's body. Do not let them intimidate you. Do not let them dictate who you are. Know who you are.
The rest..." He tilts his head, almost feigning a shrug. "Is experience. The spiritual plane is different than the physical. It has different rules, different limits. Fewer limits, many would say."
The group arrives at the power plant. It's a bit easier to see, with daylight peering through the cracks in the ceiling. The wind whipping against the outside makes an uncomfortable sound, though it comes and goes.
"You know," Fuse begins, "I really thought this place would be less creepy in the day time."
Michelle shrugs her shoulders, reasserting her grip on her gun. "Maybe whatever the hell's here is nocturnal?"
"Yeah, wouldn't bet money on it," Caius chuckles.
Power plant group: Caius should take point as the best close quarters fighter.
Others: Investigate the items we got from Zone 50.
We are an eldritch blood god. We are a human consciousness. We have distributed our mental load across our allies. Our thinking does not have to take place in our head. We should try distributing our thoughts into the red; using the red as the physical support for our psychic/spiritual form.
By doing this, we should be able to decouple our consciousness from our human body, while still having a human consciousness in control of that body.
Corrode Carpenter's sense of self ans Nil will destroy him for us trying to take him over fully, thus losing his host. To Do that however it is time to talk to Red, Mom's Red, astral training, anything to pin to the wall who We are so the Many don't interfere in things.
We just don't have time to do everything ourself.
I think, with permission of course, our next course of action as Mine should be to practice force-Syncing with Pierce.
Though, we may not want to be force syncing while people are exploring the power station.
Edit: Also, Pierce's, well, person, has also already been eroded a bit by all of Thayle's syncing. So we want to avoid syncing with him for too long.
Actually our friends faith in us combined with their blooding might be a strong spiritual defense.
Tazer spiders.
Probably evolved to use the em fields in the ambient atmosphere for food or fuel or to catch birds.