Psychic Bridge II to everyone jauntside

[neverfeltthatway]

It's Armin.

[The text is somehow bigger and bolder than usual when the network is like this, attracting your attention even if you'd usually try to filter it out or ignore it.]

Yes, I'm dead. Well and truly dead, not just a ghost, but I can still access the network. I'm not really sure how. I'm broadcasting to both sides right now, so this connection will only last about half an hour. But everyone, please listen - this is important. Before she tortured and killed me, I recognized the being inside Bernkastel.

It's Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. One of the outer gods. I think the ghost Bernkastel was in is essentially his overlay now - merging with her didn't give him access to the network, at least. Don't approach the lakebed - not yet. You don't stand a chance on your own, any more than I did.

But I have a plan.

I can teach the living to make talismans that will repel the god. If we have groups to distract and repel him, there's a brief ritual that can separate him from his host, and do to the witch what they've been doing to other ghosts, stripping and consuming will and power.

Doing that should leave him adrift - as long as he's being repelled, he'll have no choice but to return to where he came from. If he's not being repelled, he'll be free to do as he pleases. This is all if there's someone ghostside willing to lend me your form in order to perform the ritual.

It will be hard, and incredibly dangerous. We'll need to coordinate and work together, and I can't promise we'll all survive. But it can be - it must be done.


[ooc note: in game, this post takes place after Malik will have reported Armin's death to everyone lifeside, even though Bix hasn't thrown it up yet.]

Comments

[helborn]

Gibbering madness and all that? ... Yeah, point.

I can keep the ghosts clear as much as possible, though. And if she's a ghost... no, but if he's in her ghostly form it would still be a problem. Ugh. I can still try to deflect anything she throws at us physically, though.

[itsananimalthing]

Sounds like a better plan than tryin' to hit an outsider, yeah. We'll probably need a lot of us doing that.

[helborn]

One of the places where a baseball bat comes in handy. I might actually get to use it close to its intended use.

[itsananimalthing]

Baseball bat?

[Too bad there's no tone on the network anymore, or it'd be a bit more obvious that he means that skeptically, rather than as if he was stating he didn't know what that was. (Though the only reason he does know what that is, would be infiltrator knowledge.)]

[helborn]

It's what I fight with. ... It helps me channel my ice abilities. Not all relics make sense.

[Most of them don't, from what he's seen.]

[itsananimalthing]

Guess not. At least it's useful for hitting things with, too. Could it've been a piece of paper or a spoon or somethin'?

[He's curious, so sue him. And conversations with Casper aren't limited by this bridge, so he might as well ask.]

[helborn]

I know someone who flies using a pencil. It's weird.

[itsananimalthing]

Flying pencil. Okay. Glad I come from a universe that at least kinda makes sense.

[helborn]

My necklace helps me see in the dark, and helps with my ghost powers. ... And if I take my leg off I can use location-based powers.

It doesn't make a lot of sense, yeah.

[itsananimalthing]

[It's a good thing, this time, there's no tone, or his skepticism would be very clear.]

Where do you come from again?

[helborn]

Canada, technically. But the weird powers are mostly a new thing. Turns out the gods aren't as gone or fake as people thought they were. Remember the level of godly bullshit in Greece?

[itsananimalthing]

No wonder you felt so at home there.

[He had been infiltrated, but Riddick always goes back to investigate what he missed.]

[helborn]

Yeah. My mother's Norse, but similar concept.

[itsananimalthing]

Don't actually know what that means, but I'll take your word for it. I've never been to Earth except on Jaunts.

[helborn]

Ah, okay. More north than Greece is. Different pantheon of gods, stereotypically a bit more warlike even if not all of them are.