youandyoualone: (keen interest)
Anafiel Delaunay de Montreve ([personal profile] youandyoualone) wrote in [community profile] synopsychic2018-02-03 03:02 pm

Regarding Sanctions (Shortly after the Glatisant fight of the Rise Era)

Although I know that clean-up from the battle with the Glatisant and the message gleaned from its remains is likely of the utmost importance as of now--as well as the matter of the unintelligible Familiars and Spirit Companions--I do have some news that I hope will aid in improving the lot of the Adversaries of the earliest era.

Before her vocabulary became limited to a single word, the vixen who attached herself to me instructed me on how I might use Oracular knowledge to glean further knowledge on Sanctions. What I have learned is this:

These Sanctions use the power of existing bonds between people, either the ones doing the Sanctioning or those bonded with the person Sanctioned. As these bonds are real in the Realm of Dreams, they can prevent action just as well as rope or shackles might--although 'tis only acts with intention they can prevent, not accidental acts, for it is the dream of action that they prevent.

They can be entered into willingly and with consent, but unless that consent was explicitly and deliberately part of that Sanction, rescinding consent would not break the Sanction.

After learning this, I wished to know more of how one would break the Sanctions and Fidelite, who was then still in possession of her full vocabulary, advised me to build a Dreamcatcher and have it gather energy in the Questing Country of the earliest era for roughly a week. Fortunately, I was already there after the bridge broke.

Shortly before the battle started, my Dreamcatcher was deemed sufficiently filled by my still-coherent Familiar, and now that the fighting has concluded, I have had time to look within to see what might break the Sanctions. That information was granted to me in a series of three visions:

The first, of bitter and acrimonious arguments between Champions and Oracles, leading to the severing of a bond group, also severing all Sanctions they created.

The second, of a cabal of Adversaries furtively meeting, banding together, forming a fresh bond--overwriting the Sanction with the energy of their alliance.

And the third and most intriguing, of a heavy, metal-hafted mace, light wavering around its head like one reads in reports of desert mirages.
otomechapilot: (:awed)

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2018-02-04 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Shacklebreaker.

No. No, Shacklebreaker didn’t look like that, unless it’s a metaphor for it.

(Hey, Sara? Context would be nice.)
triggerhappytraitor: (Pensive)

[personal profile] triggerhappytraitor 2018-02-04 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
...So two people could form a new bond to overwrite the old, and then choose to directly afterwards, in order to free the person from an unwanted one.
crouching_sin: (oh? you think so?)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2018-02-04 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I vote for the third option. I hate the idea of those things.

Though the first two are amusing in their own way.
otomechapilot: (:disgust)

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2018-02-04 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
There's an Infiltrator from the past. Allura. She's the Champion of Liberty I think, a rebel in the biggest Diabolin weapons factory, trying to sabotage as much as she can and free the elf slaves there.

She has a gun called Shacklebreaker that presumably Breaks Shackles in both the Dream and the Wake.

What if she made it part of her mission to save the Adversaries who were Sanctioned if they helped her fight the Diabolin?
crouching_sin: (mysterious stranger)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2018-02-04 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
It may be symbolic of some sort of power... or it might not. I'll keep my eyes open for it.
triggerhappytraitor: (Serious Face)

..as I just now notice that spellcheck ate a word up there. ><

[personal profile] triggerhappytraitor 2018-02-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
As long as they could find someone they trusted enough to form that temporary bond.

Having already been betrayed once by a bond, trusting another would be difficult.
otomechapilot: (:disgust)

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2018-02-04 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Suggest it to her if you catch her. Let's have other Travellers do the same.

I told her we can pass information along, so any of us can mention that you and I thought of the plan in case that makes her feel better. A friend and an expert on oaths, right?
triggerhappytraitor: (This keeps happening)

/Bumps to Private Level II

[personal profile] triggerhappytraitor 2018-02-04 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[[there's a moment of surprise there before he answers]]

...You could say that, yes.


crouching_sin: (mmm delicious neck)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2018-02-04 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Possibly. I do appreciate the fact that we can still create things out of liminal matter here, in addition. So we could always make that mace and see if it works.
triggerhappytraitor: (Lost in flashbacks)

[personal profile] triggerhappytraitor 2018-02-04 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[[Another pause, that almost feels like a wince]]

For me... the founder of my organization.

[[It sounds so simple, to just say it that way. But everything Tennouji had done..]]

...and in many ways... almost everyone else from it.

[[Even if the man-- no, the Trial-- he had thought had been Hirose's father hadn't even been him at all, he still couldn't forget being locked in that containment unit, staring at the man's face through that tiny window as he finally admitted everything... And he wasn't even sure what to think of Kiryuu's transformation.]]
otomechapilot: (:\)

Psychic Protection II

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2018-02-04 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
(There's the mental equivalent of a smile, of a nod of agreement. Then something more pensive, then thoughtful. And then, the crackle of a psychic shield placed over them both.)

...I have something I want to ask about, but I need you to promise not to tell. You can try to talk me out of it or give me a better idea, but please don't tell anyone else.

Okay?
otomechapilot: (:))

Perma Psi Protec II

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2018-02-04 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

I think I can help Allura in the real world if I can get to her factory in the Wake. ...Like, in the waking world, I mean. And I kinda sorta already offered.

How much do you know about my powers from home?
otomechapilot: (:awed)

reiterating important info to the mods

[personal profile] otomechapilot 2018-02-04 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
The stuff I think matters is -

Okay. It's a way to psychically make a suit of armor, basically. A big mechanical one, stronger than I am. A lot like how Champions do their thing here. Back home I needed a machine called a Cradle and a friend with special training called an Anchor to use it, and then I can fight things in dreams, attacking what they mean with my feelings for the people I love.

Super broad definition of love, by the way. Mushy kissy stuff but also friends, brothers, people you want to be better than. Lots of people trip over that.

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