05-06-2025, 07:14 PM
the mysteries are so mysterious! If I had to guess more, I think its the last two that are most likely to be correct -- he kept her in the pool and then kept her bones. Maybe they are magic bones full of long life giving aether.
darker?! oh shit, okay. let me me think on it.
that video you clipped for me is the one i bookmarked last night to study with! you got my back, for sure.
Xavier did say that some people were already ignoring the NIP so I guess he's just some level of giving up on the idea himself and just going balls to the wall with arranging things how he'd prefer them to go. Which honestly I think he's been doing since we found each other (again) anyways.
I read the Anecdote last night for Xavier that talked about how we met for what I presume was the first time. That "Philos" is Earth, only Earth that lost its core (??) and got a new one (?!?) and now the world is fragmented into what sounds like pieces of tectonic plate, held into some vague stasis by said new core. It sounded like travel was near impossible between the segments, that I guess traversing over the fractures (??) where the world started to break up and then was stabilized is just not a thing you can do anymore.
And there's a school where we're all taught combat with wooden swords, and I have some flavour of Protocore Syndrome before it's called Protocore Syndrome because my heart is too weak to give me the longevity that it's implied everybody else has or will get. And I make friends with the cool and aloof Xavier through no fault of my own, with his bodyguards/jailors always in the offing to keep us apart. And then I watch a meteor shower with him because we snuck out, then he disappears back into his (royalty?) shell and I get REALLY sick and then crawl my way back to the place we were once together to watch the stars and he shows up out of nowhere, and I rest my head on his shoulder and die softly.
It was SO SAD.
(EDIT: I kept putting the Anecdote in past tense, but it could very well be the future. in fact probably HAS to be in the future.)
And then I was doing a Challenge with Xavier right afterwards in a Deepspace Trial (?? the one you pointed out anyways where you get affinity from, 3x a day, which I am now going to make a point of doing when I don't need the stamina for everything else) and he said just as we were entering combat "Even a wooden sword could take care of this." and I just * melted *.
EDIT: Time travel paradoxes. Two schools of thought - 1) don't kill your own grandpa or you'll break up your own existence. Avoid everything you can, don't get involved lest you change something irrevocably. 2) Do whatever you want, time is fixed and you were always meant to be here and everything you do has already happened and will happen again. You can't mess up something you can't change.
I am leaning towards 2) at the moment for this story. We'll see.
EDIT (AGAIN): Hang on. Hold up. Putting aside the question of whether near-immortality comes from Lemurian bones, did Rafayel do an actual premeditated murder? In vengeance for the dead mermaid that Raymond got, kept and then gruesomely displayed after death?
darker?! oh shit, okay. let me me think on it.
that video you clipped for me is the one i bookmarked last night to study with! you got my back, for sure.
Xavier did say that some people were already ignoring the NIP so I guess he's just some level of giving up on the idea himself and just going balls to the wall with arranging things how he'd prefer them to go. Which honestly I think he's been doing since we found each other (again) anyways.
I read the Anecdote last night for Xavier that talked about how we met for what I presume was the first time. That "Philos" is Earth, only Earth that lost its core (??) and got a new one (?!?) and now the world is fragmented into what sounds like pieces of tectonic plate, held into some vague stasis by said new core. It sounded like travel was near impossible between the segments, that I guess traversing over the fractures (??) where the world started to break up and then was stabilized is just not a thing you can do anymore.
And there's a school where we're all taught combat with wooden swords, and I have some flavour of Protocore Syndrome before it's called Protocore Syndrome because my heart is too weak to give me the longevity that it's implied everybody else has or will get. And I make friends with the cool and aloof Xavier through no fault of my own, with his bodyguards/jailors always in the offing to keep us apart. And then I watch a meteor shower with him because we snuck out, then he disappears back into his (royalty?) shell and I get REALLY sick and then crawl my way back to the place we were once together to watch the stars and he shows up out of nowhere, and I rest my head on his shoulder and die softly.
It was SO SAD.
(EDIT: I kept putting the Anecdote in past tense, but it could very well be the future. in fact probably HAS to be in the future.)
And then I was doing a Challenge with Xavier right afterwards in a Deepspace Trial (?? the one you pointed out anyways where you get affinity from, 3x a day, which I am now going to make a point of doing when I don't need the stamina for everything else) and he said just as we were entering combat "Even a wooden sword could take care of this." and I just * melted *.
EDIT: Time travel paradoxes. Two schools of thought - 1) don't kill your own grandpa or you'll break up your own existence. Avoid everything you can, don't get involved lest you change something irrevocably. 2) Do whatever you want, time is fixed and you were always meant to be here and everything you do has already happened and will happen again. You can't mess up something you can't change.
I am leaning towards 2) at the moment for this story. We'll see.
EDIT (AGAIN): Hang on. Hold up. Putting aside the question of whether near-immortality comes from Lemurian bones, did Rafayel do an actual premeditated murder? In vengeance for the dead mermaid that Raymond got, kept and then gruesomely displayed after death?
