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[pyraxis]

All right, I'll start.

My name is Daria-toren. I was born on Karn. Last week a robot named Jim Nightmare ( yonjuunana ) hosted a pizza party in the dreaming. For a short while a space carved out of the formless ether became host to a small group of jiko from all corners of existence.

They posted in a fury. A journal which normally landed only a handful of comments suddenly broke a hundred. I met the handmaiden of an exiled princess and a psychologist committed to the study of raw creation (rosencrantz ). I summoned a copse of trees, and a man from a thousand years in the future saw one for the first time. I traded notes on death and fear with a necromancer from the Sundered Kingdoms (galen_6thnecro ).

The wave of connection passed, and I was sad to see them go.

So this is a space to meet again. I call jiko, spirits, soulbonds, characters who've seized a life of their own, from all across the multiverse. If you are invisible, if you are lonely or bored, if you have spent your whole existence talking only to the one or two people who acknowledge your presence, come meet us here.

Any language, words or pictures or sounds or however you communicate, is fair game. What we cannot understand, we will learn.

Come join me in this place where it's all real.

Comments

Where is the party?

[shashigai.livejournal.com]

I am new at this but I would like to come too. I am shashigai, host to a number of personalities. I think Gy and UaSha would love to come to the party, but UaSha is a little boy - is the party R-rated? Also, he's kind of a djinn. I think Javik would come too. In fact, there is this town called Dekan, where we could go and relax and party if we wanted to.

Re: Where is the party?

[pyraxis]

Hey, you.

What's the harm? Fiona's already pretty well corrupted UaSha. A little more won't hurt.

Who's Gy?

And yes. Javik is very welcome.

Shashigai - this is Jim Nightmare. *dances backwards till she's half-standing, half-floating beside him* The man who got it all started. A man who gets a kick out of blue nailpolish. He's made of metal and he gets his energy from... batteries. Though - look in the ambient - it's not the only energy, the uza's pouring off him in rainbows.

He can't eat pizza, but - hey Jim, do batteries come in different flavors?

Re: Where is the party?

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Hey! Nice to meet you. :D I've got green nailpolish today, actually. Check it out! It sparkles! *holds up his right hand and wiggles his fingers* Also I'm not really sure if I count as a man yet. I'm still in high school.

*grins* No, batteries don't come in flavors. I wish. That would be awesome! I guess I didn't explain them that well. They're like... electricity. You know, same stuff as lightning. *thinks for a second* Does electricity have a flavor? I don't actually have a sense of taste, and I don't think I've ever asked anyone about that...

*looks nervous* What the hell is uza and why is it pouring off of me? I'm not sure if that sounds like a good thing or not. *looks around* Also I don't see any rainbows.

Re: Where is the party?

[pyraxis]

Damnit. It didn't work. The foreign words were supposed to define themselves.

Uza.

Can you hear it now?

What it means is you've got magic potential. On your world, do they say magic and science are two different things? ...Here, they're not.

Where I come from, you're a man when you hit fourteen summers. But I can call you boy if you like. *wicked grin*

I know lightning. Toren-touch is like lighting. When one person's shifted to toren form and tries to touch someone else. It jolts you. Throws you back. I better not go near you in toren. Don't know what that would do.

Maybe you could eat me like a sperith. *wicked grin gets wider*

But you can't see the uza here. You have to look into the ambient and not everyone can. It's like colors. You can't see them when you're an animal, but they're still there.

Re: Where is the party?

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

*grins back* Man? Boy? Can't we settle on a nice middle ground? How about "guy"? Sure beats "kid", which everybody and their mother seems to call me where I'm from.

Uza. Magic. Got it. In my world, they don't say that magic and science are different things. They say magic doesn't exist. And I'd agree with them... while I'm there. Here, sure! Why not? It's actually really cool to hear I've got uza. I saw one of those Harry Potter movies a while back and it freaked me out, er... technology goes near magic and it stops working or explodes or something. I was really hoping that being around all these magic-type people lately wouldn't mess me up. But if I've got magic, too... well, obviously I haven't exploded. So maybe it's not something I have to worry about.

...I'm starting to get the feeling that if I came from a world with magic, I'd definitely have some kind of magic power. A while back I learned that if I'd been created in another universe, I'd have fire and earth elemental powers. Man, that would be awesome! *grins* So of course I have to end up from the place where I have no powers whatsoever.

And yeah... that's probably a good idea to not touch me when you're toren. Probably wouldn't kill me, but a power surge would... Yeah, let's just not do that. I've managed to electrocute myself before, it's not fun. Kind of funny how running on electricity also makes you pretty weak to it. Hey, actually that's something I was wondering about. We're in the dreaming again, right? If we get hurt here, what happens?

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Jim: Hello again! Lonely and bored, checking in. *waves* Or possibly just asleep. You know, after the pizza party died down I found myself waking up on the couch next to my brother. I asked him how old he was, and he said he was 22-ish, so it's all good. He also looked at me like I was crazy, but that's nothing new. I guess he was mostly weirded out that I managed to take a nap. I never do that. He said I was asleep for about half an hour.

Oh! Hey Daria, there was something I wanted to talk to you about. I think I heard pyraxis say that you have an adopted son. I just wanted to say that's really cool. I was adopted.

[pyraxis]

Me? Um - no, that's Fiona. Sha is -

Oh fucking hell. Yeah. I take care of him. If you call racing around the dreaming with him, playing tag with ghosts and demons, "taking care of". Or teaching him the meaning of sora and isgeni.

Who adopted you?

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, sorry, I guess I didn't know who she was talking about. Who's Fiona? And what are sora and isgeni, if you don't mind teaching somebody else? :D

Guy named Marcus adopted me. Old roboticist. Real good guy. He also adopted my older brother and sister. Er, we're not related. They're androids too, though. Well, Marcus isn't. He's a human. So... yeah, we're pretty much the weirdest family ever, but it works!

[pyraxis]

Pyraxis said I had an adopted son? She was probably exaggerating for effect. She does that.

I'm more like a big brother to him than a mother. When he wants his yaya, he calls for Fiona. That's her, over there. *jerks thumb over her shoulder to the sandy-haired woman with the backpack* When he needs someone to tell him to be strong, it's me he calls.

That's what I meant about sora and isgeni. They should have translated themselves too. They are rsakk words. Sora means strength. Isgeni is to - hold out. To endure.

*summons a tree stump, sits down on it cross-legged*

What are your older brother and sister like?

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Okay, I got the translation for yaya, but it just brings up a bunch more questions. Fetus transfer? Arem system? What are those? Now I'm all curious.

I think it's really cool that there's a word like that in your language, though. I mean, as weird as it sounds since I'm a robot, I do have biological parents out there somewhere. But I don't know anything about them. Don't want to. They're not my family, you know? And Marcus is... Well, I don't really call him dad or anything, he's just Marcus. It's more like I got raised by a whole bunch of different people. Like... I don't know what I would do without my brother and sister. *grins* You're gonna regret asking about them, I might talk your ears off. I'm glad you got a place to sit. *summons the blue couch again and sits down* This thing's from our living room, I love it. Anyway...

My brother is Joseph. He's awesome. Really smart and responsible and always helping me with my homework and stuff. I would have completely failed school by now if it wasn't for him. Right now he's got a job in a cafe, and he kind of hates it but it's like he... ah, never mind. And he doesn't actually live with us right now. He's got an apartment with his girlfriend and awful little yappy dog. But he stops by after work almost every day to check in on me and Maggie.

Maggie's my sister. She's really weird but cool. You know that guy Evan we met? He kinda reminds me of her. Except she swears more. Lots more. She can be kinda hard to talk to, but she's like an amazing artist and we're always working on projects together. Lately she's been taking a lot of college classes so she's been really busy and I don't get to spend as much time with her as I'd like. But still, it's really awesome that she's going to college. Joseph didn't go, and with my grades I don't think I'm smart enough. *shrugs*

I sorta wish they could come here, but Maggie's probably busy and Joseph... no offense to him, but this place would probably make his head explode.

What's your family like? Where do you live?

[shashigai.livejournal.com]

(gust of wind and a darkskinned boy looks up at the floating people)
*grin* "UA!"
(gust of wind and he's gone)

[pyraxis]

Sha! No!

*a young woman appears where the little boy vanished, out of breath, her face beet red from running. She's dressed in a well-patched shirt and an equally tattered leather backpack*

*she stares from one person to the next* Whuh - where - damnit, Sha! Did anyone see where he went?

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Hi there! *smiles and waves with his metal hand* My name's Jim Nightmare. Nice to meet you.

I saw a kid but... He was just there for a second. I really have no idea where he went. *shrugs* Sorry.

Sha

[shashigai.livejournal.com]

(whoosh) *A brown skinned little boy grabs the robot's hand and stares at the nail polish.*
Ua!
*suddenly a wolf cub is sniffing at the robot's ankles*
RrRrRrR...rrrr...RrRrRrR

Re: Sha

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

*Freezes when the boy touches his hand, then backs away slowly from the wolf* S-sorry. I... I'm not so good with kids. Or animals. Or kids who turn into animals. A little help here? *closes his eyes* Can't hurt me... just a dream... Wait, dream? *summons a squeaky dog toy* Hey kid, look! *Throws the toy*

Gy

[shashigai.livejournal.com]

I am not feeling myself lately, but I am feeling a little lonely. After the debacle with my mother ending up a hero after she *murdered* people trying to catch me and my son, I went to the temple of The Way to find myself. I have this wicked disease that makes me change from 40 to 14 without notice. It really screws up my uza and my relationships as well. There was a woman who worked in a tent next door to my shop, but I can't very well woo her as a 14 year old? And there's this girl, she's pretty cute, but she's a little too old, still, I should qualify as I've life experience.
Anyway, they've left me to myself to study and meditate and there's no Uake and no Fiona, who by the way has gone off with my son! He's four, and - was that a gust of wind? That's how you can tell he's around. Well, anyway, I am so lonely here and *floats up* can I join the conversation?

Re: Gy

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Hello there!

40 to 14, huh? That's funny, I actually met this guy a while ago who sorta looks and acts like he's 14 but is actually in his 40's. So how old are you really?

What happened with your mother? Why was she trying to catch you? That sounds... not good. Really not good.

I can't really give relationship advice. Haven't had any luck there myself. Girls are weird, man.

Re: Gy

[shashigai.livejournal.com]

I could tell you about that other stuff. Right now I am 14 but some time I will wake up and be 40. It's called between sickness, and it comes from messing around too much with time. My mother isn't after me anymore, but she was, and so I fled through time a few times - er, well, more than a few. On Ua they say if you walk through time too much, then time walks through you. I wish I had paid attention to that.
Anyway, I was born that way - my mother was messing around on this sphere she found and she was pregnant with me and had to transfer me. There was no one else around so she used one of the locals. I can only think that she was doing some experiments on them too, because my son and I have this - er - quality, where we go wolf. It's considered a childish thing to do on Ua, to imitate animals, but I swear I had no control over it! They all laughed at me in the arem - that's the place where the kids are raised. My mother keeps a group of women there, and their duty is to bear and raise kids for the Masta Ua - that means house of Ua. So UaLin is my Amya - that's your conception mother, and then I had a yaya - that's the one who raises you. I got pushed around a lot in the arem because my Amya just dropped me off there and didn't explain where I came from, plus my uza was weak and all I could do for a while was turn into a wolf.
But then it turned out that my uza got stronger later, when they tried to hurt me. Then I showed them! But that made them get more interested in me to put me in the Kifu...are you sure you want to hear all this? I'm a little tired right now. I could continue later.

Re: Gy

[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Oh! You must be the guy Daria mentioned at the pizza party. We were talking about that time sickness stuff.

You don't have to explain or keep talking if you're tired. I am kinda curious now, though. It sounds like you've really been through a lot.

Man, I really get what you're saying about the little kid stuff. Kids can be jerks. Being the only robot in my elementary school class was... yeah, it was rough. *shrugs* Turning into a wolf sounds pretty cool to me.

Re: Gy

[pyraxis]

Heya Gy. Didn't recognize you. That's strong, the thing that changes you through time. It changes your signature in the ambient, too.

Yeh. Pyraxis tells me 'bout you but I don't think we've come face to face. I'm Daria.

Gy

[shashigai.livejournal.com]

Daria? You're the girl that took off with Sha after the mess on Ua - I mean the water coming back and all. You can fly. You say my signature changes? No wonder Amya didn't recognize me.
Half the time, I don't even recognize me.It makes me wish I hadn't run away. I wish I had studied magic or even The Way. Instead I did what I wanted to do, and they let me as long as I promised to put seed in the arem and do the Kifu. *Grin* And I didn't even do that!
But I did all right, especially after Gillian adopted me. That tent was the best thing that happened to me. *Looks thoughtful* Maybe I should go back. Maybe the tent could fix me...

Re: Gy

[pyraxis]

*the young woman spins around (revealing a faceful of freckles) and runs over*

Gillian? Adopted you? You are Gillian! Don't you remember?

And he's not your son, he's the boy that came out of the chest. You didn't even know who he was! Or if he is your son, how did he get in the box to begin with?

[baaing-tree.livejournal.com]

Friended you back! :D It might be handy to go to our memories and check out our info section so you don't have to worry about names.

Nice to meet you! :D

--Sneak

[pyraxis]

Heya Sneak! :D Are you guys co-conscious? Can I say stuff to you and assume the info will spread to whoever needs it?

Like about icons or filters or who's who? I put you guys on our Dreaming filter so you'll see all the multiplicity, fantasy and game stuff. But there are other filters if you get to know other people who like to keep their things private.

I will check out the stuff you said.

[baaing-tree.livejournal.com]

Yup, we're co-conscious! You won't have to worry about info spread.

We usually try to tag everything--Rogan forgets sometimes. We share icons, but we each have one that we tend to use. I'd rely on tags more, though, since we have some general purpose icons. :D

All filters are totally fine. You can add us to other ones as you get to know us better, and that's cool! :D

--Sneak