002 Jenghe/Regina (1810) C799663–9 [056/1085]

[Eris]

"Hey, Doug, I'm going to try something. If I don't respond for a bit, it's okay. Just go with me on this."

He'll make sure the bridge recorders are on and open the shutters to see this thing with his own eyes. It should be safe enough for a bit. Then he relaxed and tried to "see" more of this thing. What it was. What was inside it. Not with his eyes, but with the strange ability the statue had woken in him.

Flighty begins to feel like he is floating in a white, completely white, space. Ahead of him is a face made of light, all the colors, separate and all together at once. It is not the face of any being he knows and he just simply knows it isn't the face of any being that he can know. It is the representation of a face, a font of communication between something else and himself.

The Face moves. He knows it considers him. He knows it smiles. He know it speaks just to him...

....Little Spark, welcome to our olemassaolo, our oleminen, our kotiin. Our returned Little Bit gave you direction and you accepted it, returning Little Bit to the Koko Meistä. Your spark shows understanding without knowing and acceptance without understanding. That is growth, we rejoice for you.

A boon has been given you. Where our Little Bit was you will find an avain in its place. Follow the path Little Bit gave you and use the key with the creation your Ancients made there. You will learn more, travel more, be more, travel more, learn more. The iterations are far from complete, uncountable cycles are needed before you become Creation, but take comfort that you are clearly moving along your proper path for this cycle.

Leave our Kotiin now, it is not safe for sparks like you to be here unprotected and exposed. Return to where you meant to be and go to where you were shown. Fare you well....


Flighty blinks and the Face is gone. The whiteness is gone replaced with just the swirl of Jump Space. He is back and the Passive Sensors show red lights, no static comes from the radio, nothing appears different from how it should be for a ship in Jump Space.

Down in Engineering, Doug has waited about 15 minutes and is getting antsy, but then suddenly everything on his boards goes back to bog normal. Everything is exactly as it should be for a ship in Jump.

[Eris]

A calmness comes upon all those around Karcsi as all they have heard, or thought they heard, enters their minds and fades from their senses.

Karcsi feels himself flying back along the chain, the thread, faster and faster and faster until he....

...is walking along a little stream holding his spear. He smiles...

...and he sleeps.

Zaki sees Karcsi's vitals return to near normal and he slumps to the floor sound asleep.

Donovan and Sigrun feel they are full to the very brim with something they can't put a name to, but then it slowly fades to contentment. Neither has any real idea what just happened, but they know they were given Truth.

Sigrun simply knows Tostig Thorvaldsson is dead and that other Pirates still exist, but he shouldn't approach them with a certainty of their essence but with uncertainty. Sigrun will fully know Thorvaldsson someday, and forget him, but not the lessons of his essence, when he cycles.

Donovan knows that the Shard is no longer aboard this ship, but something else is. Something given to replace it. Something to be used to open a gateway to safety...no, not exactly...more a gateway to learning more. No guarantee that won't be dangerous, but the end is not the end, just a step along the iteration.

"What the hell does any of that mean!", passes through the minds of both Donovan and Sigrun as they each scratch their head, rub their eyes, and try to make sense of what just happened. Was any of that real? Were they given information...well yes, but Truth?

Zaki, who wasn't really touched by any of this, is uncomfortable and would rather not go through whatever just happened again, but she knows with a certainty that Karsci is just asleep now and will wake up when the junk in his system is gone.

[Eris]

On the Bridge, Flighty is trying to shake off the dizziness and nausea of peering into Jump Space as he slams the viewports closed again.

A tone come from the Sensor Console. They are acting up again...no wait...that's the normal thing for them to be doing when the ship is nearing transition. Flighty looks up at the clock, 3 days into Jump Space, way to early for a transition back to normal space.

In Engineering, Doug nods as everything goes back to normal, but before he can even start running diagnostics, he sees the Sensor lights start to change. Not like before this is normal, normal as a warning that transition is near. Doug begins to hum and then sing Going Home , a song he doesn't know. Well a song he didn't know he knew, anyway...

"I'm just going home!"

[joertexas]

A calmness comes upon all those around Karcsi as all they have heard, or thought they heard, enters their minds and fades from their senses.

Zaki, who wasn't really touched by any of this, is uncomfortable and would rather not go through whatever just happened again, but she knows with a certainty that Karsci is just asleep now and will wake up when the junk in his system is gone.

Zaki turns to Sigrún. "Karcsi is just sleeping now. Are you okay?"

[helvorn]

Donovan sits back and shakes his head. He looks at Karsci first and then satisfied that his friend is okay looks to Zaki and Sigrun. "Did we just meet the spirit of the universe?"

[ateno]

You are due a boon for returning our Little Bit to the Luominen. We will return you safely to where you were going and a gate to where you should be...

"I see now. I am not the rider or the sled, but the one who carries the story through the snow.
I will return to my people and keep the fire burning, so those behind me may see the path ahead."
Karcsi bows his head
"Let this Spark warm others as yours has warmed me."

Karcsi

[Tiglath]

A calmness comes upon all those around Karcsi as all they have heard, or thought they heard, enters their minds and fades from their senses.

Zaki, who wasn't really touched by any of this, is uncomfortable and would rather not go through whatever just happened again, but she knows with a certainty that Karsci is just asleep now and will wake up when the junk in his system is gone.

Zaki turns to Sigrún. "Karcsi is just sleeping now. Are you okay?"

Sigrún smiles "Já, I somehow know Tostig Thorvaldsson is dead which is disappointing because I was planning to kill him. Maybe they meant I will see him in the All Father's Feast Hall? There was some stuff about "essences" and approaching certainty with uncertainty. Hah, just the usual stuff you get from some mad old völva or some self proclaimed seer who "listens to Rán's realm" with an ear trumpet to the hull and his cup full of strong cleaning products. It was all just Rán's spirits tapping on the hull - nothing more than that". She grins then laughs "I'm glad I didn't part with any silver for that prophecy! They did say I was sure of myself - but then I already new that!"

(OOC: ).

[Tiglath]

Donovan sits back and shakes his head. He looks at Karsci first and then satisfied that his friend is okay looks to Zaki and Sigrun. "Did we just meet the spirit of the universe?"

Sigrún shrugs and replies "Maybe Rán spoke to us through her spirits? I learned another of my old crew is dead but not how. Which is half a thing I didn't know before... and that I am sure of myself - which I did".

[trawets]

Doug watches everything unfolding and doesn't believe any of what he sees. When Flighty comes back he says What in the name of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was that? What the hell just happened? He continues to monitor the board and suddenly starts seeing the warnings of a jump about to end. All hands looks like we are coming out of jump early! Prepare for transition.

[joertexas]

Doug watches everything unfolding and doesn't believe any of what he sees. When Flighty comes back he says What in the name of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was that? What the hell just happened? He continues to monitor the board and suddenly starts seeing the warnings of a jump about to end. All hands looks like we are coming out of jump early! Prepare for transition.

"Oops, we need to suit up again, just in case we sprung something."

[joertexas]

Sigrún smiles "Já, I somehow know Tostig Thorvaldsson is dead which is disappointing because I was planning to kill him. Maybe they meant I will see him in the All Father's Feast Hall? There was some stuff about "essences" and approaching certainty with uncertainty. Hah, just the usual stuff you get from some mad old völva or some self proclaimed seer who "listens to Rán's realm" with an ear trumpet to the hull and his cup full of strong cleaning products. It was all just Rán's spirits tapping on the hull - nothing more than that". She grins then laughs "I'm glad I didn't part with any silver for that prophecy! They did say I was sure of myself - but then I already new that!"

(OOC: ).

Zkai opens her mouth to answer, and then Doug comes up on the comm.

[Tiglath]

Sigrún reacts "Ýmirs eistna - Rán casts us from her realm! I hope we arrive where we are supposed to be!"

(OOC: Trans - By Ýmir’s balls! )

[joertexas]

Sigrún reacts "Ýmirs eistna - Rán casts us from her realm! I hope we arrive where we are supposed to be!"

(OOC: Trans - By Ýmir’s balls! )

Zaki sighs. "That's the frightening part - that we all might end up where the gods think you're supposed to be."

[terrymixon]

Doug watches everything unfolding and doesn't believe any of what he sees. When Flighty comes back he says What in the name of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was that? What the hell just happened? He continues to monitor the board and suddenly starts seeing the warnings of a jump about to end. All hands looks like we are coming out of jump early! Prepare for transition.

Flighty shook off his confusion and focused on the board in front of him. “I see that. I’ve got the controls. Let’s come out smooth and easy.“

He wasn’t certain what was going on and how they could possibly be leaving jump so quickly, but he wagered that their new acquaintances had something to do with it. He didn’t have time to think about them now, but he knew that he would be thinking over what had occurred for a very long time to come.