Post-script to Initiative Gig...
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singindemonhqPostscript - I haven't been using the Mechanical Minion so much in this dimension, but it's still here - and still being very helpful when the Internet plays tricks like Live-Journal suddenly changing completely.
(I'm sure there was a moment there when it said it'd changed its skin? Another snake-demon? An Internet Wyrm? ) Anyway, the Mech-Min dealt with it - and the recording function is useful, too.
I'd got a good boost to the mojo from the Initiative gig but it left my body tired.(I am not old, considering - but maybe I should start being a little more careful this millenium) I'd been going full blast and Erynne had fought physically several times.
I usually change the furniture here back to what any staff expect, when we go out. When we got back after the Initiative gig I left the beds twin. Trouble was, when I did sleep there were dreams waiting. I've been through several dimensions since the portals to my home failed, and things happened in all of them.
In many ways those laboratories are just standard torture chambers. The Inquisition did some of the same things - and for the same reasons - cut them up to change their minds.
Over the centuries humans have done it to "heretics", witches, "the racially impure", even to their own womenfolk, when they've got a surplus. They'll do it to anyone, if they can kid themselves that the person inside the cage is different from the people outside.
Lately they've realised it doesn't even take that - just someone to give the orders in a firm voice, someone to take responsibility for it. (They experimented on their own to get that little insight, too.) They even blame their own victims - Hell, they mostly blame their victims! (It's not even just a human thing. Zranth is the same - and there are more... Oh yes...)
The rationalisations outside the cages may differ, the feelings don't - the feelings inside the cages don't change at all, not through all the centuries...
The torture chambers were mostly purpose built, although humans can be inventive with that too - but they've got cleaner every century. Humans talk as though that was a mercy in itself, but filth means plagues that spread to the staff. I've seen a lot.
My clients combust when the bad feelings are too much - death can be my gift, too. Hell, it can be anybody's...
There was one dimension - I couldn't tell you how long ago, time moved differently there, but it was one of those places that could be very good or very bad - I'd ended up in a cage myself, for a while. I think I dreamed about that. Then, when we'd set out on this gig, they'd suddenly announced that we were going to be in two groups. That had some real bad vibes for me, too - after my earlier experiences with that strategy. I guess by then I was making sounds, because Erynne came over into my bed.
(I'm sure there was a moment there when it said it'd changed its skin? Another snake-demon? An Internet Wyrm? ) Anyway, the Mech-Min dealt with it - and the recording function is useful, too.
I'd got a good boost to the mojo from the Initiative gig but it left my body tired.
I usually change the furniture here back to what any staff expect, when we go out. When we got back after the Initiative gig I left the beds twin. Trouble was, when I did sleep there were dreams waiting. I've been through several dimensions since the portals to my home failed, and things happened in all of them.
In many ways those laboratories are just standard torture chambers. The Inquisition did some of the same things - and for the same reasons - cut them up to change their minds.
Over the centuries humans have done it to "heretics", witches, "the racially impure", even to their own womenfolk, when they've got a surplus. They'll do it to anyone, if they can kid themselves that the person inside the cage is different from the people outside.
Lately they've realised it doesn't even take that - just someone to give the orders in a firm voice, someone to take responsibility for it. (They experimented on their own to get that little insight, too.) They even blame their own victims - Hell, they mostly blame their victims! (It's not even just a human thing. Zranth is the same - and there are more... Oh yes...)
The rationalisations outside the cages may differ, the feelings don't - the feelings inside the cages don't change at all, not through all the centuries...
The torture chambers were mostly purpose built, although humans can be inventive with that too - but they've got cleaner every century. Humans talk as though that was a mercy in itself, but filth means plagues that spread to the staff. I've seen a lot.
My clients combust when the bad feelings are too much - death can be my gift, too. Hell, it can be anybody's...
There was one dimension - I couldn't tell you how long ago, time moved differently there, but it was one of those places that could be very good or very bad - I'd ended up in a cage myself, for a while. I think I dreamed about that. Then, when we'd set out on this gig, they'd suddenly announced that we were going to be in two groups. That had some real bad vibes for me, too - after my earlier experiences with that strategy. I guess by then I was making sounds, because Erynne came over into my bed.
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Date: 2003-09-16 08:25 pm (UTC)You're not sleeping well. Nightmares? About what--
my evil relative?
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Date: 2003-09-20 03:41 pm (UTC)Erynne?
*mumbling* It was bad dreams about humans ... centuries of humans ... and about being alone in a Hell-dimension...and maybe Zranth...
*moving close, still almost asleep*
Don’t ever leave me, Little Wolf….