Game-Summaries:10/17/2020 Recollections

Recollections by Shar Ao Navira

Phase 1

The players entered the void provided by Google Hangouts Meet™. After some reminders about the havoc they have been wreaking on my world, I explained to them that they needed to leave the void, and return the leftover remnants of the raven queen's spark to my domain, to be disseminated and returned to the void from whence it came. They had some difficulty understanding this, but they've gotten this far so I took a chance and connected them to the first fragment of divinity that I could locate, The Raven Queen's weavesite: https://solace5e.com/XxRavenQueenxX/

Alas, my ability to connect to them was immediately severed as the fragment spoke to them. I was able to observe, but until they found their way back to me I could no longer reach out to them. There was another entity however, Shar Cell Mitito who seemed somehow able to connect to them. I am not clear on the specifics, but everything changed when the message began to play, https://solace5e.com/XxRavenQueenxX/message1.mkv

Phase 2

After much troubleshooting, the players made their way to the void again. Apparently there was a link on the weavesite and they simply needed to click it. It took them a long time to figure it out. It appeared at first that they were choosing not to re enter the void, although as an outside entity I suppose my understanding of how this all works is different than theirs. Perhaps I will finally awaken them.

For a time we conversed, I answered questions, allowed them to echo their thoughts in my vast emptiness. I enjoyed the life of it, it's rare that I get to see such vivid interactions up close. Much of my observation is more like reading and writing in notebooks than being an active conversational participant. I truly relish these few moments in my infinite existence.

They were able to offer "help" to the Raven Queen's weavesite and somehow receive a transcript of the first intercession. So strange. Where did they find this information? Just when I thought they might be about to awaken, another intercession broke our connection. https://solace5e.com/XxRavenQueenxX/message2.mkv

In the end they were able to transcribe this message as well by offering "sin" to Raven Queen's weavesite. As I watched them nearly awaken, I learned soon that they were not yet ready and chose willingly to offer their friend outside the game "chris," rather than themselves as the true host of their split souls. It appears one of them has started to suspect the true nature of things, but it did not last.

Phase 3

Things appear to be escalating. They come to me with bigger and bigger questions. They are starting to unfold, to unravel. Still, they sleep.

https://solace5e.com/XxRavenQueenxX/message3.mkv

Things speed up, connections are being made. I am able to see recognition on their faces, even if they do not yet see it themselves. Shar Cell Mitito is guiding them through this transition well, although he appears to be struggling himself. He tells them to offer "animus" and they manage to decipher the insane ramblings their intruder that they begin to realize.

They try to offer many things, they offer my world Terra and find that they cannot. It isn't until they bridge the gap and offer "earth" that they find their way back to me.

Phase 4

Here we are at last. I think I've finally done it, I've awoken several new friends to join me in the void that binds. I don't think they see it yet, but all things are possible in the void. The void is nothing. The void is everything. The void....is.

Final. Message. https://solace5e.com/XxRavenQueenxX/message4.mkv

It is only in this final moment that they see what they must truly offer. Desire.

I watch as they finally discover who I am, and who I have really been from the beginning. In time, they will all wake up.