[PLAYER PLOT | HUB SCANNING SYSTEM INSTALLATION]

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Who: Any coven members interested in installing the hub scanning system OR exploring the (???) on the map!
Where: From the mansion to the peak of the hub's tallest mountain.
When: Day 128
Open/Closed: OTA!

[ Come one, come all, it's time to head to the top of the Hub mountain! Whether your character has been involved in the preparations up till now or not, anyone near the mansion on this clear morning can join the expedition that's going out. The mission: to boldly install some monitoring equipment up on top of a mountain, and see what's there while you're in the area. Time for departures and last-minute tinkering! ]

((ooc note: If you'd like to backdate any participation, please feel free to comment to the post linked above -- if not, jump in from here!))

Comments

[splinten]

It is complicated, that's cool though.

[He wants to reassure Geir about that. That the Tree is not physically present in the same way as normal things does make perfect sense. That 'proximity' to the tree makes it physical, and that proximity is defined by poweer, also makes sense. He isn't sure he fully understands names, but he's trying to get it set properly.]

If I'm understanding correctly, this is partly in the structure of fate. It's set down that these Names have roles in the inevitably theomachy. You aren't Nidhoggr unless you destroy the tree, but you have that potential and are intended to take that role. You already are Jormungand, int that you've been born into that name, but you also aren't it because you haven't yet taken the action that makes you truly embody that Name. But you're Loki's serpent kid; it's your fate. There's no ambiguity about it.

And Geir is just what you're called.

Is that right?

[rootandbranch]

[of course Dirk picks up on it fast. Geir's inordinately relieved by this, and also pleased. he knew Dirk would.]

Almost right. I wasn't doing things right as Jormungand back home, so I'd stepped back from the Name a little. It was still mine to take, just...

Everything else you said is right though. It's what I'm supposed to do.

But, Qri's had the name "Jormungand" in her caravan since I got here. So that's really strange. I don't know exactly how she's doing it either; that's a Qri thing, not a Tree thing.

[splinten]

[.........]

Okay yeah that's super fucking weird.

[She took a NAME. WHAT.]

[rootandbranch]

I think she wrote it down on something and then did a thing. Best guess. This is why poets are scary.

[splinten]

What does that even mean for you?

[rootandbranch]

It hasn't really come up a lot. Vern and I were already going to try something different for a while before we decided about Ragnarok, so unless I need to take it back all of a sudden, we don't mind if the something different is here...

Not being able to touch it is weird, if I think about it. I've never not felt it within reach.

[splinten]

Can you tell me a little more about how you interact with it? I know it wouldn't be physical.

[rootandbranch]

Sure.

[Geir starts spiraling down through the trees -- they've reached the point where it's a better idea to walk the rest of the way. Dirk's question is an interesting question. no one has asked it quite like that before.]

It's always been there, ever since I was old enough to remember. It's like... a weight? You carry it around with you. I guess it's sort of like your sword. You might not be able to draw it, but you're still wearing it.

[splinten]

[Goodbye, flying. He'll miss you. His lungs won't, but he will.]

So now you feel like you can't even grab it.

Do you think that gives you more freedom from that Name?

[rootandbranch]

[Geir lands solidly, with a little thump. time to hack their way through the trees... luckily, Geir is a natural trailblazer that way.]

Not any more than before. It's still there, I just can't reach it. Mostly it just makes me nervous that I'm not choosing to step back for a while. What if I needed it all of a sudden?

[splinten]

[Thanks, bulldozer dragon.]

What would it mean to need it? I'm not sure if that would constitute as a kind of power or as taking a role in events, or some other option.

[rootandbranch]

Yyyyyes. Both of those. Maybe all three?

I can't start Ragnarok without it, anyway.

[splinten]

What would happen if you tried to start Ragnarok without it?

[rootandbranch]

. . . what. I have no idea. I don't think that Heimdallr would blow his horn, or that anything. . . I. . . huh. I never even thought about it!

I think, probably nothing? I feel like it's nothing, I just don't know how I know that.

[splinten]

It might be some kind of intuition related to your place in the world. Could someone else start Ragnarok?

[rootandbranch]

No. I wake up. That's the first part.

[splinten]

Is it bad if Ragnarok can't happen?

[rootandbranch]

[he pauses for a minute before replying this time: he's got to shove his way through some of the thick vegetation ahead.]

...I guess it depends on who you ask...?

[splinten]

[Thanks, path-clearer.]

The current person I'm asking is you.

[rootandbranch]

The only thing I know or care about that's bad about it not happening is that Vern might not be happy. There's some stuff about the world being renewed eventually once everything's destroyed, but pretty much everyone dies first. All the humans but two, most of the gods...

[splinten]

[Well.]

I guess that all makes sense.

If I may, I'd like to say that apocalypses suck, even for the people who survive it.

[rootandbranch]

...I know. We weren't planning to.

[splinten]

I had assumed from what you've indicated. I just wanted to give my two cents as a kid who showed up after an apocalypse was done happening.

[rootandbranch]

Oh. I'll think about it...