It’s that time again dear readers, and the crossover is properly heated. Yana and Owuo are still in the Smiting Chamber as the Zacchaeus War continues. Owuo works as an agent of Yana, who bested him at a game of Smiting, and Yana works as an agent of the Chamber. That’s right folks, the Smiting Chamber got a whiff of a terrible threat a while ago, and Yana has been working to assuage its fears. But are the assembled beings enough to deal with the threat of Minyak? And if Minyak is putting up such a fight, what of these Pito that everyone keeps complaining about? Buckle up, dear readers, because today we present:
Heated
act ii
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This week:
Node 5 Prime 5 Earth Year 2024
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Before the Vodun reconvene to gang up on the Deck of Impending Doom, Lêgba spends part of his prep time delving into the memories of his iteration that found a duplicate Fonlands on the multiversal structure. What Lêgba remembers will make him say an Earther curse word.
What Else? (Finding Lêgba 1st Tel.): “Lêgba is still shook. The realization that there is another Fonlands on the multiversal structure was baffling to him, though it shouldn’t have been. Lêgba is likely the being who has seen more of the multiversal structure than anyone else and he knows firsthand that even if he’d created a billion iterations of himself and sent them out into the multiverse to each visit a million unique universes, he wouldn’t even be scratching the surface.”
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Maxx is still on the Mmoatia ship and even though the threat of the Daemon is neutralized, Zacchaeus is locked in a war with Minyak. And Maxx learns that Minyak is still causing problems on the surface of Bludon.
Slimed In (Âmuk 1st Tel.): “It pained Maxx to see Zacchaeus in the strange condition he displayed when they landed on the surface of Top. Zacchaeus had floated up from the Daemon asteroid and everyone, including Maxx, stared up at him as his body was covered in black oil.”
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The Zacchaeus War shifts stages, and Zacchaeus and the Needy find themselves in Minyak’s domain, a world of billowing clouds and beautiful vistas under magical arches.
Shame on the Devil (The Deft Hands of Zacchaeus 1st Tel.): “When Zaccaehues opened his eyes, he was in clouds that felt like soft cushions underneath him. When he stood and walked through the billows of clouds, a soft surface persisted under his feet, but he moved through the wisps of clouds that were cool and dark, like a storm cloud. There were more clouds above him at a distance and he saw what looked like domes of glass dotting those clouds.”
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Tracia and Metatron have been sent away by Lorv to deal with the tensions between them while everyone else on Top worries about the fate of Zacchaeus. They are overdue for a real conversation and Tracia chooses a familiar location to have it.
B.A.S. (Tracia’s Greatest Hits): “Tracia sent them to the Triangle Glade on the Disc of Agê. When she emerged through her portal, Metatron was sitting on the mossy root of a tree that was so large, it seemed like a tree in itself.”
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The Alia is in a universe that is gray and unmoving. She and Ivan wonder how it got this way, how it manages to persist and defy physical possibility.
Multiversal Family Tree : “She knew what it had been, what had raged across the unfathomable distance of that entire reality, and it was astounding to witness that space in the absence of that raging red energy. ”
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Maria learns to Ryde the Wynds on Juoil. It is not an easy task, but Maria doesn’t know the meaning of the word quit. Plus, the Halfyn Heir may have been dumped, but he has persistence like the Transverse.
Brokey (Wazad of Outer-Spacetime 1st Tel): “The view over Juoil is stunning and Maria can imagine her very tiny place among the cosmic vastness in the space of the Aifyn Line. She feels herself as a spot of color against the brassy red of the cosmic background, dotting it like so many other things that are practically nothing on a large scale.”
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It’s the PRL Serials Volume 4! More exciting than a game of Smiting between two Vodun!
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