PT 014 Sage and Simmons

USS AdventureToday at 10:28 PM

You are being escorted to the prison by Inspector Moq and some of his guards.  It's underground and you are traveling via a strange elevator, moving in all directions.

SageToday at 10:29 PM

((I assume it is the same as the last time sage visited unless this is a different facility ))

USS AdventureToday at 10:29 PM

((It is.  It's very familiar to you.))

[10:29 PM]

You are eventually guided to an all white room.  You know they can see you through the walls, but you can't see the inspectors yourself.

SageToday at 10:30 PM

(( and I guess they can’t hear ? Since they didn’t know what happened last visit?))

USS AdventureToday at 10:31 PM

Behind a glass wall halfway through the room...is Gottfried...or what remains of him.

[10:31 PM]

His presentation is jarringly different.  His calm collectiveness is gone and he's instead huddles in a corner, his hair disheveled and his face twisted into a strange smile.

SageToday at 10:32 PM

Gottfried?

USS AdventureToday at 10:32 PM

Gottfried: "...hello, metal man.  Hahah.  You seem bigger...or maybe I'm smaller."

SageToday at 10:34 PM

How are you since the seperation?

USS AdventureToday at 10:36 PM

Gottfried: "Oh, we're all fine in here, Scholar.  Pieces flying this way and that, but nothing lost.  Nothing gained."

SageToday at 10:37 PM

Do you feel abandoned?

USS AdventureToday at 10:38 PM

Gottfried: "Oh no!  Lonely, maybe scared, but I know I will be Gottfried again.  It is as written.  The stars shall come home and we shall all burn with their light."

SageToday at 10:41 PM

You expect your One to return to you?

USS AdventureToday at 10:42 PM

Gottfried: "Yes.  It shall be beautiful, Philosopher.  You shall see."

[10:45 PM]

Gottfried: "...we cannot change society.  We cannot return to the cave.  ...we must bring everyone into the light."

SageToday at 10:45 PM

What is this light or writing you keep referencing?

USS AdventureToday at 10:46 PM

Gottfried: "My light.  Their light.  We parse it out like water in a drought.  When an oasis floats just beyond our reach."

SageToday at 10:47 PM

((25 insight does he seem sane, like a zealot, or just outright insane?))

USS AdventureToday at 10:48 PM

((His words seem to have tangible meaning, like a zealot.  But without his one, he is not present enough to really speak on it feesibly.))(edited)

[10:48 PM]

((He's trying to explain it to you but cannot remember how it goes.))

SageToday at 10:49 PM

What is the cave you spoke of?

USS AdventureToday at 10:51 PM

Gottfried: "The cave is ignorance.  The cave is darkness.  The cave is solidarity.  To exist only within yourself."

SageToday at 10:52 PM

And did your one promise to return how do you know you will “be Gottfried again”

USS AdventureToday at 10:53 PM

"He did promise.  He is honest.  He is light."

SageToday at 10:56 PM

Where is the honesty in framing someone else for a crime?

USS AdventureToday at 10:58 PM

"There is an honesty of spirit.  When you have that, your actions are always guided.  I did not just hear him, Scholar.  I was him."

SageToday at 11:00 PM

Not a scholar.  And you were him who are you right now?

USS AdventureToday at 11:01 PM

"...I don't know.  I hadn't thought about it.  But it doesn't matter.  Who I am now shall fade.  Who I was is eternal."

SageToday at 11:02 PM

Fading and passing is part of existence you are more than just Gottfried in this instance you are separate.

[11:03 PM]

Why not try and be who that is?

[11:03 PM]

Nothing is eternal

USS AdventureToday at 11:04 PM

"...you wish me to fall, to hide in a cave as you do.  You who have walked among the stars still refuse them and refuse the great joining.  I am not so weak."

SageToday at 11:07 PM

No falling no hiding .who were you before you Joined?

USS AdventureToday at 11:08 PM

"...I was...I had the name Simmons, I believe."

SageToday at 11:10 PM

And how long were you joined to Gottfried ,Simmons?

USS AdventureToday at 11:12 PM

"...approximately 70 years, I believe."

SageToday at 11:13 PM

And were you and Gottfried always focused on this goal or was it a more recent development or did something change recently ?

USS AdventureToday at 11:14 PM

"There is no me and Gottfried.  He is only Gottfried when he is me!"

SageToday at 11:15 PM

What is his name otherwise?

[11:16 PM]

Who are they now or seventy years ago?

USS AdventureToday at 11:17 PM

"He is Star of Morn.  He'd picked that name from a past life.  He knew what his people were."

SageToday at 11:17 PM

What do you mean?

USS AdventureToday at 11:18 PM

"He guides the sailors.  They are the light that shows us what we are and can become.  We are never better than when among the Ascended."

SageToday at 11:20 PM

You want everyone to be Joined?

USS AdventureToday at 11:22 PM

"Yes.  You gave us this idea with your arrival.  We now knew there was hope of finding the stars."

[11:24 PM]

"...we will thank you.  When the stars come home."

[11:25 PM]

He presses a hand to the glass.

SageToday at 11:28 PM

puts his hand up against the glass as well “ you have a lot of faith in Star of Morn”

USS AdventureToday at 11:29 PM

"...faith manages, Scholar.  In a world of darkness, we all need light."

SageToday at 11:32 PM

We do one just hopes they pick the right one

[11:34 PM]

Is there anything you want that would make your wait for Star of Morn more comfortable?

USS AdventureToday at 11:35 PM

"...tales.  Books.  A comfort for a mind adrift."

SageToday at 11:35 PM

I will ask the guards

[11:36 PM]

Just do me a favor if you are going to thank me if Star of Morn can have an identity right now you can too just try and think what Simmons would feel about these 70 years with Star of Morn.

[11:37 PM]

will head towards the door

USS AdventureToday at 11:37 PM

He nods

[11:37 PM]

((We can end here, if you'd like))

SageToday at 11:38 PM

((Yep Sage would ask Moq if they could give some books  to him))

USS AdventureToday at 11:41 PM

((They'll arrange something.  I hope that was fun.))