Fallen Star

WARNING! THIS CONTAINS SENSITIVE TOPICS SUCH AS GROOMING, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OBSESSION, AND MURDER. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]

You will always be safe with me.

@starinthedeep

Chances are, he would have tried to do this even if you had said no.

The responsibility to do good lied with him, not you.

That’s… not all of it.

The one good thing He has ever done is take you in so your innocence could never be questioned.

He might have been hurting his family as well.

You will always be safe with me.

@starinthedeep

Chances are, he would have tried to do this even if you had said no.

The responsibility to do good lied with him, not you.

WARNING! THIS CONTAINS SENSITIVE TOPICS SUCH AS GROOMING, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OBSESSION, AND MURDER. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]

WARNING! THIS CONTAINS SENSITIVE TOPICS SUCH AS GROOMING, SEXUAL ASSAULT, OBSESSION, AND MURDER. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]

You currently contain a small part of His power due to your time in Carcosa.

If you were to die He would get this power back.

Him not having this power could be the difference between us being able to save Avery and him forever staying in Carcosa.

If you do not want to continue living for yourself, keep living for him.

-@starinthedeep

thanks

really helping the issue man

Everybody who stays in His proximity for long enough traps a bit of His power.

Us humans are extraordinarily magic-absobent.

Like you hold a bit of His power, so do I and Lapis. All Stars imprison Him a little bit.

And like I can channel that power, so can you with enough practice.

It is like a muscle you must train. And since you have spent relatively little time within Carcosa, you will have to be out more in the sun to recover the spent magic.

Alright, congratulations on knowing a couple of spells.

I want to remind you that you need to keep your magic levels under control.

You currently contain a small part of His power due to your time in Carcosa.

If you were to die He would get this power back.

Him not having this power could be the difference between us being able to save Avery and him forever staying in Carcosa.

If you do not want to continue living for yourself, keep living for him.

-@starinthedeep

thanks

really helping the issue man

Everybody who stays in His proximity for long enough traps a bit of His power.

Us humans are extraordinarily magic-absobent.

Like you hold a bit of His power, so do I and Lapis. All Stars imprison Him a little bit.

And like I can channel that power, so can you with enough practice.

It is like a muscle you must train. And since you have spent relatively little time within Carcosa, you will have to be out more in the sun to recover the spent magic.

You currently contain a small part of His power due to your time in Carcosa.

If you were to die He would get this power back.

Him not having this power could be the difference between us being able to save Avery and him forever staying in Carcosa.

If you do not want to continue living for yourself, keep living for him.

-@starinthedeep

thanks

really helping the issue man

Everybody who stays in His proximity for long enough traps a bit of His power.

Us humans are extraordinarily magic-absobent.

Like you hold a bit of His power, so do I and Lapis. All Stars imprison Him a little bit.

And like I can channel that power, so can you with enough practice.

-@starinthedeep

The portal closed before I could get through and I do not have enough power to open it back up immediately.

Along with the fact that He will be watching for my magic for a while to try to find me, I cannot go back right now.

I could teach you if you want to learn?

Your ability to block Him is quite interesting.

I'd like to research that, if you would allow me to.

First of all, I have seen multiple colors of vines, are those different species which live in harmony or is it just color variation within one species?

Along with that, I have seen multiple vines with either thorns or mushroom-like protrusions. While the thorns can be explained away as a defense mechanism, I cannot figure out what the purpose of the mushrooms are and how they manage to stay on the vines while they move.

That leads to my next question: how do the vines move? Ordinary plants cannot move like that, so that leads me to believe that they are magical in some way but I have never seen magic such as this.

Another thing with the mushrooms: what kind of mushroom are they? I know that you have made tea out of these vines before and it is frankly impossible that the tea didn't at least contain trace amounts of the mushrooms.

Now focusing more on the magical side of things: how can you block Hastur's influence? While there are rituals to block Him, they always leave traces and I cannot detect any such thing around you.

If this ability of yours is truly unique, I want to see if it could be strengthened to cover more land.

...Wait, now that I think about it, where do you and the vines get water from?

It almost never rains in the Dreamlands and organisms of that size requires quite a lot of water.

Is that how you can resist Him? All the water you can find here has been contaminated by Hastur, so it could be that you and the vines have built up a resistance to His magic.

It's definitely different from what I remember.

There are so many new buildings that look ...off.

I cannot tell if I am just so used to the architecture of the outside world that these buildings imbued with His magic feel weird to me.

Although I do not have any of those feelings towards the buildings that existed when I was still there, so I truly have no clue as to what causes this.

Things also seem more frantic than usual.

There are rituals dotted around the year.

Most, like the ones during the change of seasons, are benign.

Making jewelery and food and art to offer to Hastur and to stay in His good graces.

While those tend to cause quite a frenzy, it is nothing compared to the current situation.

No, the only time I've seen the Stars so frantic is right before the summer solstice.

That is when the one who has pleased Him most gets sacrificed, so they can serve Him for eternity in the afterlife.

Nobody knows what happens to those who are sacrifices, but I suspect that Hastur turns them into His loyal Dancers.

Afterwards, the Stars who are healthy adults will go to the theater to witness ...a play of sorts.

I'd rather not talk about that, bad memories.

The current ambiance is that of the last few days before the summer solstice, but last I checked we are already two weeks past it.

I don't know what is going to happen.

The sacrifice isn't known until the day of, when Hastur Himself announces who will become His.

While He did favor them, I think that their powers were far too valuable to give up.

Although there's always the chance that they would've just been kept in His castle.

But its no use thinking about what could've been.

Lapis has betrayed Him.

Historically speaking, newcomers don't do too well within Carcosa.

I, as someone who was familiar with it, had to heal a lot.

It's definitely different from what I remember.

There are so many new buildings that look ...off.

I cannot tell if I am just so used to the architecture of the outside world that these buildings imbued with His magic feel weird to me.

Although I do not have any of those feelings towards the buildings that existed when I was still there, so I truly have no clue as to what causes this.

Things also seem more frantic than usual.

There are rituals dotted around the year.

Most, like the ones during the change of seasons, are benign.

Making jewelery and food and art to offer to Hastur and to stay in His good graces.

While those tend to cause quite a frenzy, it is nothing compared to the current situation.

No, the only time I've seen the Stars so frantic is right before the summer solstice.

That is when the one who has pleased Him most gets sacrificed, so they can serve Him for eternity in the afterlife.

Nobody knows what happens to those who are sacrifices, but I suspect that Hastur turns them into His loyal Dancers.

Afterwards, the Stars who are healthy adults will go to the theater to witness ...a play of sorts.

I'd rather not talk about that, bad memories.

The current ambiance is that of the last few days before the summer solstice, but last I checked we are already two weeks past it.

I don't know what is going to happen.

The sacrifice isn't known until the day of, when Hastur Himself announces who will become His.

While He did favor them, I think that their powers were far too valuable to give up.

Although there's always the chance that they would've just been kept in His castle.

But its no use thinking about what could've been.

Lapis has betrayed Him.

It's definitely different from what I remember.

There are so many new buildings that look ...off.

I cannot tell if I am just so used to the architecture of the outside world that these buildings imbued with His magic feel weird to me.

Although I do not have any of those feelings towards the buildings that existed when I was still there, so I truly have no clue as to what causes this.

Things also seem more frantic than usual.

There are rituals dotted around the year.

Most, like the ones during the change of seasons, are benign.

Making jewelery and food and art to offer to Hastur and to stay in His good graces.

While those tend to cause quite a frenzy, it is nothing compared to the current situation.

No, the only time I've seen the Stars so frantic is right before the summer solstice.

That is when the one who has pleased Him most gets sacrificed, so they can serve Him for eternity in the afterlife.

Nobody knows what happens to those who are sacrifices, but I suspect that Hastur turns them into His loyal Dancers.

Afterwards, the Stars who are healthy adults will go to the theater to witness ...a play of sorts.

I'd rather not talk about that, bad memories.

The current ambiance is that of the last few days before the summer solstice, but last I checked we are already two weeks past it.

I don't know what is going to happen.

-@starinthedeep

The portal closed before I could get through and I do not have enough power to open it back up immediately.

Along with the fact that He will be watching for my magic for a while to try to find me, I cannot go back right now.

I could teach you if you want to learn?

Your ability to block Him is quite interesting.

I'd like to research that, if you would allow me to.

-@starinthedeep

The portal closed before I could get through and I do not have enough power to open it back up immediately.

Along with the fact that He will be watching for my magic for a while to try to find me, I cannot go back right now.