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Cᴀssɪᴀɴ "ᴘᴀʀᴀɴᴏɪᴅ ɢʀᴀɴᴅᴘᴀ" Aɴᴅᴏʀ ([personal profile] evasives) wrote in [community profile] meadowlark2021-01-28 10:22 pm

@cassian.andor

[ someone's been dwelling on the aerie but, like, not in a traumatic way. cracks proverbial knuckles. ]

I had a conversation with Johann Grey, shortly before the gods were freed in the Aerie. My impression is that he had little to do with the Aerie's creation as a universe, and the version of him we saw in there was a position placed upon him by the god that also put us there in the first place. It is something to consider when we examine the roles placed upon all of us, how much of that might be a god’s perspective. He suspected it was largely the work of at least two of them and all but confirmed Gold’s involvement - which given the glowing eyed nature of the kestrel powers, makes sense.

I have caught up and see that James Henries is responsible for the death of the Blue god, but Grey had a friend in the Gold one in the Aerie. He claimed Gold was responsible for the Aerie, as well as the fact that we seem to have woken him up in the first place.

It was the recent expedition in May to Antarctica that woke up the Gold god. It would further explain the surge of golden eyed monsters that followed that earthquake and how they sought us out as Displaced. Ball's followers believe the gods are asleep, that previous god-touched individuals were left with the responsibility of keeping the world safe. We see signs of this throughout the history of this planet, with the hieroglyphics in New Cairo and the murals in New Oslo (my understanding of this world's timeline dates the art of these two societies at thousands of years apart). We, the Displaced, are the first evidence of the god-touch the cultists have seen in a long while. I realize this is old news for some of us, but we are constantly welcoming new numbers, so bear with it.

For those who were not able to reach under the volary, six of the gods were in bird cages, looking like wisps of color. The Gold one freely fluttered around Grey much like a bird. Blue is dead and we have pieces of him in us, Gold is awake, which means there are still five of them out there, presumably still asleep. Johann Grey was searching for a god in Antarctica, and we know he wanted to use Spinetail to wake Blue up. We can theorize he may be looking for the rest.

I do not trust Grey. But I do not believe he is an active threat to us. We do not seem to be his targets in the grand scheme so much as occasional collateral. I hope we can understand the difference, as I am not saying he is not dangerous, but his motivations seem more chaotically selfish than outright evil. He is aware of who we are and used Cassius to predict our continuous arrival in the Marianas Trench, and we know he worked with Henries, as well as Riverstone on Project Spinetail. They were first introduced in 2273 by an ancestor of Meredith Ling, the current CEO. A UN backed facility in New Omsk was used in a cover up for the Spinetail earthquake’s epicenter, which suggests UN involvement as well, but given how tightly Riverstone works with the UN, this is not a surprise. What concerns me more is what Riverstone or the UN might want with a god.

And Grey may still have Judas. He is not a safe man, and tracking him down still presents danger, even if his goals lie elsewhere.
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[personal profile] evocation 2021-01-29 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, that's a good point
it feels like we're never as sneaky as we think we are
cassian made a neat point, though
maybe our dreams could be a way to figure this stuff out without us wandering all over the place
righteously: (¹⁵ Bᴜʀɴs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ʀᴇᴅ ᴄᴏᴀʟ ᴄᴀʀᴘᴇᴛ)

[personal profile] righteously 2021-01-29 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
hell no we're not sneaky, half of us were just on TV
I got like 50 thousand followers in 2 days
incognito is not a thing we got going for us

any bright ideas on how we'd go about that or figuring out what we're even looking for?
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[personal profile] evocation 2021-01-29 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
if you want my honest but totally bummer opinion
i think we're complete babies when it comes to the dreams
so the first step would have to be practicing and getting good at controlling them
really learning how they work
maybe there's a way to intentionally share dreams with them like we do with each other?
righteously: (⁸ Lᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡᴇᴀʀʏ)

[personal profile] righteously 2021-01-29 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
call me when you figure it out so I can dreamshare with that chick who looks like Gal Gadot if she was stepping on your face while doing bicep curls
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[personal profile] righteously 2021-01-29 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
doesn't matter, the point is maybe this is a divide and conquer thing

You nerd out with my brother and whoever else goes from six to midnight over the smell of ninety year old books, I'm gonna hang out with whoever wants to focus on finding a way to plug JPG before he can crack open a cold one, bam, bases covered
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[personal profile] evocation 2021-01-29 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
okay
we'll let you know how many boner inducing juicy facts we find