Jello... blobs...?

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Okay... I'm getting just gibberish here. I'm trying to figure it all out so that it'll be comprehensible.



There is the Stone. The stone needs to be "Weaned" off its previous host because it's kind of alive and will kill someone if it's not returned to its virgin state before being transfered. For some reason the Stone needs to be worn... but it doesn't say why. I mean the magical change has already happened so why can't they just shove it into a locked box and not have to worry about it. Apparently it's a test of faith. Or... something. Because the stone some how connects them all to the knowledge of the stuff and when it's immersed in the water it's no longer connecting them... or something. And... stuff... or something... which I don't think is at all important.

Remember Natasha, the little girl who got kidnapped by the Evil Sorceresses? We hear the wizard's side of the story. How she was just a cute little girl and oh so precious and it was horrible that she vanished. And then daddy went to look for her and apparently he's alive and with a bunch of books and... um... I um...if he's so powerful... why didn't they kill him?

The ones who wrote the tome are called "The Ones Who Came Before".

Before what?

Before whom?

Before them, apparently. The authors knew that someone would find it and they wrote an instruction manual. And they called themselves the Ones Who Came Before... Isn't that lovely? That's just as bad as calling your minions Minions.

Then Triscuit learns about the third volume with the prophesies and he gets horny.

As he gave more and more thought to the Prophecies, he began to feel the endowed blood in his veins race even faster. He started to feel flushed and then slightly dizzy, the way he'd felt when he approached the Well of the Redobut. It was frightening, yet at the same time it gave him a kind of euphoria that he had never experienced before.

I know some people get really passionate about books....but generally they don't orgasm over them.

Somehow within him (It actually says Somehow) Triscuit knows that Earwig is the one to talk to about the prophecies. As opposed to Triscuit knowing that Earwig is the wisest person and most knowledgeable of all the wizards who has actually studied the damn book of prophecies.

Triscuit is stunned to learn that Earwig and the other wizards were there at his birth. I would think this is something that would have been commented on before. Just in passing between Earwig and Triscuit through day to day matters.

The book of prophecies is apparently very specific... but not enough that it couldn't foretell that they were going to be attacked by the Coven which they thought had been had been destroyed. Thus letting them actually PREPARE for the attacks. I mean, what good is a book of prophecies if it doesn't even hint at that sort of stuff? Maybe a virus got to it or something... or they're just too dumb. Or maybe it just didn't go any further than CHOSEN ONE BEING BORN YAY!!

But apparently the prophecy was not in the book of prophecies....which only the Chosen One can read...

And now I'm all confused.

I'm just going to shove that away in a corner and move on.

Allegedly he's the Chosen One because of the Purity of his Endowed Blood. And because of that blood he'll lead them and show them the way.

So basically he has absolutely no qualifications whatsoever.

He doesn't have to do anything. Any choice he makes will be the right one. Because he's the Chosen One because of his Blood, not because of anything he has to do. He could just sit around on his ass smoking weed and it'd be the right thing to do. Because he's the Chosen One. He could up and die and it'd be the right thing for him to do, because he's the Chosen One. (Which would be nice). And this is why I hate Chosen Ones. There's no worry about if anything they do will cause disaster because they are the Chosen Ones and so everything they do is right even if everyone else thinks it's wrong.

And then it gets really weird.

You know how they're always praying to the Afterlife and stuff like that? Before they found the tomes they had no concept of it.

"Over the course of the last three hundred years, the occasional use of the word 'Afterlife' by the members of the Directorate came to be overheard by the general population and was eventually adopted into our language as a part of our custom of speech, although no one outside of the Directorate ever had the slightest inkling of what it really meant," he continued. "We did not discourage its use because it seemed to guide their perceptions about death to a more peaceful, gentle conclusion. It seemed to provide hope both to those who were about to die, and to those who had lost loved ones...

You know what? I just realized something here... there's no religion. There hasn't been any mention of gods or temples or anything like that. The Afterlife just happened as an after thought. People had no conception of what happened to them after they died. They didn't even apparently think about it until the afterlife became known which is, according to the Tome, and I quote here, "A compassionate place where the souls of the dead supposedly go". So, they don't even believe this is true, it's just "Supposedly" what happens. And the wizards are letting the people believe in this "fantasy" because it gives them comfort. They have no belief system at work here. They're just existing. And it's because of the wizards that they can have comfort when they die where before, they didn't.

Did these people just not think about things before the wizards showed up? I mean, they didn't keep histories. They didn't have a vision of what happens when they die. Even Paloini's atheist elves had an afterlife! I'm beginning to think these aren't real people here but rocks. Or sheep. Maybe sheep.

But I like sheep. They're cute and tasty.

Blobs of Jello... no...

God, I don't know what these people are. Stoned out hippies...? No, because then they'd be having visions... um...

I.. don't know... I think they're just figments of my imagination...but I'd never come up with something like that.

Maybe robots? Androids?

I just...

Going to sweep that into a corner too.

Earwig tells Triscuit that they don't have any real idea what the Afterlife (and the Underworld) is because it's in the book of Prophecies which can only be read by Triscuit. The Afterlife is for the Vigors and the Underworld is for the Vagaries and Triscuit is supposed to learn how to join and employ them.

If you join the Afterlife with the Underworld... would you get Limbo? And is that a good thing?

Triscuit cries his second single tear. That's three for the novel so far.

Earwig is stupid and can't figure out how Natasha was involved in planning the attack on the Ceremony.

Sending thoughts is part of the Vagaries. I have no idea why this is selfish or evil or anything... Unless they're ... I just... um...

Brushing that one into the corner too.

So, they decided that they're going to go search out the wizard in the woods tomorrow night. And then Earwig knocks Triscuit out.

I'm gonna go curl up in that corner over there now.