POV Oldman, Jack, former policeman

I got info about weird cases from my contacts in police forces. Most of them were near border with Germany. There was some trouble brewing in Returned Glory city and in some little cities like Mouth city (Gubin). Some necrophile stole corpse from cemetery in little city near Boat city. I wanted to those places and check traces, but I needed to wait till military would return my bio-stone to me. So, I waited.

We went in four people group for bio-stone. There was no problems. It was like that with military, there was no problems or problems no one could solve. I talked with generals in the meantime rest of group took stone. We transported it to temporary place, farm near War-Saw. Devas told me, that all stones of people who joined Devas went through that location. There was lot of security measures there. Sith checked stone and found some electronic bugs on it. We didn’t care. I had papers, that stone was mine. I was sure, that if we complained to military, they would say, that those bugs were precautions against theft and that they didn’t use them against us.

I felt, Devas felt it too, that getting that stone let us do lot more without serious risks involved. They could go and free Vivaldi. I could go after Diana. I had plan to go to Returned Glory city and then, if Diana was not there, to small cities closer to boarder. There is no real boarder between Poland and Germany as both states are in European Union. There is administration boarder. I had no friends among German police forces. I could count on friends on side of Poland.

I did some preparations and moved. Part of preparation was spending time in presence of my bio-stone. I needed it to get four days window, where I wouldn’t need to see it. Sleuth, my bio-stone wanted from me some delay and time for my personal growth in power. I knew, he was distracting me. He wanted to put me under his influence more. Still, I had enough will to move.

POV Lily

Lately Huntress had different cases on her head than public relations and growing awoken supporters. She and Hail and Asmo formed group of fast reacting. They mainly dealt with Vivaldi’s case and oversighted Oldman transition. They used help of other Devas, but only if needed. I thought, that Huntress was balancing ambitious Hail with devoted to Devas Asmo. That way she was on top in decision making process.

That meant, that Mirror and Mercy needed my and Luigi help with growing supporters organization. We supervised third group of loka supporters, supporters from outer circle, becoming awoken to magic. That time all magic abilities were on display in theater. We also hired experienced magic users from sooner groups to help with teaching fresh ones. Those, that couldn’t learn magic ability were added to mix with new ones. We had thirty six people trying to learn magic. They had three days of weekend to go through all magic abilities, practically except sonic boom. Then, they were obligated to choose one and focus on it.

On Sunday we had two surprises. One girl was able to learn sensory radar ability. It was first person except Devas, that could do that. Downside was, that she became mentally unstable and we had to put her into closed room, till later development. Nameless and Coal seemed to be interested in her ability and they asked us to avoid using [Will resonance] on her, till they would come.

Second surprise was guy named Zbig. He was able to learn basics of plasma ball and form cone over his hand. He came to report, that he was spy sent by Beria. He told me, that Beria cheated him. He and others lived in Beria’s commune in hellish conditions. Was indoctrinated, brainwashed. They watched one another if they were leftist and anti-capitalist enough. He was around ground in pecking order but he seemed more intelligent than others, that struggled. There was also those that didn’t struggled under Beria. He said more of that sad story. I listened to him. I learned, that by listening to people they trusted me more. I consoled him. I even didn’t need to use much [Will resonance] on him. He wanted to defect and join Devas supporters instead. He would tell us everything he knew about Beria’s commune in return. I asked, what were his main objectives, what Beria wanted. Beria had some ability to conceal himself in shadows, but it was passive ability. He craved for active magic ability. Also, Beria’s ability didn’t work on groups of people. I got more info out of him, like where exactly Beria was, what was he doing daily. What purposes he had. Coincidentally Oldman was in Returned Glory city.

I told Zbig, that if his revelations showed true, he would become awoken supporter of Devas supporters. Also, he would be under supervision of one of Devas for some time for his and our safety. He agreed, that it was reasonable. He became one under arrest too.

I talked with Mirror and Mercy. One of them should supervise Zbig. Then I called Oldman. He was in Returned Glory city indeed. He asked about lots of details. I even needed to go and talk with Zbig once again. But it was worth it. By next day we had confirmation of some info we got from defector.

POV George, CHoMiA member and founder

Day after fire show life started around twelve o’clock. Lightning users went with cultivation chamber method. Just queue was reversed. Elders, Nameless and Coal, were working on building primitive forge. In fact primitive forge is stove with bellows added. In our times one could also add some electric rotor to circulate air. They was building it, because burning huge fires on daily basis wasn’t way to go due to economic and safety reasons. We had some fun seeing, that Eva hairs were half destroyed. It wasn’t burned to skin, just one side of the head had some unintentional cuts another had less. It looked funny.

Elder Mouse was helping with wind sphere ability. I made table with our names and magic abilities. That way we could update progress.

CHoMiA

Name

Alias

Magic ability

Magic ability

Magic ability

.

Minor magic ability

Founders

1

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George

Flash

lightning

friction

x

x

2

Betty

Dancer

x

friction

wind sph

x

3

Mike

Elemental

x

plasma

x

freezing

4

Eva

Anihilation

lightning

plasma

x

x

5

Voytek

Vov

lightning

x

wind sph

x

6

Tom

Darth

lightning

x

x

freezing

Members

7

Arek

lightning

8

Ignacy

lightning

9

Peter

plasma

10

Dorothy

lightning

We worked that day really hard to put that one person on minor completion, but we weren’t able to do it. That meant, that we needed to choose those, that would be supplemented by others. Cultivators with shorter training gave us priority. We decided to work with two people in chamber during day. One just couldn’t shoot lightnings all day. I wanted to be one very badly. Voytek was passive one. Eva subsided after some talks, because she needed to train also plasma ball. She was afraid that after day on cultivation session with lightning, she wouldn’t have strength to do plasma at all. That made me and Darth winners or forerunners.

Primitive stone forge was build. Plasma users had fun in the evening. We used it as grill. Time was running fast. In late evening we were talking and joking. We dreamed dreams of power, but sometimes we got serious. We, Cultivation Humanhood of Mountains intersecting Abyss, had no income, no revenue. Peter paid Eva for his magic ability lessons earlier, but he became one of us. We had money from Elders for now, but we needed to became independent at some point. Independence grows on mutually beneficial relations with others. It would be best, if we could find method to use our abilities to produce something, that could be sold. Otherwise we would be tempted to become bandits or ruffians. Magic abilities were products in themselves, but by selling them cheap we would cut revenue in future. Those we would teach, would teach others too. In the end, we decided, that we would find something to sell in the future and that we needed to stabilize magic abilities first.

During third day Nameless and Coal got some calls from other Devas and left us. Thing were going fine so they said, that Mouse should be enough, till they would coma back. It was perhaps coincidence, but after they left at the end of the day and chamber training I felt as if lightning permeated my body. It went from my heart in all directions. When it reached my head I felt dizzy. I shot last lightning and screamed to others to stop charging chamber. I lied down. Waves of lightning were sailing through my body. They bounced of inside my skin and want back. They were losing some efficiency during sailing through my flesh. Those waves that flied through my head made me sick. People around me was talking to me, but I was too focused on my body responses, that I didn’t even understood what they were saying. Afterwards, they said, that I was unresponsive for fifteen minutes. I felt as if I was focused for hours. I gathered myself, when feeling of lightning waving through my body vanished. I felt different though, as some of that lightning became my flesh. I bled a little from all holes of my body during that process. When I say all holes, I mean all holes without exceptions, even belly button and nails and penis. I needed to wash myself. I was walking with dizziness. I talked to friends. I spited out blood. Probably I wasn’t looking good. All people came to help me. I felt quite all right except dizziness. I got hot bath, strong tea and lot of warm. I described what happened to me. Probably it was minor completion process. Someone said that heart produces more electric current than brain, but brain works on electric voltages with less current strength. Probably that was why I got some dizziness, when waves influenced my normal brain workings. And maybe other effects too.

I spook them, but also showed that being forerunner wasn’t all flowery. I was tired as if after marathon. I didn’t have strength to train friction control. I wanted to go to sleep early. They left someone near and let me sleep. I dreamed of lightning maneuvering through void. It could be fractal and it could be focused. It depended on void quality.

POV Rook

I believed, when Oldman said, that he would kill me, if I wouldn’t help Devas. He bypassed ancient stone rules. He was dangerous. Even my bio-stone, Tree, told me, that I was in danger. I wanted to help Diana just a little, but I couldn’t when I was weak. I sent her few messages, that police was searching for her, but she didn’t even read those. I wanted to cry, but I knew that crying wouldn’t help. I asked uncle, how I could help. He let me help with transport of medicine to military-civilian company. I also got some paper work. I felt, that nobody trusted me enough to give me anything crucial. I needed time to regain trust, but I didn’t have it.

I was sent to Lynx to help gather bodies. I didn’t get that part, where bodies were transported to hidden farms. I only gathered them in choke points, where they waited in deep freeze before later transport. I heard that there were some actions planned. I reported my willingness to join them.

During one of my days of work I got info, that I could be helpful after they would free Vivaldi. I went to pointed place and waited in motel. Something big was going on, I felt it. I was sure I could be trusted after I would help at big deal.