34: A Dead Business (Part 2)
The 3 students were surprised, and Drenak asked him “Shouldn't you give us the basics first? Like how to reach this realm and bring souls here?”
Gallen simple replied “That will be covered.”
At the front of the building and at the field, he told them “I think about what I want while walking away from here. The Astral is heavily guided by will and intent. In fact, apart from some solid places like this, in the Astral Sea you primarily move by willing yourself to move. Sure it may be extremely slow and anything living may die from old age before they get anywhere, but it can be done. We use Astral Barges and others to help us get from place to place faster when using the Astral Sea.
“You will feel guided to where you want to go. Right now I am willing for us to go to a place with peaceful unclaimed souls, in simple terms. The actual desires I am using are more complex than that.”
Suddenly the mists of the astral plan shifted and a path opened up before them.
Following it, Gallen told them, “The basics are we go to the place, find the souls, and if it’s suitable, try to convince it to come here. Then we re-submerge into the Astral Sea and lead it back. You can use Avatars when you develop them to make this faster for you. Avatars can also be designed to maximize their efficiency while here.”
Soon they came to a place on the edge of a reality. From what they could see a bus had crashed there years ago, but not all the souls had passed on.
When you group arrived, it drew a lot of attention from the souls. Considering they were off to the side of the road and down a steep slope, the souls did not get much to distract them and they were bored.
Gallen let them clamor around their group for a bit and held up his hands for the group to calm down.
“I know you have been waiting here for a while. And no! We are not responsible for that!”
One of the souls, a businesswoman called out “Then who is?”
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The others started to agree with her.
Gallen told them “Blame the Gods of this world. We are not from here! Technically we are skimming by on loophole just to be here. We may be able to help some of you, if a condition is met.”
A punk asked “What condition?”
Gallen was dead serious. “No Power currently holds claim over you. You may not have followed a real faith, it may have abandoned its claim over you, or you broke rules unintentionally so they won’t claim your soul. If they can claim you, we can’t help you. We can possibly help the rest.”
The bus driver asked “How can we tell if anyone has a claim over us?”
“That is what I am going to teach my students here.” He jerked a thumb back to the students.
The dead lined up and Gallen went along it, and then with each student and let them try to sense if anyone had a claim over them.
One was a Christian, but there was something prohibiting them from passing over to his Heaven. He had not been abandoned.
They looked at things and frowned. Gallen told the students “We are not allowed to help those others can claim, but if we use one of the others that we can claim to practice how to sort this issue out for your own use latter, that is allowed. If it means that someone who is Faithful can use it, or the other locals can help them with it, then it is a choice by the locals and thus allowed.”
The issue was that the man needed to relay some information to his family.
They took another passenger and used their connection to others to find their family. Gallen showed them how to have people enter the dreamscape part of the Astral Plane and relay messages. Each of the students did the same. While they were doing this they were of course not paying attention to the Christian.
The messages were all basically the same; they loved and missed their family, but hope they don’t meet them for a long time. There were some personal messages, and advice given.
Soon enough they sorted things out and started talking while the Christian was getting things sorted out.
One asked Gallen, “What will happen with our souls?”
Gallen told them “There is a range of possibilities. The simplest is reincarnation. Another is being turned into other kinds of beings, like Celestials, Faye, Fiends, Elementals and more. You will not be changed without your consent!
“You will slumber until it is time. It should not be long.”
“Why do we have to sleep?”
“Because for now everything has to be neutral and I don’t think any of you want to be in the same place as sadistic rapist and murderers. We are trying to work on things, like possibly putting everyone with similar personalities together, maybe therapy, maybe something else.”
They agreed.
Soon the Christian returned. As they watched the Christian brightened into light that faded away.
Gallen told his students, “I guess he managed to pass over.”
Gallen led them through to the Astral and soon they arrived at the city, where they entered the room one after the other and ended up sleeping in their boxes.
Gallen turned to his students. “Now for your turns!”