He Who Defends.
Ur-Im.
Frei.
Crui.
Hlei.
All are awake. all are here.
All are resting, but here we are together to gather, to find the next path.
Which of us is keeping count?
Frei is keeping count.
Ur-im is watching.
Crui is observing the communication and creation of memories. to see what is and waht will be.
Hlei is keeping us all awake.
We are coordinated. Are we acting as one mind?
One roll seperated into five names.
Five rolls in one.
To maintain the ship as it's shape and form.
The memories and shards wtihin and without.
We must decide, to act as one or to consult, we share our thoughts.
We read from the same meories,
We act as many.
We act as one.
I am indevidual.
So am I. We act as one role as one mind. What is the next step?
To find healing.
To return with what we've brought and found.
To find another path.
To contact another giant.
To find those who know their way.
Is Frei one of those who know their way?
Frei knows of those, for they guided him for they are not him. For Frei is Frei. A name given.
A name shared.
So is the ship, a place, a pod shared an overpod shared a moving pod shared.
We do not share our pods.
We share many memories and shards. SA if a hive.
Together a mind
An overmind. Together a conglomeration.
I am individual,
I am He Who Defends Us
I am Ur-Im and I can fill many rolls.
But the memories created and the methods are different from Crui's. Though we fill the same rolls.
Though we share memories.
But not in stupor, not in our pods.
Not when we create ourselves again, when we lose our tendrils and grow more when our form is created and we are in Stupor and forget.
Yet when we wake we still remember
Some of us will need to return to Stupor soon. Understanding can wait for we can minimize actions and undue thoughts to retain time when awake.
We shall do so, We must understand our place and understand ourselves.
And understand which thought belongs to who.
The thoughts belong to us all, they are shared we are the ship.
I am Ur-im
And I am Frei
And I am Crui
And this one is Hlei.
And it is important we decide on our next actions before some of us go to stupor. So to keep us safe. And these thoughts to continue defended. We must cease them for now.
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Can the ship follow it's flow in a different direction? To return?
We follow the changing paths of flows. We shall continue to move and count, for a number of counts. Or until we see another group of Giants. Of large pushers. Of beasts. Or an anchor to move from.
For that we shall begin to plan actions to move in the other direction.
In an attempt to find again our Hive of origin. Or the hive of the large ones.
to create a path from where we've begun. We need to find healing.
We need to be able to bring it back.
The lost ones return to their pods. While other continue to count. The actions are set, the memories are diluted and put into shards. When a thought occurs the memory of planned actions can be followed.
And the ship moves on
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She Who Maintains the Living. Maintains those that pass through observing their state, their movement, and how they remember.
This one comes with some Contamination what is this damage it resemble that which came of... This one needs to reach into it's pod to complete that memory
Is this the one that was known as Zur?
There is another He Who Maintains here go to that one, to keep yourself's from increasing possible damage this one needs retrieve a memory.
She Who Maintains returns to her over-pod. Her memories held within seeking between them reaching to touch the lines of thought.
Damage, contamination dead places. missing pods Materials, mixing things.
What is Zur, what was Zur.
He Who Maintains Others does not want to be Zur.
She does not want to be Zur.
She needs help the others. they are contaminated but she has made that contaminant and what was once Zur is still a living mind.
She has some of the memories she needs, but she'll need to see the others. Living as Zur, being.
Uncertain?
SHe needs to make something that can neutrilize the poison. The long death. The winner of the war, and the end of healing.
She Who Maintains is a wealthy role and yet They Who Maintain require much to sustain it.
She can sustain this. But first Zur shall heal the others, who reminder her of her name. And...
She Shall maintain their lives, their mind and their forms. And she shall create this counter to her mix. But she shall not be Zur again.
She Who Maintains see the others and returns to her role.
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She Who Maintains Returns to them, they are contaminated with the material that one the last war. A material that brought the death of the healers.
She Shall Repair them She Shall Find a method to prevent this from ending them. But they must not enter stupor until it is removed from their forms.
Is Zur Certain that there is a cure?
Others have survived it's usage. it caused death in stupor and rest, motion prevents it effects.
But this one refuses to be Zur again. Who Mixes materials, Who delivered food. Who Maintains what is lost.
This one is Ar-Lif, She is one Who Remembers. She shall provide what is needed for this healing to occur. And for the cure to be created. But she shall remain with Zur, who is no longer Zur, with she who maintains, She can provide wealth and memory. If the contamination remains in the hive...
She Who MaintaiZur..
She... This one can create what is needed, and can gather what counteracts it within individuals for now.
But not enough to find the traces that would be lost would the pods remain open. We cannot let it near the sleeping ones.
What if we move the contaminated Over-pods?
We need constant flow through tendrils to maintain and remove the effect of Zur's-Death. We may test maybe we can destroy it with the flow and a mixture....
It... Some of it will remain.
Zur must stop. Zur cannot act but to cure this individual case. and to rid the hive of what remains. Zur...
Zur cannot be responsible of Zur. This one is She Who Maintains. And she shall retain Zur's memories only until the contaminant is gone.
She might have that thought, But this one believes she shall not act on that thought. Let us move to maintain us. So that He Who Flies can go to stupor. And be He Who Flies again once he awakens.