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Post by Manah on Jan 28, 2024 1:00:38 GMT -5
She did just that... quickly recalling that the moon had a VERY thin atmosphere and no breathable oxygen. Perhaps an additional quick spell, or power? ...was in order.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jan 28, 2024 1:07:42 GMT -5
she created said atmosphere.
20 in Starborn to create atmosphere.
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Post by Manah on Jan 29, 2024 1:06:12 GMT -5
She successfully created her own atmosphere, immediately granting her air, relief and protection from the harmful environment around her.
It also gave her the opportunity to notice the gargantuan alien(?) starship a few hundred feet away from her. Its huge, oval-shaped, smooth cockpit parallel to the ground below it, but its back and wings at an odd, diagonal 25 degrees angle to the ship's left, with an half circle metal part seemingly floating just above the back of the ship. It had no visible landing gears, but was hovering, completely still, over the ground.
She could see an access hatch on the set, which she could easily reach by jumping with the Moon's lowered gravity and going up its wings like a ramp.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jan 29, 2024 1:08:05 GMT -5
She did just that.
2 stones in str to leap up there.
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Post by Manah on Jan 29, 2024 2:11:45 GMT -5
The access hatch opened the moment she reached it, revealing a thin force field... which allowed her in, but prevented anything harmful from outside from getting inside along. Once she'd stepped inside, the hatch automatically closed and sealed itself behind her.
Before her was a spacious, vast and surprisingly minimalistic bridge with few consoles and only a handful of seats and control panels. And standing in the middle, waiting for her, was a feminine figure wearing a sleek, silver and pale blue form-fitting spacesuit with an helmet equipped with an opaque black visor, hiding her host's face. The being spoke with the same voice she had heard on her phone before.
"Welcome aboard my ship, Henrietta Elric. I am the Scientist. A Starborn... just like you."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jan 29, 2024 2:15:13 GMT -5
"Starborn?" She asked.
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Post by Manah on Jan 29, 2024 20:37:23 GMT -5
"Indeed", the figure said, nodding. "That is the name we give to beings who passed through Unity. Through the center of the Universe... and were reborn through it. Although, you are the only one whom I know of to have done so... in a dream. It is quite peculiar. Normally, one only gains powers upon physically passing through it, but it seems that the Unity felt... some sort of connection with you."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jan 29, 2024 20:38:12 GMT -5
"And what does it, or you want with me?" She asked.
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Post by Manah on Feb 2, 2024 20:13:07 GMT -5
She paused thoughtfully.
"There are those among us who would call us an Anomaly. One who should not wield those powers, for you did not travel through the Unity proper, as other Starborn have", she noted.
"I, however, stand under another school of thought. I believe the reason you would gain those powers is that you were meant to. But the powers alone... they are not what makes a Starborn. I am wondering... would you be, perchance, interested in pursuing that thread of fate further... to pass through the Unity for real, and truly become one of us?" she asked.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 2, 2024 20:16:54 GMT -5
"What would that entail?" She asked. "I will not abandon my friends and family."
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Post by Manah on Feb 3, 2024 1:53:40 GMT -5
"The Unity changed. It used to be that it allowed one to leap through universes, but now, one who passes through it remains in this one. So you will be able to remain with your friends and family. However, it will change you a bit. Maybe physically, maybe psychologically, sometimes just a tiny bit, sometimes quite a bit more. You will grow significantly more powerful, however, and will gain various... 'gifts' from the Unity, such as a ship akin to this one", she explained.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 3, 2024 1:56:18 GMT -5
"Okay. I'm sold." She said.
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Post by Manah on Feb 3, 2024 20:31:14 GMT -5
"You are?" she asked, as Henrietta could almost hear the smile in her tone.
"I thought you might. Unity opens the path to what we believe to be the next step in human evolution, in a sense. I must warn you, however. If you become a Starborn fully... then death, or at least your current understanding of it, will no longer be in the cards. You may be killed, you may be destroyed, or pass away, but you will never fully be gone. You may change, grow different, not be the same as the old you, but you will persist to exist. If you fear immortality, then the Unity is not for you. If you deem that price acceptable... then I shall lead you to it personally."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 3, 2024 20:38:35 GMT -5
"Very well... Let's go." She said.
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Post by Manah on Feb 3, 2024 21:57:13 GMT -5
She nodded, sitting in the pilot's seat, and inviting her to do the same in one of the other stations' seats, before the ship took off silently, quickly leaving the moon, and the Earth, behind.
"I can't help but wonder, Henrietta-san. Why do you trust me so readily, me, whose face you haven't seen and whose name is basically a title more than anything?" she asked with curiosity.
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