The Monitor 2

Myriad Reality

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Droll: The order is perhaps less pious than I originally thought.

@Etcetera

I don't represent the whole order young one! *I chuckle* And you'd be surprised just how pious most monks are especially the oracle circle. But me... i'm just a recluse hermit who goes along with the order as best as i can.

Myriad Reality

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Droll: *Interjects on one of the rabbit trails*
Doesn't scorch violate your asceticism?

@Etcetera

Yes... buuut... this is my cheat day! You'd think Lysthiell would not bother with such minor rule skipping... after all, i did travel from Planet Ley-9 all the way to here with the speed of though... so the powers have not been taken away as a punishment.

Myriad Reality

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Droll: Erm. Help yourself.
*Pours another cup*
You were saying?

@Etcetera

*I savour every drop of the substance* First off, that station was a sacrilege, i remember the early days when i first decided to dedicate my life to ascetism. The empire was so proud with their technology that could defy the universe... *I carry on rambling about the good old days* Anyway where was i, you were touched by a higher being. This is why i came here, whatever transpired here, is no longer mere diplomacy between living organic beings, like ourselves, and containment protocols for deadly anomalies...

Myriad Reality

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Droll: I've survived many a combat I had no business walking out alive from. Perhaps you could call that divine intervention.
*Prepares a cup of thick black liquid from a dispenser*

@Etcetera

*Nods in understanding* The ways of the higher beings elude us even to this day son... but i've seen a pattern of denying the existence of more than what we can toy with using our limited abilities increase rather alarmingly across the United Empire. *Looks at the liquid* OOH! is that SCORCH?! *I start salivating in true recluse old geezer fashion*

Myriad Reality

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Droll: *Speaks with a degree of suspicion but without hostility*
A saint? I think I've committed a few sins too many to be called one of those, your honor, or whatever title your kind goes by.

@Etcetera

*Holds my hands out in defence with a timid smile* Please child! Don't go calling me your honor... although yes the temples do that... way too much... anyway... *A flicker of light flows out from your shadow and hovers in the palm of my hands* Well, all i can say, is that you were touched by divinity not that long ago, and it has nothing to do with that sacrilegious derelict station...

Myriad Reality

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Droll: I think it's time you explained just who exactly you are.

@Etcetera

Bah... young one! I'm just a monk of Lysthiell. You know our kind and how recluse we like to be... I'm here to evaluate your spiritual aura. You may be a saint after what just transpired.

Myriad Reality

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Unfortunately... I do.

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Droll: I've been around the block a few times. But if my experience has taught me anything, it's to not judge a book—or an experience—by its cover.

@Etcetera

Monk: You are exactly right... unfortunately not many realize this before an experience teaches them that. Now... It is fair to assume you are ready for the fleet to warp out of here? Things are bound to take a turn for the interesting in the next few cycles.

Myriad Reality

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Droll: What business do you have with me here?

@Etcetera

*smiles calmly* As if you couldn't understand what just transpired son...

Myriad Reality

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Droll: *Immediately looks for any guest badge on the visitor*

@Etcetera

*you don't see any but you definitely sense this is no fake, he's an Apothikkan elder probably well within his thousand years*

Monk: Is there a problem son? When was the last time you visited any temple Officer Droll?

*Nevermind the fact he just spoke your name and rank as if that's no big deal. Even telepathy takes concentration but this is some next level oracle powers*

Myriad Reality

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Droll: *Gets up with a stretch and makes my way to the door*

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Some kind of spacetime distortion? I'm really not sure.

@Etcetera

Monk of light visit

Monk: Blessed be the light of Lysthiell child!

*you would probably be confused as the ship you are on had no emissary of the religion unless he was a stowaway*