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    Oh, uh, ask her about Marlick Bay. Sekhmet sends back.

    "You're not making, uh, any sense." Sekhmet says. "I'm looking for a, uh, Z. Can you help me?"
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    "Oh, the last person I met was looking for Zee too. Is it about Marlick Bay?"
    Kiun asks sweetly. She'll relay the human's answer to Sekhmet.
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    Sekhmet gasps and looks very confused. "How did you know?" She starts to put two and two together. "Wait... You're the one who stole Prumathe from me!" She pounces angrily at Kiun, her nails popping out of her fingers into feline claws on instinct.

    Oh, it's her. She's a copy of me, uh, from earlier, I, uh, think. It's really important that she, uh, talks to Zee."
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    "Oh, we've met Zee a couple times, is- aah!"
    As a reflex, Kiun puts two wings up to shield her face, and her tail curls around towards the threat.
    But more deliberately, she uses her powers to try to shove Selekhael back away from her. But if that doesn't work, she'll have two lines of cuts along her wings from the claws. Incidentally, try not to get Kiun's blood on you. It's not healthy, perhaps especially unhealthy for angels as it's full of conceptual nonsense.
    "What? Prumathe isn't with me at all!"
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    "Sekhmet" stumbles back at the counterattack and glares angrily at Kiun. "Don't lie to me! Tell me what you've done to him!" She pulls a weapon out of nowhere, something shaped vaguely like a pump shotgun, but made from an apparent distortion in spacetime. She points it shakily at Kiun. "Tell me, or I'll..."
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    "Prumathe basically ignored me, and I left because I have an important mission."
    Kiun lowers her wings a bit, and a ball of fire starts to form in front of her, between two thumb-claws.
    "There's...actually no one who cares about me like that."
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    Sekhmet lowes her weapon slowly. "I don't... Understand." She truly doesn't. She thought this was the tramp who masqueraded as her and stole her Prumathe. "Who are you?"
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    Oh hey look it's Zee!

    She just came out of the kitchen in the back all covered in...

    Oil?

    Was she working on a car or something?

    The barmaid heads for the counter and begins washing up, taking in the situation with a quick glance over the tavern.

    "Good morning everyone! Please refrain from visiting unspeakable violence on each other it's against the tavern rules."

    Is it?

    There isn't a sign or anything. But if the barmaid is saying no violencing then she probably knows what she's talking about.

    In unrelated news?

    There's a brief stutter in the universe followed by a-

    -Discontinuity-


    -as a young man suddenly starts being in the tavern.

    "Hey Selekhael sorry about up and vanishing all of a sudden I got called off to help with some local church things," he says, rubbing at the brand on his forearm. "Uh... what's going on?" he inquires, glancing between the angel and the weird clone angel fiend thing.
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    The buff guy pulls that paper out of his jacket pocket again.
    He looks at it, then at Zee, then puts it back.
    He stands up from the bar stool, takes off his leather jacket, and sets it down on his seat. Then, from its inner pockets, he pulls out a bronze strigil - a curved blade thing that clearly wasn't intended to be a weapon - and a vial of very impure olive oil. He pours the oil in the scoop area of the strigil, activating its curse. (Namely, that it curses and drains strength from anything it touches. He doesn't seem to mind yet, even though he's holding it.)

    Holding the tool, he walks up towards Zee, getting in front of her to get her attention. "You know, you have a decent bounty on your head," he informs her.
    She might notice the blank white foxmask hanging off his hip.


    meanwhile

    The plant-wolf.
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    The plant-wolf is really more of a mobile and thinking brand-new species of bush that has taken the shape of an animal, than anything else, but...it reeks of faerie magic. Also, it has a nice floral scent. People normally don't expect most plants to move around, though, so it hasn't really learned that 'nice floral scent' is only really desirable for ambush predators, not stalking predators.
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    The violence was going to be perfectly speakable!
    But better not test it.
    The fireball fizzles away into a noticeable but harmless wave of heat.

    "I'm Kiun, like I said. I was hatched here in the Nexus, and I'm supposed to be you but better, only, you're pretty strange, so we're actually kinda different."

    She slowly points a wing to the side.

    "That's Zee there. Maybe it can explain."
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    Selekhael stows her weapon and looks around. "Uh, hi Arukael?" She looks up towards the bar. "That's Zee?" She just seems really confused. She sits down on a random chair. "Ugh. Everything is, uh, so strange."
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    Zee makes a point of not really reacting to the beefy looking guy with the self-grooming tool until he starts talking to her because she's found that just knowing what people are up to thanks to weird reasons tends to put people on edge. "I know," she replies with a broad smile to his comment. "I like wearing them like trendy hats. Would you like to try the soup of the day?"

    She's giving him an out here.

    He can try fighting her if he really wants to.

    It won't go great.

    Or he can have some soup and NOT fight her.

    That would probably be more pleasant for everyone involved.

    Also? Zee waves at the two not-Sekhmet's talking about her.

    Meanwhile!


    "Things are pretty strange, yeah," Arukhael agrees as he pulls up a chair. "I think anyone who ends up with the time sphere is going to have a lot more weirdness to cope with than someone who didn't."

    Going through apotheosis is already pretty weird. Having time-nonsense heaped on top of that adds even more weird.

    "So... is Kiun your temporal echo? I think I came in on this conversation half way through," he comments, glancing up at the fiend-alien. He also offers her a wave of greeting.
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    "Oh! Are you the Sekhmet who died? But now you're alive again?"
    She shakes her head at Arukhael, also giving him a wave of the wing.
    "I don't think I'm an echo."
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    "I didn't die!" Selekhael protests. "I, uh, apotheosed." She looks from Arukael to Kiun. "I don't think she's my echo? I think she's, uh, something else." Then she runs over to Zee. "Uh, Zee? Uh, I told me that I was supposed to talk to you." Time travel is weird like that.
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    Ha!
    He came prepared:
    He already had a drink!
    You can't tempt him with yet another liquid!

    The beefy guy takes a deep breath, about to say how, no, he won't fall for that, but then...Selekhael interrupts.

    He breathes out in frustration.
    He already activated the curse. This is the worst time for an interruption to happen. Especially with this one in particular.
    "...it can wait until you're finished with her," he says, motioning at Selekhael.
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    "What did you need to talk to me about?" Zee inquires of Selekhael. She's got some ideas but she would rather let Selekhael work her way through it.

    The beefy guy is given an 'I've got my eyes on you,' gesture. It may also be directed at the shrub wolf but does it even have eyes? How would it be able to tell?

    Meanwhile!

    "So you aren't an echo, you're just another person who is kind of like Sekhmet?" Arukhael inquires. He's trying to make sense of this stuff, too.

    Temporal nonsense resulted in at least one more Sekhmet.

    This much is known.

    After all, he met her and made sure she had the proper temporal foundation so she would exist!

    Because otherwise impossible things would have happened and there's no telling how the cosmos would have reacted to that.

    Probably lots of paradox and reality fraying. Not good for anyone.
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    Kiun turns to Arukael and nods.
    "Right. I'm my own person. Like a 'relative'. Who are you?"

    She doesn't answer Sekhmet's protests that death and apotheosis are different. Dying isn't such a big deal as all that.
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    "I, uh, don't know? I was told to talk to you, uh, about what happened to me at, uh, Marlick Bay. I guess." Selekhael is very unsure of this. Zee doesn't look knowledgeable about weird time angel things. She looks like an ordinary human barmaid.
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    "Okay, sure, relative. I guess that makes sense?" Arukhael reasons. "I'm Arukhael. I had noticed that someone stomped on a pretty powerful empyrean at Marlick Bay and decided to swing by and see what was going on. That's when I ran into Selekhael and noticed that she had a massive paradox ticker on her. So I helped her smooth things out and walked her through a few quests and tutorials for the whole apotheosis thing."

    He's just a magnanimous person like that.

    "Apotheosis is REALLY confusing but I think she's doing pretty okay so far."

    Probably best if she didn't pull out weapons from the armory of heaven on people, though.

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    "Well first you need to keep in mind that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover," Zee says with a firm nod. "I may LOOK like a normal human barmaid but that's just my day-job. I'm a Glory, a bronze host seraphim. That bird back at Marlick Bay? That was me in disguise. I can't exactly act directly against other empyreans that are hostile to the Nexus, but I CAN help out mortal heroes that can do the heavy lifting FOR me."

    So the bird wasn't a portent from Neptune!

    It was just Zee offering some directions.

    "See, I was wondering how it was that your timeline was all twisted up. Apotheosis into an ophan would definitely do it. I'll admit that time nonsense isn't really my thing. My path is more about perseverance in living systems."
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    Selekhael looks confused. "I, uh, still don't know what any of that means. I, uh, did the, uh, tutorial. But I think that just, uh, left me with more questions." She doesn't have any idea what she's doing. She's not even sure what she is, except apparently an angel?
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    "Yes, that's your name, but who are you?"
    Kiun insists. She has no idea what doing well or badly at apotheosis would be.
    But some of the highlights come through. Paradox ticker bad. Empyreans were there. Empyreans are what Zee is.
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    "It means you're at the start of a very long, very confusing journey!" Zee declares, throwing her hands up in the air.

    Exciting!

    "What sort of questions have you got? I'll try explaining what I know," she offers.

    Meanwhile!

    "I mean, no one really?" Arukhael replies with a shrug. "I'm just a guy who went through the same thing that Selekhael did. It was really confusing and a bit scary so I thought maybe having someone show her the ropes would help."

    See?

    He just wants to be neighborly.

    It's what any otherworldly abomination would do.

    Right?
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    Selekhael just keeps seeming confused. "Uh, everything? Why is it a game? What am I being ranked for? Where did all my, uh, quest trackers and, uh, inventory come from? What were those things I, uh, picked up? Why can I only improve my things by, uh, killing things or helping people, not by, uh, practicing? What were all those, uh, other things in the, uh, tutorial with me? What am I?"
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    "Okay in order," Zee replies with a firm nod. "No idea why it's a game. What I've been able to find out so far is that the Game was just sort of found? We didn't make it or anything. It was just sort of there."

    Sadly that answer doesn't explain much. But at least Selekhael knows that it's a mystery to everyone now!

    "Second part is easy. Your rank determines how far up the Tower you can go. You haven't been to the Empyrean yet, right? That part won't make much sense until you actually see the Tower. It changes everything."

    That mysterious Tower again.

    "The quest trackers and inventory come from the Game, I think? It provides the framework we operate in down here. I know this isn't a great answer, but it just seems like it works that was. It's like asking why the electromagnetic force is polar but the strong nuclear force isn't. That's just how it works."

    Selekhael probably doesn't know what the strong nuclear force is.

    "If you're talking about the relics, they're basically little bits of the Empyrean manifested into the Game. Same thing happens with little bits of the Dreamheart."

    More Game mechanics.

    "Practicing does help a LITTLE. Like, you'll figure out what the best times to use different abilities are. You might figure out combos with your skills that hadn't occurred to you before. But to actually change and improve in a concrete sense you need the resources the Game offers you. Empyreans like us, we don't change naturally. The Empyrean and the people in it are mostly static by nature. It's only through the dynamic environment the Game offers that we can grow."

    The practice is great and all, but in the end you gotta spend those perk points!

    "Granted, I never actually took the tutorial," Zee admits with a laugh. "I just kinda flew by the seat of my pants. But I'm guessing you met some putti? They're empyreans that just kinda... appear out of the Empyrean itself. Other aspirant rankers like you either used to be human OR get directly created by a MUCH more powerful empyrean. You fall into the used to be human category. I was..." Zee wrinkles her nose. "Kinda both? It was weird."

    Weird is a pretty great summery of all this.

    "You're an ophan, specifically. An empyrean with a strong connection to time and space and stuff. Aside from the putti who are unaligned, there are seraphs, ophans, cherubs, and malaks."

    There!

    Everything makes sense now.
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    "Uh... None of that makes, uh, any sense either." Selekhael just sits down. "Why is there another me that, uh, is married to Prumathe? What am I even supposed to, uh, do now? Just, uh, what?" She starts crying. She's very overwhelmed by everything that's happened.
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    Well, if Arukhael thinks he's no one, he would know best, wouldn't he?

    "Oh. Well that's kind of you."
    Kiun sits back down.
    "Do you know how us normal creatures can deal with, uh, empyreans?"

    And then she overhears another serious of dramatic questions and turns to the confused ophan.
    "Oh, I think we know that one. See, you had a very important destiny, right? But then your apotheosis made it impossible to fulfill."
    "So you had to change history about it to stop you being yourself."
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    The front door swings open and a cool breeze blows in, along with a rough looking drow. He's rather large for a drow, actually, but the pointed ears , red eyes, and black skin was unmistakable. He was older, walking with a slight limp. His short hair was a dirty yellow. He peers around the room, taking measure of the occupants. He spots the noticeboard on one wall and walks up to it. Borrowing a few pins, he puts up a parchment advertising the need for investigators and adventurers to search for a missing caravan.

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    "I've been told that," Selekhael says, still crying "But why? And why has it, uh, been a year? Why did the copy of me marry Prumathe and not me? What am I, uh, even going to do now? I, uh, have nowhere to go." Everything is so confusing. And someone else has taken over her life, so she doesn't even know what she could do. She barely even registers the ping of her quest tracker as a new available quest materializes in the tavern.


    So it might be strange to some when she steps out of thin air to take a look at the notice on the quest board. She ignores herself sobbing at the bar. She doesn't remember noticing herself, so she's pretty sure trying to comfort her would cause a paradox, although it pains her to not help someone she empathizes so strongly with. She looks far more together than herself, but no older, and she's wearing the same blue dress with the addition of a few eagle feathers twined into her ponytail.
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    "Deal with?" Arukhael replies, a little puzzled. "Well, I mean, we're people? Some of us are jerks and some of us aren't, just like any other people. I'm not sure if I understand what you're asking."

    How do you normally deal with people?

    Talk to them?

    Ignore them?

    Feed them into biomass shredders?

    Meanwhile!

    Zee points over at not-Sekhmet for the benefit of other not-Sekhmet.

    "She's right. There was some destiny stuff going on. All of that would have fallen apart. Also?"

    Then Zee steps over to give Selekhael hug.

    She has it on good authority that she likes hugs.

    "It's going to be okay. You've been unmoored from fate. You get to make your own path now instead of someone else deciding what your options are. You lost certainty, but you gained freedom."

    Yeah!

    Kick fate to the curb and do the impossible!
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    Selekhael is hugged! She seems a little calmer, but still is crying. "But, uh, where do I go? I can't go home, uh, they're there. I can't go to work, uh, she has my job. What do I do?" She sobs and leans closer to Zee. Hugs are good.
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