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Aberrant: Infinite Earth - Fiction - Sand Castles [Complete]


Terra Sonora Xia

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Time/Space Local: January 18 - 24, 2010, somewhere in the Sahara Desert

Reality: Terra One

Deep within the Sahara, one of the worlds most inhospitable locations, a woman with skin of burnished gold appears. From a distance, it was almost impossible to tell the difference between her and the sandy desert, but up close it was quite evident. She had chosen this location for a number of reasons, it was distant from any baseline settlements, it was isolated, and sand would be easy for her to use for what she was about to do.

Holding out her hand, she reached out to the quantum forces around and began to edit reality, to alter her surroundings to suit her desires. This was going to take some time, as she began to reshape the area around her, to shape a palace of sand, and then, to transform it into a gleaming crystal palace. She chose to make the crystal stained with certain colors, making it something like a living work of art. This was going to take her several days of near constant work, to shape this as she desired.

At last, after hours and hours of work, even to the point of almost draining her reserves of quantum, she had the place she wanted, built the way she desired it.. though it still lacked something she was looking for.. she would settle for this for the moment. When she was done, she stepped back to admire her work, then paused in her consideration, it seemed almost like it was showing off a bit, which was all well and good, but wasn't quite the impression she wanted to get across to the first terats she spoke too. She needed to get some feedback on the matter, from someone she trusted to be objective.

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2 success on her Matter Manipulation roll, 3 successes on her Wits + Arts roll for the artistic look, and 2 success on a Intelligence roll (sense she doesn't have engineering), for the basic structure.

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The castle looks pretty. Not anything particularly special, but impressive enough. Unfortunately, looks aren't everything. It is structurally sound mostly, but in only a short time Terra will begin to notice things that she could have done better and things which functionally should have been included but weren't.

Is there more you are needing from me?
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Time/Space Local: January 25, 2010

She had asked Scripture to take a look, and let her know some of his thoughts, before she invited anyone else to visit. He inspected the grounds for a moment, then looked back at Terra raising an eyebrow slightly. "Showing off a bit, child?" She blushed slightly at the mild criticism, and inclined her head in a quizzical manner. "Is that a problem?"

"Not especially, you are, despite your unusually swift maturity, still quite young in other ways, you have a lot to learn as you grow older. I see nothing especially amiss, though you may want to consider studying engineering and architecture some, as you continue to work on this place. In the meantime, it seems well designed enough for you to make your point, for the time being anyway."

She nodded, then looked around for where she wanted to make her point, a dias made of crystal and glass from which she could address several dozen terats. "Then, it's time to begin... thank you for your guidance, sir." With a nod, and a flash both of them are gone.. for the time being.

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Time/Space Local: January 26, 2010

One week after Geryon was killed, Terra managed to gather a number of Terat novas, to speak with them regarding the direction of Teragen, at her new palace in the sand. Having created a dias of crystal and glass, from which she could speak with the other novas, and exerted some of her influence over Teragen to get this gathering together.

She wanted a significant number of them present as she made her point, and attempt to begin to guide the Teragen movement in a different direction then the rest of the factions within the movement.

At the perfect moment, when the majority of them were warped in, including refreshments with the nova catering company that had been hired, Revelation herself appeared. She had taken the time and effort to try and make the moment perfect, to appear at just the moment when the sun would gleam off her bare skin, that the jewelry she manifested would be perfectly placed and would gleam themselves, that the sun would reflect off the dais in a manner that would enhance the difference. In other words, she attempted to use her incredible beauty to impress as much as possible.

Then she began to speak, and it was clear some measure of what she had learned from Scripture, for her voice was utterly perfect, so beautiful as to almost make one weep just to listen to it's musical perfection. So remarkable that it sent a thrill through one's spine just to hear her speak, and even those who might not have listened to her, did just to hear the deep beauty of that exquisite voice, of course, she wasn't hard on the eyes either.

"My fellow terats, in the last week, we have lost one of our own, the mighty Geyron has fallen, at the hands of his brother novas, let us pause a moment, to allow a moment of grief for one of our own." She went silent for about a minute, before continuing to speak.

"Let us ask, however, why he was lost... some of you might say, baseline, or monkey agendas.. and you would not be entirely incorrect. Indeed, our dear Geyron fell because of human agendas and desires, because humanity is frightened by our kind.. and rightly so. However... " Once again, she paused, to allow everyone present a moment to consider that she had another option to offer.

"I would suggest that it was something further, that not simply Geryon, but Teragen has in and of itself, missed. Many of us are simply rebelling, without considering where we are going, and why we are going there. We are the One Race, it behooves us to act, not to react, and all of our focus, except for our magnificent leader, Divis Mal, has been upon reacting to baseline society, not acting with regards to our own grand evolution. Within a single moment, several years ago, our leader acted, and galvanized Teragen into something greater then what it was. However, few of us have yet to truly take to heart the example he set, that action, not reaction was best."

Once again, she paused.. and this time, she waited for several minutes before speaking again, wanting to let the words she had spoken sink in for a while. There was a bit of chatter after about a minute, as some of the nova's present spoke to each other about what she had said, discussing it for a bit. When she began to speak again, once more everyone went silent, just to listen to that gorgeous voice once more.

"Let us also consider this, does a human being consider the society of apes when they make choices? Does a wolf consider what the rabbit or sheep wants, when it makes it's own choices? What does human society and it's needs and desires, matter to the One Race, our needs and desires are different, and any interaction between them brings tragedy, as we have seen." Again, she pauses for a time, to allow her words to sink in.

"Furthermore, many of us have yet to consider the full implications of what our guiding light has given us, with The Nul Manifesto, in many ways, we are children trying to understand what our father is trying to teach us. What is the moral and spiritual dimension of the Manifesto, how many of us have thought about what it means to govern ourselves, morally? This does not necessarily or even chiefly mean do what you want too, it means more then that, much much more.."

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Awe Inspiring Active for 1 Quantum [should add six successes to the rolls below]

Appearance + Style: 7 successes to Impress [13 total]

Appearance + Style(05:52:10) ChatBot: (Revelation) rolls 11d10 and gets 10,1,1,7,10,3,6,2,5,3,5.

Mega Appearance (05:52:26) ChatBot: (Revelation) rolls 6d10 and gets 4,5,1,6,3,9.

Charisma + Performance: 7 Successes to be Persuasive & Inspiring [13 total]

Charisma + Performance:(05:58:47) ChatBot: (Revelation) rolls 8d10 and gets 6,6,7,7,9,3,9,8.

Mega Charisma (05:58:57) ChatBot: (Revelation) rolls 1d10 and gets 7.

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Trying as hard as she was, attempting to make her words as deeply and powerfully felt as possible, Terra found that her natural reserves of quantum were even poured into her words, transforming them from being merely impressive, to being Awe-Inspiring. Indeed, she didn't even realize that she was being that impressive at first... when she did notice it, she was already deep in her speech, and not about to stop what she was saying, it was too important to her.

"Presently, we come from, and are bound up within human society, and extracting ourselves is not yet possible. Even many of our thoughts and ideas come from extrapolations of what baseline society has brought to the field. We are the One Race, it behooves us to act like it, rather then like rebellious children." She paused a moment, before continuing again.

At this point, there was near utter silence, as the gathering waited to hear the next thing she had to say, so deeply had she managed to impress them. "But, even if something is not yet possible, it does not mean we shouldn't seek to embrace the idea and the model, after all, we are Novas, which means we can make it possible, eventually.. there is no true limit to what we can become.. Marvel, Portent or Monster, within these, we see the essence of what we can be, and what we are meant to be."

"But simply because we are called to make our own choices, to govern ourselves, rather then to follow the norms of human society, doesn't mean we shouldn't make choices with care. Every choice made, affects your brothers and sisters around you, and sets a legacy for those to come." Being a second generation terat, the latter was especially important to her. "I call on those of you willing to join me, let us be heralds and visionaries, to seek to become something more then what baseline society has, to transcend humanity, to act rather then react, to transcend human ideals... to set an example to follow, as Divis has set one for us."

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There are around 50 terats present for the speech.

Of those 6 have been completely swayed by the speech and will follow where Terra leads (for the time being). They are relatively weak willed and could be lured away by other powerful novas who chose to charm them. If Terra wants to keep them she will need to spend time in their presence regularly.

Of the rest there are a number who are intrigued and would speak with Terra individually and will approach her over the coming weeks and months to learn more.

Some will wait and see what comes of her 'movement' and reserve judgment until they see her actions.

And of course there are many who are too entrenched in their own movements to be swayed.
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As she finished her speech, she took note of the effect it had on everyone present. The six individuals who were most impressed, she did speak with, but they were not her focus, sense it didn't take her long to recognize how easily they could be swayed one way or another. She gave those six a bit of her time, sense she thought that perhaps, with some time she could firm up their will and focus. Besides, it was like their motivations were clear as day to her, entranced as they were by her beauty, or the power of her words, or wanting to be first to embrace the next big thing among teragen.

However, most of her attention was focused on those who were intrigued and wanted to speak with her individually. She also had a small amount of attention on those who were among the wait and see group. These two groups of individuals impressed her more, because if they ended up embracing the concept she had been presenting, they would do so of their own will, not as though they had been pulled into it.

And so, after her speech, she escorted folks inside her crystal palace, and showed them around, she took note of those who seemed most intrigued, and even took the opportunity to talk to one or two of them, and feel them out.

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