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prismatica2019-12-11 12:00 pm
you're a lich girl, and you've gone too far | Text, filtered from Rita
username: undyingsoul
[It's a full day after Rita's article that anyone hears from Ambrosine anywhere else on the network, and then...]
To all of you who had inquiries for me in the last post: I have filed a report with the Moon Knights and expect further developments shortly. I advise you all to remain vigilant, as there are more than a few ways to invade private spaces through magical means. I may have been the first person whose home Rita Skeeter broke into, but I doubt I will be the last.
Yes, I am a necromancer. This isn't the terrible taboo it is in some other cultures, as my people have practiced the art as a means of survival during more difficult times throughout our history, and often willingly donate our bodies to service after death as a sign of devotion to causes we held dear in life.
Several of the ruling families in my kingdom were members of one of two cults to fiends whose full intentions I do not know, but can only assume are absolutely terrible. As their queen my first duty was to our realm's future, so I undertook the process of lichdom at great personal risk to myself to buy enough time to see to the slow process of stripping the very institution that empowered me of that same power while ensuring relative stability.
In the interest of transparency, I have attached my research notes to this post. Consider yourself lucky; this information does not flow freely in my world. Yes, I understand the terrible gravity of what I'm doing here. Ah, well. As they say, knowledge is power.
[The following attachment is a scanned PDF of some pages from a wizard's spellbook, full of weird jargon, mystic runes, hard-to-read small handwriting that Ambrosine tried to cram into the smallish pages, and weird eldritch diagrams. Oh, and a little doodle of a skull. In addition to the stuff in the pastebin, there's also a diagram for some sort of sacrificial circle where both the phylactery and the person being sacrificed go, and...oof.
After attuning yourself to the phylactery, apparently the final step is just whispering some sort of ritualistic prayer to basically revoke your soul's rights to any sort of afterlife right before you do the sacrifice and drink the potion that freezes the blood in your veins and lich-ifies you? OOF.
At the very least there's no mention of liches needing to feed on anything, so well, the assumption is that once the ritual is over, that's it in terms of gross shit.
Congratulations; everyone who read all of that now knows the secret to lichdom. You've learned it. You can't un-learn it.]
The sacrifice given for my particular version of the ritual was a man who stabbed his entire family to death and was slated for execution, so I'd save my sympathies for someone more worthy if I were you.
Anyway, enjoy the rest of your week.
text; un: aphrodite
i didn't actually see the skeeter stuff you're talking about so i feel like i'm kind of behind.
but that's some pretty occult stuff.
so you're like, a necromancer now? and also immortal?
also sorry i kind of assumed a lich was like... a bug? or something like that.
so that's something new i learned today.
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I was a necromancer ever since I was a young girl, but the immortality is a recent development.
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wow. that seems really obvious in retrospect.
and a necromancer is... someone who makes zombies, right?
sorry. i'm sort of new to this whole thing
still. it's really cool that you can just... become immortal like that?
that's crazy. wow
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The process of immortality is far easier said than done. A small misstep and you're dead, but without the prospect of any sort of afterlife.
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that's really hardcore??
i kind of feel like it'd just be easier to
you know. go to the afterlife and then find a way out
but also i mean. i became the devil?
and i don't even know if i'm immortal or anything
so i'm probably not the right person to ask. haha
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The most my world has of that word's use is referring to a devil, but that's probably far less impressive than you'd think.
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yeah. i forget a lot of people don't actually know about us
so it's sort of like...
there's god, right?
created the world, and the heavens, and humans, and is basically everything holy and good and all that
and the devil is. you know. the opposite
against god and good, takes in the crappy people that god is too good for
stuff like that.
oh! uh. if your world has angels too
then angels are to god what devils are to... the devil
which is really confusing, and we should probably figure out better words for it, but. there you go
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surprisingly simple compared to what goes in in my world.
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[ oh. and then, after a moment: ]
right??
i'm so used to everyone saying it's confusing, so i guess i just started assuming it was confusing. haha
honestly this is the easiest time i've ever had explaining it? usually people just ask things like
"what's a devil," or "what's a god," and stuff like that?
and then i have to basically go over the bible from the top.
which is sort of a lot to deal with
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[ It's horrendous. ]