Your Vastling mutuals didn't expect an invasion of half of our Spiralthing cluster, and now your Archivist is joining in the fray as well
Well, that is if she weren't currently missing. Oops. But seems like wherever I am (VERY EMPTY BIG VAST SPACE WITH SPARK AND MNMs) Tumblr still works so uhhhhhhh hi! I am ok!
I am very glad of it!
Uh - Vastling mutuals, this is Archivist Amber. Archivist Amber, there's a few of them but the two I'm thinking of are @insanearoace and @c1cloudwhisperer - these are my Vastling mutuals!
An Archivist, eh? I tend not to associate with those.
I swear to you on the Mother and the Infinite both, Cousin, she's not like Jon and she's certainly not like Gertrude. She's - clever and careful and polite and she's never to my memory Compelled me when I didn't actively ask her to to prove something, and our group is avatars from all different entities and she gets along with pretty much all of them, even the Distortions, even the Stranger, even the Darkling, and - I know she's an Archivist, I know how it sounds, but she won my loyalty a long time ago and I vouch for her, okay?
It is not the institute I have an issue with, but The Eye. You forget, it has some hold over me. The Vast, I am a willing servant to. The Eye, I am not.
Ah. I - I did forget, and that - makes sense.
I - is there anything I or Amber could do, that would convince you that she's not going to be problems? Or is it just - that you don't want to be near Eye things at all, that it doesn't matter who she is or what she's like you can't afford to be next to her?
The issue is, neither Compelling nor Knowing are 'active' skills. They are always on. You can push extra, to force it, but you can't turn it off. I always know, and people always, at least in part, answer truthfully. Not always the full truth, but they cannot lie. So unless she has a way to turn it off, than no.
I am sorry to hear you seem to take issue with my Patron's antics, and honestly, given the track record of certain other known Archivists, I can't really blame you.
Now, I don't know you (and don't Know, and currently I really pretty much can't) and same really goes the other way. But from what I am witnessing here, if I am to phrase it, you seem to be haunted by knowledge against your will? Which is quite a tragic circumstance to find oneself in.
I am not a fully realized Avatar. Crow would put it as "technically not an Avatar, but come on", which is adorable. I... Is evolved a right word in this instance? Let's assume it is, I evolved into being able to Compel people, and found out by Asking people stuff. Not all people, only those who gave explicit consent, which stated the risks and the fact that I could do that at any time. There were slip-ups, I will admit, and I do my best to keep them at an absolute minimum. I Compelled Laur in a panicked state when he was getting protection with the help of the Web, and that made them very aware of the scuttling sensation around her. Not my proudest moment.
And at one point I... Figured out I could just... Look and Know some stuff? It takes an effort on my side, it is not a passive thing, and I generally try not to Look at what people around me are thinking or planning. I don't know how that would change once I step into my role at its fullest. I would not wish to know literally everything...
The problem is I am curious to a fault. And I am so very afraid my Patron would exploit it as much as It can.
Pleasure making your acquaintance, please keep Crow company. She has a lot on her shoulders (by her own will and not) and it would pain me if anything... worse happened to her
