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audio: bellsareme

[If you think you have seen Julia pissed before, that is nothing compared to right now. There's an undercurrent of a growl in it and if you're close enough to her cabin you an probably hear it without the benefit of the device filter.]

Why the fuck is there motherfucking goddamn goose shit all over my fucking bed? What the fuck happened?

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[He doesn't have a good guess right now, so he'll leave it. Needs more information.]

Anyway, the goose. It's been... devoured.

Devoured? The fuck does that mean?

Devoured. Consumed. Eaten.

[He watched it happen... partially it was pretty horrifying.]

[Well that doesn't sound good.]

What the fuck on this ship could do that?

The Elemental.

[Who is, surprisingly, quite delightful.]

The who in the what now?

[Where's Alex when you need her to explain things to people? Or even Strand.]

You could ask him yourself. He's still on the ship.

He’s not talking to me. You are.

Are you familiar with the core elements in various mythology?

Depends on the mythology.

In general.

I'm a queer person, of course I know about mythologies.

...

[There's a long silence, Simon has no idea why people keep bringing this up? This has nothing to do with elementals.]

About Elementals.

[She might be slow. Where's Alex when you need her to translate.]

Alright. I don’t know much about them. Fill me in.

[Alright lecture time. He's not Richard Strand levels of educated on the long and deep history of elementals through all cultures so he'll keep it brief.]

Most cultures have a mythological personification in some form or another of elementals. As gods, as spirits, as demons. Where they differ in name and form they do typically agree that elementals are deeply powerful primordial forces. Pieces of the very fabric of existence. Concentrated aspects of the building blocks of what we understand as reality.

[Keeping up so far?]

So like the Dread Powers then?

Maybe. What are those?

The Entities, The Powers, The Fears. 14 primordial made manifest. Well, sort of. They have agents and avatars they work through.

You say made manifest. How? Have they always been in existence?

They've got avatars of them who act in our world. Feeding them through their feeding off of others. I killed a slaughter avatar back home.

What are the... characteristics of a slaughter avatar? What happens when you kill one?

They feed off and cause the fear of being Slaughtered. Like it can be frenzied, or in the case of our old president, like on a warzone. And when I killed her, it just stopped the end of the world. And cut off the way that the Entity fed off of what she was doing.

Does cutting off the food supply weaken, or destroy it? Or will it just find more?

It'll find more. The difference is that it can't bring them fully into the world remaking it in it's image. That's what she was trying to do with her ritual. But smaller scale is way better than entirely wrecking the world. As far as anyone is aware there's no way of ending them permanently. How do humans get rid of primal fears?