Joss | Godi at Play (part 2)

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Lessa
[Gossamer Wing]
After patrols with Evan, Joss returned to the kin house for her godi bag, filling it with a variety of little things before heading out once more. This time, she will be working in the Umbra for the majority of the time and chooses her supplies accordingly. When she’s ready, she makes her way through the wood and plastic that pretends to be a wall at the far end of the attic, and makes her way through the “door” and to the outside air. It’s been reclaimed as a balcony, of sorts, but right now it simply serves her purpose. Once there, once settled, she holds her bag in her lap, and slips…

…sideways.

She’d spent a lot of time Umbral tonight, walking with Evan, talking and learning and listening and learning some more. There are stories here that are unknown, and tales that the Skalds have not yet spoken.They are not her place to speak them, but her’s to learn from them instead.

But that is neither here nor there. She, however, is here – not there – and ready to speak to the spirits once more. She carefully pulls things from her bag: a jar, with something thick and sticky within, and a small glass figurine that looks like a.. hive.

Yes. a hive.
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 6 at target 5)
Once she’s opened the jar, and pulled out a bit of the honeycomb, dripping with sweet golden goodness, she sets the honeycomb on the ground before her, and then sets the little glass beehive next to it. Then – after licking the honey from her fingers – she pulls her skirts up to bare her thighs, and begins a quick static beat against her thighs… giving her all to the the beat, to the thrumming slap of flesh on flesh.

(Spirit Drum – bang baby bang! Dex + perf =6)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 4)
She gives her all to the beat, to the feel, to the desire to do this right, to do it well. When she is ready, when she is all but completely lost to the beat, she puts forth the call, begging the spirits to come to her aid once more, buzzing under her breath in a plea for the bees…

(Summoning! Come lil spirit bees, come taste the Godi honey!)
(wits + rituals + 6 =12)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
They come.

They come in droves – dozens of little bee spirits, buzzing and divebombing and swinging through her dreads as they are tousled by the wind, zipping through her clothing close to her skin, eager to see the new Godi that calls them to the territory of the Eagles. Several fall to the offered honeycomb, several taste the purity of honey she has offered, falling to work through the comb and start to prepare it for the production of more. They are worker bees – by the hundreds.

She begins to talk, to buzz and chatter in their own speech, to conjole and speak of what she needs, of the things she desires.

They are eager – so eager. It is no difficult task she give them – they are bees, after all. Instead, her voice is soft, and pleading as she honors them for the great spirits they are. “I will place a hive, very much like this one on our terrace for your brothers, I will keep it clean and safe. I simply ask that if one not of Eagles, one not welcomed into the territory, if any enemy comes to breach our defenses and destroy the mighty warriors of Gaia, I ask that you fly, fly nimble and fast, revered bees, and get the attention of the nearest Eagle – sting them if you must, but alert them that enemies threaten our home, threaten the home I will make for you.”

She the offers them a taste of her very soul, the spirit candy that flows within her veins as initial payment, as a binding promise…

[binding – WP diff 5!]
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6) [WP]
One of the bees agrees to his task, as long as they are often rotated, as bees are not ones to remain in one place for long – they have work to do, a queen to protect. When she agrees to exchange the watcher bee every two weeks, the deal is struck, the bargain made. She murmurs her thanks, and sets the little glass beehive against the wall of the packhouse, on the umbral side, before grabbing the jar and shifting realside to get to work.

She digs through the scraps of this and that on the top floors of the packhouse, before retrieving a hammer and some nails from the toolbox down below. Soon, back on the top floor patio, soon comes the noise of building and even the occasional curse as she works to put together some sort of bee hive, using a book (Beekeeping for beginners!) she’d borrowed earlier from the library.

What? Godi can read!

It takes her some time and one very bruised thumb later, but she perseveres, determined to get something that looks like the diagram in the book.

(dex+crafts+wp)
[Gossamer Wing]
It’s not the best of jobs, but it is one that will work. She follows the directions and finishes it off in style, putting it right where she had placed the glass figurine on the other side. It’s crude, and not pretty, but it will work. Soon, there are bees there – not a lot, but enough that she knows the Spirits are watching and ready.

That’s all she can ask for.
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5)
She takes a moment to drink some water, and then she goes at it again.

From the top. This time, she starts realm side, and circles the entire attic perimeter with christmas lights. These ones are multicolored and able to “dance” to the songs from her little MP3 player when hooked to her speakers. She sets them up, makes sure they’re working, and then goes about hanging little humming bird ornaments periodically through the room. She then heads back to the patio, where earlier she’d taken the time to start a planters box with several species of flowers that hummingbirds like. She’s a dual protection plan for the next task.

Soon it is time to summon once more. And she finds her spot, takes a breath, and once more sets bare hands to bare thighs to begin the beat, to play the drum, to begin her call…

(and take two! Spirit drum, come on electrical spirits, hear her cry…
dex+perf diff 5)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 9 at target 4)
once she is ready, once her heart thrums along with the beat of the drums, only then does she put forth the call…

(pretty spirits, come see the pretty lights!)

(wits+rits+ 6= 12)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Success x 2 at target 5) [WP]
Suddenly the umbral air crackles with the snapping crackling pop of electrical spirits zapping her way – they come in droves, they come eager, they come full force, they tug and play about her and she lets them, thrilled with the attention even as the fine hairs on her head stand at attention, cling to her hand as she pushes her dreads back from her face to speak to the gaffling that comes to hear her plea.

She speaks with him, tells him of his mighty brother already watching the packhouse on the other side tells him how very thrilled she is with their willingness to come and speak with them, and offers him the string of lights in ‘her’ attic to play with, to thrum to any beat he wishes, as long as he sets the alarm – a wild flickering to alert her of danger if she is there, to shake and rattle a hummingbird ornament so that it falls and breaks, freeing the spirit she will call momentarily to fly to the nearest Eagle should any harm be approaching the packhouse. She offers her gnosis, her soul, her connection to gaia as initial payment, as she speaks with the little flickering guy….

(come one, pretty pretty electric spirit, tell me you love me…)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 5)
She smiles her thanks, as one of the gafflings slides into the electrical wiring, and the tiny Christmas lights flicker and play and settle into a relaxing rhythm in the attic. She then begins her call again, for part two of the plan.

It starts… with the beat.
(and here we go again! beat those thighs baby!)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 4)
She focuses her will, then, and puts forth the call for little hummingbirds, to call the spirits to her aid….

(6+3 = 9)
[Gossamer Wing]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) [WP]
Once again the spirits in Chicago are eager to come do her bidding, they are eager to come and learn of the new Godi who has taken residence in Eagle Lands, to petition to become one of them. They flitter and flutter and slide and play about her, and she laughs in delight as she allows them time before making her request. only then does she asks the hummingbirds that pay attention that ask her what she wishes to aid her cause. She promises to keep flowers to feed them on the other side, if they will inhabit the little ornaments carefully hung – so that when the electrical gafflings set up an umbral call, shaking the strands till the talen falls, they can race to tell the nearest eagle of their plight…

She offers initial payment by way of her own essence an brokers a deal…

(come on birdy babies!!)
[Gossamer Wing]
She smiles her thanks, as the hummingbirds slide into their ornamental counterparts, and she slips back across to the real side, to take a breath and relax, slowly.

Time for a beer.
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