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Jinhai

Wandering servitor in orbit of an existential creature that seeks knowledge.

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a character in “The Multiverse”, as played by lil_kreen

Description

Given Title: Jinhai
Race: Ascended hairworm, satellite being.
Age: Not applicable
Gender: nonsexual, appears male
Overbeing/Faction: Myrkul's Vein
Birthplace: Black Storm.
Religion: Apatheist
Identifying characteristics: Unable to imitate a human face, otherwise identical to others of its size when a worm.
Physical Condition: Excellent but generally suffering from overexposure to sun.
Languages: English, Draconic, Loross, High Gothic, Low Gothic
Current residence: Iterant
Occupation: Discoverer, Construction servitor

Personality: Jinhai can be curt but it isn't out of malice. Generally a slow thoughtful sort Jinhai is prone to bouts of self-consideration and is impossible to offend. Though Jinhai appears male it has no sexual needs but for a deep appreciation of beauty. As long as there is something to learn from a being Jinhai has a rather flexible morality and will follow anyone that will let it. While following someone it cares to learn from it generally prefers to remain in its humanoid form except when eating. Jinhai has little inherent appreciation for social constructs between individuals even its allies but isn't malicious. The notion of a giant segmented worm chewing rocks at a table causing fear isn't something it generally concerns itself with. Its lack of social learning mostly evinces in an inability to understand itself as a stranger to others or the concept of personal space and territory. Jinhai's flexible morality often means it has no scruples against prioritizing the life of a title of interest over unknown life whether sapient or otherwise. It will use its loci to kill lesser creatures so one of interest stays alive without much hesitation especially if the person of interest is Humankind.

Background:Myrkul's vein created Jinhai as a being in its own accord to come and go as it pleases to serve construction tasks. This frequently leaves Jinhai moving through the planar network called the way currently connected to Terra. It is interested in learning all there is to learn to further the intellect of its overbeing.

If attacked, even if a gross violation of social niceties make it Jinhai's fault, its predatory talents can emerge in defense. If defending itself to a lethal degree Jinhai rapidly loses its placid peacefulness in favor of a sociopathic bent unless outside forces it respects ask it to stop and ponder. In either case Jinhai is unlikely to express remorse but if not threatened will at least express a distaste for what occurred.

Equipment: Though Jinhai frequently looks like it carries a backpack that is only to accommodate extra mass it is not investing into the humanoid form. Jinhai carries little with him but has various crystals and tools floating in its mass. This is used for his channeling of magical energies as an ascendant hairworm. Jinhai has taken to carrying metal projectile weapons inside its chest mass for deterring or killing unsuspecting targets and they are often seen bobbing to the surface.

Limitations: The nature of what composes Jinhai makes sight problematic. Jinhai cannot see very far though it can read quite well. Some larger details such as color, texture, or writing are sometimes lost on Jinhai if not close enough. Its name is kept as a distinct part of its being as the only real natural "organ" on the inside of its mass. If this worm is disrupted it will take time to reform and Jinhai will have difficulty recalling or forming memories. As the worm is frequently on the move it is difficult to target specifically without some way of tracking the creature.

Its 'Eyes' have a similar behavior but while in humanoid form they are not necessarily all under the hood it generally shapes to contain its non-face. Wherever Jinhai puts a eye-bump is where it looks from whether on the palm of a hand or the back of the neck. It cannot usefully see from an arbitrary surface on its body though the eyes can be easily reconstituted if dispersed.

Powers:
  1. Loci Crystals - Some of the loci crystals are for the carving into hard asteroids, many for manufacturing homes for groups of satellite hairworms, and others for defeating threats local to its home plane. Using these tools Jinhai is capable of transmuting comparatively vast quantities of living creatures or small amounts of mass into psimass. Other darker arrangements destroy matter though it causes significant strain to Jinhai in channelling disintegration rays. This is both to defend Myrkul's Vein from interlopers as much as to keep its targets of interest alive.
  2. Discrete Levitator - The microscopic creatures composing Jinhai are only bound to gravity when in humanoid form and can disconnect from the main mass for a short while. As a worm it careens easily through mid-air without apparent lift. It can carry a passenger though past unless very small will not be able to maintain much altitude. It can dispatch smaller copies of itself to deal with necessary tasks which have similar if more limited properties. The lack of true tissues inside of a hairworm make sharp objects without signifigant force behind them impractical to cause any real damage.
  3. All-consuming - Though a true omnivore its humanoid form isn't distinct or solid enough to engage in lithovore behavior. If the 15' long 2' wide hairworm is presented with a weapon held still too long the metal object is more likely get bit in half and chewed into dust than batted away. The worm can otherwise dessicate small creatures into carbon dust in but a few seconds.
  4. Manifester - While it can use psimass to manifest objects and weapons out of nothing such objects degrade spontaneously into piles of ectoplasm if the process is disrupted. What composes Jinhai can use these abilities in aggregate to shape actual material but Jinhai has to actually know how to make the object in question and have the right material rather than just know how it should work. Given the Almanac is quite expansive it is capable of at least repairing nearly anything.

So begins...

Jinhai's Story

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Koishi nodded with a big grin on her face. She had just said she wanted to see him again...and here he was! It must be fate, or maybe something else...

"Oh! Hiya hiya! Koishi thought you disappeared forever..." Her eyes were drawn to the dusty and...really horrible voice as she turned once more to look in Jinhai's direction. "!! Spooky man, why do you follow Koishi?!"

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Jinhai releases the tray but the side buried in its coat appears to hold it up. It takes a small fragrant mint fudge cube from its tray then offers it with blunt opinion, "You are interesting, small title. I only left for safer places. I wish to learn and I brought candy for you and the larger title of an emperor of man. Title of Bartender wrote for me the knowledge to make food squares. I carefully counted all the sugar rocks for it."

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"It is indeed strange how we managed to get here, even I do not know how I left my ship. However I feel like a part of me is missing but regardless it is nice to you you both again." Carnaelgaar spoke as he turned to face Jinhai. "So you seek to learn? If that is what you want then I can tell you many ancient stories, how some of our things work, and some knowledge back home." He offered to tell Jinhai.

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Koishi nodded and smiled to him, then looking to spooky man. He wanted knowledge...? That was what Carn said at least. She thought for a moment and nodded.

"Koishi knows things! Things about magic...and satori! That's not where her knowledge ends, but it's the start of it at least~" She nodded, and twirled in place before stopping once she started feeling dizzy.

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The fudge cube returns to the tray for a moment so Jinhai can hold it up. Then it pulls its hands away from the tray or more accurate to say his forearms only. The hands liquefy to the wrist then shape into two small double-ended worms of shined hard plate. Curved mouth-vanes careful not to scratch the chrome hold the tray of fudge cubes still in midair. Jinhai instead sprouts new hands from his sleeves as the stumps approach to clap.

The sound one Jinhai clapping proves much like whapping cotton mittens.

The clapping stops so Jinhai can speak in subdued dusty excitement, "Yes. I think I would like stories from the titles under a living emperor of man."

It looks to Koishi, "You know stories of magic as well? I am pleased. What is the title of Saitori do? Myrkul's vein writes the title of Jinhai to imbue order or take it away."

Jinhai grabs a green mint cube off the tray as grey etched crystals flotsam to the surface of its arm. They flow down to the hand then take position as Jinhai whispers a new pattern. The small fudge cube wriggles into a sphere to take on new shine and solidity. Veins raise out of the surface as Jinhai offers Koishi a mint-flavored chocolate eyeball.

"The bartender said living titles like candy. Are you sure you do not want the dessert food?", Jinhai asked Koishi with torqued cowl.

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"So how shall I begin my story? Shall I start from the very beginning? Or should I talk about the tales the Emperor himself did? Perhaps I should talk about some recent stroies?" Carnaelgaar pondered to himself as he wondered what story to tell. There was the very beginning when the Emperor was first born from a special means, or to the time of the tyrannic wars when a enemy they face arrived and had nearly destroyed some of his brothers in arms.

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Jinhai eyes the tray and the two worms lower it out of the way. Titles long past but read out of the titles of others were things that others sat for so that's what it did. First it stood on one leg folding the other indian style then sat the body down on the other leg in position. Jinhai's arm stretched to keep its hand in place with chocolate eyeball but it was sitting down now.

"Myrkul's vein cannot create an emperor's title for itself. How was the title of your living emperor created?", Jinhai asked with its worn voice now tinny.

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Looking confused, she tilted her head...then, like a light switch going off she understood.

"Satori...Satori are a bunch of people who lived in a mountain long ago! Then humans came about and did things and then there weren't a lot left...Koishi's sister...ehehe...her name is also Satori! She and Koishi are the last survivors of the satori race! We have third eyes and mind reading and everything!" She motioned to the blue third eye by her chest, floating upon the thin 'veins' that connected it to her body. "Koishi cut off the mind reading part though! So now she can't hear people's bad thoughts."

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"From the stories from long ago, the Emperor himself was created when a group of Psycicly powerful people known as shamans came together and sacrificed themselves to create a being of immense power. He himself had watched as humanity developed from within the shadows but when the entire galaxy was struck with strife the Emperor appeared to help lead humanity to a new golden age. And that is how he was known as the Emperor." Carnaelgaar spoke as he looked at the blue eye floating near Koishi. He was still weirded out but it was not as weird as the strange being.

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Jinhai puts the mint chocolate eyeball on the tray floating to one side. It didn't see any reason to waste good resources. Like the discarding of useful titles that could read others. Its head torqued at Koishi while ever full of questions.

"Titles of man destroyed all the titles written by Satori but two? None taken for use in titles of Man like a Jinhai is of parts Myrkul's vein has consumed? It seems a waste of titles. Can you make more for the Altar of Satori? Or do you not have a singer like Myrkul's Vein for the Altar of Man?"

Jinhai listened then to Carnaelgaar intent enough for the finery on its robe to refine from its title. A bright gold worm is even seen breaching the surface thrashing a wake as it dives. The displaced squirt of dust reconvenes while Jinhai considers new concepts in familiar terms.

"Your Altar of the Living Emperor is a wellspring of mind born from lesser titles? The Altar of Myrkul's Vein is devoid of a title of its own. It cannot channel its wellspring of mind."

Jinhai holds up a hand where constellations of ritual glyph float to the surface. Constellations of them orbit colored cracked stones rising, "Lesser titles like Jinhai must guide. We consume heretics among the black winds. How did the Living Emperor guide with his wellspring toward these golden times?"

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Listening to Jinhai, she found herself tilting her head a lot at his manner of speech, followed by blinking confusedly. She scratched her cheek with her pointer finger, musing to herself. "Mmnnn....you talk weirdly! Satori aren't an altar...and Koishi doesn't know what a Myrkul is, buuut...the only satori Koishi and Satori know about is ourselves!" She nodded twice, then swayed from side to side. "Caaaaarn...right? This one's weeeeeird..."

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Carnaelgaar looked at Koishi with a weird expression, like a confused and embarrassed expression. Did she just call him...Carn? Sure he understood this was a nickname but to have it shortened to carn was just weird. This was the first time someone shortened his name, and quite frankly he was confused by this. "I wouldn't say weird, he is more mysterious..." He spoke, even though it was clear that the nickname had an effect on him.

For Jinhai's question, he spoke. "Dring those bleak time, the Emperor created a fighting force from volunteer known as the Thunder Warriors. Their first mission was to unite Holy Terra from the barbarians that plagued the land. Once that was complete he led a great crusade across the stars uniting humanity and crushing everything that opposed them. After perhaps thousands of years he had successfully united humanity and began rebuilding Holy Terra and the surrounding planets. He then created his own children who would lead his armies to make sure that humanity was always safe." Carnaelgaar finished telling about the Emperors tale of a golden age.

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Intent on both something swam about the robe leaving wrinkled leather wakes from focus. When Carnaelgaar finishes his tale Jinhai looks down at its chest to the path there. One hand plunged into his chest a hand extracted a single inch diameter worm. The greyish silver-gold of rare earths shines from dense scales packed into its surface. Those that hear minds may find the silence there yet familiar. Silent flickers of a soul's glow that lie just beyond the bottom of any mind.

The quadrant vaned worm clacks jangling plates on both ends of its beak while exposed. It followed again as Jinhai spoke, "This is my title. Everything that I am or will be the essence of our title contains. Myrkul is the altar that creates our titles to its own design. Within its altar I am to Myrkul's vein what my title is to me. Our titles are all a part of Myrkul's Vein. The Altar of the Living Emperor would create these new men as part of him, yes? How else would Saitori replace those titles lost but at a like Altar? Is there not an Altar anymore that creates more titles of Saitori?"

Jinhai places the shining armored worm back from whence it came.

It looks up at Carnaelgaar,"We never escaped the confines of the fallen emperor before. Perhaps it does make us a strange title here, Carnaelgaar. It is unfortunate that Myrkul's vein is far too large to travel through where I have walked."

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Koishi shook her head at what he said...it was still mostly beyond her, but she could grasp the basics of it. Looking to Carnaelgaar she grinned and leaned in to wrap her arms around him and hide behind him...despite her obliviousness to her own emotions, she understood when someone else felt something...even without her mind reading powers.

"Do you not like being called Carn? It fits! I dunno what to call the weird one..."

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Inside a ruined building nearby rubble shifts from something hurling structure aside. Sounds moved as debris rattled closer on something making its way. A bent door shook but twisted would not open. Instead the metal screeched and torqued upward geysers of black dust at the cracks. Red heat swallowed cracks and warps then vanished into its former working sheen. One with the title of Jinhai pulled the door across as smooth as it should be. Through the door it dragged a shattered guard with metal rebar impaled. It turned heel reappearing with a broken torso.

One with the title of Jinhai considered the two broken pieces but didn't have enough for two titles. Now it remained for Jinhai to make whole titles with the pieces of others that remain.
It set down the torso kneeling between them both hands growing angular crystals. Invading wisps of minute black worms spread out among both to prepare for rewriting a title. Flesh decomposed into faint blue under the cloud of worms. A wet slorp of flesh follows draining words one for the other. The pieces of man that were once missing rewritten by a Jinhai as they should be.

Now a whole title remained except for an interfering mass and returning it to its altar. Worms returned from empty armor on one side and a man's gaping hole now gone at the other. It grabs the rebar with a crack of white from inside rips rebar from a woken man pawing at flesh. Jinhai ignored its cries and confusion. It scruffed the armor dragging him to titles of the Living Emperor. Jinhai looked for guards as calm as his loud cargo was not. With as much of the repaired guard's own red painting the armor the gulf of exposed skin on him was conspicuous.

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#, as written by Saarai
"That would be nice." Arya told the Guardsman, "It would help both of us in the feature if we knew which sides we're on." The woman continued.

The Invictus airship above began to slowly descend on the street, looking for a clear spot to land. "Landing. Stand clear." The pilot said over his intercom.

"Our guy is going to extract civilians, take them to our headquarters." An Invictus soldier informed the Guardsmen, "If any of you need transport we can provide it."

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Once the Gaurdsman noticed the ship lowering, they began to make way for the ship. "Alright then, follow us. We can bring you all over to him." One of the Guardman spoke and he and his squad began to led the soldiers to the command post. It would only take a minute been the group would see a man dressed in a uniform sitting down next to a massive stack of paper. He was filling in death certificates, events that led to this point, how the space marines won the day.

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The title needed to be in safety with an altar of mankind as it would take time acquiring the vessel. The title Jinhai was dragging tired its vessel the manifested muscle a draining effort. Soon too weak from to argue from strength Jinhai continued to ignore loud idle threats.

It decided against the title's request let it stand and go to safety. The title couldn't walk on the amount of manifested flesh in its legs. Then an overbeing appeared from the clouds or so it thought. Perhaps it was safety? Jinhais' minds reached out to enjoin but found no type of altar it recognized for such actions to be. Still, perhaps safety.

Jinhai skipped toward where the large ship descended to earth. The guardsman's leg armor leaving a furrow of dust behind it as it ran. The skip actually a partial glide its warped legs made a graceful dead run. The sharp words in its dust trail were a thing unknown Jinhai just noted them.

It saw a few other titles headed this way further on. Jinhai felt more confident in its assessment shifting left to pass. The guard yelled clearly as Jinhai loped smoothly past, "Put me down you damned xeno!"

Jinhai listened then ignored his request. The pressing matter was a title with a recording of names. Each their own mark. Jinhai's legs hardened and it slowed down. The blank faced humanoid ambled quietly toward the table where a uniformed man altered titles. It aimed if not deemed an interloper to go about the stack motes squeezing between papers looking for the marker with the guard's title.

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#, as written by Saarai
"Secure the civilians." Arya ordered her team, all but one of the group spreading out to search for people still hiding away. Arya and the last soldier began to follow the Imperials to their commander.

Arya wasted no time in speaking as soon as her eyes landed on him, "I'm Arya Bones of the Invictus. I come bringing good ol' fashioned manpower and firepower if you're here to help the city." She said.

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Cain looked up from his papers when he heard a voice. As he looked up he stood up to address the woman. "I am Commisar Ciaphas Cain of the Valhallan Ice Warriors, soldiers of the Imperium Of Man. I would like to say at first this was not originally in our plans to help save a planet, we were here recovering some of our allies when we heard an emergency signal requesting all available fleets to repel an invasion. Short story later, our fleet has been destroyed but we...our allies took out the station leaving us to our own devices. We decided to help rebuild the city as per our duty to mankind, and to ensure the people here have a home to return to. So, is there anything else you would like to talk about?" He said.

His attention however turned to a strange figure, with what appeared to have leg armor belonging to his guardsman. How the hell did that thing get through their lines!? Another hostile!? Cain immediantly drew his pistol as his nearby retinue of elites rushed nearby and aimed their weapons at the figure. Calling for more backup as well. "State your intentions xeno! I do not know where you got that armor but you best not make any sudden moves!" He stated, finger on the trigger of his las pistol.

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