Mykal Journal page 20

Sat through the negotiations with House Roc of Chaos, I did find out that although pattern and Logrus boot you out of the void, Trump does not, interesting,

Headed back to Rebma, Mom is doing OK, wants to go to her Trump shadow to finish healing, 4x and Dry land. She REALLY doesn’t want to play in the salt water, no idea why that might be. Offered to give her a bath, and she offered to head-butt me into next week. I figured I’d better decline, I’d hate missing anything. Trumped her to her shadow, got her settled in, ran some errands to get stuff from shadow, a wheelchair…Painkillers. (I wonder if she’d hurt me very badly if paintings of her in that wheelchair started showing up..hmm…) Advised some of her people on the vault they were constructing for Sam, not that I know much about that, but I tried to help as much as I could.

Decided to kick back and do some painting, sat down and sketched Mel’s corination for a bit, then went full out, Painted the scene of her being crowned, just at the instant the crown touched, the slight flinch as the cold metal touched her brow, the regal demenor. Her spotlighted in the center of the painting, with the family onlooking on the sidelines, mostly faded so that She dominates the painting, gazing out over her kneeling subjects and wellwishers… almost seeming to look right out of the painting at the viewer. I infused the whole thing with Trump energy while painting it. Then when complete I started the REAL work, I painted a TRUMP of the painting, to protect it from the ravages of time and salt-water. Successfully completing that I trumped in to Rebma by way of Llewella and showed it to her, let her admire it. Then informally presented it to Mel, when her mother called her in. That will look good in their royal library I think. Both were very pleased with the effect I achieved I think, Llewella wants me to teach her the trick so she can do stuff like this.

While admiring the work, an Alarm is raised. Seems someone has violated Thera’s recovery room, Llewella asks if I will draw my sword (as if I’d let them go without me) and tries to dissuade Mel from going. Not successful she teleports us down to the hospital wing. Where a hunch-backed dog is in the room with Thera, her medics are passed out on the floor, and there is a barrier on the door. Hmm.. where have I heard of a hunch-backed dog before….DUH. Dworkin is at it again. Seems he’s been finally convinced to speed Thera’s recovery along by Queen Vialle. He does some strange arcane type stuff, enlarging her crystal housing and imbedding one of his cat-creatures into her environment, melding it with her and giving her more skull, and spine to jumpstart her regeneration. After he departs, we get to go in and survey his handiwork, very interesting, even if a bit digsugsting. Thera seems to be a bit better off though, Dworkin woke her and had a chat before he left. We got a call from Amber, seems he did the same thing to Delwin on the ramparts of Castle Amber.

I take my leave of Rebma, and head to the 4x shadow I use for trumps, I start experimenting with trying to find a storage medium for trump energy, trying everything I can lay my hands on. Mineral, vegetable, whatever, I may have to expand my search to shadow to find some REALLY rare focus, since no common or easily obtainable rare items show much promise. During my off time and breaks I begin to Meditate on the Unicorn, using my own trump as a meditation focus at first, I am focusing on her as a link to advance my abilities further. I may have to fully contact her at some point to advance, and she might as well be more familiar with me. My activities may draw her attention. It remains to be seen if she will assist me in anything.

I also begin to expand my art supplies to support other skills besides oils, I intend on training in more areas, acrylics, waterbased, etc.. anything to do with painting and sketching.