Fruits

I am a eat to live kind of guy. I just hate eating, and don't like to waste time on it. It took forever for my parents to wean me off spoon feeding. I am a slow eater, and just hate eating. In fact, I used to just flush down half my food down the drain. The watchman cleaning the drain, Tulsi mama once saw new idlis getting flushed and complained to my Mom, and directly scolded me for wasting food. I used to just let other kids eat my tiffin in school, and the mini idlis were especially popular. 

My mom always keeps a variety of fruits in the house, and insisted that I consume them as snacks. I never did, maybe a banana or a grape here and there, but never the apples, pears and chikus. Now, when Im living alone, especially in the Delhi summers, fruits have become something that I just love to eat. They are so nutritious, so healthy, so tasty. 

I keep ordering from this place called Falhari. They showed up on Shark Tank, and people thought that they were just an online version of the corner fruit cutter. They are so much more than that. They have variable pricing depending on market rates. The bad, ugly older fruit become juice. The fresh fruits are diced up and served to customers. You can choose which fruits you want, and there is granular control over the quantity. I love the chia fresca, coconut water, watermenlon juice, and the smoothies. There is banana, chocolate, mint, spinach, cucumber, grapes, and you can order any combination. NGL, it is pretty epic. Many times my breakfast is just coconut chunks. Order more than a grand worth of stuff, and they throw in a watermelon box. I ordered five different types of mangoes. It is just awesome. 

I ordered three litres of juice today. One litre of coconut water, a litre of watermenlon, a banana and spinach smoothie 500 ml, and shikanki 500 ml. I went to the local tapri and got two big bags of ice to cool the juices. After drinking most of the coconut water, I felt so thankful and fulfilled, that I did something I had not done in a long time. I prayed for the first time after a long time. I prayed to all the gods. Shiva, Vishnu, Laxmi, Brahma, Jesus, Allah, Buddha. I prayed to Krishna even though I knew he is not a god. I prayed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster knowing that it is a fake god created by atheists to prove a point. I prayed to some demiurge in case something like one created the universe, although I highly doubt it. I prayed to the universe itself. 

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When we take the names of the ghosts, we are addressed by the sisters as Alyxian. They tell us that they would save us again even knowing their doom. We go to another cavern, and Rara touches a mote again. 

We go to another cavern, and there is a fallen creature. Ayo and their gang is around the creature. Irvan is missing his arm, which has been replaced by a metal arm. We almost have a fight, but they leave us alone after hurting us and breaking our hearts. Galsariad shows his true colours. 

We find 750 gold and a dual potion. We then go into a crevasse. We see a vision of Alyxian looking over a wild grassy expanse that transitions to a charred landscape. We also see a monstrous fish with streaks over its body moving far above us. 

Rara touches the shiny, yells out, fish attacks. Rara casts darkness, but the fish swats rara with tail and swallows rara whole. 

We fight with the fish and start running away. 

Dream diary superpowers edition

Okay so this was good. It was as if my brain granted me some extra DMT lol, because I was waking up, drinking water, walking around, having a smoke, and then quickly sleeping and going into a deep dream XD. 

Was lucid enough to control myself, but not lucid enough to know Im dreaming. I visit a lot of cool urban exploration stuff, and now the camera app on my phone and the phone itself works and looks well enough to make me thing its real. This is because the phone not working properly is one of the cues that lets me know Im in a dream. 

I went past this place from Bandra to Kurla to Sewri, but it was all some dream version. Was in some complex in Andheri, got a random lift from a guy to Bandra station, took a train straight to Kurla and got out. There was some guy sleeping on a gadda on top of a tapri at Kurla station, who invited me for a smoke. I said no, and carried on, taking a rickshaw to Sewri. I passed some nice colourful buildings, that looked a bit like Sarojini market. Then I came to this vast theatre like place, but it was just the sides of buildings all around, like the windowless sides of compartment apartments in Delhi when one building in middle is demolished. The entire thing was done up in spectacular murals and graffiti. I happily took many photos. 

Then I took a rickshaw back, smiled again at the guy on the gadda but politely refused a smoke, Then I went to a friend's place in Mulund. There was a party going on with some friends I knew in dream, but no such people exist. They were actually mashups of random people on Instagram. The party was taking place in Yogi hills, in some guy's bungalow in the forest, who lived with his granny. 

Uh. There were a bunch of complex plans made, but basically, I flew back and forth between my home and the Yogi Hills place a bunch of times, then got bored of flying. This is where the cool thing comes in. For the first time ever, I teleported in my dream. I understood somehow that I was following Nightcrawler rules, of having to know the place before I could teleport. First time though, I ended up in Gandhinagar instead of Vasant Vihar. Second time, I was able to roughly teleport to a location even without having been there before. 

Then I did something even more strange. While hovering over a friend and telling them bye, I shapeshifted briefly! It was like Junoon, but instead of a weretiger I became a wereleopard. I could feel my eyes growing larger and getting night vision. I could also feel my canines growing longer and fur growing all over my body. But it was for a fleeting moment, because I smiled and teleported again right then. 

Fun all around. Did two things that I have never done before, teleporting and shapeshifting. 

Lets see what happens today. 

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We pick up two owlbear statues and rubies from a treasure chest, then go on to explore the cavern system. Everyone gets rooted to the spot. In the vision, every step anyone takes leaves behind ruidium corruption, and everyone has a red glow. The people fight a bunch of evil warriors attacking commoners in a village, in a vision. 

Jazco and Woolf go into a crevasse that opens up that has a mote of crackling red light floating over a pedestal. They hear some message from Alyxian, asking them to give up hope. On the pedestal is a stuffed Moorbounder. They see a Rara hears a faint whisper, 'Maeska, my old friend'.

Rara reaches out to touch the sphere. Yazhi is not fast enough to cast resilient sphere. The moat gets aborbed by the ruidium hand. Bright red light shoots from Rara's eyes, and Rara is transported to the child's room, cleaner, fresher and without toys. The murdered woman is giving birth to Alyxian. Her husband is holding her hand. A midwife is helping her give birth, and the child comes out. It is silent make no noise, but its eyes open up and looks everywhere. 

The midwife immediately hands over the baby to the mother in disgust. "Even he knows, he is preparing for the dread omens that will haunt him for the rest of his and your lives". Rara has absorbed a fragment of despondence. Rara cannot help people anymore but is immune to being charmed. 

My consciousness starts to meld with Alyxian, I get very brief visions of seeking shelter as I am travelling, and reach late in the evening to an abode of three women. There are visions of laughter, and being welcomed for food and a bed to sleep in. The vision changes, you are standing outside the same home, with three gravestones, made of jagged red crystals. In my mind Alyxian says, "They welcomed me into their homes. Why can't I remember their names or their faces. Please help me remember."

Jazco and Woolf see a vision where Alyxian's parents are trying to seek help from a priest of Pellor, but the priest tells them there is no cure for the mark of the red moon and that they will find no help there. 

We dig three graves and head inside. The furniture is strewn around the ground floor of the houses. There are corpses everywhere, including the three women, and five very rough looking, malformed humanoids, dressed in rags. There are also two men clad in bloodstone chainmail. 

Woolf remember reading about the creatures. These are Grimlocks. Rangu clears the space, finds a cushion, and casts speak with the dead. There is a faint breeze, but nothing happens. We look around the house and find out the names of the three sisters, Meri, Marisa and Celeste. Once we learn all the three names, the bodies get swallowed up by the floor, and three ghosts emerge. We start fighting them. 

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The rift has just been opened, I blinked out, everyone takes some psychic damage. We see a large ruidium corrupted shark swimming towards us followed by two smaller cute dolphins. Yazhi tries to trap the large shark in a hamster ball, but is not succsesful. Jazco teleports between the sharks and blinds two of them. Rangu hits them with lightning. I manage to freeze one of them. Woolf slows down the three sharks. 

The large shark is blinded and slowed. One of the smaller dolphins is slowed. We can see the shark rapidly patching its injuries with ruidium. Yazhi turns the big guy into a sea anemone that slowly starts drifting down. Jazco starts riding a shark and casts radiant damage on the shark that can see. We kill two sharks and discuss what to do with the anemone. Our idea is to make it die in air. 

After a lot of discussion, we carry the anemone to the top of the Maw, and drop it. Rangu blasts the anemone mid way. It splatters at the bottom of the Maw, which Alita goes down and confirms. The Orc guard is scooping up the remains with a shovel.

We head to Craiyon's house. Alakritos and Craiyon are having an argument on our account. Alakritos is angry at Craiyon for sending us to dangerous missions. Alakritos is shocked and relieved. He is happy to see us back and alive. 

We talk to Alakritos about Ruidium and corruption. Then we split up to look for Ayo and gang. Jazco goes to Suncut Bazaar. Rangu goes to the river district. I go to Alluvium district. Yazhi goes to the Sigil district. Woolf goes to the Sand Heral. Rara goes to the Circlet Walk, then the Guided district. Yazhi then goes to the Ridge. 

We don't find Ayo and company. Rangu asks the Inkeeper of the Harried Mongoose to find Ayo's company and 100 gold. He tells us they were last seen headed westward from Ayu's temple. We take a long rest. Next morning, Alakritos gives us a novel ruidium dagger made for research purposes and not for any personal or professional benefit. He also gives us a bag of holding, and asks us to get as much ruidium as possible as we can from beyond the rift. 

We give Gorthag the Orc some beer, which Rangu uses prestdigitsation to chill again. We go past the rift again. Rangu scries to see Ayo's party again. They are walking through a dark tunnel. Maggie is leading the party. Galsariad turns towards Ayo and casts a cantrip that lights up the space. All of them have ruidium corruption on them. 

Everyone except me see a vision. These are fragmented memories... running through the street, looks into a puddle, there is a teenage boy who starts running away. Torches and scones are lit here and there, and it is the dead of night. There is a village hunt going on. There is darkness everywhere except for a vermillion moon. Alyxian grabs a cloak from a bar, runs into the forest, and joins the hunt. 

There is a clearing in the forest, with the red streaks of moonlight filtering through the forest. There is a scent of blood, and shouts of frantic calls by the villagers. Beneath the trunks of one of the large trees, is a young drow named Sakini, lying on the ground, barely alive and coughing up blood. Villagers are panicking. There are deep gashes on the body. She is trying to say something, but only ends up coughing up blood. 

Two large owlbears are running away from the scene. The party hears in their minds, a very sorrowful voice, as Alyxian says, "The price of my selfishness. I just wanted to hunt with them... arrggh. She died that night."

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 We enter the rift. Rara goes and touches the rift with her Ruidium corrupted hand, while Yazhi takes a few steps back. Ripples appear on the barrier, but they bounce back, and shut the little area opened by Rara. Rara realises that ruidium is the secret to opening the rift. Rangu uses the ruidium shield, causing the barrier to collect into a pulsating ball. We all take 44 points of psychic damage. Rangu uses the shield to go through the rift. Rangu is in pitch dark cavern, and sees two enormous statues that have settled on the seafloor at awkward angles. Each statue is missing its head. One of the statues has a hand has a claw like hand like its reaching out to something. Both of the statues are covered in ruidiumy crystals that are pulsing. Rangu comes back out, tells us about the statues, then we all go in through the rift. 

We are attacked by two angler fish and a large scary eel. 

Bunch of us go down. Alita remembers that her mom was the head chef at a saloon and she had snuck up into the fancier looking rooms, and found a leather bound book, found a spell about vicious mockery and stole the book, and decided to become a bard. 

Rara goes to an elite library and goes to the restricted section and sees a really tattered book and sees Nerthix.

Yazhi remembers running into a bunch of other kids who faught with him, which was a three vs one fight. While they are kicking Yazhi when he was down, an older drow woman comes into the alley and uses graviturgy to push them away towards the wall and pin them, and scares them away. The woman lifts Yazhi up and takes him to a pub nearby, gives some food. This Drow woman becomes Yazhi's teacher. 

We kill the remaining creatures. 

Rara and Rangu investigate the cavern while the rest of us head out of the rift because of the pressure of the water. They are transported into some kind of room of a child. There's a rocking horse, a cradle and a teddy bear in the room. Everything is corrupted by ruidium. The rocking horse is caked with ruidium, ruidium is spiking out of the teddy bear. There are a couple being attacked by a group of people. 

I am now a criminal