3. Mojo & Me: The Life and Rantings of Cera Amalith

Mojo & Me: The Life and Rantings of Cera Amalith


  • ::flowing and graceful, pastel rainbow glowing script::

    The Eye of the Nars. He's an teresting Citzien to say the least. likes showy stuff. I barely even hear of his meetng on time. Citizen A and Citizen T both were there though not necesarily in the name of Camp. I doubt though theyowould have let anything happen to disadvantage us further though. Either way Pretty C was there. I sat next to Citizen C the Glowy Eyed. he didn't detect any evil from the GLowy man who is that Eye thing. And his entrance had nothing tod o with crossing planes that I felt but it certainly could have seemed ilke it from all its sparkliness. There was lots of yelling an screaming and it tok a long while to find out the Glowy Man didn't kow what PRetty C was hoping he did. He andhis apprenctice are stil researching Yeenoghu and th gnolls. He had sme finny shiny things that would help he said share al information between all the Citizens who held one like the Crcystal peols supposedly do. But the thing is theyld only be sharing stuffa bout the Crystals. I don't need stuffa bout the Crystals I need stuffa bout Yeenoghu. The Crystals are unhalthy tp Pretty C yes. but still Yeenoghu and the gnolls are the ne with my pet's and Mojo's last missing piece.


  • ::upon a scrap of parchment in a graceful and flowing manuscript withlettingering that glwos in a rainbow of pastels::

    Who knew flying out to keep Citizen M of the Silver Valley from dying to a most nasty evil doing doer Pretty C has seen aside from Yeenoghu, plus a few others, would have been so fortunate after all. No only did I get to speak to Citizen M of the Silver Valley about using Yeenoghu's weapn as a focus for diivining possible links to the gnolls that we might set out to destroy to weaken them so they can be driven out of the Camp. Pretty C does not see hope of doing that unless the gnolls can be sepeerated from the strength gain from this..Yeenoghu. Also Ome of those Citizens I heard tha can talk tot he Crystals promised the Crystals were trying to fix their wild magics that drive the Voices so loud and my pet and me so dizzy and tired and everything. They better. Citizen N the Bard.. I think it was promised such things. I think he'll have better luck helping Pretty C with gnolls and Yeenoghu. Research he wil do for me where Ic annot go thakns tot he Crystals' wild magics And spying too.. Oh and wihout flying from the spot I also got to question the Man in Silver.. The Voice its did say he was a man of Azuth And he swears on on Azuth and more that he bears no malice tothe gypsies. and had nothing to do with the gnolls and Yeenoghu's destruction of the Camp. The description the Voice gave was accurate but something like Azuth would not stand for ne of their own sweaing upon them so faslely. And yet the Man in Silver stood so..the rest of the Voice's claims must be lies. He did say to keep an eye out for a female elf with red hair. He's never seen her and doesn't know her name but I can guess he has caused him this kind of trouble before. Pretty C wil look out for her. I don't like being sent on wild goose chases witht he gnolls still in firm hold of the last missing piece. Oh as for my talk with Citizen M of the Silver Valley. It seems I must next seek out Citizen G of the Silver Valley.


  • ::flowing and graceful script with glowing pastel rainbow lettering::

    Man in Silver..still must find him.. It shouldn't be hard though and then Yeenoghu will be abel to last much longer.. And Citizen M of the Silver Valley. I must speak with him. Just in case I cannot find the Man in Silver in time. They have that sword. NO read the runes he said, Pretty Pixxie C won't but I could use it as focus I think and do this the way the Baba Katya would have. Find a link betwen Yeenoghu and his gnolls. and maggots that maybe Pretty C can send her friends out to destory as a first strike before taking back the Camp for real..


  • ::in flowing, graceful and glowing pastel rainbow manuscript::

    Man in Silver. Man in Silver. a staff capped in red. That's what the voice of concsience said. He is the one who sicced Yeenoghu on the Camp. Why?? Why does he hate gypsies so much? If it is the Man in Silver I am thinking of, an Evendur Mildsilver our former Keeper Citizen at the Keep. There are many questins to ask. His head i must have brought to Pretty C. But only after we find out why he did it and if he will reverse it or nows how.. Power Pixies Ho! But first a muffin.


  • ::in a most graceful and flowing penmanship with glowing pastel rainbow lettering::

    Ever since he did that ritual of his, Pretty Magic Girl D's pet that is. I have been having the oddest urges. I want more muffins for some reason and I miss my own old pet a little more.. Yeah Pretty B is my pet until at least Pretty D is back from her honeymoon. I wonder if she had fun. Ihope so. I want a pixie hunk of my own. Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger. Eww.. I don't like mushrooms so much. but maybe in a muffin? Maybe in a muffin they might be splendid. Quite splendid indeed. I'm feeling peckish again. Gotta go. A snake! Oh no it's a snake!


  • ::more flowing granceful script in shifting pastel rainbow on a scrap of parchment::

    I've looked over all the pieces my pet and i both have found and If igured out there is only one piece to find! one last and very big….big important piece. It is not so much as a thing ast the other pieces are but a place. Our home, the Camp. Butt he gnolls and demons have it now. It is not their piece to have though. Imust get it back somehow Pretty C will need lots of help with this. And more than just Power Pixies too. I'll have to take my pet's place as Katya's heir to do it. because I'm gonna need al the Citizens I can get to help get this last of Mojo's missing pieces.


  • ::on yet another, another scrap of parchment in that flowing and graceful manuscript::

    I've found more pieces for my pet. I've had lots of success finding the pieces with Pretty Boy B's help. We've found at least three by going back to look in the place where Cera lost Mojo's pieces. I also found one on my own with help from two very helpful Citizens! It was in the jaws of a puppy of all places. A very nasty puppy but still. Pretty Boy B and i found more pieces in that same place later, luckily not inside the mouth of a pupppy this time. We found more pieces near where my pet lost them too. I must think a bit on where else to look.


  • ::Meanwhile back on parchments of scrap, the long flowing and graceful manuscript continues in the glowing pastel rainbow::

    It feels SO good to be awake on my own! Yet I miss my pet. I will have to keep looking for those missing pieces for her. As much as I like being on my own, a Power Pixie is nothing without a pet to protect. Sure I protect the Citizens but I need a pet that is all mine to keep safe. I have to share protecting the Citizens with others. Good thing too. They're always getting themselves right back into trouble after you just got done saving them. I wish they'ld let the day stay saved for litltle while sometimes before I haveto trush to save it all over again..


  • ((A little step back in time…))

    Maggots Eat Them Up, Yum…

    For those lucky enough to return from the Shroud of Death, it is never an easy path to anything that can be called normality. After falling into Death's shroud from the poison of an undead soul in a ruined City long ago Lost to the ages, now populated solely with those undead souls. Cera had lost something more. She spent the days after, holed up in Katya's tree under her blankets and bedding, muttering at herself for losing somany of Mojo's pieces, totally forgetting her duties around the Tree and around Camp.

    Poor Elera had her hands full between Katya lost muc of the time in her horrifying visions of what wast to come and Cera disturbed worryingly so more than usual. Jeni running around with visions of her own, on top of that, Elra was probably the lynch pin that kept that household from flying totally apart. Mojo bless her for it.

    Rarely and barely aware of anything beyond her blankets over her, Cera spent these days in and out of sleep, caught between self-destruvtive berratings she gave herself when awake and their own prophetic dreams of doom to come. The others did what they could for her. Once even Katya was able to rouse herself from her visions long eough to sit by Cera's side.

    Holding Cera's hand, Katya stroked back the greenish blue bangs from Cera's eyes. With Jeni's help she tipped Cera's head back to pour the same potion that temporarily held her visions in check down Cera's throat to give her temporary reprieve from her inner demons. Cera' sputtered and her bright greene yes snapped open to find Katya's kind, tired and sad face gazing down on her. There was something in her long time mentor and grandmother figure's eyes she didn't wish to see and refused to recognize. Katya was saying good bye. Baba squeezed Cera's hand again, leaning down to place a kiss on her forehead.

    Jeni was told to go help Elera. When the litle girl was gone, Katya gave a grim smile back down to Cera, "Shh… there's something I must tell you. We've both know...and when the time comes I want you to run to that Wind or Fog of yours and hide. You'll be safe there. Then, when when you can I want you to come back and get Jeni and Jonni and take them far away from here where they'll be safe. This does not have to be their fate too...or yours. They'll be in hiding."

    Baba leanded over and whispered where to find the fissure they'll be hding in then placed a final kiss on Cera's forehead. Cera clutched at Baba and didn't want to let go, her green eyes already bleary with tears, but Baba could already feel the ffects of the potion keeping her visons away fading and she didn't wan to leave Cera with more of her terrifying babbling as her last impression.. Katya with tears in her own eyes squeezes Cera tight once ad held before she forced herself to peel away, patting Cera's hand, "You rest."

    Cera flopped over into quiet sobbing as Katya turned to leave the room, not letting up til sleep claimed her again. It wasn't much of a refuge with the same terrifyingly real dreams plauged her yet again. Those gnarling sharp dog teeth coming to rip away the flesh of countless bodies that she couldn't make out who they were. Over and over she witnessed the beasts devour the the seemingly endless supply of corpses.

    She awoke wit a terrified shriek! Those jaws in her dreams had turned to come for her. Only she awoke to find those jaws were quite real indeed. The most terrible gnolls she could remember stood over her bedding. The wards she and Katya had placed on the Tree to keep unwelcome guests out proved to be no match for the gnolls and their demon allies.

    Through another shriek she bracd for the killing blow that was about to land down her way. Except when it came there was no Cera there to receive it. In her terror a buried survival instinct had kicked in and she had shifted herself to the Ethereal Plane in a shimmering that grew around her a split second ahead of the blow. The gnoll's axe went right through her, which she saw when she glanced to see if she was still alive. Her eyes had closed so tight as to block out all light in that same instant of planewalking to the Ethereal or the Fog as she called it.

    The sight of an axe occupying the same space as her body and the gnolls overturning her blankets to see where she had gone was more than enough to send her screaming out through the far wall into the main room of the Tree. Lucky for her sight and sound from the Etherial did not carry over into the Material she had just fled.

    Unfortunately for her sound and sight did carry over from the Material to the Ethereal as far the ethereal mists allowed. The mists also added a dreamy quality to what she saw and heard next. Jeni and Jonni were nowhere to be seen but there in front of her where she had come out of the wall, the gnolls had Baba and Elera in their mits. She wanted to help them so badly but she just...couldn't. It wasn't in her, Mojo was missing too many pieces. It is good thing she didn''t do anything or she would shared the fate of she was about to witness.

    It was the same nightmares she had for weeks, but now she couldn't wake up and the bodies were all too recognizable and not quite corpses yet. The final mokments and screams of those she called Family burned into into her mind. The maggot covered gnolls were here. The maggots would never leave her again. If only there had been someone there to tear her away from the scene, but she was alone and frozen in place there in the Ethereal mists, just close enough to witness it all.

    A miracle she ever moved again,a tiny voice amidsts all that were always in her head gently nudged her on once it was all over,. The voice reminded her of Katya's last words to her, Jeni and Jonni still needed her.. One last duty for her Baba to do. She moved without a will of her own through the mists, fleeing from her lng time home of the Tree a small fragment of or so faling from the ceiling falling through her on her way out.

    It wasn't necessary but she still crept as quietly as possible through the carnage of the Camp once outside. She rcognnized all the bodies now, more revealed or hidden away as shemoved through the mists. Gnolls, always more gnolls and though it wasn't true it seemed to her that they ALL were crawling with maggots. No one else would have seen them but she did, real or not. The sight stole away all caution she had regained and she sprinted off to find the little girl and boy, running right through more than one gnoll.

    She did not leave the relative safety of the Fog until she found Jeni and Jonni hiding. In her confusion she had sprinted far and wide when she knew theyre hiding within earshot of the Tree itself. Unable to fit into the fissure herself she bid Mojo from his 'sleep' and sent him in to lead the chidlren to safety. Cera herself returned to the Ethereal, the same shimmering in the air claiming her away to it. From the Fog she followed them and her feline best friend to her own physical safety but had she truly escaped?


  • ::Gone is the blood writing and the jagged, unsteady manusciprt too has disappeared.. but neither has the child-like manner of old returned… a iti s the more familiar pastel rainbow glow of her writings in happie days yet, its' style has been replaced with a long flowing and graceful cursive::

    Cera is dead. Long live Pretty Magic Girl C.


  • ::on another scrap, the jagged and and unsteady scrawl picks up again in blood::

    tHe WeLl….It LiVeS....fEeL iT...fRoM....hErE....sO...lOuD...fInD tHe PiEcEs...FiNd ThE pIeCeS.....bUt ThErE's No RuNnInG...nOw....WeLl iS...eVeRyWhErE...eVeRyWhErE... fInD tHe PiEcEs....FiNd ThE pIeCeS...


  • ::The strain and fraying of late of what's left of a battered, smashed, bashed and whatever-else psyche finally shows through in the handwriting, its strays from its usual child-like manner and appearance to a shaky almost indeciiphorable scrawl, unsteady and jagged lettering: written in her own blood::

    ….fOuNd...A...fEw....Of MoJo'S pIecEs. So FeW... ClOvEr...GrOuNdEd.....No FaIr! HeR lIfE...sHe SaYs... ..dOeSn'T liStEn... NeEd MoRe PiEcEs... nEeD mOrE PiEcEs....NeEd MoRe PiEcEs.....nEeD mOrE PiEcEs.. NeEd MoRe PiEcEs... mOjO.... MoJO... nEeD mOrE pIeCes....


  • ::on the back of another scrap of parchment in some bloodied childliked writing::

    Piece, pieces…. more we have found. That is PRetty Magic Girl C found them for us Mojo. We have the Power Pixies to thank for that. Pretty C wouldn't have found any at all without Pretty Magic Boy B and Pet B.. I think thats the Gnome. Pretty C can be so confusing to talk to sometimes. But still the maggots are there, Mojo. even if we did find a couple pieces already. What's easier..looking everywhere we can amongs the borken mirror worlds or where the sleepwalkers lay in their city? Yes Mojo I hear youlaughing at me. Don't makme sick Mojo kittyon you. If could find whee you are staring at me from, Mojo you'ld be sorry. What? NO! THe sqirmies! WHy won't theyleave me alone. I Think I better go sit the your Stones, Mojo.. or let Pretty C go help Pretty B with that Shiny machine head she was takling about.


  • :on the back of a prevoiius scrap of parchment..agian in blood in the same old child-like manuscript::

    One piece found! One piece found! So many more still misssing. So many Teapots trying to helpTeapot Sy.. and Teapot MErin whos ays Mojo should call herself Queen of no that was your idea Mojo.. or was it? this Queenof Gypsies in Exile? Be strong they say? Mojo has found one piece.. but just doesn't see.. we're misssing too many pieces till. THe Voices tsill see in. and out, All the way through. The squirmies are everywehre..They'll eat Mojo sooner or later. Mojo doesn't want ot be eaten but sitl..we sih they'ld hurry up and get it over with. If ont fofr Auntie Khaya and other god Teapots maybe Mojo we would have fed ourselves to the beasties by now. They mean well. And we don't wanna be eaten…when the we can think.. usually only amongst the Stones... That's only good thing about this town..besides the Teapots.. Mojo the squirmies... the squirmies..they're...he-

    ::the rambling, bloody writtings smear off to the right in the middle the letter e::


  • ::I the handwritting of a child but in blood::

    We knoew it was him. THe Twin. Was Tero ::the handwriting gets kinda shakey in comparison to the rest at Tero:: Al my fault.. all of it.. if I hadn't lost MOjo's pieces.. We could have stoped him and squirmy infested doggie besties. OUr home is gone. Clover.. Mommy needs you. I need MOmmy.. Kind Lady. Kind Lady… Mojo! What have we done. This... this place is ot our home... Our piecs are gone and th VOIce laugh seing us at the Suiqrmies mercy.. the and bogeyman'. He found us.. Mojo we have to find our pieces... we have to.s


  • ::In a familliar child-like handwritting but ina dark crimosn that couldn't be mistaken for anything but dried blod, a few dried spatters also mar the parchment scrap::

    We are broken….I'm..broken. The Voices...they can see me.. Broken...Must fid Mojo's missing piecs so theyc an't see in.. Make then go away! Go away!T I hear them we do.. sitll muttering..whisepring...yelling..so noisy... but Iknow it's me they laughing at...takling about... I hear them we do..and they lok right in and see me. That's why talk..yeah that's why. Find..the missing pieces, Mojo so we can hide... hide....hide. GO AWAY!!

    ::The last few words kinda smudge and smear off to the side with a palm print left behind but..isn't totatlly unreadable because of it:


  • ::Shards from a broken mirror lay glued in a haphazard array to a scrap of parchment. Smears and a spattering dark red are dried on a couple jagged corners of a few shards and on the parchment itself::


  • ::one little line in the smae old, same old child-like manugscript with glowing pastel rainbow lettering::

    Little Clover is SUCH a teenager, Mojo, she just doesn't listen!!


  • ::the same old soft pastel, glowing rainbow in childlike manuscript::

    Our littel Clover…she's Home, Mojo! She went Home!


  • ::scrap of parchment, with the same old child-like handwriting in a soft rainbow of glowing pastels::

    Clover is growng so fast, Mojo.. It seems only yester day she was still a baby….and she is so more used to you then we ever were or are... Iknow she is the one who must go Home first... but.. I have never felt more alien to this plane.. SPending so much time abraod the the planes..the Wind.. It is a wonder we cn even call this place home anymore.. Home weknow is far far from here but where do we live until then? The Stones.. are key to going there so.. where we are is probably best... but.. oh Mojo....we just do not belong here. SOme Family.. frinds don't even loves us anymore....they know we do not belong... stil.. maybe how we helped wif Teapot Sam wil convconvince them to love us until its time for us to realy go? On the good side... teapot Sam does seem to be getting bettewr finally.. And one mkore thng.. it is not just our feeling of being alien.. Auntie Cotton feels a change in the air too.. how big? how broad? is iit for the ill? Maybe it's a sign Moj should just go Home anyway we can?