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Brenda puts on her sturdiest clothes and her big soft jacket and the backpack with all her camping gear and food and books, and sets the camcorder her mom used to make home movies with recording on top of the letter on top of her desk, and tells Alpina to send them somewhere in the multiverse.
We had an even better idea for where in the Cthulhu Mythos to put Brenda Sue
these-are-the-voyages
"That is a fascinating question and I want to find out! And if it doesn't I have something else that might!"
wrath-of-bast
And the woman is now a panther!
"This is a much easier way to communicate. I struggle with Human."
wrath-of-bast
The panther raises her tail happily. "Thank you! --You can steal the scrolls back if you can figure out where they are. I wasn't able to. I don't know how to explain to a human that he's in danger. He thought I was threatening him, which--" Huff of dissatisfaction.
these-are-the-voyages
Brenda is historically also not great at that, but she supposedly has Friends In Places magic for it now! "Do you know where he is? I'd be happy to try to talk to him." Especially since it's possible he has some plausible story for why he should have the scrolls and cat-animagus-lady shouldn't and she should hear them both out first. "Also, what are your name and his name? I'm Brenda."
these-are-the-voyages
"Pleased to meet you, Neris. Do you have any way of contacting Van Heuvelen? Do you think he's still in--what city are we in? Also what country and planet, I just got here from another universe and I shouldn't assume this is an Earth just because there's humans and cats on it."
wrath-of-bast
"We're on Earth. Cairo, in Egypt." Back to panther form now that she no longer has to do proper nouns. "I can show you where he's staying."
these-are-the-voyages
"Okay." Presumably by Google Maps or crystal ball or whatever people here use, and not by following a panther through a city.
wrath-of-bast
"It isn't just for my sake that I want the scrolls back. I can't keep Bast from inflicting Her curse upon him."
wrath-of-bast
"Cats start to surround him and follow him at all times. Eventually, if he doesn't put the scrolls back, they'll start attacking him. At first they'll be housecats, but eventually Bast will ask a cheetah or leopard for help, and when they attack he'll die. --I have asked her for mercy but you know how gods are."
these-are-the-voyages
"My previous planet had stories about gods but none actively doing stuff, and I don't know how much the gods here resemble the stories there, but--yeah."
wrath-of-bast
"Bast-- isn't as cruel as many gods are, and she gives warnings-- but it doesn't make sense to her that being followed around by dozens of cats at all times isn't a clear or sufficient warning, for many humans."
these-are-the-voyages
"I hope I can--bridge that communication gap." Possibly, in the general case, by Dragon Fairy Elf Witching Neris and/or a god. Though she has to 'encounter' a type of being for it to count and maybe she doesn't want that. Hard to say.
"What other gods exist? How much do they communicate with humans?"
wrath-of-bast
"There are many. We followers of Bast are at war with the crocodile-god Sebek. The most powerful god I know of is Nyarlathotep. The gods send-- visions, dreams. Sometimes they incarnate and speak to you, or possess people. Sometimes they give you power."
these-are-the-voyages
"What are Bast's--goals, priorities? How do people choose which god to follow? Uh, if all this is stuff I can just look up in a library feel free to tell me to stop asking stupid questions, I'm just trying to get some kind of clue what to expect."
wrath-of-bast
"Bast wants cats to be well and happy and safe. I'm not sure how other people choose which god to follow, I'm a panther. I didn't get many options."
these-are-the-voyages
Oh wow she's a panther who turns into a human and not the other way around, that is SO cool.
"That's a good set of priorities for a god to have. Are there a lot of shapeshifters like you?"
wrath-of-bast
"I don't think so? I was chosen by Bast as her priestess. I haven't met another one like me, other than the woman who trained me."
these-are-the-voyages
"How much of this stuff is common knowledge? Does Van Heuvelen think Bast doesn't exist, or that she doesn't care about the scrolls, or what?"
wrath-of-bast
"Most humans don't know about the supernatural. I think Van Heuvelen doesn't believe in her."
these-are-the-voyages
"What sort of things would be likely to go wrong if someone attempted to be supernatural or talk about supernatural things in public as if it wasn't a secret?"