Mel Overload

[Missy]

April 27, 2015.

 

Our internet has been out for a while. Phone Wi-Fi has let us keep up with important online stuff that can be handled with short posts, but the progress report has fallen by the wayside to a degree.

 

It has been an eventful month, though the tulpamancey has settled down a bit. There's been enough stressful financial and legal matters that none of us have of-late wanted to do anything too big or stressful with tulpamancey on top of everything else.

 

We've taken in the third tulpa, who I mentioned in my last update, at this point. Her communication isn't half-bad. After explaining the reasoning behind our shared 'Mel' name (i.e. inclusion; if someone addresses us as Mel, they will be right no matter who they're speaking to), and since she had some speaking ability already, she decided to pick a name based on that naming scheme.

 

She was Melisende for about 2 weeks, then saw mention of 'Mag Mell' somewhere while we were online, and changed her name to that. It can be shortened to Maggie (partly because Mag Mell is a bit hard to pronounce, and can sound awkward in casual English conversation).

 

Her form is still very unsteady, but coming in with some communication ability already has allowed us to work with her on her body. Unlike Caramel, who was mostly 'designed' by Melody and I, and who added wings to herself, Maggie has done the main work of designing her own body. So far she's navy blue and about 18 feet tall, with a human-ish (still blue) torso and a long snake tail instead of legs. She had green hair initially, but switched it to ginger after a day or two. So far everyone's getting along nicely, and while Maggie's communication has been a bit unsteady (at times she seems to fade out, and gets hard to hear) she's been getting along well with the other girls so far, and has continued to be as pleasant as she was when she was willing to wait and give Caramel practice time last month.

 

Caramel, for her part, has stabilized quite well. Her form seems set, her voice is clear, and she's at least managed to grasp basic possession, though moving the body tires her, and is something we're going to need to continue to practice. Melody has been a great help, and I don't think we could have helped Caramel to learn this nearly as fast if not for Melody's input and experience. We've made no real practice in the big stuff like imposition and parallel processing, but we've admittedly not been trying. Too much stuff has been going on to practice the big daunting skills right now.

 

Melody's been helping me manage the stress as well as we can manage. A bit of a financial scare with a collections agency has just been resolved thanks to her pushing for me to arrange an appointment to speak with people as soon as possible instead of freaking out (my account had gotten forwarded to the agency due to a mixup; I'd actually gotten in all the information I needed on time, but the lady in charge of that information had been sick the day I'd sent it in to her, and the person filling in for her transferred my account on the main lady's sick day without realizing that I'd sent in the proper information to keep that from happening, because it was in the sick lady's inbox where the lady who was filling in couldn't see it).

 

The scare of "We might be going bankrupt and homeless" has passed. We're safe 'til the next financial crisis. With any luck we can get at least a couple bills paid off before that happens, and rebuild a bit of a safety net.

 

-Missy