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15strangers2023-07-08 08:03 pm
superstylishsquid) wrote in 15strangers2023-07-08 08:03 pm
Afterparty Buffet
[So, that trial sure happened, didn't it? And on nearly empty stomachs, no less. That's why people might catch Alastor headed for the kitchen as soon as they're out of the theater, obviously intent on making food. He's in there a while, actually, and the hallway outside of it smells strongly of some rather tasty food.
What he's up to will become clear when he goes around to tell people to visit the mess hall. There, he's set up a varied buffet on one of the tables, all of various foods easy to serve in small portions. This includes small slices of beef only very lightly seared on the outside, but also more fully cooked fare, and even a few fruit and vegetable dishes. Plus the requisite spread of alcohol, because it sure has been A Day, huh?
...Also, while Hermes obviously doesn't eat, he still gets the instructions to go to the mess hall. Huh.]
What he's up to will become clear when he goes around to tell people to visit the mess hall. There, he's set up a varied buffet on one of the tables, all of various foods easy to serve in small portions. This includes small slices of beef only very lightly seared on the outside, but also more fully cooked fare, and even a few fruit and vegetable dishes. Plus the requisite spread of alcohol, because it sure has been A Day, huh?
...Also, while Hermes obviously doesn't eat, he still gets the instructions to go to the mess hall. Huh.]
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Knowledge of things like metal soldiers. Energy that can be harnessed stronger and longer than any fire. That can make a man wither and die if near it for too long. Drugs and poisons that can extend one's life for over a century. Javelins of Light that can turn a mountain into a lava drenched wasteland for literal generations.
Not so different from some of the marvels I've learned of from your worlds, in fact.
All gone now, of course. But I have seen their remnants my self. Had my hands in their machine guts and been blinded by their cold lights. But that isn't here or there. The truth is that there were never any outside gods. Only men who used the very gifts the Goddess gave them to turn on her. Maybe their reasons were cruel and power-hungry. Maybe they only wanted freedom. It doesn't matter. They were driven underground for a time... but eventually returned and whispered in the ear of Nemesis, the Bandit King, tales of how he could gain power. By taking on the Goddess and stealing her relics.
Seiro was no Saint. She was the Immaculate one. A beast servant of the Goddess who took on a human form to stop him. And after she won decided that she would never let humanity rise to the power needed to question our 'rightful place' again. The Goddess' gifts taken. Those with the Crests made our rulers and supported by a Church she created. Any time a human re-learned some of that cursed knowledge they were silenced. I have seen the writings. We have found powerful fuels, created devices that could write books for us in a fraction of the time, learned about our bodies by cutting into them... and every time Seiros, in the form of the Archbishop, has hidden them.
You all assume I am from a place far more primitive than your own. That is by design.
And every day we cry out for Sothis to return us to that time when we knew peace. And she does not answer. If she even still lives. If she does then we are abandoned- her bastard children of perdition. How could I not have anything but hate in my heart for a being like that?
CW: More Religion-y things!
Lies had been spread about 'outside' gods when there had been none, and man had been driven to greed enough to turn the very gifts they received back on their Goddess. Their influence affected Nemesis and then the matter was regarding Seiros was that she was not nearly this perfect being that the original tale made her out to be.
To use her power and position to punish humanity every time they re-learned anything deemed 'cursed' knowledge, silencing them. As a result, the land the people lived in was much more primitive without the technology one may see here on this very ship. These people suffered without their goddess, who appeared to not answer them but there was indeed a very important thing to consider in this overall situation. ]
If your Goddess Sothis is indeed alive, I would be inclined to agree that it is cruel to allow her people to suffer, as while man is destined to endure hardships? It should never be to such an extent as what you have described.
[ A slow, calm breath as he then straightened up properly. ]
By the sounds of it, however? For all you know, perhaps Sothis has either been slain or still recovering her power to help her people and will re-emerge at her full strength to help her suffering people.
[ A hand comes up to brush against the cross at the end of his rosary. ]
It very much differs from my Lord. At times he can be cruel, but he is also benevolent and serves as a guiding light for his people. [ There's nothing but positive thoughts for the one he follows here. ] God is the creator and he who preserves all things, and without the trials and hardships he has enacted upon us? We would not be where we stand in the world today.