OOC: A Time of Trial

[Blessed-one]

hey LF, if you ran into WB, let me know and i'll write something up for the trio.

 

[Lady_Firehawk]

WB?

Oh SHEESH! Took me a few moments to get that one! Writer's Block, duuuuuh.

/me smacks her forehead
I'll attempt to write something up; I think my charries are somewhat intimidated by Elves, really don't want to annoy Girithtur (they don't understand curmudgeonly old Elves very well) and quite simply don't know how to begin. Oh well.

 

[VigilanteHamster]

Soooo... should Isliel stick around, even though Rosyen's ignoring the heck out of her, or slink off to do more 'evil healer' business? Yeesh... she's a great demonstration of the kind of evil potential Iruen would've had if he had turned traitor... after all, he and Isliel seem to have similar abilities.

 

[Blessed-one]

never thought of that! glad that Iruen's not changing side.

depends, you can have her stick around.. since she probably should be curious about what Rosyen's up to? i'll go get a post up..

ok, LF. Just wondering why you seems to be having difficulties coming up with posts. But Girithtur won't talk unless he got no choices.

 

[Lady_Firehawk]

Well, they took the approach of asking about alternatives... if Girithtur isn't willing to do it that one way, then possibly there's other ways to help Mikel? (Quennith and Teglon are crappy shrinks, though!)

Heh... and Rosyen can't pull rank on Isliel and tell her to bug off. Too bad.

 

[VigilanteHamster]

Meh, I don't see Isliel as being that annoying... just a dirty little schemer, that's all. A far cry from the honorable woman she projected herself as before. Ah, yeah... she's been in the cult for probably close to half her life, but until all this stuff started happening she's had to keep it under wraps. Kind of hard to break the habit, y'know?

She'll stick around, though, if it's no big thing to Rosyen. Probably a good idea to stay on Rosyen's good side, eh?

Oooh... a mana duel between Iruen and Isliel, now THAT would be interesting! (Or both of them using their abilities on the same person, one trying to harm, the other trying to heal?) Hehehe... same knowledge, opposite applications!

 

[Buskanaka]

ok, so are Zantuk and Shardalon exactly the same, or different? because if they're exactly the same then they wouldn't worship BOTH... the men would probably worship Zantuk, not Shardalon, and vice versa.

 

[VigilanteHamster]

You're stuck in monotheistic mode, dude. Zantuk and Shardalon are inseperable from each other, but opposite in a lot of ways-- basically a dualistic way of viewing things. It's all quite pagan in setup, really; sort of like a mother goddess/ father god sort of thing, y'know? Except... very not nice.

 

[Blessed-one]

why does Isliel want to stay on the good side of Rosyen? i thought they have the same ranking? oh, unless Isliel is one of those kind that like to ingratiate into someone's favour, only to later use it against that person. *possibilities sprouting out like rain*

You're stuck in monotheistic mode, dude. Zantuk and Shardalon are inseperable from each other, but opposite in a lot of ways

it isn't just Bus. I don't get it either. If they're different, how can they be the same? or is it like the trinity concept?

 

[VigilanteHamster]

Naaaah, it's not like that... Isliel just recognizes that it's a good idea to NOT have all the Raibens trying to stab each other's backs, y'know? Besides, Rosyen would easily paste her in a fight! Sure, Isliel has some really sneaky kind of mana skills (making the human(oid) body go haywire; how nice ) but Rosyen would definitely have the advantage in terms of her mana level... plus Isliel is rather frail physically whereas Rosyen probably isn't. It's not fear; more of a respect kind of thing. And after the Zarkiara debacle... well, of course Rosyen's gonna be a little witchy! Best not to aggravate the situation! (Who says evil cultists can't have social grace? )

As for Zantuk/Shardalon, I haven't really figured that out yet. It might be like a Trinity-ish kind of thing, with Zantuk and Shardalon merely aspects of the same false being, or they could simply be two seperate deities 'married' to each other... like a pagan pantheon of only two gods. Where one goes, the other follows...

/me starts singing the Married With Children theme song... if you've watched the show, you'd get it

 

[Lady_Firehawk]

Ah... that was just the opening Quennith needed! Might take me a while to do the post, though, because pretty much everything that passed in Zarkiara is tied in with Iruen somehow... like what happened with Mikel to cause his condition in the first place. Quennith, of course, will want to lay out all the facts on the table. After all, she IS a storyteller when she's not doing archery!

 

[Blessed-one]

Who says evil cultists can't have social grace?

that's a smart one.

with the two gods thing, still waiting for Surprised's clarification. She didn't mention Zantuk in the information she put up in her profile, perhaps Zantuk is not even in the equation! (the hierarchy)

because pretty much everything that passed in Zarkiara is tied in with Iruen somehow... like what happened with Mikel to cause his condition in the first place. Quennith, of course, will want to lay out all the facts on the table. After all, she IS a storyteller when she's not doing archery!

oh, i wasn't trying to make Iruen into the central figure, but when Quennith mentioned him, that idea just clicked. How best to get Girithtur out of his cocoon if not for the memory trigger by someone that is tied to the the very thing that renders him now useless of healing?

doh, i've completely forgotten about Quennith's other talent!

 

[Lady_Firehawk]

I'm mostly speaking in terms of the Terrible Trio's involvement... Quennith can be pretty long-winded when she wants to be, but hey, that's storytellers for ya! (Assuming she survives, she'll have to compose a whole boatload of songs dealing with this particular time... Yay minstrels!)

Hehe... actually, it's because I'm really freekin' long-winded!

 

[Lady_Firehawk]

w00t! Finally got it done! And yes, it's horribly long-winded, but then again it's a pretty long story... Quennith actually did a whole lot of condensing.

 

[VigilanteHamster]

that's a smart one.

with the two gods thing, still waiting for Surprised's clarification. She didn't mention Zantuk in the information she put up in her profile, perhaps Zantuk is not even in the equation! (the hierarchy)

Probably because Elsom's a priestess of Shardalon... I kind of extrapolated it from there and said the same basic structure should apply to Zantuk as well, but like you I'm waiting for SPJ's response... see how she likes it.

Social grace... definitely important for a Raiben! How else would they avoid driving each other batty? 'Sides... subterfuge runs in Isliel's blood... darned Sal Kadeins. (Healer disguises do bite, though... altogether unsuited for any Shardalonian or Zantukite clergy, let alone someone ranked as a Raiben!) But if that's really the only thing Rosyen has against Isliel they might still get along okay.

Anyhoo... guess we oughta both wait for SPJ to post, eh?

 

[Buskanaka]

monotheistic means 1 god not 2

If they are the same god, then do they just worship different aspects?

Or is it 2 gods bound together, like a mother/father sort of system. But as it is I don't understand why there are 2 different priesthoods worshiping the same god, under different names.

 

[Blessed-one]

long posts are a treasure!
ok, done. Just have Quennith and Teglon push Girithtur a little more and he's bound to give in, LF. I'm surprised that neither Quennith nor Teglon had asked Girithtur to help yet.

 

[Lady_Firehawk]

I think they're afraid to... Quennith's come pretty close several times, but each time she was about to she backed off figuring it wasn't a good time... Even after her big, long spiel she had to let it all sink in! (Storytelling skills, I tell ya... she'd probably make a good diplomat!)

As for the deity thing... we probably don't need to have it all fleshed out at once; after all, nothing is fully known about the cult yet. We don't quite need to get into the nitty-gritty of the 'one god or two' thing yet... I guess we just need to know that Zantuk and Shardalon somehow fall under the same umbrella, are part of the beliefs of the same cult, but we don't quite know the exact mechanics of it yet.

On an almost completely unrelated subject, I tried doing a little sketch of Rosyen just for the heck of it... it kinda turned out bad, though. Hmmm... retry... I also tried drawing Mikel and Quennith, but they turned out sorta blecky as well, and I can't seem to get Teglon drawn at all. The only one I actually managed to draw was Isliel! (In normal priestess regalia, that is...)

I do have an idea for what the Zantuk priests could wear... same sort of robes as the Shardalon priestesses; just make 'em a different color.

 

[Buskanaka]

I'm not necessarily saying we need to flesh out all the details, but maybe including Zantuk would be good


anyway, sorry I haven't been able to post for a few days, I'm right in the middle of a couple of uni assignments, should be finished by tomorrow though.

 

[VigilanteHamster]

Yeah, Zantuk is most definitely in the equation... it's just that most of the cultists introduced so far have been female. (Considering me, Blessed-one and Surprised are all female, that shouldn't be too surprising! )