video | un: wisdom

[mashiara]

Right. Meet Kharil-asuk, ( she gestures to the side, where... it's incredibly difficult to tell there is a massive, unreasonably large snake god in the dappled shadows of the foliage. ) who assures he'll donate his venom if any of our number confess to him the darkest crime you've performed. He promises no retribution, only a start to redemption.

Which does not include devouring. Regardless. Please help. I can walk away and leave my pendant with him, or I can stay. As Wisdom, I've heard the best and worst of people many times before.

( She waits, expectant. Any who does confess a crime, betrayal, or sin can (on player choice) feel more at peace with it or relieved, for up to 24 hours. What brief kindness! )

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[mashiara]

The wisdom to reflect, not the presumption to judge.

[downswing]

The serpent's own.

[mashiara]

Granted, if that massive maw heading my way is holding true to not consuming any souls tonight.

[downswing]

You think the serpent an ill omen.

[mashiara]

I don't think he's anything but some vast, powerful creature who's disillusioned with visitors to his home. Which we are. Which the king is.

[downswing]

A king who asks blessings unwanted.

[mashiara]

To which people rallied to consume the unknown, apparently.

[downswing]

Some.



( ...he. )

[mashiara]

( sir, this is why she did this, so she'd know how to undo this. )

Yes. And now I understand how to handle it for any of the remaining some.

( more or less, and it wasn't entirely what she'd guessed ahead of time. )

[downswing]

The experience invites no repetition.

[mashiara]

Not by those of us who learn from what we do, but now I've advice for whichever fools will inevitably follow. And for the healers left here, who knew as little in their claiming as I did.

( ... because they mystics are the users, and believers, and they're the minority at the moment. )

[downswing]

The lands... welcomed this snake.

[mashiara]

Now the snake is approached to welcome a king. There's a cycle to it, whatever it ends up being.

[downswing]

Approached or coaxed? Fooled?

[mashiara]

All three, possibly. Though you were in Alem, you tell me your estimate of their king. That's what he's most interested in, isn't it? What we, strangers, and those not so strange, are willing to do in testimony to one ruler.

[downswing]

I cannot name a failed king worthy.

[mashiara]

So who then?

[downswing]

Perhaps his advisors.

[mashiara]

Names?