<so, i gather that veryone except Alyra goes to the Elatic .. or she comes along, doesn't
matter.>
The Elatic:
"well, about the barbarians ... the old philosophers knew why they called them that way: one who stammers or stutters. They are ignorant fools. They don't understand the glory of living in our mistress chancel. And they're even free of service, like you and me. Some elevations are a burden, you will see. But theirs ... on earth their comic sect of the crucified carpenter would have died out by now. Here they can carry on the tradition of their lifestyle and their god, for whom they claim exclusivity. Me, I prefer a god I can understand. Mighty Zeus chases women ... I mean everyone can understand that.
The other barbarians are not much different. They bear some grudge about living in the chancel. The desert riders with their ugly riding beasts even have some singular god, too,
but he goes by some other name.
I know the stones are part of THE PRICE. Some cosmic thing about giving and taking. Or it's a symbol, but prices and symbols in magic are pretty much the same. It was part of the ritual that our mistress used for this cancel. Some metaphor of freedom. If you want to be free, should you imprison yourself and/or others? Well the enter the excrusians into the picture. The way I gather it, if you could symbolically ..."
"NO!!!" a voice booms in your head, which you know comes from below the temple.
"Oh, I guess that is one of the things the mistress wants you to find out yourselves. Well, you will see a lot of things, and I think it is our mistress' hope that you find the solution that will save us all excrusian guys included. You see, ..."
"NO!!!" a voice booms in your head, which you know comes from below the temple.
The Elatic bows towards the temple." :\ Sorry, mistress. You know I am too humble to serve you. I'd prefer being a sheperd anyway. There are more that enough that like to loom over others. Take Arthas instead."
He turns back to you:"So that you must find out yourselves, too, I guess. The mistress has great plans. Maybe this is the time. And I sure hope that you can untie or whatever the gordic knot plagueing creation.
As for the stones ... I heared they have different colors, and the different colors nullify different noble powers. The greatest one have all four colors. For that knot, your are with us mortals again ... to some extend, at least.
As understand it, that is one more puzzle symbol. We all hope that in thime you understand
... no,no, mistress I won't say."
<yes, you will have downtime. In fact that is what this prologue is about.
(Of course, I will weave in stuff if i think that it might add to the over all asthetic structure i have in mind. But also the stuff you as a player and characters follow up is not all subsumed into a great symbolic plot. Many facets will be entirely "contingent", as I belive this greatly adds to versimiltude (as Monte Cook called it). If you want to expand on this let's reactivate the OOC thread.)
the bottom line is yes, the will be downtime, but it will be largely up the the players to take initiative here. If you move to follow your interests, a narrative focus will follow you. You could have chased Wynn for example, it's just that you are not required to do so.>
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