[GC] A Game of Children IC (introduction)

[Sixchan]

Aska watched the hand for some time while the ghost looked back. After a long time, she slowly extended her hand to the ghost's. Her grip tightened, but her face made it clear she was still wary of the ghost's intentions. "You say you can take away my worries by merely bowing to your god. I do not believe you. But...I am willing to test your words." She stepped closer to the spirit, and allowed herself to be led.

 

[Timothy]

When you reach for the hands and touch it, you have very weird sensation. You can go right through the hand, but when you do it somehow feels the same as though you would grasp a normal hand. Your hand goes around the ghostly hand and it leads you to the altar, where a couple of ther children are allready sitting in prayer.

Go on, just sit and pray, you'll feel better indeed.

You sit down and start to pray to Illmater. When you or the other children ar fiished praying you indeed feel better. You see the world a bit brighter and you have more hope for the future.

OOC: I'll wait with continueing till the others have posted as well.

 

[Sixchan]

Inside Aska, three feelings were warring over her soul. Her recently-developed sense of independence and loneliness, the new and joyfull feeling she had recieved at the altar, and a final, darker feeling. One of disappointment, fear and betrayal. Aska stood up. "I...I feel alright now. I do feel better." She turned to the ghost, "Thankyou, th-"
And then it hit her. "Wh...what? What did I just do? I...I bowed in prayer...to...to...another god!" Her back facing the altar, she dropped again to her knees in prayer, gripping the cogwheel pendant on her necklace tight in her hand "Oh Gond, oh Gond! I am sorry! I...I was confused! I have no god but you! I should not have prayed to another! I am sorry!" She was breating hard and fast, until more thoughts ran through her mind. "To...to question...yes...I was...testing...proof...everything is...alright?" She was unsure whether the thoughts were hers or Gond's, but she was steadied by them. Slowly, she stood up, feeling more at ease. "Th...Thankyou."
The happiness had returned, and she waited for the others to finish their prayers.

 

[Timothy]

A my Little one. Don't be afraid. Gond will not think any less of you, if you have prayed to another god. All Gods acknowledge the excistence of eachother, since all gods are by definition real. Gond cannot relief you of your burden th way Illmater can, but Gond can do things that Illmater can't. Every God is master of his own portfolio.

 

[Sixchan]

Aska just waved her hand, dismissing the subject. "I was testing your words. That's fine. The servants of Gond should question everything, and create things to answer them. My question was answered, so I did the right thing." She looked to the altar, and then to the ghost. "So what did you see? How did it happen, and who did it?"

 

[Timothy]

This is the Island you live on. You all know that there is a halfling village on the other site of the forest, and you all know about the graveyard.
The forest is supposed to be haunted, and the lower catacombs are too.

The structures that are still standing are heavily dameged but remain of use to live in. Only the official buildings (temples, city hall, the harbor building) were made of good rock, inported form the main land. The other buildings were made of wood or baked clay. The map is not to scale, one ruin represents much more houses. the city had about 1K people lib=ving in it. The halfling village has 100. Nobody knows what became of the halflings.

 

[Sixchan]

Aska had been doing pretty much nothing for the past hour or so. She leaned over to the ghost. "Erm...they've been praying for AGES. Is that thing addictive? Are they going to attack me if I pull them away from that? They'll starve if they don't eat soon..."

 

[Timothy]

Aska had been doing pretty much nothing for the past hour or so. She leaned over to the ghost. "Erm...they've been praying for AGES. Is that thing addictive? Are they going to attack me if I pull them away from that? They'll starve if they don't eat soon..."

Patience, young Padawan

 

[Sixchan]

Aska, frustrated by the waiting, was getting pretty close to actually dragging the others away from the altar. "Its cursed, isn't it?" She remarked casually to the spirit. She walked over to the altar. "Listen, if you three don't get up and start acting normal again, I swear I will leave you all here. I think I have better chances out there with the monsters looking for food than I do in here starving to death. Now GET UP!"

 

[Timothy]

You feel that Illmater has lifted your spirits, and that Aska is getiing very jumpy.....