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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 453533" data-attributes="member: 100">A Wizard Courting a WitchCourting Tips from Beyond the GraveTsunami took his role in the courtship preperation quite seriously.  In an effort to be sure this was a wise wedding match he summoned his great-aunt out of Ancestor's Lands.  Kyoko had a pillar of a bun atop her head and a kimono with a blazing sunset and the two moons in different crescent phases.[The player wanted to contact a spirit.  At first he wanted a kind of Kami of Love but we talked more about what Demons were in this game and came up with an old auntie match-maker.]First she talked with the bride and the Witch-King in private, so that she would understand their needs and then she spoke with her descendant and Fossalas, the groom-to-be.She professed that this gaijin world baffled her but she thought, based on their stations in life, times of birth and ambitions, that this could be an auspicious match."It is like a pool of water and it might be just as refreshing but it is impossible for us to see the dangers underneath the surface."Tsunami discussed a possible Binding relationship.  Her Desire was to see her family grow and descendants with fine partners.  Her Need was to see these children marry as close to the Emperor as possible.They agree that while in foreign lands, being Bound to Tsunami would be a foolish choice but should he return to the Empire he would seriously consider Summoning her properly.She informed him that his mother and sister prayed for him at the Temple daily and he asked that she pass his love on to them.Leaving a few cherry petals on the wind, alien things in Marr'd, she was gone.Tsunami collected the petals and sipped his tea.The Witch-King's LibraryThe Master Librarian was reading an aged scroll, using a pointer so that the oils from his hands would not mar the are papers.  Fossalas, the Atlantean Wizard-Scientist and Tsunami, the samurai in a strange land appraoched."If you steal any scrolls from my library I will know it instantly and the letters will burn your skin," the Master Libarian croacked, eyes seeming not to see them.  Tsunami stared at him for a moment, nodded and was guided into a room.[With a successful Lore roll Barry was told that this man had a Demon bound to him that altered his vision so that he could extend his senses but dulled his senses nearby.]They wanted access to the library itself but could not name the tome they were looking for.  As they were searching for more general knowledge they were placed in a nearby reading room and assigned an apprentice librarian.The apprentices wear long skirts and have eyes tattooed all over their bodies.  The apprentice serving them, Kula, was inked with sixty eyes of varying sizes, meaning sixty works were comitted to his memory.Tsunami asked questions about history and eventually asked many questions about the military tactics of Lemuria.Fossalas was interested in Lemurain wedding laws.  He also studied their summoning and saw how they crudely summoned the spirits of the recently dead and bound them to their will.  Lemurian sorcerery was merely the poetry and his was the mathematics behind their metaphor.  When he saw that their magicks came from the same well-spring he found some relief.Together they asked all about the profession from ancient Sorcerer-Kings to terrible Liche-Kings to the Warlock Congress to the recently instated Witch-King.Tsunami asked, "What was the greatest mistake in Lemurian history?"The boy thought about that for a while, not used to thinking about the information in his memory, only reciting it, "The change from Sorcerer-Kings to Liche Kings.  When they died and became both more and less.""Why?" Fossalas asked."Because they, in turn, made all of Lemuria a Sorcerer, bound to the unholy Needs of five unliving Kings.  It made magicks seem almost normal, brought Witches and Warlocks' ways of thinking to even the layman.""Can you summon, Kula?" Tsunami asked.He shook his head, maybe thankfull, maybe mournfull."The Liche-King's motto was, 'How far will you go to get what you want?' and in making all of Lemuria subject to their hungers it became the motto of us all."</blockquote>

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