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Tweak says, "Eating oranges is cannibalism!"

Talon (Jake Berenson) (eye_ofthe) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-01-16 19:15:00

Entry tags:

!days 200-209, akin iyapo shing kaalnikanjlo, allen walker, jace beleren, jake berenson, johnny rayflo, watanuki kimihiro, {doumeki shizuka}, {lumiere}, {natsume maya}, {{{date masamune}}}, {{{leonard 'bones' mccoy}}}, {{{toboe}}}

Who: Good question.
Where: Canis/Ursa dorms!
When: Day 206, Morning
What:

[Canis may not have even known their common room had a trapdoor.

But it does.

And it just sneezed.]

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	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 03:05 am UTC (link)
	...mm. I'll give you that. Let me rephrase: it's vastly unlikely that, even given the power and the opportunity, a Blank would be that insane. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:07 am UTC (link)
	And the power and the opportunity would be pretty big obstacles themselves. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 03:11 am UTC (link)
	nods Exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:13 am UTC (link)
	Speaking of weird things going on with Judges... I think it's about time for our third category. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 03:19 am UTC (link)
	History lesson? Seems like it. We've been piecing this together for a while -- it started before I woke up -- but we just got a big chunk of it about a week ago. Stop me if you need explanation on anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:21 am UTC (link)
	Will do. Fire away. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-01-19 03:28 am UTC (link)

A long time ago -- centuries, or millenia, who knows -- people could live on the surface of this plane. There were many nations, each with their own customs and alliances and magic, but all worshipping the same gods. Among their names were Cygnus, Pyxis, Hydra, Vulpecula, Lepus, Cepheus, Orion, Monoceros, Lynx, Corvus, Delphinus, Pavo, Canis and Lacerta. We're pretty sure Ursa and Cetus were in there too, but without anyone to be caught in Weaver's tapestry, nobody got any information on them.

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	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:29 am UTC (link)
	So each team corresponds to a nation? I'm with you so far. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-01-19 03:35 am UTC (link)

*nods*

The clothes you're wearing are what teams initially had; what we're wearing now are the clothes common in the nations we represented. I'm not sure if you'll eventually upgrade or not.

Thanks to Weaver, we got to directly experience the last days of the surface...a period of two or three years, plus the associated memories and history. The Judges were gods, then, but there were two primordial forces beyond them: the Old Man who was the earth, and the Old Woman who was the sun. After about a subjective year, something happened -- we don't know what -- and the Old Woman began to burn off the surface of the world.

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	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:36 am UTC (link)
	Burn off the surface? But then everyone living there- (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-01-19 03:42 am UTC (link)

Exactly.

The gods commissioned the building of a huge shelter, through their priests at Ophiuchus. Every nation brought all they could, and it was completed just before the Old Woman's fury reached lethal levels. Everyone and everything who wasn't in it died then, and it was only barely blessed in time to save the people inside. But they managed, somehow, and for a while it was a paradise inside.

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	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:43 am UTC (link)
	'For a while.' (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 03:45 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. We didn't get that part, but they were supposed to be able to leave by that year's spring. They didn't. And guess where we are now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:47 am UTC (link)
	Maybe... a beautiful sunny beach-side resort town on another planet? No? Damn. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-01-19 03:54 am UTC (link)

Good guess, but no.

One more piece of the history lesson, and it's just as uplifting as the rest. Trickster and Flowers were...man and wife is really the wrong term...omnipotent malevolent being and omnipotent less-malevolent being? Unfortunately, her power was over the cycle of life and death, and that's sort of been frozen here -- the god of death, the Gentleman, chose not to take part in the shelter. So she was starting to die, and Trickster tried to save her by holding a Game. It was in her honor, so maybe he hoped it would rejuvenate her.

It didn't seem to be helping, and he got frantic enough that he straight-out demanded that someone sacrifice someone to her. And someone did.

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	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 03:56 am UTC (link)
	... And since you mentioned her in the explanation earlier, that means it worked. And so that means... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 03:59 am UTC (link)
	It worked, but it drove her mad, we think. Maybe madder; only Hydra claims to have known much about her before then. It's not like they regularly sacrifice people to keep themselves alive, but the Games feed them. And when they ran out of people native to the plane, which was pretty much inevitable, they started importing outsiders. It's conjecture, but... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 04:01 am UTC (link)
	Well, that's pretty screwed up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2011-01-19 04:05 am UTC (link)

*spreads his hands*

Welcome to Sabra La Tau.

The good news is, most of us think there's a chance to break the cycle, and that it involves knowing all of this. Surgeon wasn't the sort of Judge who'd do anything on a whim; he planned everything. And he didn't seem to give much of a damn about us except as test subjects, so it can't have been for our benefit -- and it must have been something worth risking his own destruction for.

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	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 04:09 am UTC (link)
	But of course he didn't give any instructions or even clues to what he might want you to do with the information, and instead just sort of left you alone with a head full of knowledge to puzzle it out for yourself. Right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 04:13 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 04:16 am UTC (link)
	Of course. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 04:40 am UTC (link)
	So now we're playing a waiting game; exploring this block, watching what the Judges do. And not mentioning this outside, in case you didn't figure that out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	eye_ofthe 2011-01-19 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I picked up on that part. Whatever it is Surgeon wanted, King doesn't want, and if you're going to piss off anyone here it probably shouldn't be the omnipotent guy named after a ruler. Right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2011-01-19 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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