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The Judges Of Sabra La Tau (sabra_la_iudex) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-08-27 19:25:00

Entry tags:

!days 260-269, arianna, ash & pikachu, kanou taisuke, nishi jouichirou, roy mustang, shinonome hangetsu, toyama kazuha, yamamoto takeshi, {tena fortissian}, {{{orihara izaya}}}, ~guardian, ~shadow

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: The Barracks
When: Day 266, Late afternoon
What:

[You return home empty handed after some time and have an oddly disproportionate idea of how many squidrats are in the ruins.

... Strangely, the Guardian doesn't seem as put out as he has with other missions.]

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	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	The point is that Queen has her hooked her claws into whoever held that disk more than likely. And she could continue to work her claws in further. That's why it would be troublesome if you were caught. Or even would be troublesome if you gave her more chance to work on you. She's not called the Mother of Monsters for nothing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	To be perfectly honest, in the time I've been here, I've only sworn loyalty to two Judges, one in front of a snake because I had to and one out here because I chose to. If there's a side besides mine, that's it that last one. I'm sure you can figure it out. And yes, I'm well aware of where I am right now. What's the deal with the disks? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:30 pm UTC (link)
	Technicalities will get you everywhere in this place. You should have used it to your advantage when she approached you. As it stands... if those disks have their symbols and posses traits of their domains, it only stands to reason that those disks are like pieces of the Judges themselves. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:38 pm UTC (link)
	[Considers, a slight smile and then shrugs at the first statement.] [...] As you're sticking with what's glaringly obvious, you're either fishing or have no idea. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:39 pm UTC (link)
	You forget, I remember why Sabra La Tau became the way it is in the first place. Of course I know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:47 pm UTC (link)
	Then what do you want? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	What else have you got? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	What I'm getting is the short end of the stick. But, I think I have enough to make headway through other avenues. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: [Later]

hey__listen
2011-09-02 01:05 pm UTC (link)

[sssiiigh]

Think about it a little more. We live in the underground of a dead world. Above us, there is nothing. No sky, no sea, no grass, no air. How else would our patrons survive? How else do gods keep themselves alive? Especially when it's all done so desperately.

[there's actually an almost discomforted look on his face, as though he's remembering something distinctly unnerving]

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	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	... And likely how those exist here. [How deeply tied are...] ... That clever bitch. There might have been another reason for a strike on that particular Judge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	More than just to spur us onward toward the endgame, you mean? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	More than that. Think about it, what kind of games has that Judge run? Communication. If you can stifle that... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 01:15 pm UTC (link)
	... oh, dear. And if you think of it on another level... what a bitter old hag of a step-mother. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 01:17 pm UTC (link)
	Literally, I'm assuming? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	Queen is King's second wife. His first was Surgeon's sister, the Weaver... and with him she mothered the Messenger and the Pale Maiden, Flowers who married the Fool's Fool, Trickster. [saying this as if reciting it a la Something Everyone Should Know] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	... Three out of five mentioned being dead. i see what you mean. [Ignoring your tone because that's what Nishi's DO ~~when calm.~~] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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hey__listen
2011-09-02 01:32 pm UTC (link)

It also makes you wonder who's really the one who put these games on the way we know them to be.

Trickster was the first one to hold a game, if what I saw was correct. As a tribute to Flowers. First blood. First death. First game. And that's when it started.

But only after days and days after what should have been a sanctuary became more of a prison, everything growing stranger and stranger. Priests went mad. The world above died...

We sustain these gods through our acts and our beliefs--the moment the blanks started to fear Trickster less, the more he lashed out against them, for instance. But what sustains an idea better than simply a system of belief or even existences confirmed by our own interaction with them? Something solid enough to last several cycles of these games.

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	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 01:58 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, but... it's really difficult to remember the details... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	[brb, will have to think on this for a moment. the problem with these history things: you don't want to talk about them in the presence of King and the Judges and yet, guess where this Ophiuchus has been since then... with no one to bounce ideas or refresh memories off of] ... something the Oracle did... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	[When, by any nature, it should have been growing stronger.] A corruption of the system... The Oracle? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	Something went wrong at that time. He called upon the power of King. Was is that that brought the gods to this place while the world was destroyed? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	[laughs a bit] I guess that has something to do with it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	[Is quiet while he arranges the scraps of information into something approximating coherency.] So you think we're sitting in the stomach of the fucking world, because of an accident? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: [Later]

hey__listen
2011-09-02 09:31 pm UTC (link)

An accident on the Oracle's part. Unless, of course, it was arranged by one of those gods...

They had thought it would be temporary, but then it seemed to get deeper and deeper. The Old Woman's wrath never abated. The Old Man hungered, they paid tributes. But to him and the gods.

You wanted to know the connection these games and events had to the Judges? They're our tributes, of course. Though we never realized it until what happened with Trickster and then Surgeon. But for some, they're not the sort of tributes that should be given. I think some of them have gone mad from it.

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	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	... And others it's suited just fine... [He glances out into the dark, considering.] Any environment where the only shit you get is negative will warp a goddamn saint... So those who would be the "nicer" ones are likely to be bugfuck insane anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)