Ambrogino Giovanni (ambrogino) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2008-01-24 18:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | ambrogino giovanni, prompt #28 |
Excellence
"If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence"
Yes, that's it exactly. Very good.
Seeing how you have already come to this profound realisation, it almost would appear to be conceited redundant of me to illustrate why this is so.
But.
As it is my singular magnificence and excellence you desire to know of, I shall indulge you with a tale of my supremacy.
The Tremere as a clan fancy that they have no mean skill with magic. That may be, but they have no aptitude for necromancy and it is a golden beacon luring and tormenting them throughout eternity. In my travels I met up with one of the mage-vampires and, naturally, he sought to pry my secrets from me with flattery. Me! As if true phrases and honest words would persuade me to share my power with anyone so clearly beneath me.
In a stroke of genius, I spoke of the rituals used by the Giovanni to raise a crop of skeletal warriors perfectly bound to our wills. The greedy fish was hooked and in exchange for my knowledge he was willing to barter away a few close guarded secrets of the Tremere. Once I had what knowledge I wished from him, with a great show of hemming and hawing, I revealed to him the 'magic formula.'
'On the night of the full moon,' I said to him, 'you must find and tame two great lizards of no more than three feet in length, feeding them honey smeared bread that has soaked in ass milk until the moon grows dark. On the night of the greatest darkness, dress them in vest spun from spider silk and harness them to a plough of beaten silver. With nary a strike to them, you are to have them plough a full furrow of a poppy field. When they finish, and not a moment before,' I stressed this quite adamantly, 'you must walk the furrow in the clothing God gave you sowing crocodiles teeth in the furrow. Then, walking backward, you must intone the phrase ouwa tanas eim whilst covering the teeth. If completed properly, up will spring an undead army to await your commands.'
The fool believed me, which is a complete farce, as everyone knows you sow dragon's teeth to reap skeletons. When word reached his fellows of this folly --
He still hates me to this night.
Ambrogino Giovanni
World of Darkness: Vampire the Masquerade
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