Dream Seidh
The area is plain. A series of grey hallways set in a kind of $ pattern, with one long hallway, and hallways off to the sides that are still part of the main room.
In the first hallway Morgan is gathering people for a Seidh. This is not the standard Oracular Seidh. It's a different kind of Seidh. It's called Council of Elders. It's what the leaders of villages would do every so often for the benefit of the people. Morgan and I are apparently leaders of this underground group of children and adolescents. She is the primary leader.
9 people gather, and sit in two rows with the guide - Morgan - at the front. The ritual is opened, and then the question goes around: who will be the Elder this time? The two to my right both turn it down, and I get a push from the Gods. I know the ritual has been called for a specific purpose that this won't serve, but the Gods are very insistant.
"Shit. Ok, I'll do it."
This suprises the group, because the plan had been for the boy to my left to do it, because the Council was being called for a specific reason, so he could approve the giving of the cloth he carried to Morgan. I announced that I would be happy to pass the role to him when the time came, but there are other things to accomplish first, so they all accept me as Elder - what choice do they have?
I think it makes sense, as Morgan and I are the only two adults in the room, and Morgan is already the guide.
I take in the role, which is a kind of heavy shadowing of a Judge/Counselor, giving advice, settling disputes, and hearing trials. Most of the kids up and wander away when their problem is solved, rather than staying to close the ritual. Morgan and the boy with the cloth have apparently gotten angry because their ulterior motive for calling the Council was not served, and I come to realize that their ulterior motive was not supposed to be served. The Gods had thrown me as a wrench in the works specifically to stop the approval of the cloth, though I don't know why.
Finally there is little to no-one left, and I have nothing to do, but I am stuck with the Elder, because the folks running the ritual didn't stay to close it down. I find Morgan in the next hallway down and express my frustration to her, and she looks at me without pity and says that I should be able to close the ritual myself, from what she's taught me. I find myself trying to explain that Seidh isn't something she taught me, but something I'm learning from LWood, and the ritual requires closing in a particular way as per that set of lessons, at least while I'm still a student, anyway. Morgan is having nothing of it, so I go off to try and ground myself without any help.
Analysis:
Well, first off, the only time I've ever seen Morgan act so bitter and bitchy was when she was RPing a Chaotic Evil Drow Priestess. She hated the role. I know where I got the image of the attitude from, but it's certainly not her real personality, nor do I get any impression that she's at all jealous of LWood taking on her student. How could she be when she was never my only Teacher?
I actually find the structure of the ritual itself to be downright fascinating. I haven't a clue where it came from, although it's well within my capacity to design. I didn't even realize until I woke up and pictured it that there were 9 people in the ritual, actually. Go me.
The thing that seems to be of the most significance is my getting stuck in Elder mode while surrounded by people who refused to help me, because I didn't serve their purpose. I can't see how this illustrates any situation I'm in in real life, but I guess it depends on if being stuck in Elder mode is symbolic of being forced to be a leader, or symbolic of being forced to be not myself...
--Ember--
In the first hallway Morgan is gathering people for a Seidh. This is not the standard Oracular Seidh. It's a different kind of Seidh. It's called Council of Elders. It's what the leaders of villages would do every so often for the benefit of the people. Morgan and I are apparently leaders of this underground group of children and adolescents. She is the primary leader.
9 people gather, and sit in two rows with the guide - Morgan - at the front. The ritual is opened, and then the question goes around: who will be the Elder this time? The two to my right both turn it down, and I get a push from the Gods. I know the ritual has been called for a specific purpose that this won't serve, but the Gods are very insistant.
"Shit. Ok, I'll do it."
This suprises the group, because the plan had been for the boy to my left to do it, because the Council was being called for a specific reason, so he could approve the giving of the cloth he carried to Morgan. I announced that I would be happy to pass the role to him when the time came, but there are other things to accomplish first, so they all accept me as Elder - what choice do they have?
I think it makes sense, as Morgan and I are the only two adults in the room, and Morgan is already the guide.
I take in the role, which is a kind of heavy shadowing of a Judge/Counselor, giving advice, settling disputes, and hearing trials. Most of the kids up and wander away when their problem is solved, rather than staying to close the ritual. Morgan and the boy with the cloth have apparently gotten angry because their ulterior motive for calling the Council was not served, and I come to realize that their ulterior motive was not supposed to be served. The Gods had thrown me as a wrench in the works specifically to stop the approval of the cloth, though I don't know why.
Finally there is little to no-one left, and I have nothing to do, but I am stuck with the Elder, because the folks running the ritual didn't stay to close it down. I find Morgan in the next hallway down and express my frustration to her, and she looks at me without pity and says that I should be able to close the ritual myself, from what she's taught me. I find myself trying to explain that Seidh isn't something she taught me, but something I'm learning from LWood, and the ritual requires closing in a particular way as per that set of lessons, at least while I'm still a student, anyway. Morgan is having nothing of it, so I go off to try and ground myself without any help.
Analysis:
Well, first off, the only time I've ever seen Morgan act so bitter and bitchy was when she was RPing a Chaotic Evil Drow Priestess. She hated the role. I know where I got the image of the attitude from, but it's certainly not her real personality, nor do I get any impression that she's at all jealous of LWood taking on her student. How could she be when she was never my only Teacher?
I actually find the structure of the ritual itself to be downright fascinating. I haven't a clue where it came from, although it's well within my capacity to design. I didn't even realize until I woke up and pictured it that there were 9 people in the ritual, actually. Go me.
The thing that seems to be of the most significance is my getting stuck in Elder mode while surrounded by people who refused to help me, because I didn't serve their purpose. I can't see how this illustrates any situation I'm in in real life, but I guess it depends on if being stuck in Elder mode is symbolic of being forced to be a leader, or symbolic of being forced to be not myself...
--Ember--