Song 64: Rose collored glasses are off (lets try this end hiatus thing)

[ttlyisabard]

[Audio]This boat is a terrible place. I don't mean the boat is terrible ... it is sheltering us from ... whatever happened. But the captain is being selfless in his own ... strange way ... giving salvation to those who don't deserve it or are too dangerous to keep around. Everyone should be on their guard ... more so than usual I think

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[fistsofmagic]

[Torin is almost hesitant to respond to people, but...]

In my world, there are different Deities. There's no one 'religion', but each Deity asks for something different from their followers, and has different ethics, as well as some universal ones.

So... perhaps they're all right? In a sense.

[ttlyisabard]

That's more how my world works ... pray to the spirit of the road before you travel, to the spirit of your house when you come home, to the spirits of the weather to bring good rain ... I don't know if there are any spirits here. My magic still works ... but I make my own mana, I don't need the spirits to help me.

But one some of the other worlds out there ... there's religions that say they're the only ones that are right and that you have to worship their god and no one elses ... cause according to them the other gods don't exist.

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Not quite the same as my world... but that doesn't make it any less valid. Our Deities weren't originally in our plane, so it's entirely possible that all these things co-exist.

[Spirituaaaal.] The Deities have a bond with the people of Askoupur. Without it, they would fade away from our world, and we would be vulnerable again and lose the gifts they've given us. It's of mutual benefit to both parties to keep the bond strong.

[She pauses again.] That's... [Incomprehensible to her.] Quite narrow-minded of them, if not outright wrong.

[ttlyisabard]

Yeah ... well ... it seems that their gods don't make themselves known enough. Their believers don't believe in them ... but Earth has people called "atheists" who simply don't believe in any gods. That's hard for me to imagine ... on my world, if you walk to the right part of the forest, you can meet the Lady Oak for yourself, you don't have to "believe".

[She thinks for a bit.]

I was never very faithful back home ... I mean I was raised to know Chivalry ... but now I really wish the church had some influence over people. Back home, even the bad guys had some amount of decorum.

[fistsofmagic]

We have something similar in my world as well, but they're... very rare, considering the Deities walk amongst us. It'd be more accurate to say that they don't want anything to do with the Deities, or their bond. Or they don't like the power they have...

[Those people... were allied with the demons, in the war.]

I was raised in a temple, so I've been immersed in the culture since I was young.

[Her tone turns a bit distant.] Some bad guys do have decorum, and others don't. It's never cut-and-dry.

Is the captain truly that bad? [She asks it curiously. She hasn't heard much of Redd, though she can't say she likes the man for kidnapping her.]

[ttlyisabard]

Eh ... he's only bad to you if you do something bad. Otherwise ... he's just a bit crazy, has us do strange things for fun. Like he changed our ages ... but I think that might have been a system malfunction ...

That's why I don't think we're actually here ... well exactly. Not us as least ... I don't know ...

[fistsofmagic]

I will keep that in mind. [And she pauses, thinking about it.] A mad man's toys, or something like that?

[Another pause, and this time her voice is more confused.] Not actually here - because it's an illusion in the first place? Or our minds are separated from our bodies?

[ttlyisabard]

Well ... we could be copies. See, some people have been here multiple times, and they never remember having been here. One lady was here last year, and when she came back she was older. Being here didn't affect her at all ... she wasn't missing on her world, it's as if she never was here.

I ... don't know how that works though. Our worlds are supposed to be gone. When did they go if someone could be here from two times?

[fistsofmagic]

[Torin blinks to herself. Fascinating.]

That is strange, and contradictory to what they've told us... I don't have a theory for that right now, though. Copies without knowing we've made copies...

[ttlyisabard]

Yeah ... I don't know ... it's all very strange.

[She understood multiple planes of existance, but throwing in time and everything else, that was beyond her.]