WEEK FIVE MINGLE

[grigori]

nerak: week 5 mingle at your service

25 Remain

Waking up this morning will reveal some unfamiliar surroundings. While Camebit had an autumnal chill in the air, things are a little different, now - the air is frigid, and waking up is an adventure, considering you are swaddled to the nines and cozied right up to your roomie of the week (where you have one, anyways). Everything around you is made of ice and packed snow, fogged glass and porcelain, and it is freezing. Who thought this was a good idea? Even the brisk chill of Camebit in the skies above everything was more forgiving than this! This isn't a transition! Whose manager can you speak to..?

About that.



You have to trek out of the lodging, and over into the building made of actual wood and stone, to actually see your Watchers of the week. They're all dressed in their full cloaks again to combat the chill, even in this building, although both Rameel and Satariel are standing much closer to Yomiel than they usually do - much like they had in Ahnkeen, actually.

"Good morning and welcome to Nerak! If you've ever wondered what it was like to stay at an ice hotel, then you're in luck!" Rameel says with moderate flourish as they make sure to keep close to Yomiel—their daemon currently not found anywhere near them as they make the announcement. Looks like they're without their black box of musical wonders this morning.

While the other two Watchers press close, Yomiel's daemon has wrapped itself around their neck like a polecat scarf. Warm. Arm cradled gently against their chest, they pause to glance at Satariel before greeting everyone. "Try to be careful. The ice can get slippery, especially when you're all looking like that and leaving a mess everywhere you go." Whatever that means.

Satariel seems a little more subdued than usual but offers everyone a smile, daemon bear-shaped against their back, large head peering around at everyone while they take in the travelers that come to join them here in the hotel lobby. Their cloak is completely closed around them - not even the front of their dress can be seen, and they're clearly holding it tightly shut. "Please be nice to the hotel staff - if I catch any of you being rude to them, I'll kick you clear across the tundra before sticking you in their outdoor 'jail' for timeout. We're guests, but they're working hard to accommodate us, alright?"


With the new week, travelers will find that they no longer the adorable animal features they did in Camebit, but something much less cute. Injuries from their pasts have come back to haunt them, major or minor, and they cannot be healed. The good thing is that they don't seem to hurt or really take a toll on the travelers at all - at least, not until they're touched, and then both you the other will feel the pain from the moment the wound was inflicted. This effect lasts all week.

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[greatdeduction]

"Lucifer" became the devil, in the religion of Christianity. He's a fallen angel who stands as a king of demons, evils, and his grand goal is to attempt to tempt every person to fall into sin, eventually dragging their souls into the eternal suffering of hell after they die.

To hear him mentioned in this context is disquieting...but perhaps this is not a "Lucifer" who became such a figure of evil?

[yueshen]

It is only evil from the point of view of those who see the knowledge as evil, isn't it?

Baraqiel once told me that you could consider both sides of this conflict as yin and yang - opposing, yet similar. From the point of view of this Lucifer, it could yet be the other way - that the god who refuses to allow his followers free will is the one who is truly evil.

[booksleeves]

I rather think there is no side here I could truly believe to be moral or right. Thinking of it in the sense that one side might be more moral than the other would be a mistake, in my opinion.

[yueshen]

[ he nods. ]

I agree completely. That is what leads to this sort of conflict in the first place.

[greatdeduction]

Yes, exactly. As it stands, I believe each side sees the other as "evil", and this is why Shamsiel told me that the conflict in and of itself seems impossible to resolve because each has diametrically opposing views. There's no way to make them see eye to eye, and it would make sense if the schism was formed on the mindset that the other side is "evil" for their beliefs.

[lefthandpath]

It's the Church leaders who says the Devil is Evil, in the first place.

[hello, my second dad was a heretic priest.]

[greatdeduction]

Yes, that is what it states in the Bible. In reality, though...

[who's to say.gif]

[lefthandpath]

Bible was written by men.

[Allen Walker's faith in the Church has been wrecked so hard by so much, so.]

But yes, it is still just speculation.

[greatdeduction]

Exactly. And the whole of it is sheer fiction, regardless.

[(sholmes voice) did you think of me as anything other than a godless heathen]

[aono]

...

[Rin glances away at this talk.]

I...don't know about other worlds and other Lucifers. But the Lucifer from my world, he's a really scary guy. I met him once and it was like he could stare into my very soul. I don't think I'd want to meet him again if I could avoid it.

[greatdeduction]

...

[Looking over with concern.]

Well, with any luck, this is a very different Lucifer altogether. Not to worry, dear boy.

[aono]

I hope it's not the same Lucifer.

[Noooooo Illuminati!]

[greatdeduction]

I do not think it is. Nothing operates the same as we expect - I would hardly think it would be the same as your world.